Blog - La Veuve Moustachue ~kyō wa Christmas nanoyo~: live report
La Veuve Moustachue ~kyō wa Christmas nanoyo~: live report
On Christmas day, I left work a bit early to go to Shimokitazawa Town Hall where was held the Christmas concert of ヒゲの未亡人 (hige no mibōjin aka La Veuve Moustachue = The Mustached Widow), the unit of Kishino You-ichi. The event was themed around enjoying both music and visuals at the same time, and featured 4 different bands.
First on stage was chintaijinkak+Cat-rat+Tsukamoto Yoshitsugu, respectively thereminist, pianist and light artist. Both musicians also sang, and they wore white blouses with black long skirts and glasses. They played 3 songs, the first two of which were rather "normal", that's in contrast with the last in which the theremin simulated an ambulance siren, and the lyrics were also crazy. :)
Next was tokimeki science BB, a unit formed of suzueri and Kinoshita Kenkyūjo. I had seen suzueri performing solo last June. This time she did similar things with toy pianos controlling her computer (she explained that one of the toy pianos has been transformed into a real MIDI controller by herself) and also played piano, while Kinoshita played with some electronic boards. I couldn't quite see what he was doing, but according to the MC's, he was changing connections and tweaking settings right on a board, changing the sequences and tempo and such. The whole was nice, but I couldn't help but feel a bit sleepy.
Then it was La Veuve Moustachue, who I had seen several times before at Aoi Heya back when he had a regular show there every 2 months. Kishino-san wears a black dress and becoming a widow who tells sort of melancholic stories of her loneliness, but being told with humor and by a mustached widow makes for a really happy show. It was the first time in Tokyo that the show was presented with video, as it was for his recent French tour. Most songs even had French subtitles, which made it even more enjoyable for me than the previous times.
Last was d.v.d (MySpace), which stands for "drums+video+drums". It was the first time I saw them live, although I had played with their kit at the Roppongi Crossing exhibition last month. They also opened for Cornelius and Plastics at Liquid Room recently.
The concept is that they have drum-controlled games, and the two drummers make each song progress while "playing" (double-meaning). Just when you would start getting a bit bored of the game, it changes into music. The video guy, Ymg, sat in the middle and used a Wii remote to control some aspects of the games, like throwing balls into the game set. It was all a lot of fun to watch!
I liked that they didn't hide how they're doing their stuff, between every song the Mac's screen would come up and Ymg would go in menus to select the next program.
They should be touring Europe again soon, to Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Holland (according to 23N! who also attended).
On our way out, we saw Shindō Mitsuo leaving!
One way to spend a Christmas evening. :)
Posted on December 27, 2007 at 22:22 | Tweet
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