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IEJI ~ Happy Birthday to MUCC~

2017/05/04 (Thu) at the Ibaraki Prefectural Citizen Culture Center Hall (Coming of Age Ceremony and Concert)

BEFOREHAND

For goods sales before the show, the line was crazy. I lined up an hour before sales were to start and the place in front of the venue was pretty much full with people queuing already, 500-800 before me and in the end at least 400 behind me, easily more. Some of the goods were limited to two items per person (towel and shirt), towels and one size of the shirt still sold out before I got to the goods table (T_T). Shirts were all sold out by the end.

Next to the door they had a board and bamboo decoration for a coming of age ceremony (as I am sure is conducted for Mito kids in that very venue when they turn 20). About the mistake in the printed year (heisei 27 instead of 29), it says this was Yukke’s mistake.

They started a bit late, I think partly due to the goods craze and partly due to ticket double checking. I was in the second last row, and saw half the last row being asked outside again, to be questioned about their tickets. Apparently someone had bought a ticket for that area online so they were trying to figure out which seat so they can get the seller. Re-sale was always prohibited but they are finally cracking down on re-sales where the price was increased / that happened on ticket-resale sites (where people often increase the price).

CEREMONY

First, Satochi, Yukke and Tatsurou came on stage in traditional clothes, but no Miya. Miya came in from a side door for the audience, walking through the seats to the stage in his flashy red clothes. Once he had joined the others on stage, Mito-chan (the mascot) appeared and gave them a package of nattou. Tatsurou opened it for a sniff, then had Yukke smell who all but JUMPED back at the strong smell. Mukku (the red one) came out and gave a little speech about MUCC and told each of the members something. Miya sat down in the middle of him speaking (“But it’s your Coming Of Age ceremony! Keep it together just for a little bit longer!”), used his folding fan, dropped that to the ground and just was a flashy brat all around. Mukku to Tatsurou: 20 years ago you had close-cropped hair and “god” written on your face, and you still managed to grow up so cool. Mukku to Miya: Good job getting anything done with these three idiots. Yukke would have been next in line, but Mukku turned to Satochi first. Mukku to Satochi: Please study a bit harder for kanji and math… Mukku to Yukke: You are only at 18 years and therefore not of age yet. In two years, please celebrate your coming of age at home alone.

SETLIST

01. Aka 02. Fuzz 03. Zettai Zetsumei 04. Worlds End 05. Kyousoukyoku MC 06. KILLEЯ 07. Mukashi Kodomo datta Hitotachi he 08. rhythm session leading into Himitsu 09. 1979 10. Wasurenagusa 11. Suna no Shiro 12. Ieji MC 13. Heide 14. Nirvana 15. Orugooru 16. Namonaki Yume 17. TONIGHT

Encore 18. part-changed Sekai no Owari MC 19. part-changed Ranchuu

Double Encore 20. ESCAPE (Moonchild cover) 21. Dejavu (Luna Sea cover) 22. NO?! 23. 1997 24. Daikirai 25. Ranchuu 26. Myakuhaku

COMMENTS & MC NOTES

For Aka, the first song, the guys didn’t seem to move around as much as normal so everyone was all “huh? something’s off”, but most of the audience didn’t realize that there were entirely different people on stage that were only wearing MUCC’s costumes – until the real members popped up behind them and the body doubles disappeared from the stage. In one of the MCs they talked about this. Like, about who the body doubles were: Yukke: Mine was SCREW’s Rui. Tatsurou: Mine was Girugamesh’s Shu, GirugameShu. Miya: We didn’t find anyone for me until yesterday, but one of the kouhai I drink with when home kind of looks similar to me, and he’s in a band now too and had time to come, so him.

That guy is a bassist so all of the three in front were bassists XD Tatsurou: What about you Satochi? Satochi: Mine was Takayasu-san. Tatsurou: Yourself? Satochi: (small voice) yes.

Tatsurou: I feel like we shouldn’t talk about stupid things during the MC for the 20th anniversary, but MUCC came this far while talking about nothing but useless stuff during the MCs so I also want to stay true to that. Yukke: Oh, I have something stupid to talk about! It’s something I can’t say normally, but… is it ok to talk about shit for a bit? (everyone: ???) Yukke: Shit drills have been really popular lately, you know, study sheets where the answers to all questions will spell out shit! Satochi: (nods in happy understanding) Yukke: Satochi, you received some of those right? Presents from fans? I don’t know why they are so popular, maybe they are more fun to do than normal drills? Satochi: Yes, they are fun! So much fun! (sounding like an excited elementary school kid)

Satochi was reading 実話ナックルズ in a store (… if you don’t know the magazine, please do a picture search for the name, such a yankee mag omg). Which lead Miya to remember… Back when Miya had a part time job in Kabukichou, at some after party a kouhai got utterly wasted so Miya helped stuffing him into a taxi and someone must have taken a picture of that because it appeared in 実話ナックルズ with something like “A True Account Of Kidnapping! The Dark Side Of Kabukichou!” (MUCC cracking up) Tatsurou: So you really appeared in the magazine?! At the time apparently Miya mentioned it during an MC too and Satochi went to a convenience store right after the live to check it out and yes, the article in question was there XD

For the encore, they changed positions: Tatsurou → bass (not one reduced to two strings this time, a normal fully stringed bass) Miya → drum (behind his own little drum set, not Satochi’s) Yukke → guitar Satochi → vocal (with little angel wings on his back) During Sekai no Owari, for all the 俺はまっすぐ歩けない lines (“can’t walk straight”), Satochi was penguin walking around the stage avoiding two steps in the same direction XD And all of the growls sounded like Satochi was throwing up… XD;

Satochi thought they were doing only Sekai no Owari with changed parts, but no, also Ranchuu. In between the two, Satochi admired Tatsurou because Satochi: Damn, doing vocals is EXHAUSTING how do you do it, moving all the time is so hard you’re amazing!

During Ranchuu, there was even more Satochi throwing up (“growling”… but he even stood in ways that suggested throwing up, like bending over and such) and moving in adorably cute patterns around the stage, like damn, I have never laughed so hard during Ranchuu that my stomach hurt afterwards but this time, oh wow XD SO CUTE. SO FUNNY. So, a big percentage of the crowd was laughing waaay to hard to do any headbanging, but we enjoyed it to no end XD

For the double encore, they returned to their normal positions. And started with two song covers, for ESCAPE they had live piano on stage again, played by Yoshida-san who has worked with them during recordings before (he played the piano for Shinsou on Zekuu and ever since worked with them whenever they needed a pianist). Apparently they first hired him for only one song (Suna no Shiro) for this live, and then with “can we add one more song?” “sure” “ok and one more then” they ended up with him on stage for three songs XD

The second time of Ranchuu, this time with everyone on their normal position, was amazing especially with the contrast to Satochi’s supercute version. Now everyone could (and did) go crazy enough for both times XD

Tatsurou: That you all have gathered here today, that means that MUCC are a part of your life! We are family!! Please continue like that for many years to come!!!! Ah… I said that, but… zen’in shikei!!! (what he always calls during Ranchuu, “You’re all under death penalty”ish, so everyone cracked up at that XD )

When they left the stage after the last song, Satochi started to throw Yukke’s bass into the audience, but of course stopped before it left the stage, shocking Miya next to him for a second XD

Announcements via a text video projected onto the backdrop

- Re-release of Tsuuzetsu and Homura Uta - Tour in the summer in tiny tiny venues

Miya on Twitter on the Re-Releases: “We could finally announce about the New Tsuuzetsu and the New Homura Uta. I think there are good parts to MUCC from long ago as well as good parts to the MUCC of today, so with this release we can directly compare their music which should be fun. We don’t want to just reproduce what we did back then. Right now, there are things we cannot do the way we did them back then. But also, there are things we can do now that we could not do back then. And so I think we managed to make something we could only make as the MUCC of today.”

#couldhavebeenthere #omgimsad #mucc

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I just want to be able to dress really cool and hang out with large groups of friends but honestly I’m having a hard enough time keeping my hair washed and doctors appointments in order 

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Live at Yokohama Arena 2012…

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Richard Wright  -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwright4  -  https://www.facebook.com/richard.wright.9480111  -  https://society6.com/richardwright/prints

#digital art

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“Chill Cat”

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Nothen lights by odie_iceland on Flickr.

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Chronic pain is resting all day, sleeping as long as a healthy person would need to, and then waking up the next morning feeling like you fell down a flight of stairs

#spoonie #fibromyalgia

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Spotting a supernova in NGC 5806

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The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.

Camille Paglia  (via mirroir)

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THIS

Bringing up proof when someone doesn’t believe in my illness

[Gif of Melissa McCarthy throwing a book over Sandra Bullock’s shoulder and into the face of a man sitting handcuffed to a chair.]

#spoonie #chronic illness #fibromyalgia

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Orion.

Dec 2015, Syöte, Finland. 

by Tiina Törmänen | web | FB | IG |  

#space #stars