Live Reports:

Report by rin (me ^_^)

Deadman Oneman - 4/23/03 at On Air West

I had a pretty high ticket number, but was still able to get reasonabley close (behind about 4 or five people). They started to tell us to move up before the live even started and once it did start....my gods were we packed in. Cannot even explain how smashed we were. O_O There were lots of guys in the audience. I notice at visual lives guys (if there are any) are usually in the back. That was not the case here. They were scattered throughout the audience and there were quite a few up front. Originally I had two tall guys standing in front of me, but luckily when the crowd pushed up I got moved.

Deadman is not a para para band. Very few of their songs have para para and when there is some it's just generally fist pumping of some sort. Nothing complicated. Though I noticed a couple of fans made up their own para para. O_O No one else followed them though. Oh and when there was para para the guys would actually do it, so that was interesting. Another thing...at the vidoll live there were some guys, but when this one guy yelled out yukine's name everyone laughed. He was the only guy doing it. At the deadman live, both girls and guys were yelling out band member names. I was screaming Mako's name of course. ^_^

As for visuals...Takamasa's hair was a brown and short. He wore a simple outfit and very light makeup. No heavy visuals. Mako was the most visual...with his blond hair down he wore  a tattered shirt  with a black skirt and black and red striped stockings and platform boots. Heavy, dark makeup. Aie looked very pretty in all black with blond, neatly styled hair.

Now, deadman is not a very active band. If you want something really bouncy go for one of those cutesy bands. They do no mcs and do not interact with the audience. Aie and Takamasa stay on their sides of the stage and don't move around much, maybe some headbanging and such. Mako is the most active member and does move around the stage alot, but he doesn't reach into the audience. He might get close, but never close enough for anyone to touch. He sings with alot of emotion and tends to move about in a spastic manner. Also alot of strange, crazy facial expressions.

They played no songs from subliminal effect and there was no encore.

Started off the night with lunchbox. Mako was in this cage type thing moving around like a maniac. The crowd tried to move around as best it could. I was stuck the whole night with my left arm plastered to my side and my right arm up in the air. I could neither move my left hand up, nor move my right arm down. Uncomfortable, but you got used to it. Couldn't headbang either without banging my head into someone else's head, so mostly only headbopping. Only the people in the first row could really head bang, but of course they must have been smashed horribley against the stage.

Anyway, the second song was Through the Looking glass which was really cool live. Well, all the songs were cool live but I particularly like this live. There was a little para para for this song...arms going back and forth in a hailing type manner (you know how nazi's would put their arms out). The audience was really into this song as well. After that was Kunou no taegatai sonzai. Mostly just standing and watching for this, but it was pretty. Jukeisha no nikki came next...don't remember what came after. Basically the first part of the live was [no alternative] songs and the second half was Site of Scaffold songs. Shikibetsu no nai kuukyo did happen during the 1st half though for some reason (after Doris kara no tegami), so there were of few songs mixed...not only just no alternative songs for the first half.

For Doris Kara no tegami they brought out this lamp and thing for Mako to sit on. I couldn't really get a good look at what it was he was sitting on though. It was a really sad and beautiful song live (well, recorded too). When this ended he walked over to the lamp and grabbed one of the light bulbs and sang Shikibetsu no nai kuukyo with it. He was shining it both into the audience and in his face.

I don't remember when he sang the new song "family", but I think it might have been during the second half of the concert.

There was no intermission or break of any sort. So we just stood the whole time, very tiring.

The second half was the more energetic half of the live. I think because they did most of the slower songs during the first half. I'm pretty sure quo vadis came in this half as well. The last song played was re:make and that was when the audience was craziest. They didn't drag the song out or anything, just played it. Then the live was over. People screamed for an encore, but there was none. :( Though I was so tired at that point I don't think I minded so much.

Like I've said before, Mako is a wonderful live singer. He really is my favorite jrock vocalist. ^_^ I really wish there was some way I could have recorded this live, but it was not to be.

I got that deadman doc_4 pamphlet and a photoset after the live.  Didn't hang out, just went straight back to the hotel. All and all an excellent live.