Saturday, August 29, 2009

Worth the price

Finally, I could spare a little time to write today as I have been busy so here it goes... I don't know if I could be called a die-hard fan but for someone who stayed so far from Japan I tried to make the trip once a year to see their concert and everyone has been calling me crazy as to spend money just to see them once a year. I usually stayed about 2 weeks and spent SGD3000 for each trip. At first I think I'm kind of stupid but once you entered the concert hall, you heard the music being played, one by one the members entered the stage all the money is well spent I said.

For a concert hall in Shibuya-AX which can filled 1500 people (estimated) it felt like more than that number of people are watching the concert. Japanese fans are very spontaneous, they are able to follow the rhythm with their hand gestures and it was just awesome. I can't say much for Singaporeans though I am one, they are too uptight,rigid and unable to release themselves to be one with the music. I love it when the fans just know when to shout their song's chorus and when to be silent. All of us regardless of nationality just became one...we became Direngrey die-hard fans.

I brought my sister along for the first trip and though she knew nothing about the band, she fell in love with Kyo's voice and their music. Yes...Kyo's voice and Direngrey's music are able to reach her and she felt so touched with one song that he sang on that day (Conceived Sorrow) with tears flowing from her eyes. It was really undescribable, the emotion that both of us felt at the concert hall.

I also experienced for the first time when all of the fans shouted for an "Encore" for the band to come back on stage to perform last songs. Everyone in a united voice shouted "Encore" with a Japanese accent for about 5 minutes and yes our favourite band is out again on the stage to perform their last songs. After watching their concerts for a few times I noticed that how many last songs they (Direngrey) are going to perform will depend on their (fans) united voice calling for encore. It's like the more united the voice is the more energy they have to perform more last songs.

The first day that I went they started with 3 songs and we shouted for them again and they came out to perform another 3 songs. But for the second day they performed 6 songs straight without rest. But without fail they will choose "The IIID Empire" as their closing song. When the music being played at the beginning of the song everyone started to jump nonstop, shout a certain chorus until the end of the song. When the song ends everyone's fulfilled even when our whole body filled with sweat, legs cramped from the jumping, the concert is worth the money. Then I decided that this won't be my last trip to watch them, this is the beginning.

squabbleddd EARFT at 11:57 PM