The Venue ~ The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
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"6am!!?? Hontou??" I shouted at akane...are we really gonna get up that early? I was dreading waiting out all day, I thought it was gonna be totally boring -_-;;
"WELCOME TO CHAOS"
The vdo board had thrown out at us from behind the stage, the meaning of the words sinking in...the screams uplifitng and finally becoming deafening...and...before I knew it SUGIZO had walked straight out in front of me, sticking his tongue out at his dear SLAVEs. I couldn't believe it!! S U G I Z O!!!! Right in front of me!!! *faints*
Note: btw...the info from now on is not nessicarily in the order of what happened...man I don't have that good a memory!! Some of it is in order though ^^
Suuuugiiiiizooooo
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Hahahah for anybody who's reading this...this obviously isn't finished ne~ I'm a BAKA girl...uploading it just to see how it looks >_< GOMEN~~~
I got up at 6 am (should have been 4 am), at akane's wish, and we both arrived in Causeway bay at about 8 am. We stopped to buy all the newspapers that had us in!! SUGOI!! Yes we were in the newspapers for craving LUNA SEA at the airport!! ^_^
We left the shop and went into the MTR station to await for our other SLAVE friends. As we were standing there going mad over us in the newspaper, two girls came up towards us.
"Are you going to the LUNA SEA gig?" one timidly asked, obviously she had seen akane's 'First Asian Tour' tee, "can we join you?" ^^ Sure! We thought, more the merrier! And so they joined us. We asked them where they came from, and they said that they were two Thai SLAVEs, TIK and roro. In the back of my head I thought...'TIK and roro...heard their names somewhere before...'
Soon our group had increased, and JC showed us the translations of the official internet messages about the 'drawing the curtain'. I think it bought us down for a little while, but soon we were all laughing again as we started the trek to the venue.
It was beautiful, walking over the city towards the venue. As we arrived we asked where we were to wait, and we were pointed out to a queue of hot SLAVEs sitting on the pavement in the sunlight...This I thought was it, we were gonna be stuck in the sun all day! >_< Thanx we were moved into the shading section of the foyer of the car park to sit and talk for the next 6 hours...
This was time for total SLAVE bonding!! We talked and tried to relax as we waited...somehow I managed to get through it, man It was boring!! Several people started arriving that we were gonna meet up with. Firstly Saph from America showed, hahahah a truly mad and headstrong American teenager! Jas seemed to recognise me straight away!! Man she like called out my name and I was so surprised...she said that she recognised me from the photos I put onto the Sugizo ML. Barcode gave us all a major surprise by turning up to the gig from Australia without telling us!
A while passed un eventfully, but then to our right...a short, cute young woman started to walk passed
us from the other side of the barrier. SLAVEs heads turned as she passed, and then straight after a tall young woman followed her...
"Waaaaaahhhhhhhh~~~~ Sugizo-san, J-san!!!" we all called "SUGOI, S...SUGOI!!! COZ -PLAYERS!!!" the shorter woman was dressed in full kimono with long red hair! She was Sugizo from the photobook "BLACK BOX". And then...the other, J from IMAGE PERIOD, full with a little plush replica of herself!! Our little group immediately asked for a photo opportunity. The Sugizo coz-player got out her red parasol accompanied from very many "wows" from us, got on the floor and posed like SUGIZO!!! KOKAII!!! We ended up following them and having many photos taken! As u can see, I had to have one done with Ryuki...*sigh* if only she could have been the real Sugizo T_T Don't they both look just damn cool and professional??
Any way, we were let into the building at 3 pm. Everybody who wasn't left behind ran up the elevators into HALL 2...there we found out that we only had to queue for even longer!! DAMN...and to round that all off...on the way I fell over and broke my shoe!! Waaa~~~the heal like totally came off! We waited for another 2 hours. At 5:40 pm we all stood up waiting for them to let us into the actual hall of the venue. They were supposed to let us go in at 6 pm, but in reality we ended up waiting till about 7pm all cramped up against each other!! As they finally let us in I could remember the sighs of relief...as I ran out I saw cameras flashing at me! I nearly slipped on my socks as I ran round the corner (I had taken my shoes off so I could run :P). I ran to the elevator and on the next floor where they checked the tickets and if we had any cameras or MD players on us. I had come up with the ingenious idea of hiding both of my cameras in the bottom of my wedge platforms (which paid off!). I didn't even think that they'd think of looking in my boots, but as the man grabbed them I though '---- - he's gonna find them!' and my heart beat raced...I watched him as he shook them vigorously with nothing falling out! HAHA!! I had got away with it!
...Finally I had reached the venue hall...
I was a little confused as I entered the hall. I couldn't work out where in the hell the stage was, then I spotted it and where SUGIZO would be...with a little crowd in the front...so I raced over to buy tour goods! God dammit, I spent like £130 (HK$ 1320)...which is a lot of money...I just pointed at them all; jumper, towel, white programme, red programme and the necklace...(How the hell that cost me £130 I dunno?? >_<), I knew I had the chance to be at the front near SUGIZO. So I paid and ran with my stuff to SUGIZO and pushed a little (-_-;;) till I found myself at the front, well more or less behind two small girls (but later on I managed to push myself right to the front). So I put on my shoes, despite one of them nearly falling apart and BOOM...Extra Height :P hahahahaha...I could see better now!!
Now with my problems out of the way and the secured place nearest to my beloved SUGIZO...the real wait was about the begin!
"This is happening!! I'm really here!" I kept on thinking to myself...and finally it hit me...
The first voice we heard over the crowds screaming was RYUICHI'S shaped in the form of the words "Hello...we are LUNA SEA!" The screams started again, even though what he had said was totally obvious and stupid (well I can't blame Ryu now can I? He has such cute, limited English *awwwww~~~* :P). Ryuichi carried on in his cute little English accent "Are you happy?" we scream "Enjoy our show!!!" , he had suddenly thrown us into the first song without warning! The SLAVEs screaming had made the perfect start to the first song, the perfect start to the gig...BE AWAKE The power of this song overwhelmed me...the beautiful power of the first song I'd ever hear live in my life...and it was sung with such passion and love!! I can remember savouring the sound of Sugizo singing the harmonies to me...his mouth sensually next to that microphone...Not long after it had ended...and the hype carried on straight away...SLAVE was next. This started the crowd right off, the madness rising in the fans, the energy reflected in the work of the members
There was a short break, and from offstage on Sugizo's side his tech came out with a semi-acoustic guitar on a stand. I can 
remember thinking to myself; 'what's that for?'. Then it struck me LOVE SONG!!! They were gonna play LOVE SONG!! It was so touching, and so sad. As we reached the chorus I could hear everybody sing it "So kimi o aishiteru LOVE SONG TOGETHER, Sou kimi o hanasanai"...It killed me and I think I almost sang it with tears in my eyes. Finally the end riff 'la la la la la la la la la LOVE TOGETHER'. I could feel the love and pain in the air, the fans sucking up the love and emotion...everybody wanted to cry.
My first live, I will never forget...SUGIZO...LUNA SEA...I WILL NEVER FORGET!!!! ^______^
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