Live Report Osaka 11/17/17
With Special guest Közi
The live was fairly straightforward, there was a heavy curtain that was drawn and Hora walked on stage, followed shortly by Kaya. They launched into a song and played a few more with very little pause between, finally the lights dimmed and Kaya thanked everyone and went into an MC.
Hora kept making a lot of awkward eye-contact with me during the first part of the live too, which was amusing.
They played a few more songs punctuated by another MC and eventually Közi came on stage. He sang along to a song I didn't recognise along with some guitar work over the top, but I think he might have been having some sound issues, as his guitar was very hard to hear in the mix and he kept looking to the back of the club and slightly gesturing to turn it up. At one point his microphone stand became loose and flipped upside down, but he kept singing and walked off to the side, he played it off really well (and a stage-hand fixed the microphone shortly after)!
Anyway, there was another MC and then they played some more, again, I'm not sure what songs, but I do remember hearing Creeper. Actually, during the first 'Crave your Wings' part of Creeper, Közi sang the first line, but, the distortion effect hadn't been applied to the microphone yet, so that was a little amusing.
Speaking of Közi, the strange black-rose thing he was wearing over the shirt kept flopping over the neck of his guitar at first and muting the strings, he seemed to be wrestling with keeping it behind the guitar a little bit.
During one of the songs they came really close to the edge of the stage and everyone was able to touch them, I came so close to touching Közi's guitar but it slipped away. Hora came over, pointed directly at me and gave me a high five, I gave him a thumbs up after (I'm Australian, it is a reflex) and he looked very entertained. I also reached out and put my hand on Kaya's wrist, then Kaya moved his hand and grabbed mine, after a bit I felt like I should let go so someone else could hold it, but Kaya was holding on tight, hah.
After that Közi disappeared off stage and they played some more songs etc.
Finally they left the stage and everyone cheered for an encore, after some time they came back on and did another short MC and tried to get Közi back on stage, he walked on with a beer but quickly ducked off again (like someone who had walked into the wrong bathroom/classroom etc.), then he kind of peered out from behind the curtain for a bit and then finally came back on stage, said a few words and ran off with his beer.
They played a few more songs, then went off stage again.
Everyone cheered for an encore again, but the venue staff said it was all over.
I'm not sure of the setlist so I can't really comment on what songs were performed, but I am sure you can find it somewhere.
I spoke to another foreigner, who knew Japanese and she said that during the MC Kaya remarked that it has been a while since Hora has been in Osaka, who agreed and mentioned that when he stepped off the train he stood on the wrong side of the escalator and a lot of people were irate. Hora also teased Kaya saying that he gained weight to which Kaya responded that it is all muscle. At one point Hora said something so amusing to Kaya that he burst out laughing into the microphone (which he was standing close to, which sounded very sharp) and then ran a few steps back and curled into a ball for a bit while he calmed down.
Oh I think Kaya also mentioned something about going to DragCon soon.
Anyway, there you go, if you have any questions, let me know!