2nd June 2007 was the JUMP - Leaving the Earth's Surface concert by MAYDAY.
it was an evening filled with LOVE.
everyone was glued to the humourous video clips of their past concerts and on-goings about 30 mins before the whole concert started. then came the 7-mins video which they have made specially for the concert - a very seriously-acted film that told of how rotten earth has became and we have to find a way out of it. totally in-tuned with their theme.
audience were mesmerised by the fantastic impact of the film made and in seconds after it ended, the white screen in the middle of the stage flipped and there, appeared Stone, Monster and Masa, the 3 guitarists, followed by guanyu, the drummer. with more explosive fireworks (which cost the company $25000), the lead singer, ashin appeared, dwelling the concert with 10 over songs, non-stop for almost an hour! who needs chairs at MAYDAY's concert??
after the first hour of hyper-high performance, the group greeted everyone, with their usual humour and continued on with solos by the Monster and Stone, and Masa on the piano, interpreting Coldplay's Yellow and a new song in the albumn by him and ashin, The Smallest Most Important Thing.
the most famous Love-ing created the most hype, with the whole 8000 audience doing the hand-sign of L-O-V-E, till the end of the song and more for the encore. MAYDAY emerged again with the most favourite song Stubborn. I know they would sing that, without that, it won't be a MAYDAY's concert.
and it all have to come to an end, sadly.
on a funny side:
A was interviewed by MY PAPER as he was the only ang moh there. but we are not sure where this interview is going to be at.
on an annoying side:
we had a pretty good seat, the second block of the $150 lots and it's just at the center partition. howevere, many people who were behind crowd about the center portion through out the whole concert. i was too short to see anything much even though i am in the middle front. i resorted to standing on my chair. so, yes, perhaps we need chairs for MAYDAY's concert afterall :)
i didn't know we can bring in cameras and take the whole concert, so i didn't bother bringing one. but everyone is taking pics non-stop. so i only have limited very blur pics taken by A - i was busy jumping :)
i found the lightings and sound is a bit bad though... at times the lighting was badly projected - their faces were all in darkness. the sound system couldn't handle when the bass is up and volume is tune up high...
all the merchandise were sold out. we thought of buying them after the concert, but no such luck.
before the start of the concert
me in the middle of jumping and jumping
the concert in-progress
finally at a point where some of the audience sat down
coming to the end - the bowing at the left side
the final final bye bye
totally hyped-out, but most happy
reader k | 6/04/2007 10:32:00 AM |