I'm flying to Japan in November to watch their final show in their tour. This will be my first ever concert, never have i ever wanted to watch a live performance before. They're so ridiculously talented!!
Band-Maid as you first ever concert is both a good and bad thing. The good is that it'll be amazing; I've seen them 15 times, and every show has been great. The bad is that you'll compare every other live show you see to Band-Maid, and most won't measure up.
Band-Maid brings their A-game to every show I've ever seen them perform, not just this one. That goes for every official live and fancam video out there. You guys left us and missed out on Band-Maid's stellar North American Tenth Anniversary Tour this past May and August. It is now in the rock history books and who knows when we'll see them again.
Saw them live st Tokyo Garden theatre in front of 8,000 people. Saw them last week at a small local live house in Okayama in front of about 400 people which was awesome, the crowd went absolutely crazy. Looking forward to seeing them this weekend in Takamatsu, another small live house venue. The big concert performance was excellent but you can’t beat the energy of the small venues. Bring it on🤘
@@mechanicat23 I met a few people that had traveled from overseas to get to that concert. Great effort. Although I live in Japan, i live on a small island that’s about 8 hours from Tokyo via ferries and trains. Last wee and this week Band Maid are in my part of Japan playing small local venues. Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip. And yes TGT was definitely epic🤘
They played a 2 hour set for Lollapalooza aftershows late Thursday August 3rd and this less than 12 hours later on the 4th. They were the second act of the day on the Coinbase stage and started at 1:45. This was actually the _second_ guitar/bass "battle" of the day; they did one in "Don't You Tell ME" earlier in the set. The poor producer for the Hulu livestream didn't know which camera to pick! I hope more people do see them, they deserve a bigger stage, and they will raise the level of music in this country if they do.
They played one hour from 1:45pm to 2:45pm on Friday (day 2). About 20,000 people witnessed Band-Maid by the end of their performance. They could have attracted twice or triple more people if they had played in the evening or on the day 3/4.
Mr K you know what happened at Rockville. The weather delayed B-M's set so they played instead when it was dark & gained a much larger crowd that gave the Maids an awesome reception. Even a mosh pit got going but tbh it was more a 12 person tiny whirlpool. B-M don't do mosh pits, they're much too refined.😌
@@GaryHolloway-810 All performances of Maids at four festivals in the US this year (Rockville, Sonic Temple, Pointfest, and Lollapalooza) were awesome👍👍👍👍 Our Maids are unstoppable!!!!!
Yep plenty of great musicians out there but getting the level of gel and chemistry that this rock and roll sisterhood has is very rare. This ladies and gents is rock and roll enter fcken tainnent. Viva that Maids Po 👍🎼🥁🎤🎸🍻
Three real comments that I read -- back in the Day -- about Band Maid: 2016 "C'mon, that's not really them playing those instruments?!"; 2016 -- "They'll never be able to keep this up -- women have no stamina!"; 2017, reactor watching a BM MV -- "They'll never be able to translate this to the live stage -- not possible!"; Question for these dudes in 2023 -- "So, what was that you were saying, guys?".
Feel so privileged having had a meet and greet with them! Because that's probably gone. They are beautiful people, beside being the best live band today!
"Imagine just walking by, not knowing who they are..." Well, that's exactly what happened for a lot of folks (not me, of course - no way I was missing it). The crowd grew a lot toward the end. If they'd had another hour it would be doubled again.
I can't verify these numbers, but a published article said that, at the start of their set, the crowd was roughly 5,000-6,000. People just kept coming. They said that, by the end of their show, the crowd was around 20,000. Kind of like Linkin Park at festivals when they began to make a name for themselves.
They also had one late show the previous day. It was a full concert at some special event Lollapalooza had at the end of each day, I believe? So they had some 16 hours between the gigs? I'm quite sure the producer from Hulu, who streamed some of the concerts, went in blind. So he had little clue about what to expect. Especially a guitar/bass-battle. But he loved filming Akane and Miku. So there were quite a few close ups on Miku and her signature guitar. The "Flappy pigeon" from Zemaitis. A true work of art with some intricate details connected to Miku Kobato.
Excellent point! They’d played a 90 minute “After Party” show until about 1 am, and hit the Lalapalooza stage about 2:30pm, so they really only had about 13.5 between. Their crew were true heroes, too, tearing down so late and having everything perfectly ready for this performance. True professional both band and crew!! 🔥🤘🏼🎸🥁🎤🎼😎✌🏼
This video has gotten a lot of comments about the cameraman, but its the video engineer (sometimes a DP or the TD) who controls what camera is live on screen. They did a good job at the start of the concert (whole video) but then it got weird with just random camera choices.
The performance was epic, but man I was screaming at my television screen over the camera person (or rather, whoever mixed the camera footage for the broadcast) skipping entire MISA bass solos (especially her first bass solo in Hate?) and even skipping some parts of Kanami's guitar solos!
I loved seeing them perform in Atlanta! I just watched Babymetal and Hanabie at LTL in Louisville this past weekend, and they were both superb! Now I wait on LOVEBITES in ATL next September!!!
The director dropped the ball that day, not the camera people. The director had no idea what was going on their entire hour sadly. Many cool moments heard but not seen.
Love this band. My favorite of theirs is the duel live cut of Manners and Black Hole. Manners is old school and starts with lots of great bass. Black Hole was named for how complicated it was for them to work up musically, so two great cuts: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iaf94nNSRGE.html The Japanese band that you have missed, so far, and probably the most interesting Japanese band ever put together is Wagakki Band, comprised of 4 conventional rock musicians, 3 traditional Japanese musicians and a vocalist who won awards as a traditional Japanese vocalist. And they make it fit. The shamisen player is to die for. Best cut is a duel song Homura + Akatsuki no Ito: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ponTbDDMYjw.html
BAND-MAID took off when a fan posted their new video for THRILL on a Facebook Anime group. The director responsible for capturing their hour-long set should be punished. I wonder if he ever filmed a Rock band before.
It was a live feed. They only had so many cameramen. The bass/guitar call and response is not on the studio version so the director probably didn't know what was coming. He was probably screaming to the left cameraman to get on the bass, but it takes time to move and focus 60 lb. gear.
They have done three US tours since 2022. Stop the excuses! There would have been more people there but they were probably like you. Joking apart thanks for the reaction.
I've been waiting for B-M to return to the UK since 2019, when they do come back the only thing that'll stop me buying tickets is if i'm dead....🤔 I wonder if they'll do ticket concessions for ghosts?
An over-the-top epic legendary guitar battle between MISA and Kanami and the dumbass video producer in the booth Blew It!!! ......damn diversity hires that don't know music...Lol! I believe this was earlier in the day, unfortunately, but to even get in to this show DURING their US Tour 2.0 I bet was a "get what you can" get deal.
