Blog - The Lady Spade release party: report
The Lady Spade release party: report
On Friday I went to see The Lady Spade (aka その名はスペィド = sono na wa Spade) who were having a release party for their first album "Dial 'S' for The Lady Spade" out a week ago. I have been a fan of theirs since seeing them at the last Usagi-chang Night Fever in 2006. This time was my 4th time, and I had a blast!
For those who aren't yet familiar, The Lady Spade is a girl unit of cute and sexy dance with live vocals. Their groovy tracks remind of the 60's, French pop, and old spy movie soundtracks. Singer Ruby is accompanied by her cute dancers, dubbed the Secretaries A Go-Go. There's also Mr. SLF behind the CD player, he's the one who produces all the wonderful music and does funny MC the rest of the time.
The event was a whole 2 hours of Spade! When I arrived SLF was DJing, playing Ishida Ayumi's "taiyō wa naiteiru". The show featured all of the album, which clocks just below 30 minutes, and then some more, plus covers, and DJ interludes during set and costume changes. There were also three special collaborations.
The first one was with a live rock'n'roll-ish backing band, formed of members of bands Goggle A, Salome Lips and The Tramp. This was the very first ever Spade performance with a live band! They played covers such as "Tout, tout pour ma chérie" and "Peter Gunn".
The 2nd collaboration featured Hase Yasuhiro (solange et delphine) on piano, and K-Ta (Fake Jazz Quintet) on vibraphone, who accompanied Ruby who wore a long beautiful purple dress. They played "The Look of Love" and "Nobody Does It Better". It struck me that her English pronunciation is really great, and with the Spade's high quality they should definitely go and conquer the world!
The 3rd and last collaboration was with Murasaki Babydoll. A group of 5 girl dancers who give a fun performance that's more erotic than Spade's, with some striptease involved! The stage soon transformed into a battle between Murasaki Babydoll and the 5 of The Lady Spade, until they finally got along and danced together to songs like a cover of "Breakaway".
The Spade girls came back, this time Ruby wearing her outfit from the album's jacket! They sang a few more songs and the show was over. They came back for an encore, with their theme song "Callsign" and then "mawase! unmei no Roulette" (aka "Spin! Roulette Spinning!!").
I know you're wondering, well, photos weren't allowed... except for two times when the girls took a pose especially for photos. You can bet that I went shutter happy!
And here's a live YouTube clip that I just found, it's raw footage from the upcoming "Live From Tokyo" documentary. I ran into the people filming this last year, and helped them with some interpretation when they interviewed Arcorhyme. I can't wait to see the final result!
Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr
Posted on March 15, 2009 at 02:27 | Tweet
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