Here is my day... I gotta warn you in advance that I can't remember the full tracklist and I might place some songs/moments in different order since my memory is not perfect. Sorry about that.
-Night before and morning!
I couldn't get any sleep the day before. At 3am I was ready to the concert, fully dressed, makeup on and a simple hairdo. I sat on the bed, thinking when I was going to wake up from this dream. I still couldn't believe I was going to see Miyavi. Most people (specially my parents) don't seem to understand but Miyavi is the true owner of my heart in terms of music. I listen and I love many bands and artists, but he's the one that stole my heart 7 years ago when I first listened to "Girls be Ambitious". My love for him only grew stronger with his new songs and original style.
I left home at about 5:30am and only got there and 7:30am. There were already 2 girls there. They were really sweet and we end up talking a lot. More people arrived soon after and we all had much fun sharing experiences and talking about random things.
Around 2pm the staff arrived. They seemed very sweet, all smiling and saying "Hi" to us. One hour later one of the guys from the staff came outside with his cellphone and asked us to step back a little from the door. I felt my heart wanting to come out of my chest. A couple of girls asked him if Miyavi was coming and he kindly said "yes". The venue only had one door so he had to past through us to enter. We waited for what seemed like agonizing hours, looking closely at every car to see if it was him coming. To make things worse, the venue is right after a tight curve so we could hear well the cars before we could see them. Every time we heard a car come closer we would all exchange comments like "I hope it's him!" but most of the times it would be either a taxi or a bus. We were even commenting on how badass it would be if he came on a taxi or just walked to there. We imagined him paying the taxi driver with yens instead of euros and we all laughed picturing other also impossible and funny scenes featuring him.
-Miyavi Arrives!
I was right beside the door when… a big gray van came! "OMG! It must be him!" And then I saw Miyavi in the backseat. We all stood up, hearts beating really fast and the staff guys telling us to step back (there was a portuguese guy there from the staff being a little too much rough with us. Maybe he thought we were going to jump to him or something, when actually everyone there was very quiet and respectful). When Miyavi came out of the car he just gave us this most awesome, beautiful, sincere smile that I had ever seen. A friend of mine even caught that moment on camera! And he sure did look surprised and happy to see fans already there. And OMG is he gorgeous! I never thought he could match up to the photos we see of him on the internet but actually he is much more beautiful in real life. I was amazed. Stunned. My knees were weak and my salvation was Sara, because as soon as he disappeared inside the venue I hugged her and we both stayed like that for a long time.
- It felt so right doing wrong…
Later on we started to hear him play and sing a bit. I was sitting next to the venue door with my head stuck inside it (since it's not only a venue, but also has a room for theater and some art related stuff the door was open so people that were going to see other stuff could enter) so I could hear better. A friend of mine named Cross approached me and asked me what I was doing and I said "I'm listening to him playing "Chillin' Chillin' Money Blues".". He quickly jumped inside the venue and got on his knees, trying to hear him. An old women that was going to see some kinda theater in there walked inside the venue. Then he stood up and said to me "If other people can enter so can we.". I got up really fast and followed him. It seemed so wrong, what we were doing… Before you get to the stage you gotta walk through a wood door and walk down some stairs so we silently approached the wood door to try to see the stage… and we could see it! I got a glimpse of it and I was ready to leave but Cross pulled me again and said "Don't worry! We just gonna hear him sing and then we get out of here." I was so worried that the staff could see us and, I dunno, take our tickets away or something horrible like that! But still I slowly approached more and then I could see not only the stage but also Miyavi!! I really had to control myself not to squeal so I covered my mouth and just stared in amazement. Then he started to sing! I swear I was about to melt with his voice because it was the first time I was hearing him live! We just heard a couple of words and then we quickly came outside so no one could see us. Some fans right after seeing our enjoyment tried to do the same but instead of being quiet they were really loud and squealed so it was not long before a staff member escorted them outside.
- Hope for Japan!
A little later, we saw some staff guys coming outside with papers saying "Hope for Japan" and gave some to us so we could write something in them, take a photo and then we would return them so they could deliver them to Miyavi. They were so nice. I couldn't stop thinking "Wow, Miyavi must really be an awesome person, to have these kind of people working for him and caring so much about us."
- Inside the venue.
We finally got inside at 8:30pm. The venue is small but very beautiful on the inside. All made in wood. There was the first floor with tables where people could seat and also enjoy the concert since it was kind of like a balcony with view to the stage. Then you would go down another stairs and you would be on the same floor as the stage. The stage was also very little in terms of height so Miyavi go to be just 20-30 cm above the ground. I was the third fan to enter so I got to be right in the middle of the first row and, like I expected, nothing between us and the stage. Another agonizing hour waiting for him, but when it was 9:30pm we started to call "MIYAVI" and the lights when out right after (it's hard to see this nowadays, most mainstream artists make us wait even more x.x).
- The first chords!
Miyavi, standing 2 meters in front of me, all dressed in black, black hair hanging over his face, holding his guitar. He then taps the guitar and the crowd goes wild, screaming and clapping. He looks at us, we go silent and he taps it again. Crowd goes wild again. He does it again and again and again and then he smiles (that smile that melts any heart). He starts to play and jump and I realize it was gonna be "What's my name?" so I started to sing to. I couldn't stop looking at his face, analyzing every bit of it. His funny expression, his eyes, the way his hair moved as he spins around while playing guitar. I was staring, completely amazed, at that perfection. His fingers dancing along with the strings of his guitar. His beautiful and well defined hands and nails. He looks so delicate on his photos but in real life it's a little different. He sure is skinny but still looks kinda strong. When he wasn't jumping or dancing he stood in a very strong but graceful position and he seemed to emanate a godly like aura.
He sang a couple more songs (I can't remember well but I think they were "Universe" and "Torture") and then he spoke to us. He said something along the lines of "Yesterday's concert in Spain was kinda annoying (?) but I have a feeling this one will be different. Am I right?" And we all scream "YEAH!". "AM I RIGHT?!" And the crowd screamed even louder! He then sang a couple more new songs that I haven't heard before.
- Things got very emotional…
The room went silence when he started to talk about the earthquake in Japan. He was saying how hard it was to be there when his whole family was in Japan. I couldn't held my tears any longer and I started to cry. Then comes the most emotional moment I ever experienced. The people behind me and on my side hugged me and held my hand when they saw my tears and quiet sobs. Even people that I didn't know. He then asked us to make 20 seconds of silence. A boy in the audience shouted "1 MINUTE" and Miyavi even looked at him but when he silenced no one else made a noise. No one. I was afraid someone would make some funny sound but no one did. I lost track of time so I don't really know if it really was 20 seconds or one minute. He didn't cry but he sure was emotional and his eyes were red. Then an unknown girl put her hand over my shoulder in an attempt to ease my crying when Miyavi started to play the next song, "Gravity". Could things ever get more emotional? They just did. My tears didn't stop as I tried to sing with him and when he screamed I screamed louder and I closed my eyes again I grabbed the girl's hand strongly. I really don't know who she was but THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing that.
I can't remember what song was next but I know it took us and him a couple of songs to be fully happy and jumping and screaming again because most people were still very emotional.
- WE LOVE YOU!
One of the highlights of the concert was when he sang "We love you". He was really amazed that we knew the japanese lyrics on the chorus. "We love you, we love you, sekai wa kimi wo aishiteru". He stopped singing but asked us to keep on with the chorus while he bluntly went to the backstage to pick up his phone so he could record us. "THIS IS FOR JAPAN!!" he screamed while we sang the lyrics non stop. It was magical. Everyone sang their heart out with those lyrics.
- Everyone knows the full lyrics to this one
He picked up his acoustic guitar and sat down to play some more slow songs. And he played the music I really wasn't expecting him to play… Itoshii Hito. Yes, Miyavi did play that beautiful song! Before he started to play he asked us to be silent so he could play it. We did but as soon as we heard the first chords of the music everyone recognized it and most people screamed with happiness but they got quiet really quickly when the rest of the crowd shushed them (it was really funny because when people started to scream other went "shush!!" and Miyavi gave us a little smile of enjoyment XD). There were no more screams but when he started to sing EVERYONE sang along with him! I was amazed that everyone there knew the lyrics to that song and we could see that he was too because he couldn't stop smiling and his eyes were shining. Truly one of the best moments of this concert. <3
- BOBO
Then he officially introduced us BOBO, his drummer. He plays really well! With 2 drumsticks in each hand he started to literally beat down his drums! But he made a really nice beat. It was really original because I never saw a drummer do that. We screamed and applaud him while he was playing.
- Making love
I could write a whole book about this moment but nothing I say could ever compare to what we really experienced. I still can't remember what exactly song he was playing at that time but he was really committed to it. While playing he starts to fall back really slowly and bending on his knees. Then his back finally touches the ground and he starts to move his hips almost as if he was making love to the guitar. Every sound that came out of that guitar was pure love. The entire room could feel that. There was a point when I closed my eyes for a moment and I could only feel his strong presence and my heart beat. I was in ecstasy. Nothing really mattered anymore but those strong chords and beats.
- I don't want this to be over
One of the last songs of the night was "Are You Ready To Rock?!" and this one really made the crowd go wild. Along with "Futuristic Love" when Miyavi made everyone raise one finger up in the air to symbolize that we were all connected. We were one.
I can't remember what song he played last, I just know that the last time he left the stage I felt empty inside. I really didn't want that night to ever ever end. I sat on the stage and looked at all the people leaving the venue. My mind was empty and when I finally came back to reality I was alone there. All my friends went upstairs to buy some merchandise. I slowly got up and went upstairs but I felt really sad when I saw that the t-shirts from that tour were 25€ and I only had 22€ to spend. I ended up buying nothing and I left the venue with my head down. My parents were already waiting for me and I didn't want them to get mad.
I got a taxi so I could arrive faster at the boats and then meet my parents on the other side of the river. The Taxi driver made me really happy because he kept asking me about the concert so I gladly told him everything about it in the few 10 minutes I had till I arrived at my destination. Even though he was an old man he was really interested and said that he heard about that event but didn't really know what kind of music Miyavi played. He seemed very impressed when I tried to explain Miyavi's techniques. It made me so happy that I had a person there listening to what I had to say. I payed and thanked him and I ran to catch the boat. When I arrived at the other side my parents where already there and as I got in the car my mom asked me about the concert. I was really excited and started to describe everything but my dad was mocking me because of some things I was saying so I stopped immediately talking and I didn't said another word until the rest of the trip.
When I got home I walked to my bed and a mix of emotions invaded my body. I was sad but happy. I was hopeful that he would come back. I felt empty because it was already over but my dream was fulfilled. But I was just too tired to think about all this so I fell asleep immediately.
This was the happiest day of my life and now it's over. Everything I have right now is the hope that he'll return to us. I'll just keep waiting...
