lives and concerts

Where I live, there aren't really that many opportunities to go to lives or concerts I like. In fact, when I was younger, there were hardly any lives going on at all - it got to the point where it didn't matter so much who the artist is, if you've heard of them and they're coming, you might as well go, there's nothing else going on anyway. These days that's not really the case - we have a lot of local bands that are pretty cool, and we do have decent international acts coming almost every month. But still - not many of these artists are ones I actually crave to see live.

Last January I went to Japan to see Arashi's Beautiful World tour in Fukuoka. BUMP OF CHICKEN, a band I'm completely obsessed with, was also touring, but I couldn't afford their tickets after what I paid for Arashi. But my friend happened to win the ballot to ONE OK ROCK's Yokohama Arena Finale, so we decided to go together. And then in February one of my favourites from college, Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessionals, came to my city to perform an acoustic set. 

Usually I don't go to a concerts, much. But this year one thing seems to lead to another, and despite a busy work schedule, I'm still making time for them.

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ONE OK ROCK @ *scape Warehouse, Singapore

Happened to see them when they were out smoking - all but Taka were there.
 


This is dark and blurry because it's screencapped from a video I took while we were waving them goodbye - that's Taka waving back. The concert felt too short, especially compared to the Yokohama final, but it was just as amazing (as the Yokohama final). We were right at the front, and Taka & Ryota were in front of us a lot of the time - they were SO CLOSE to us okay *_* - and Toru every now and then, and Tomoya at the end. I wish that photography was allowed during the concert, like with the WEAVER live, but the experience of seeing them live so close was more than enough, really. I'm too sleepy.

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