Long and Detailed Concert Report - Berlin - March 2006

[Mistoline]

I just want to let everyone know I forgot a part in my report and I really liked that part, so here's an addon to

"Mana's Birthday Part IV"

When the 20th name was drawn, Mana started to leave the stage. He wasn't even really moving yet, when a smirk spread over K's face and - with much glee - he turned the ashtray-type thing upside down and all the remaining pieces of paper with names on them that had not been drawn fell onto the stage like little snowflakes. I knew so many people whose names - including my own - were now messily scattered on the stage. K seemed to really enjoy that moment of evilness, his entire body language and face emitted the joy of being evil. *laughs* He distracted me enough to miss Mana disappearing completely.

So before we knew it... the stage was empty. Though I heard when almost everyone was out of the venue (I heard there were only three people left behind), Mana came up on stage and started taking pictures with his cellphone. Wonder whether they're as blurry and bad as the rest of normal pictures he takes *cough*.

Thanks for your attention again! (^_^);;;

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I read all your report but try myself to remember where in all of the show Mana went infront of the Monitors? I remember just that he went there shortly and looked like it was a bit risky and came back quickly^^; I just forgot when in the show it was~~;

I don't remember which song it was, I think it must have been in the last 20 minutes of the concert some time. The image of his fluttering train against the purple light that was right there in stage is very vivid. He did go in front of his amp a few times, but what I was talking about were the two piled up speakers on the right. In front of those, he only went once.

 

[Iru]

The few of us who stayed outside for as long as we could got to see Juka leave (and he waved at us) in the silver van and Kazuno was possibly with him.

Omg, nice - im very jealous but still very happy. Again nice writing from you Mistoline. I hope that you have time to write in the future as well. I love the way when you go detailed with things.

 

[CookieMoses]

I'm LOVING these reports!!!

Along with the live bootleg and the fact that I'm doped up on hydrocodone (my wisdom teeth got cut out yesterday), it's almost like I went to the concert. *spins*

 

[mizu]

@mistoline

are you from this group in the car whom we helped finding the columbiahalle? (you drove behind us)
(i'm sorry if i mixed something up)

greets
mizu

 

[Lilly]

@Mistoline: w00t? Mana came Back on the Stage? .__. omg

 

[Takeru]

Honestly, I think it's better members get only that and that suhc things like inviting people backstage are spread with the same chances for everyone in the audience. I think getting in early privilege enough, but I do want some kind of privilege for paying all year, after all.

I know, I know it's true, otherwise there wouldn't be any advantage in being member >_<

K seemed to really enjoy that moment of evilness, his entire body language and face emitted the joy of being evil. *laughs* He distracted me enough to miss Mana disappearing completely.

Oh my K *__* He's so evilish

Mana came up on stage and started taking pictures with his cellphone. Wonder whether they're as blurry and bad as the rest of normal pictures he takes *cough*.

XDD I'd pay to see them <333

 

[Mistoline]

@mistoline

are you from this group in the car whom we helped finding the columbiahalle? (you drove behind us)
(i'm sorry if i mixed something up)

greets
mizu

Yes, totally! I am the driver.

@Mistoline: w00t? Mana came Back on the Stage? .__. omg

As far as I know, yes. Only three people from the audience were still in the venue at that time, though.

 

[mizu]

@mistoline

ok...
you called us kids and schoolgirls in your report?!
we feel insulted...

 

[Mistoline]

@mistoline

ok...
you called us kids and schoolgirls in your report?!
we feel insulted...

By around 8-9 am the first other set of fans arrived with their mommy. Yes, jrock is spreading in the more juvenile population of this world, which I find a bit tough to deal with since I am not too fond of kids. These were some nice kids, though and we happily shared our place with them.

I don't see how this mentions schoolgirls. I said you were kids, which is an impression I got because you arrived with your mom who drove you around and who was chaperoning you for quite a while. I tend to not judge people by their legal age, especially if I don't know it.

Also, if you'd kindly read the above sentence again: I also said you were nice. If you feel insulted by that or by my opinion about jrock fandom, I'm sorry, but I can't really help it.

 

[mizu]

sry that was a bit harsh from me.

it was further down

"a lovely guy in drag with shoes that would kill anyone’s feet (which is why he chose to sit), the school girls (without their mommy by this point),..."

it's just that we are no kids or schoolgrils (ok two uf us will do there finals soon but that's not the point)

we thought about it as mean because you are calling us like that just because we didn't dress up as crazy (that should not be an insult to those people who did dress up!- just for these ones who just hadn't the right figure for thight clothes...-.-) as the others. well we looked pretty normal against the others..
well i don't want to put up a fight.. i just wanted to say that we feel slightly insulted because of that kids and schoolgirl thing. it sounds like we are little kids who needs their mommy everywhere around-.-

greets
mizu

 

[Mistoline]

I don't judge people by their legal age, especially if I don't know it.

This has nothing to do with you dressing up at all. If you draw such conclusions, it's really not my fault, since that is nowhere said in the report nor does it make any sense to me 'blame' anything on the way someone is dressed. If you saw some of my friends, they were dressed pretty normally there, too.

If you want to go on a rant on a fragment of one sentence of a 16 page report, please do so, but I actually do find that childish that you're insulted by the impression someone got of you. In fact, you DID make the impression to me like you need your mommy around - so I wrote that. Please take note that there is a warning is added at the very beginning of this thread that this is the concert seen from my point of view.

(And you basically just told me that two of you actually ARE schoolgirls. Now especially, I really don't see what the problem is!)

 

[mizu]

yes.. alright
i just wrote that i hadn't any intention to start a fight or a discussion.
it wasn't meant that way..
(but well you can still go to school with 19 and that's no kids age anymore-that was ist what i meant)
anyway i liked your report. it's really good. we were just a bit shocked by the mommy and kids thing.
and with the clothes-thing. i'm sorry , i haven't meant to put things in your mouth. it's just that we got the experience (especially on the concerts) that in this whole visual kei/gothic lolita/manga ect scene it's always like one tight group you can't enter (mostly because of the dressing-up thing)

greets
mizu

 

[Mistoline]

yes.. alright
i just wrote that i hadn't any intention to start a fight or a discussion.
it wasn't meant that way..
(but well you can still go to school with 19 and that's no kids age anymore-that was ist what i meant)
anyway i liked your report. it's really good. we were just a bit shocked by the mommy and kids thing.
and with the clothes-thing. i'm sorry , i haven't meant to put things in your mouth. it's just that we got the experience (especially on the concerts) that in this whole visual kei/gothic lolita/manga ect scene it's always like one tight group you can't enter (mostly because of the dressing-up thing)

greets
mizu

This kind of shows me that my report reaches its intention to let people live through my experience and feel like I felt when I was at the concert. Essentially, you and the impression you made were part of that. And you did come with your mom and she was being a bit of a mother-hen for a while, right? How am I supposed to know/get the impression you are any older than my sister who is sixteen and basically spent the entire weekend alone in Berlin with her boyfriend?

(Also, to me schoolgirls means you are in school - or likely to be, since I didn't know for sure.)

And I am not trying to argue, just saying how this report came into existence and why things are written the way they are.

 

[mizu]

alright alright^^

well she only drove us there.. and you have to say: without her you would have had some troubles with reaching the columbiahall^^
(that silly guy from huxleys!)
let's keep it at that point

greets
mizu

 

[Mistoline]

*sweatdrop* Truthfully... I probably wouldn't. Not meaning to shoot down anything you said, but while we were inside of the car, my friend added "Columbiadamm" to the navigation system and it happily told us to go exactly the way your mom drove ahead.

I don't know whether you realized, but your mom was about to go straight on the way back when we were already on the lane to go to the left. (^_^);; She then changed lanes, too.

I just had a hole in my brains for a moment due to this idiot Huxley's guy making me all worried - for a moment, I didn't remember that I KNEW the Columbiahalle from the Dir en grey concert last year and that it was on "Columbiadamm", of course (that was also how I knew which of the two entrances was still in use). Of course with your mom ahead, I felt much more secure driving there, though.

But yeah... that guy was... weird... (O_o); Was he some sort of uninformed official or something?! I still think he might have been lying about how it has been decided 'just this morning' that the concert would take place at Huxley's - to save his reputation.

 

[mizu]

yeah this guy... *sigh*
my friend an i wondered around a bit later and there he was again saying "are you still there?"" ""don't wander around here" blabla...
strange guy..

yeah it wasn't meant like that you were helpless without my mother-.-
it was just that you asked her if you could follow us. of course would you have found the right way by your own.
it wasn't supposed that you took my statement too serious

greets
mizu

 

[yun]

I'm glad to see that in berlin there was a strange man too..
in france.. it was really scaring me XD

the man was shouting at the crowd.. and one of his eyes.. has.. a problem.. <_< ...

really scary!

 

[Mistoline]

the man was shouting at the crowd.. and one of his eyes.. has.. a problem.. <_< ...

really scary!

What was he shouting?

 

[Halvorc]

As I said in my report, he was shouting incoherent phrases, he spoke to the crowd, sang loudly, he sometimes just... yelled, and before leaving, he insulted the girls who were closest to him o_o Yeah, his disabled eye was disgusting, it reminded me of all the times someone told me, in primary school "hey, I can reverse my eyelid, look...-Noooo ! *flees away*"

Edit : at the moment, I was thinking about filming him with my camera, "that would make a cool element for my live report, for scape members", but I was too afraid he noticed me X_X :p

 

[yun]

but I was too afraid he noticed me X_X

did you see tha I sit down .. because I didn't want he shout at me event if I was far away of him XD