So me, alice, justyne and rachel went to downtown disney, house of blues for a myv concert. this occured on may 14th 2008. an amazing day in the life of darialois. here we will be compiling our memories to be sure never to forget, and also to not miss anything and to be as accurate as possible myv aishiteru! <333

so upon arriving we found a huge line was already there, it snaked around in funky curves, around a green tiled fountain. Some people were walking around trying to sell extra tickets, which i thought was stupid cuz we’d all bought ours like a month early…but anyways…some girl was getting taken somewhere by a cop, he was holding her arms behind her..that was kinda scary…i decided not to do anything illegal right then…i’m kidding, what was i gonna do anyway? the type of ppl in line ranged from stylish asian girls in gray to white people in black punk rock clothes with a Japanese flair. a lot of people had their hair dyed black…and even more had random colors in it…about 2/5 of the people were dressed vaguely normal…the rest were kinda costumed, and definetly outta the norm. corsettes, wooden shoes, rainbow hair. we even saw a girl with a braid down to her ankles. there were bright green mini skirts with 3 socks on each leg and a fishnet stocking on only one side..to crocodile shoes…to Miyavi’s rainbow hair on some guy…and miyavi’s old hair style from the video with the dandelions and the umbrella in the field. some guy who worked in downtown Disney came and gave everyone under 21 yrs. old a pink wrist band, i guess cuz there was a bar inside…or maybe for Miyavi to know who was jailbait ;D

we waited for about an hour and we all kinda had to pee but no way were we getting even further behind in the line! about 7 p.m. the doors opened and the front of the line got to start going through the metal detection team…then up the stairs where the bar codes on our tickets were scanned with a red laser gun thing…

when we finally got up the stairs it looked like a bar…it was kinda small, theater sized, and the stage had a HUGE black cloth behind the drums that said in a circle of white writing “THIS IZ JAPANESE KABUKI ROCK” in the middle it had the character that means MIYAVI <333 random people were walking around on the stage, all asian, setting things up and making final checks, we[the crowd] got excited every time someone new came onstage and burst out cheering. when finally some people started to test the guitars to see if they were tuned we knew it would start soon…my friends said he’s usually late though…anywho..we started chanting “miyavi miyavi miyavi!” a couple of times, but it did nothing, he took his own sweet time. or maybe he was backstage changing and putting on his black eye make up..which you’ll hear more on later if you’re patient!

i still cant believe i was there…wow…well thats miyavi in the corner…no cameras allowed…but cell phones, yes!!

ALICE:

So the lights went dark. everyone got quiet. and then..you see someone strolling onto the stage, and then stand in the center of the stage, back away from the audience. The crowd went WILD. and then the loud music started, and the lights went on as he turned to face us. but he had a fan to cover his face. two ppl on the stage threw cherry blossom petals up in the air above him. then he played around with the fan a bit, and when he threw it onto the floor of the stage and we could see his face, the screams got even louder. he started playing his coolio guitar and dancing around the stage. This reminded me remarkably of a theme park attraction, like Universal Studos shows. He did his “spinning around with the guitar” move and moved all across the stage. he was wearing crazy colors and freaky wild stuff. when he had taken his huge white coat off, he had a sleaveless shirt on, and he lifted it with one hand up to the belly button. we went crazy. then his hand went down…into his pants…lol.

ME AGAIN:

at first he teased us with his white trenchy coat type thing…showing off his shoulder..haha…we all freaked…he took it off later…threw it to the side..he kept gesturing for us to get louder, with our screaming and our “miyavi!” chants. >_< squeeee. aite…i was on my tippy toes a lot i mean i’m 5′4 not bad, but still…taller ppl ahead of me…i was standing there like an IDIOT. i was just standing there smiling, i must have looked so weird…but w/e no one was looking at me, the attention was all MYV, i got more into it, but being raised a conservative SDA european…uh…not easy to let loose…i DID put my hands up to make a heart like 10 times. ahh myv!! ^_^

there was this kavaki boi on the side with some hat with ear flaps and a thing draped under it too…he had on a baggy vest, shirt and jeans, something striped black and white…he danced and spazzed and grooved to myv’s guitaring, Myv likes to play you see, he would play a few notes and then have the Kavki Boiz, the fatter one rap out the same notes, and the skinny one tap dance. apparently they are very amusing to him, he played around with them all concert. the skinny guy with the ear flaps clapped when he wanted us to clap along, etc. he taught us how to appropriately express ourselves by dancing, tap dancing, head banging and clappping. MYV told us to do 2 motions. clap and then stick out hands out for boom-ha, boom-ha-ha. boom was clap. and ha was put both hands up flat. there was a guy on the side of the stage, one of myv’s ppl taking pictures. and there was security who stood there the whole concert, poor guys, it musta been scary and loud up there. apparently ppl try to jump up on stage a lot in other places.

the crowd: CAN’T BELIEVE IT! the ppl by me were all friendly and polite. we were all here to admire myv, NOT to hurt and push other ppl around, so it was pretty tame around me, we let ppl through, except the violent ones, haha, we pushed them right back. i was near the bar, i got pushed up by it and my hand landed on the wooden counter and the bar tender looked up so i took my hand away cuz i didn’t want him to think i was asking for a drink…w/e he was lucky to be in an uncrowded place. we all got so sweaty, i put my hands up near my chest, just cuz leaving them limp made me accidentally grope ppl when the grown moved, so i’d rather hit shoulders than butts on accident, catch my drift? no? you perverts! haha. naw, there were mostly girls by me…so thats more safe for me…but also more awkward…but my brother was there behind me the whole show since i was the flimsiest participant in out little group…he was so amazing! he is a big guy, who dislikes my taste in music just cuz i’m so crazy about it that it turns him off…haha…ooopppsss…but i needed a guardian and would never dream of scarring my parentals with this loudness…[i hear i was gonna be deaf by the end] anyway, my, bro is buff and tall and he was like a WALL!! all the ppl pushing he moved himself so no one ever hit me <333333333333333333 >_< awwwwwwwwww. now if i could only go to an ft island concert, he was making fun of me like “so why aren’t you singing along? you don’t know the words?” pfff….but i know all the fti lyrics…but thats korean…terribly sorry, where was i? yes! the most pit was tame, ppl were rocking out sure, but it was just jumping, hands up with the “rock on” signs bouncing all over back and forth…my bro told me that moshing gets violent they hit you everywhere and they’re angry, and just letting loose and you hit back….which made me really scared…cuz i like the music…but i like peace better…only a couple of rude ppl by me…rest of the concert was ok, i only inched forward when there was space for me concert etiquette ppl. my and my bro only communicated with body language, thumbs up, nodding and smiling, i took his arm and threw it up to encourage him…but his style is rough moshing so eh…

some crazy girl next to me was dancing and howling, even tho i didn’t know the music, it gave me courage [fades in to soapera narrarator ] anywho, i got energized and started moving around too, and howling, IN FACT!- when it got quiet i yelled “SEXXYYYY!!!” and like 1/2 the crowd turned around. i felt bad for someones mother next to me, she was kinda being influenced by peer pressure to shake her head and do crazy things, she was kinda bopping along, you could tell she had been dragged there by some insane daughter, poor mom, and then the screaming started and she always covered her ears….i felt bad…but i couldnt NOT scream, i didnt pay $30 plus “random fees” for nothing. i even did some jumping *proud of self* like i said the crowd was tame around me, almost everyone was older than me there…my bro didnt move almost at all, he had his arms crossed, but he was vaguely bobbing and he said even the the music was eclectic or some weird word like that [not mainstream] he enjoyed myv’s shenanigans, and said he put on a good show. it was a work out. pheew. believe me! i urge you! lolz

ok so most of the music was kinda low and base-y. my bro said he wished he was the base player. i have no idea why. ask him. it was hard to hear him although he was next to me…haha…the other 3 ppl in our clan got lost, it was aite, we found em later…so myv is jumping all over the stage and leaning on the sides and ppl are scrambling to touch his arms, etc. i was like 20 feet away from him…ohh myv. XD haha. aite, seriously, the kavaki boys did most of everything, meevs only played the guitar, sure he switched to 3 diff. guitars but still.

aite so some silly things miyavi did include: he almost threw his jacket at us, he got really close to the rapper in his guitar. he tricked the dancer by not playing, the game was myv played some notes then the dancer danced, it got faster and faster and then myv just STOPPED and the dancer was ALMOST caught off guard, and MYV stuck his tongue out like “ha ha biznatch” kawaii! *_* haha. he sure teased us A LOT. it involved audience participation A LOT. he was always looking to get us LOUDER. READ PART 2.