Moi dix Mois Europe Tour 2007 - Live Reports

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Ah, so there was Metaphysical! I'm relieved. Thank you Yun for clearing that up!

But I won't blame Halvorc, since I still can't even remember if they did or didn't play Unmoved at Krefeld, while I totally love that song... I had been looking forward to hearing that song live, but I can't remember! XD
It's normal that our memory fails us sometimes ^^;

I always thought that showing his middle finger isn't something Mana would do. I guess people have just mistaken it because he has his guitar pick between his fingers. So it may look like he's doing it, but in truth he isn't.

My English fails, sorry XD
 

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They played Perish and Exclude, too.
 

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Oh Takeru, thank you so much for your report. Such a wonderful opportunity you’ve got there; too be able to interview Mana must be an incredible experience. I cannot wait to read the whole interview and see the picture you managed to took with him.

yun wrote:
second Mana didn't show his middle finger, he just open his arm and because he has his pick between his finger the middle was of course more visible but it wasn't what you said -_-'

For some reason I thought that was the case. :) I have noticed before that Mana tends to gesture a lot with his guitar picks between his fingers and, well, it is not like he actually sells the image of a bad rock star who does that kind of middle finger thing. It can be possible, of course, but for me it would be really random.

And it is just for me or Live Journal is really being annoyingly slow lately? I was not able to read a single report posted there yet.
 

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Really, Mana did not show his middle finger?? Maybe he did it in Munich? We were so certain that he did at least twice when we say him in Munich! o.o; And I was sure that he did it when I saw him last year in Berlin...
Did I make a mistake here? Embarrassing ^^;
 

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yuma.3942 wrote:
Really, Mana did not show his middle finger?? Maybe he did it in Munich? We were so certain that he did at least twice when we say him in Munich! o.o; And I was sure that he did it when I saw him last year in Berlin...
Did I make a mistake here? Embarrassing ^^;

I dont think he made it in Munich - I was watching him the whole concert ;)


btw I uploaded a few new pics of the weekend on my myspace blog - sadly no mana sama or m10m ...

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who is that?

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Thanks for the reports Halvorc, Takeru, Ma_cherie, and everyone who wrote one :P I enjoy reading them.

I'm sorry I'm so lazy to write a proper one xD I'm writing one in Spanish but it's very long and all messed up because I don't remember the set list or in which order things happened XDD

In Barcelona, K also spat water to us at Mana's side xD It was quite unexpected for me.

I'm happy they did play Metaphysical in Paris because for me it was the best way the live could start, specially having Mana in front of me. I love those guitar riffs!

I enjoyed reading your review, Ma_cherie. Brings back memories =) Especially about that tunnel we had to run through before entering o.O XD

Does anyone remember the Barcelona set list? I know it was Sacred Lake, Metaphysical...and then vain or night breed...there my memory fades...Then Angelica was one of the last ones. And I don't remember even the last before the encore. Then it was Xanadu, Lilac of Damnation, Deus ex Machina and Sacred lake. And that's all I remember...
 

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Thanks for the pictures and reports ;) I refuse to believe Mana is married. He just does not seem to be the type :P The woman must have been either his personal assistant or manager of somesort. Oh and doesn't he have a sister? I wouldn't be too surprised if he had made her get involved with Moitie :)
 

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I'm glad you liked my review.
Yeah I've been so lucky , I can't believe it >ç<

About your questions:
- Yes, Mana spoke A LOT XD
- The interview will be published on www.nipponproject.com (I'll tell you when it is published)
- Yes, the photo will be published with the interview

For other questions just ask ;)
 

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Long time I haven´t been around. *sweat drop*

I may try to make some reviews/comparisons between lives. But for now some comments.

I can hardly believe Mana showed the middle finger. Sounds unlikely. So my recommendation to everyone is to consider a LOT more possible that it was just that he had the pic between his fingers.

That woman that is rumored to be Mana´s Wife is YUKI ITO the manager of M10M (and possibly Malice Mizer), ruler/owner of Midi:Nette, nominal owner of Mana-related web domains, etc etc etc. So, Yuki Ito is the top boss in there with/after Mana. She´s been around forever.

I can´t believe is that someone who got the trust of people to get a pass in and make an interview would be as unprofessional and irresponsible to start suggesting it´s Mana´s wife. Even if she does is his wife, you should not be telling about it at all. It´s not about it being true or not (no one knows and most of us doesn´t cares) it´s about being minimally professional and responsible. You got the trust to get an interview. Please, don´t betray that trust by spreading rumors and private details in an online forum. Sorry if I come across as a b**ch. My English is never good enough to avoid coming across in a nasty way even if it´s not my intention. But I think it needs to be said. I find that spreading that rumor in such a place from your advantaged position is highly irresponsible.

Salutation to Ma_Cherie. NICE meeting you! Also to Morgan Ivy (I´m the freckled girl we spoke a few words, I don´t know if you can remember me at all).

About Madrid live. Basically same as everywhere else. Seth seemed more energetic than in Barcelona. But no snake dance (as far as I know Madrid is the only concert in whole tour where he didn´t do it). But his new tongue fetish do was there, with a vengeance. O_O Apparently he started doing it in Milan. I had never noticed it before Barcelona but someone mentioned it in Milan.
Same goes for Mana recording the audience. They started doing that in Milan, they also did it in Barcelona but not in Madrid.
Barcelona was white costumes *much love for those costumes*. Madrid was black (I do prefer the black costume for Mana).
Barcelona we estimate around 600/550 tickets (almost sold out, room full). Madrid we guess around 300/350? (room half-full).
In Barcelona there was that shitty accident with the white mask. It wasn´t done on purpose. just that someone didn´t think straight and instead of handing the mask to 1st row to put it away in a corner he threw it on the strange and landed in Mana´s position. Which messed his liberty to move for 2 songs until another girl and me managed to call the security guard (useless lazy b**tard didn´t even try to stop cameras in front rows) to put it out of the way.
Barcelona, in general, audience-wise, sucked something bad.
live house staff didn´t warn about cameras properly, nor did they check half the bags. Audience was a bunch of over-hormonal fangirls screaming nonsense all over the songs. Front rows didn´t hear the 2 1st songs under the screams. We didn´t manage to hear much of instrumental parts either. The pushing was bad but never as bad as Paris (no one can beat the levels of nastiness a Paris concert can reach, it´s one of the reasons why this year I skipped it even if it was the 1st final tour and the live that´ll be on DVD).
Madrid was nice, screams and pushing were there, of course. But much more civil than Barcelona and people did worry about others not getting too hurt.
In Madrid people also got to see them come in and out through the front door. In Barcelona that was impossible since they entered through another door in a different street.

Generally speaking, Moi dix Mois has offered its fans and non-fans wonderful lives. The band with its current line-up has been together for many lives and they´ve become very strong on stage. Seth has always been what we call in Spain a "stage-animal" (meaning people who gets on stage with a strong charisma and takes ownership very fast) and now that everyone in the band is very used to each other it has even more of an impact on the audience. Very very strong lives.
Also, the total mess Germany did with the concerts offered us the opportunity to observe how little problems the band has to go fetch their screams when not offered immediately. Up till now, this last years, all we´ve seen is almost full live houses with a confident (and many time over-confident) audience. But the big sized live houses full to only a 1/3 made the audience kinda shy in Germany so M10M had to warm us up and they did, flawlessly, restlessly. They worked everyone up until any kind of shyness was gone. The circumstances sucked for the band, of course. But it offered us the chance to see a new side of M10M we hadn´t seen yet.

I´m sure I´ll remember more things in the future. I´ll post them if no one else does. But there were Scape member in almost every live. :lol: So it probably won´t be needed, I´m very bad at doing reviews. sorry :oops:
 

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Minako wrote:
I can´t believe is that someone who got the trust of people to get a pass in and make an interview would be as unprofessional and irresponsible to start suggesting it´s Mana´s wife. Even if she does is his wife, you should not be telling about it at all. It´s not about it being true or not (no one knows and most of us doesn´t cares) it´s about being minimally professional and responsible. You got the trust to get an interview. Please, don´t betray that trust by spreading rumors and private details in an online forum.

I find that spreading that rumor in such a place from your advantaged position is highly irresponsible.

You didn't understand at all.
When I first spoke with that woman I DIDN'T KNOW she was rumoured to be Mana's wife. Other people told me after seeing me talking with her and my face was like "O__O"
Then, everyone knew about this rumour but me, so I thought you people could know better than me, too, and I decided to write about it. I didn't mean to spread any rumour.

And, I DON'T have an advantaged position and I'M NOT irresponsible at all.
 

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Takeru was spreading rumours, some people said that the woman might be Mana's wife and Takeru didn't start the rumour or made that up, just simply told what they said.

Actually I remember the shiny haired woman from Tavastia. She kept going in and out the backstage and looked really busy. No wonder if she is the manager :)

And thanks Minako for the report! :)
 

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Takeru wrote:
When I first spoke with that woman I DIDN'T KNOW she was rumoured to be Mana's wife.

Then, everyone knew about this rumour but me, so I thought you people could know better than me

And, I DON'T have an advantaged position and I'M NOT irresponsible at all.

You must consider from outside. Someone who says "I interviewed him" "I talked with xxx" IS considered to be in an advantaged position and it's understood as you talk with more knowledge than the rest of us. It may be true or not at all. But that´s how, a big percentage of people, will understand it. An interviewer mentioning she may be the wife, will end up rebounding as "She IS his wife". Sad, but true. And you have to consider such things.

You may not be irresponsible, but you did act irresponsibly. That´s how I see it. Please do consider it, think how it may be seen from outside. If you want to keep doing interviews you do need to think about it. You have a big chance of this reaching him in some fan e-mail as "the interviewer of XXXXXX web said your wife was there. I didn´t knew you were married". It probably won´t happen. But it may happen... and then it´s the end for you as interviewer. So, please, consider not putting rumors and a report on interviewing him together. It´s bad practice.
 

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Immortal angel wrote:
EDIT:

who is that?

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mmmm I think that´s Midi:Nette photographer of doom (you never know where what he shots will end up showing). The person that appears blurred I don´t know. Hair looks very brown so I don´t think it´s any of the 2 staff girls that were usually seen in this tours (One is Yuki Ito, the other I think is the translator). But the, light on pics sometimes shows colors that aren´t 100% the same as you see on naked eye. SO, I can´t really say.
 

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Do you mean this lady?
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Did you have some sort of bad run in with the manager BlackMagic?

I don´t know if that person is Yuki Ito. *_* I´m very bad recognizing faces.
And with the hairdo, the make up and everything I can´t tell at all because I´m so bad recognizing faces. Also that TV program is kinda old and there are some years between this and the 1st time I saw her. So, I don´t know. Sorry. But other people probably can tell (if they´re still reading/participating in Scape).

Personally I like Yuki Ito. She´s always taken care of keeping an eye on what goes on with the fanclub. Ensuring things are as they should be. Mana and her are a tandem that´s been working to our advantage for a long time. Because of that, even if I never talked with her, I have to appreciate her.
 

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@Minako: You are the girl who didn't have her platforms on anymore when I asked to take a photo with you and Geisha? (Would you like me to send that photo btw?)
Thank you for a great report! I can't do reports if my life depended on it...

@†Xian†: I'm surprised K spat water on Mana's side and not his own! And btw, did I meet you there?

I actually went around with the printed logo of -scape- but no one came up to me xD I later met hector there and he had really cool hair ;)

@Ma_cherie: I'm anxious to read your Madrid report =D

@Kiaiku: We should have taken a photo when I fell XD

We were the last of the fanclub to enter because I had them both as my guests for the tickets and the man who gave us the orange card didn't want to let them through, saying it was only one person, the actual member. So when we did get in we also broke into a run (mostly for the fun of it xD) and I tripped on my slightly-high heels and fell on my face (actually mostly on my knees but my nose touched the floor) and then laughed until we got to the end of the hallway..

I was third row, right in front of K, but I had two very nasty girls (and I also mean this literaly. They looked and smelled like they hadn't showered in more than a few days) right in front of me who would not let me get a step closer to the stage! And they had a very good space between them and the girls on the first row! Also, I understand that some people like to enjoy concerts without headbanging or screaming, just paying attention to what is going on. But do you have to do that in the second row? Those girl did not move at all for the whole concert! Everytime Mana got to our side I was fiercely squished between them and the girls behind me (the aggressive type of fans that tried at all costs to get in front of me =/ )
It was a great concert though, the best of the 3 I've attended for the past 3 years. (I would still like to see any photos from the line in Barcelona if anyone has them... I didn't take any myself, I asked other people to take them for me)
 

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Minako, I didn't talk about that rumour as interviewer, but as a simple member of a forum. If you don't understand this it's not my problem, is yours. I won't answer to you anymore about this. Think what you prefer.
 

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never as bad as Paris (no one can beat the levels of nastiness a Paris concert can reach, it´s one of the reasons why this year I skipped it even if it was the 1st final tour and the live that´ll be on DVD).
i feel bad for you because this year the crowd was nearly nice XD i mean we were film and even if we all go mad (like K ask us XD) for the first time i was in front of Mana and i was able to breath whitout to much problem at the contrary of last year when i was in front of K ans everyone pushing like mad....
 

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Okay, one thing I have to say about this "Mana`s wife rumor"..

I wasn`t sure about it, but now after I heard that some people assume thet the brown haired women who entered the interview might be his wife, I am like 98% percent sure it IS his wife or fiance...

Why I am so sure? Well after the Munich concert, we had the chance to spy into the hall, apart from every member we saw without makeup, stading there smoking. We also saw mana, he wore his sunglasses but no hat. Anyways it doesn`t matter, but now I am sure that it`s true what I saw, he was there with this brown haired woman, and he kissed her. I was like 20 meters away from that scene so I was unsure a long time, but know after those rumors spread from somewhere else I guess it was right what I saw ^^;;

As I said im not totally sure, but usually at every gig she was where mana was, and she might be his age, because she is a bit old. She also arrived in the same car es Mana. Uhm, well, but if it isn`t true, I didn`t want to spread false rumors, so usually I didn`t wnat to tell this story. But after that discussion came up I wanted to say something about it :P But yeah, even if it IS true or isn`t who cares about it? xD

Live reports of Munich an Paris will follow xDD
 
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