July 6

I’m so glad I made it to this tour, because I wasn’t going to make it due to work……then at the end somehow I kinda FORCED my annual leave thru…to make it to this concert! I stayed in Osaka this time around since the Live is in Kyoto. I took the train early morning from Osaka and arrived in Kyoto in about an hour. The show doesn’t start until 6:30, I was planning to go like, realllllly early since I don’t want anything to go wrong plus I had to buy the tour goods.

But still, I wanna walk around Kyoto coz it’s a beautiful town. One place I really wanted to see was the Mibu-tera, which was the shrine and original office of the Shinsengumi members. As I’m a big fan of Okita Souji ^^; Then I had to try the famous green tea parfait! Look at this XD

Then I did a bit of shopping and started to head over to the Kyoto Dai-ichi Kaikan. I took a bus at about 3..and for a while I didn’t notice I was going the wrong direction! Then later I realized I’m headed all the way back to the Kyoto station! SH*T!!! then I had to wait for a bus AGAIN … which took me like another 40 min. so by the time I got to the Kaikan it was almost 5!!! ARG! I wanted to be there at around 3. So by the time I got there, the tour goods sale was already terminated for the time being! &(^!@%!(@!!!

The won’t open for sale again until later..so now I have nothing to do.. then I saw one of my page’s visitor. We discussed on email that she would wear a Canadian flag on her (since she’s flying all the way in from Canada) and I totally spotted her! So we had a great chat..hehe. Originally, I suggested that she should wear the flag on her as there will be Le-Ciel staff members going around snapping pics of fans before the show. So maybe we can represent Canada or something you know. Wow, and just like I said, a staff approached us and took our pic!! So far I checked on Le-Ciel the pics of our date is not up yet, maybe we really will see ourselves ^^;;;;

Anyway, later on I got my goods shopped, and headed straight into my seat. Speaking of my seat. When I received the tickets, it said 28th row on it. I was like..oh crap. That sucks. Then later on, I checked the Kyoto Kaikan page, I realized they start counting their rows BACKWARDS! So I was on the 6th ROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KYAAAAAAAA. When I walked inside the hall this time…..and found my seat…..i was spellbound! Coz I was SO CLOSE to the stage ( Right side, ken side) …….I was like *0*! This is even closer then I was in Grand Cross Tour (given the size of the hall, only seating 2000 or so people) I was so so so excited!

The show started on time and screen showed graphics introducing the members. The music went on for SEVENTH HEAVEN and the band appeared behind the screen. The fans were all in a frenzy dancing to the tune ( right, this is supposed to be a dance tune..hmm) Our set list for today was:

1.) Seventh Heaven
2.) Killing Me
3.) The Fourth Avenue Café – this is the first time I get to see it LIVE!!! >w<
4.) Shine
5.) New Song
6.) New Song (there was a window showing sunset on the screen, slow song)
7.) Caress of Venus
8.) MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM – first time I get to hear the whole song, as I’ve only heard the CM part, I didn’t imagine the other parts of the song to be like this, it is way good!! I had goosebumps all the way!
9.) New Song (imagery of the ocean in the back)
10.) The Black Rose (This song is really Rock and dark, reminds me of DUNE. )
11.) Driver’s High (always enjoy this song LIVE as we get to jump at the cue of CRASH!)
12.) REVELATION (another great one for LIVE as we all get to jump too ^-^! But I guess nothing tops the performance in AWAKE with the pope outfit !!)
13.) New Song (this is a very happy tune, and in the back they have this chick (reminds me of the one for SMILE DVDs) dancing around shaking her booty..^^;;;;)
14.) READY STEADY GO (as a tradition, hyde asks us, “ ARE YOU F*CKING READY!?” ..hyde, always when you are :P )

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15.) Feeling Fine (P’UNK~EN~CIEL)
16.) HONEY 2007 (P’UNK~EN~CIEL) yukkie comes out to do the 1.2.3.4. And he kicked the mic stand ^^; GO Yukkie Punk!
17.) Bye Bye (L’anniversary song)
18.) Lies and Truth (right here I was thinking whether it’d be metropolis or lies and truth, as I’ve check there’s 2 set list, A and B.. I guess this is set list B because first day they did metropolis. I actually couldn’t quite choose which one I want better as I love both songs!!! )
19.) New World (this is one of those killer ones LIVE for hyde… I think he like lowered the key a bit maybe?)
20.) Link (one of my favorites in recent years. And love doing this LIVE coz we get to clap. The first time I heard this LIVE was at ASIA TOUR)
21.) Jojoushi (So far I’ve only always got NIJI or PIECES as the last song. I know they like to do slow songs at the very end as a tradition. And I think hyde really gave a lot to performing Jojoushi here!! Very touching ><)

As I was on the Ken side, I got to see him really upclose. He’s supper nice, always smiling and waving at us!

Ken’s MC: when hyde was doing Seventh heaven “minute 31” .. Ken said he did the same too. Then he forgot to play his guitar. Hahahhaa.
Then he went on to mention about the Karaoke challenge, that it is impossible to get tetsu points or something. He went Karaoke and tried himself too and he hardly could get a pass! Then he asked the audience if anybody won the challenge, and one audience responded ^^;

Ken is really really omoshiroi na~~

Hyde’s MC was just making fun of the ceiling of the hall (coz it looks like umbrellas hung there).

Tetsu just threw bananas at us again ^^ Mukimpo!!

Yukkie.. didn’t have a MC ^^;;;;;;;

The other parts I just can’t remember its been a month @_@

Anyway this tour was realllllllly enjoyable!! ROCK ON.