Up-Front Thread

[aerosuffly]

Yesss, a guitar and me in a big shopping mall, probably unknown to most people watching. Only Takui can do it.

Edited: Watching Bitter & Sweet rehearsal, I think what they need if they want to stick with a duo format are:
- They need more flamboyance costumes and styling. Taisei wears crazy costume when performing because he cannot move around as a keyboardist. A nice costume is one way to get people to look at him.
- Moemi should most of the time turn on her Freddie Mercury mode, running around the stage and such, and not care so much about Asahi. It make their live more dynamic. See Dreams Come True live for example.
- Both of them should get more dance lesson, especially Moemi. Having a few Kenshuusei as backup dancers dancing with Moemi is not a bad idea.
- A live band will never hurt if possible.
Or UF should find another cute girl who can sing and play a guitar bass and turn the duo into a Trio like Mi
UF staff, I know you read this forums.

[aerosuffly]

Setlist: Bitter & Sweet 1st showcase on 5/10 at Studio DO! Nagasaki
1.Renai WARS
2.Dare ni mo Naisho
3.Bitter&Sweet（Using iPad for live looped recording of piano. Asahi focuses on singing.）
4.Geshoku
5.Rouge no Dengon (Matsutoya Yumi cover, Asahi solo and plays a guitar)
6.Mayonaka no Lonely (Unreleased song, Moemi solo)
7.Furusato (Morning Musume cover)
8.Taiki Bansei (Angerme cover)
9.Amayo no Tsuki (From Asahi's 2nd single)
10.RollingDays
11.Install
Encore (wotas shouing "motte koi", Nagasaki dialect of encore)
12. Koigokoro

Live house is about 80-90% full (200 people max capacity)
Towel and T-shirt.

[Celedam]

MUSIC+ #53 (15 May 2015)



05:09~ ANOTHER OF MUSIC FESTA Takui Nakajima x LoVendoЯ – Takui Nakajima digest (Live at at Shibuya DESEO 2015.04.24)
16:52~ "A music lecture for you" / Lecturer: Taisei, Students: Morning Musume. '15 12th Gen
27:33~ "Richard Gere ni wa Narenai Keredo" / Akira Inaba (recording video)
39:04~ SONG+YOU
43:11~ Yuu Kikkawa Seven-City Tour 2015 "Tomo Gen Jikkō!" live digest (Live at Shinjuku BLAZE 2015.05.05)
53:05~ Ending talk

[aerosuffly]

Takui: "Kobushi Factoryyyy!"

LOL

[SaebaRyo]

Trailer for Chisato Moritaka's upcoming release. The original release date was for April 1 but it was delayed so Warner could add more goods for the limited edition.

[aerosuffly]

Barks report on Bitter & Sweet 1st Showcase Live in Tokyo (5/16). Many more photos in the link
http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000115677&page=2

[aerosuffly]

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5890&start=1640#p188372

God damn. Music Festa looks very fun. Wish I could be there. Reina and Watase Maki's Pepper Keibu is ...

[downfrontguy]

Moemi Mercury, now with mustache tape and sort of (but not really) costume jacket. Someone should tell her about ebay. But seriously if she's really into that route, she should consider getting "I want to break free" get-up! She already has the haircut. A girl donning the male cross dress. It'd be like reverse cross-dressing or something. If not, the early 70s leotards. That really should be the win since everybody else always get the yellow wembley jacket, but sadly I think Moemi is probably only into 80s Freddie like most of people.

Don't think that Barks site gave the setlist although one can sort of see if he/she read the report, so here:
http://www.spaceshowertv.com/sp/news/20 ... 47479.html

And glad to see that she finally ditched "I was born to love you" (too hard for her), but "Bohemian Rhapsody" full version now? sigh. I think John Deacon (bassist) written 70s songs (http://www.queenpedia.com/index.php?title=John_Deacon) are much more doable for her to do a serious singing performance instead of giving this amateur karaoke vibe. I suppose she just wants to have fun now and she is indeed still relatively young at 21. Upon a quick searching, she did mention these two Queen songs in her blog almost a year ago, so in that sense, it's not that surprising:
http://ameblo.jp/moemi-hasegawa/entry-11871803614.html

[Amped]

MUSIC FESTA Vol.3 Report in English by Aika Mitsui in English!
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Hi everyone:)

I'm Aika Mitsui. I had been to New Zealand for 1 year and almost half and came back last month.

Long time no see!!



I start to convey our information for you here in English;) I hope you enjoy!

[Shoujo Q]

Music video for Yes Happy!'s ,『natural may good』 was uploaded today.