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[live review] MAXIMUM THE HORMONE @ Kathedral - March 8th, 2008
Still kinda starstruck and getting over the whole experience but I’m going to try blogging about it while it’s still fresh in the head.
I gotta start off by saying HOLY FKN CRAP. I SAW MAXIMUM THE HORMONE.
Now that that’s out of the way…
I took the train downtown because it’s been snowing penguins and polar bears all day. I picked up a friend and met another friend in the subway system and, together, we enjoyed an awesome dinner and some hot sake to warm ourselves up from the trek from the subway station to the venue. We arrived at a small but cozy club and they were, just chilling in a corner prepping.
While the first band in the showcase came on, I decided to go up and ask MTH to sign my CD. The language barrier was a bit of LOLful. I walked up to Nao and I just pulled out the my sharpie and CD and did the mock signature hand wave over the paper and said “Sign, please?” And she asked if I spoke Japanese, I said No :( But then, one of their people came up and said something that sounds like “official” which ended up being “after-the-show” but Daisuke-han came up to me and said “After the show, I promise!” full out english which was awesome. Then Nao high-fived me and said “OK!”
BTW, it’s Canadian Music Week in Toronto which is kinda funny depending on how you look at it. It should be renamed to something like Music Week in Canada since with Canadian Music Week, one could assume all the bands are Canadian which is far from the truth. It was this time last year when I was first introduced The Pipettes via the Toronto Star (one of the city’s most read newspapers) and they’re totally from the UK. *shrug*
So the first band in the Kathedral CMW showcase was this Australian band called Late Nite Access and they were pretty cool. The funniest thing was that everyone was a good 3-4 metres away from the stage as they performed. The second that they finished, everyone moved up. It was pretty clear that everyone was there for MTH. That and looking in the audience, there were enough Asians and even a few DeathNote fanboys/girls in gothy cosplay. Skipping to post MTH, there was practically no one at the stage. Everyone was off getting their stuff signed by the four and taking pics. My friends, who were waiting for me to get my stuff signed, said that the band going after MTH didn’t even do anything since there was no one really paying attention. After I got my stuff signed, we ducked out but I had a good reason: The last train out of Toronto back to eastern suburbia left at 12:15am. MTH’s set ended at 11pm and I still had to get my stuff signed which took a little bit considering everyone else in the venue was trying to get their stuff signed as well. I made it back to the train station a good 15 minutes early and everything turned out great.
Rewind two hours. Everyone rushed up to the stage and I managed to get a front row spot on the right, right in front of Ryokun. I can’t quite remember the whole setlist but they played all the ones I really wanted to hear minus the classic ROLLING1000tOON. I can remember What’s up, people?!, Buiikikaesu!! Zetsubo Billy, Koi no Megalover, and a few songs I recognized but just can’t quite recall. They’re totally fkn awesome live. My words definitely can’t bring put the experience to justice… Just go watch them. Totally high energy. Totally high everything. Everything was perfect.
Post show, the roadies were taking their amps off the stage and one I noticed a pick fell off one of them which my friend picked up. Totally awesome. Except that she got it signed by Ue-chan. Completely awesome. Then she gave it to me. For the win. This all happened while I was off getting pics and my CD signed by Daisuke-han, Nao, and Ryokun who were at the other end of the club. Totally awesome people. Daisuke said “We’ll be back soon!” after he signed my CD and I snapped my pic. When I walked up to Nao, she’s like “OH! YOU! I REMEMBER!!” She asked “Not Japanese?” I said yes. “Uhh, chinese?” I said No and replied with “Filipino.” She said “OHH. So like Japanese then?” I said yes XD. Then I snapped my pic and shook her hand and said arigatou! Ryokun was awesome enough to draw the dude on my CD and I snapped the pic and said arigatou and went on my merry way back to the pals who were around where Ue-chan was. Then I did the signy thing with Ue-chan and snapped the pic and my friend presented me with the pick.
I smiled all the way home. The trek through the snow back to the subway station was nice and warm since all the rocking out got all of us worked up. I’m still all starstruck and in awe of what just happened… Hands down, AWESOME NIGHT.
I can’t say anymore other that I have to leave for work in 2 hours
and I haven’t slept. Damn you, Daylight Savings Time.
UPDATE: What fun would this post be without a little video…?
Koi no Megalover. Visit the youtube page for a short description of the story behind the taping. Sorry for the shakiness. You can’t rock out standing still. It’s just impossible.
UPDATE 2: Other videos are starting to come up including this one filmed from the left side, backstage.
Here’s them doing What’s up, people?! I actually regret not recording this myself but thanks youtube user! I’m visible for most of it in my Raptors (red) 7 Bargnani Jersey with my Black Argyle Hoodie.
UPDATE 3:
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on both videos. The funny thing is that the 2nd video I put on this entry was from the people traveling with MTH probably for a Special Edition or Limited Edition release or whatever and they put it up on youtube and their record label took it down.
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