~to Exit~ Nagoya
Date: June 13, 2005(Sun) SOLD OUT!!!
Place: ell. FITS ALL, Nagoya
Start: 18:00
Name of the show: Last One man Tour ~ to Exit ~
Maps in Japan really shouldn’t be called maps. They should be called: confusing lines with boxes to represent buildings that may OR may not really be there. This was our first trip to see Fatima on their final oneman tour and it was in Nagoya. Aichi Expo 2005 was going on so those green guys were everywhere. Like this:
It was pretty awesome. So anyway. We have our map and are dragging our suitcases around these streets. We keep walking and walking and …. walking. One amazing thing about Nagoya: there are BENCHES. That’s frigging amazing for Japan. Usually you have to sit on nasty stairs, the side of a nasty building, or take the all-time-best-position-EVER – squatting on the curb/street/sidewalk/phone booth/station. So we were able to sit. After awhile though, we got a little bored and frustrated with sitting, so we ran to these policemen and showed them our map. They laughed at it. And then consulted with each other, claiming that the map had streets on it that didn’t even exist. Finally, one of the policemen takes pity on us and says, ‘C’MON!’ And literally runs. So we follow him, dragging along these heavy-ass suitcases, trying to keep up. He’s cutting through traffic, running past old ladies and bicycles, and we’re like, ‘JESUS. SLOW DOWN.’ We get to the end of the street though, and he’s found our hotel. Yay.
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Highly recommended.
The next day we get ready to go to the concert and so we get another trusty map to ell.FITS ALL. Once more, we’re lost!!! Anyway, after some backtracking and squinting at our map, we look up and see this mess of rusty looking, dangerous as fuck stairs. We figure this is the place.
Cheese! She got in our picture by accident...
This is also about the time that I look to the side of me (as we’re on a sidewalk) and a roadie boy comes flying along on his bike and doesn’t even look like he’s going to budge an inch. He has so much room just to steer to the side, but no, he’s going to bike right where I am standing. I stumble back and he speeds right by, I’m sure laughing. Fucker.
We had pretty good tickets to this live, again thanks all to Krys (<333) who, really, without her, we wouldn’t have been able to do any of this. So we line up on the mangled stairs and wait. It’s hot. And everyone is milling around on these stairs. Finally people start going in, and we get inside – wow. What a shithole. Nah, it was actually quite nice for a livehouse. It had one step down, but it was pretty packed down there, so we decided to wait by the lockers until the lights went down (for some reason, the lockers were right in the live area, up on the second step). You can guess how small this place was. We’re comfortable in our spot. Then this tall, and rather busty woman comes by and just steals our spot. She did this well-used maneuver: she comes up to us and is acting like she wants to put her bag on top of the lockers, so, smiling, she says, ‘sumimasen.’ Smiling back, we accept and move so she can put her bag up because, we’re nice like that. THEN SHE JUST STAYS THERE. We’re like, WHAT. YOU JUST SCREWED US. She just stands there and continues to smile. We were spotless. So we glared at her and stumbled onto the lower level. But, haha, bitch, we found a much better spot down there, against the wall on Lay’s side (first time for that, as we’d always been on 4ge’s side….. though once we’d gotten lucky enough to be right in front of Kanoma).
The show starts! The boys come out wearing their outfits for the final onemans (on the 31st they’d been wearing their Exit costumes). They were much more flowery. Lay’s skirt was nice. They opened with Humiliate, and from there it was pretty crazy. They didn’t have too many slow songs, though, at one point they played a slow version of ‘Love me’ that was amazing, (it turned out that this would be the Exit version). Unfortunately, since this concert was over a year ago, I can’t exactly remember the order of the songs, but Towa is oh-so-good about this, so the set list will be at the end of this report, thanks to him and his diary.
Some memorable things from this live were: during the introductions Kanoma was giving each member different names, and Lay ended up being aniki. XD We’d somehow worked our way closer to the stage, and suddenly, Kanoma was like, ‘Who can say Lay how it’s supposed to be said?!’ (Meaning, like, ‘L’ay and not ‘R’ei.) Me and Yasmine were like, uh, ………. No. They kept staring at us and laughing, but we gracefully avoided all eye contact. I didn’t really want to be mauled by Telly (an affectionate nickname for the girl that we’d run into at the 31st live. She was the one we asked about when Fatima was going to go, and she’d glared at us ….. not to mention her odd pet, some girl who never said a word, or made any motions, but was always right beside her. Well, they were both here! … And we would continue to run into them. ……. ), who was an ecstatic Lay fan and wanted all of his attention. And was ready to kill anyone else. Anyone. So, of course, some girls were like, ‘ I CAN DO IT.’ And, inevitably, they’re all like, ‘REI.’ So we laughed. Lay kept shaking his head and waving his hand, like, no, you idiots, that’s not it. So Kanoma tried it, really accentuating the ‘L.’ He did a pretty good job. But you know, after saying it for eighty years, I’d hope so. :D
They played Ajisai, and Kanoma made a speech about how Nagoya was the only place he’d seen white ajisai, and everyone got sad and sniffly for a little bit ‘cause this was one of the last shows and all. Kanoma got sniffly too. L
Towards the end, the band was going fucking psychotic and Lay kept flipping his skirt up, like, haha, look, bitches! Then he grabbed Mizuha practically by the neck and shoved him up his skirt, for mock blow-job time! Mizuha moved pretty realistically, and everyone was like, ‘YEAHHHH.’ This was during Downer and Kanoma was busy masturbating, … well, not actually, but at least rubbing himself and making such sounds. To which, everyone else was like, ‘YEAHHHH.’
Encore time! We had to say the members’ names fifty thousand times for them to come out. They were refusing so! Finally, they all came out, EXCEPT FOR 4GE. Kanoma was like, the fuck. He started tapping his foot impatiently, and everyone was all, ‘4GE. GET OUT SO WE CAN FINISH THIS.’ So finally 4ge comes out! Yayyyy!! The encore begins and the craziness ensues. Lay was really getting into sitting on the edge of the stage tonight – I think he just wanted people to admire his skirt, and his fishnets. Which they did. Especially Telly. Kanoma was dancing like crazy, all his ruffles so flouncy. Oh my god, that’s all I can remember. ANYWAY. This concert really made us glad that we’d come alllll the way to Japan for this. Fatima is an incredible band, and a live band, and when all five of them are together on stage, it’s the best fucking experience.
The show was over, after about three hours. We trekked back to the fabulous Dormy Inn, and this group of old old drunk ladies ran into us and tried to incite conversation. We’re like, …… yeah! Then we walked away.
Here’s the setlist that Towa compiled. I’m figuring he knows what he’s talking about, unless he just made it up and is laughing secretly at all of us right now, ‘HAHA, they THINK we played star spangled butterfly 3rd, but it was REALLY 5th.’
6月13日 名古屋ell.FITS all
1.Humiliate me more,Darlin'
2.どうにもとまらない
3.Star Spangled Butterfly
4.Mr-Imbarance:44
5.紬糸
6.赤い薔薇のスープ
7.哀愁の底辺
8.ドリー・マーズ
9.BLANC×NOIR
10.少女とクローゼット
11.peanut
12.Marvellous
13.Persona
14.Public eyes
15.Candy Strippers
16.消せない雨
encore
1.Love Me(to Exit Ver.)
2.紫陽花
3.Blind
4.Noble king snake
