[This WAS published a few days after the show, but I wrote the text as soon as we got home, and to avoid any confusion I’ll put it under August 9th in the calendar. And YES, I’ve borrowed most photos from friends and photographer Jens Eklund.
And same as last time – the setlist and songs aren’t exactly a secret anymore so I won’t write anything about them, just my personal experiences.]
It’s in the middle of the night, our home is filled to the brink with YFC fans. We’re all exhausted, and my body hurts so bad… BUT I AM HAPPY.
We came to Fryshuset around 11 am, and the queue was already impressing considering it was in Sweden. We didn’t line up at once though, but spent a few hours hanging out with the staff, watching them get the stage done (omg, the joy when they started unpacking and putting the singers podium together!) and talking to them. A few of them became really friendly and said hi as soon as they walked past. Like, OMG, THOSE YOUNG JAPANESE GUYS ARE SO CUTE.
Also, funny – since we were standing in the middle of all the staff running around with stage stuff and boxes of merchandise, I guess we must’ve looked like we belonged there, because a young girl (Fryshuset is also a place to hang out for kids) came up to us and said “Excuse me… are you the ones holding this concert?”
LOL, so adorable! When we said no and showed her a pic of half-naked GACKT, she just nodded and said “Alright, does he always look like that? Then I’m queuing to see him too!”
The staff did the first sound check without the band, and it was hilarious to watch! The staff members were trying on the different guitars and pretending to be rock stars on stage, I could see them copying Chacha’s and YOU’s moves. Then they went up on the podium and started dancing and shaking their butts like GACKT and Jon, and IT LOOKED SO FUNNY!! Like, GACKT is the man every man secretly wants to be. I bet they do that in front of the bathroom mirror too, LOL!
We also had a great deal of fun meeting all our G friends – or should I say brothers and sisters? We signed the Swedish flag, and just laughed around with everyone else, and I was really surprised at how pleasant it was. Swedes usually have a tendency to be haughty and just, well, bitchy, but today everyone was AWESOME. Thank you.
By maybe 3 pm we started queuing. We sang, listened to music, talked, and hid beneath umbrellas when the rain started pouring down on us now and then. Actually very comfy~
A few of us waiting. Dai-kun was there too, of course~
At this point the band started rehearsing inside, and Z and the others went to watch while I stayed in the queue. Apparently he was just wearing a tour t-shirt and sweatpants. Cuuute-----------------!!!!!
I’d been looking all over for Crazy-D because I REALLY wanted to meet him again, but he was nowhere to be found. Or rather, everyone else told me “Oh, Crazy-D was here just now!”, but I always missed him!!
But finally he and another staff member came with a camera to film the queue, and they spent a looong time filming me and my hands before moving on, ohohohoho~
I then realized I could give him my letter for YOU, just like last year, so I waited and when they came again on their way back I ran to them and knocked on Crazy D’s shoulder.
Me: “Eh… excuse me…”
Crazy D: “……” *doesn’t notice, keeps on walking"*
Me: “Ehm, EXCUSE ME!” *panicking over the fact that I almost have to HIT CRAZY D for him to notice me.
Other staff member: “Oh?” *bows politely when realizing I’d been ignored*
SO. CUTE.
I handed the letter to Crazy D, and he looked SO puzzled. I tried asking him if he could give it to YOU-san, and just like last year it took him a moment to understand. Then he smiled and went just like “Ah, YOU-san, okay, okay!”, just like last year. The exact same words. SO CUTE GORILLA MAN.
He also seemed to take an extra look at me again, I’m hoping he’ll be able to point me out in the video to show YOU who gave him the letter since I didn’t have time to include a photo… *sob sob*
Then he walked around with my yellow letter in his hands for quite some time, making me really nervous he’d lose it, before finally disappearing inside the building and probably at some point handing it over to YOU.
YOSH!!
Oh, but I got YOU two things which I put in the letter. One that I think he’ll really like, and this thing here just for the lols. XD
They let us in at around 18:45, and there was plenty of time to find each other in the venue. We were asked to sit down on the floor to wait. We waited well over an hour in there, and my legs were killing me since we were sitting so cramped together. After maybe 25 minutes or so everyone suddenly got up and rushed against the stage I have absolutely no idea why, and from there on the chaos started. People were pushing, fighting, yelling, getting angry, pushing back, some were even fighting or yelling rude things for G. I was happy to see everyone was so psyched about the show, but please people, show some respect for each other AND the artist. It was a madhouse in there, and it was still at least half an hour until the gig were to start. I was fine, since I’m tall and pushes and elbows from tiny girls just don’t work on me, but some people got hurt. Security warned to throw some people out and blacklist them, but nothing happened and the rude people stayed.
Oh well.
I’m trying to think of it as people very desperate for their dose of GACKT.
Of course most people there were very nice, helping each other out and having fun while waiting.
Then the secretary finally spoke, and…
THEN THEY CAME ONSTAGE. IN SWEDEN. WOW.
I seriously thought my heart would stop when I saw YOU. He was so god damn beautiful, even more so than in London!! His hair was a little stroked back behind his ears, and it just made him look so OHHHH GOD. But by the time he reached his guitar he seemed to remember he still had his hair stroked back because he shook it loose. Too bad. I think he had even more black makeup on too. Not that I mind. Sexy guy.
And no, to those wondering: He really isn’t that chubby. XD Those fancams just caught him in a very bad moment. We all look chubby when we lean forward and hunch down. I know YOU isn’t exactly thin, but he’s… normal.
GACKT had a really strange makeup… like, black stripes going down from his one eye, but the thing is he had too many stripes. It didn’t look like “I started crying and my mascara ran down my chin” or anything. You can’t really tell by the image below, but when he moved around I thought it looked like his eye was a sun and the stripes the sunrays. Strange.
Jon had, from what I could see, two black stripes going across one eye, starting on his forehead and going down to the middle of his chin. Sexy demon.
Just gotta say it was really fun seeing them again after first seeing them in London two weeks ago. Now we could sing along to the new songs and dance with G and Jon.
I was wondering if Jon would recognise us from London. After all, he gave us so much attention back then, and I looked just the same. I tried waving at him, getting his attention…
Then suddenly he looked straight at me, and judging by the look he gave me after a second or so he did recognise us. XDDD He started smiling at us, and not to long after that he once again did that staring thing war he did to me in London. You know, locking eye contact and then just STARE STARE STARE for a long time until I broke down with nervous laughter. He did that once, and he won, the bastard (I wonder if he does this to someone at every show? XD).
But then, after Vanilla, he started staring at me again. We had just watched him and G dance around half-naked and humping each other, so I weren’t exactly feeling modest. So when he started staring at me with that devilish smile, I just thought like “Oh no, he’s not getting away with that again, I will not let that happen!!”
So I stared back at him, and he started smiling wider. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
I smiled a little, opened my mouth and let my tongue sweep over my teeth and lips in a sensual move… AND HELL YESH!!! XDDDD When Jon realized he wouldn’t be able to break me again, he backed down, smiled wide and did a little bow gesture like “Alright, you win this time!” XDDD
I WON THE WAR!!!! SHAAAAA!!!
It was harder getting their attention this time than in London, though. I think the London live was better than the Stockholm one, but at the same time this was funnier.
I got some attention from YOU though, but not much. First he saw his name on the palm of my hand, and he just let me know he’d noticed it. Then it was mainly smiles, and at one point he pointed at me and gestured to scream, but then again he did that with many people.
The whole band seemed determined to give us all a shower now and then. It was hysterical. I got so wet, and just as I had dried another person gave me a new shower. Like, looked at me, aimed and then shot water straight into my face. Both G, Jon and Takumi did that. Jon did it twice. I will kill him. XD
Although, those showers were a bit of lifesavers too. Close to the end Z got so tired and hot that she almost passed out, and I had to hold on to her to keep her from falling while she rested her head on Mim’s shoulder. We got really worried about her, so I started waving for the band. Jon was the first to notice it, and when I pointed down at Z beside me he nodded and took a water bottle and sprayed water all over her. He can really be an angel sometimes.
GACKT had also noticed that I was standing in the front rows and still wasn’t moving or singing or anything, and he’d given me a few confused looks like “Why the hell aren’t you rocking with the rest of us, asshole!?”. LOL, G, sorry. But then he went to get a water bottle too, and once again I started waving and pointing at Z, and apparently he understood why I was acting so calm. He aimed at Z and sprayed her with water, and then gave me a little nod and tried throwing us the bottle. Unfortunately a tall guy snapped it out of the air in front of our faces, but a few moments later he let Z drink from it anyway.
So I guess, a “thank you” for Jon, G and that guy for saving my soulmate. Quickly after that she regained her strength, just in time for “All my love”. GACKT kept an eye on Z for the rest of the show, by the way, and when he saw her rocking again at front row he gave her a beautiful smile (she never realized why though, since she’d been too tired to even notice G and Jon showering her with water).
I was very touched by the way he cared for all the fans who got tired, even though he himself was starting to stumble around on stage. Three or four people fainted around us and where lifted up by the security staff, and G always took time to make sure he knew they were OK and taken care of.
I was also very impressed with the way one girl next to us got weaker and weaker for the latter half of the show, but she kept on rocking. Then, exactly when the lights finally went out and she show was over, she fainted and collapsed on the floor. YOU ROCK, GIRL!!
So, by the very end of the show we were almost at first row. There was only one person left between me and the barriers, and the band was SO CLOSE.
YOU was standing in front of us, and he really does have a long, white scar going up his tummy. He must have had a surgery, I wonder for what. It was a big, ugly scar, not the half invisible, smooth kind…
That’s when I had my Great YOU Moment. Remember how in London he smiled at me, pointed and then gave me the thumbs up?
Well, today I waved to get his attention, and when he looked at me (and smiled, making me almost melt instead of following my plan), I pointed at him, smiled wide and gave HIM the thumbs up. Hah! Right back at ya!!
It just… felt good doing that. XDD
He laughed and waved at me, and OH MY, THAT MAN IS GORGEOUS.
Someone threw him a Moomin towel, by the way, and he got so fucking happy I thought his smile would break his face in two. XDD Which is a good thing since I included a Moomin thing in my letter for him XDDD
Then we had our Great CHACHAMARU Moment!
Chacha came over to our side of the stage, and there were a LOT of people screaming his name. But when he looked at me, Z and Mimmi we all made hearts with our hands at him. Then I also blew him a kiss, and then HE STARTED BLOWING US 100 KISSES!! He smiled wide at us and just went like CHU CHU CHU CHU CHU CHU CHU!!!
And I did the same back to him, blew kiss after kiss after kiss after kiss while laughing my ass off XDD He looked so happy, we could all see he was really having fun. Chacha = ♥!!!
And Trey, I tried my hardest to catch his guitar pick for you. I held out my hands and shouted things like “please” and “kudasai”, and he pointed at me and nodded that I could have it. But when he tried throwing it to me I wasn’t fast enough and someone else took it… Sorry! ;___; I was gonna give it to you… I had planned it since before that if I got it you were to have it… Sorry…
It was really amazing being that close to them… they were almost within the reach of my hand… smiling at us, laughing with us, talking to us…
GACKT spoke a lot about coming back to Sweden. He asked us if we still wanted him, and of course we all screamed yes. I think he called us his Swedish bitches too, several times throughout the concert. Like, THANK YOU, G, YES WE ARE YOUR BITCHES. Even the old people and the men that was there. XDD
He also said something along the lines of: “The reason we are all here tonight… it is destiny!!” Then the normal talk about being born in different countries and having different colours but still being (fucking) family.
And then he promised to be back since we still wanted him. YAYS!
Today was Chacha’s turn to play around with the audience after the band left the stage, and he WAS SO CUTE. Typically Chacha.
He started jumping and laughing and waving, making the crowd in front of him do the same. Everyone was like “YAYAY, OH YAYAY, YAAAAY YAAAAAY!!!!!” XDD Then he calmed down and gestured for the audience to be calm and quiet too… A few seconds of silence… then, “YAAAY YAYAYAY SHOUT YAAAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!” again and everybody was jumping and having fun, and Chacha flipped his hair and jumped around on stage and acted adorable and did his Chacha moves. CHACHA, I LOVE YOU!!!
He also had some pink cloth thing on stage on which it sais something in Japanese. I never really got if someone threw it up to him or if he had brought it since he seemed to show it to us? He held it up, but not for long enough for me to read, then he threw it into the audience and everyone went crazy trying to catch it (I was in another drag battle there, lol). Does anyone know what that pink thing was?
Then, it was over…
But they’ll be back, hopefully next year.
I CAN’T WAIT!!
Now we’re watching the YFC dvd from last year, and it’s almost time for bed. I still have to get up early tomorrow for a meeting.
I think I might go straight back home after it’s finished. Go home and just sleep. After these past weeks and all they’ve contained, I need to rest before my mind collapses…
Good night, and may the force be with you!
LOL~
