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Capsule live at Aoyama Cay

Last night I went to see capsule's release party for their recent album "S.F. sound furniture", held at Aoyama Cay. Also live were COPTER4016882 and Nagisa Cosmetic, and there were also many DJs and special guests.

It took a while to get in, but while going downstairs we were entertained by capsule costumes on display. Momus standing in line a bit ahead of us, and I also saw Imai-kun from the Aprils entering as guest!
Once inside, the place was really packed and it was so hot. It was almost hard to imagine spending about 4 hours in there, but I guess we survived. :)
Yuppa and Wanda from Hazel Nuts Chocolate (aka Henachoco) were serving ice cream at the entrance.

First played COPTER4016882. I can now confirm that the numbers are read as numbers (i.e. yon-maru-ichi-roku-hachi-hachi-ni). Ukai (the band's guy) who presented themselves didn't even remember the numbers right. (Do they expect fans to?)
The three main members (Ukai, Mikiko and Miwa) were accompanied by a keyboardist, a guitarist (some guy who apparently plays with Halcali and Rip Slyme) and a drummer (from the Spoozys I think), and were pretty good and energetic as a live band. Their songs being very short they were talking a lot so that their show would last more than 10 minutes. :)
Ukai seems to have hurt himself at some point playing guitar, and one of the two girls said "また血出た！" (mata chi deta!, "you're bleeding again!") as if it happened regularly.

After a lot of DJing (Yuppa, Kaori (Dahlia), Zest's Nakamura-san,...) Nagisa Cosmetic came on stage, with Nakata Yasutaka sitting at the back DJing. A few songs from the first mini-album were played.
At the end of the performance was played a surprise Nakata-produced "Happy Birthday", and capsule's Koshijima Toshiko came on stage bringing a cake. Nagisa is turning 20 this month.

Up last was capsule, Nakata always at the back DJing and beautiful Toshiko singing, accompanied by special guests Henachoco, Sonic Coaster Pop's Furukawa Chinatsu, PINE*am's Tsugumi, and EeL (who came from Osaka especially for the event) who came on stage in turn.
Played were "Idol Fancy" (with Henachoco), "Super Scooter Happy" (with SoCoPo's Chinatsu), "宇宙エレベーター" (uchū Elevator) among others.
(The picture shows from left to right: two girls from Henachoco, capsule's Toshiko and SoCoPo's Chinatsu, while performing "Super Scooter Happy".)

Also present was the director of the video for "ポータブル空港" (Portable kūkō, "Portable Airport"), Momose Yoshiyuki from Studio Ghibli, and also the producer (Suzuki Toshio?). "tonari no Totoro" was playing on TV at the time the show was being held, and the first thing Momose-san said was "Ok everyone, it's now time to go home and watch Totoro!", he was very funny and seemed like a very nice guy! The cool video was shown on the big [slightly dark-ish] screen.

Fun but exhaustingly hot evening!

Posted on July 24, 2004 at 12:35 | Tweet |

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