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Vanilla Beans one-man live: report

On Wednesday I went to see Vanilla Beans who were giving their first "one-man" show at Unit in Daikanyama. Usually that would mean that there's only one band playing, although they ended up having Kinoco Hotel play an opening act, and that turned out to be a decent full set. I had seen both bands together before at an event headlined by Les 5-4-3-2-1 last July (report).

Kinoco Hotel played a full set similar to what I saw in July. They were quite energetic again and announced that their first major album would be coming on February 3rd. They ended up on the same label as Vanilla Beans (Tokuma Japan) which is why they were invited to play here.

Next and last were of course Vanilla Beans. Aside from the instrumental opening for which a guitarist played live, the stage was all Rena and Lisa's. They gave about twice the content of their usual shows, changing outfits twice, and also for the 2nd part they were accompanied by VJ team Enlightenment.

The show was pretty much straight-forward karaoke with the nice choreographies, and just a little bit of talk occasionally (not as much as I expected, which is good). At one point they brought out Tirol chocolates with a Vanilla Beans design and threw many at the audience. I wasn't lucky enough to catch one but my friend Miwa did.

The set lists went like this:

Part 1: ("Nicola" outfits)
Opening~Instrumental~ / sakasaka Circus / Afternoon a Go-Go / ashita wa ashita no natsu ga kuru / Shopping Kirari / happy merry-go-round / a little crying / koi no Theory

Part 2: ("Love & Hate" outfits)
Gamla stan / Love & Hate / kimagure na Palette Type / Tic-Tac / Tokyo wa yoru no 7ji / Nicola

Encore: ("U ♥ Me" outfits)
Nostalgy / U ♥ Me

What I was most happy about was the cover of Pizzicato Five's "Tokyo wa yoru no 7ji" ("the night is still young")!! This song —as well as two other Shibuya-kei covers (Original Love and Kaji Hideki)— was released for download on mobile phone only, and it was the first time I heard it. Won't they finally release these on CD or at least iTunes?

I was hoping for any sort of upcoming release announcement, but nothing. I really hope for more fun releases in 2010.

Watch the digest clip below that was put up on YouTube by the label.

Larger size flower photos at Flickr

Posted on December 26, 2009 at 11:50 | Tweet |

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