Gig Reviews

Placebo live in Japan (Mar. 8, 2010 in Osaka)

Eunice_t-story 2011. 6. 12. 14:36
Mar. 8, 2010 Placebo @ Club Quattro, Osaka, Japan
Originally written on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 9:20pm on facebook and PFWW
I just came from the show. I have so many OMGs and WOWs in my head and 
already forgot many things (it's been only for a few minutes since the 
show ended! ) so I should write them down :) 
The show started on time (at 7pm). The venue was even smaller than 
Akasaka Blitz. It felt like as if I were at the OUI FM acoustic show. 
The size felt like that small. And there was no distance between the 
stage and the barrier.
To sum it up, it was a full-on rock show at a very small venue.
Once again, I was in the second row. But since there was no distance 
between the barrier and stage, Brian's mic was so close. And the stage 
wasn't that high. The height seemed not even 1 meter.
There were no background visuals this time. Even the ceiling wasn't high enough.
When Brian came out on stage, the usual happened :D
All of them wore in black, except Stefan was wearing violet pants with 
thin stripes. Steve was shirtless again but the pants were black. I took
a good look at Brian’s shoes this time ^_^
Again, they looked really happy and relaxed. The mood was almost like 
the OUI FM acoustic show. Brian was kind of chatty. Before Speak In 
Tongues, a man(probably a French man I saw in the queue) in the back 
shouted “Brian, Je t’aime!” And Brian smiled. A female fan shouted 
something starting with Brian but I couldn’t tell if she was speaking in
English or Japanese. Brian said to Stefan, ‘what’s she saying?’ then 
the fan said, ‘I’m sorry’ and Brian said, ‘don’t worry about it.’ I 
could hear that even without the mic.
There was Brian and Stefan’s guitar battle moment and I can’t put it into words… 
All I could think of was ‘MOLSDAL!!!!’
The show was about 1 hr. and 40 minutes. 
The set list was the same, I think.
Tomorrow I’ll be seeing them in Nagoya, again.