Ba-Ba-Big-Bang

So after the Golden week festivities I had a week of work then it was off to Chiba. Chiba is a city located close to the water near Tokyo. South east of the main city was my destination for the best concert I have ever been to. It took months of waiting and hoping but even after the earthquakes and tsunami's the concert was still on. With a change of name from love & pain to Love & Hope the concert was going to give tons of money to earthquake victims. The concert featured BigBang and was held at makuhari messe.This is BigBang.
This is a photo from the concert we were at. I went with 3 friends and 2 teachers who were the ones who introduced BigBang to me in the first place. We arrived in Tokyo snagged lunch and ran over to the tower records in Shibuya where there was a giant poster and a huge display of clothing they have worn and I picked up their new CD which is the first Korean CD to top Japanese music charts at number 1.
We ran into a forever 21 and shopped for almost 2 hours. There was a random Canada restaurant where I ate nachos for the first time in one year. The next plan was goods!!! It means merchandise/swag related to the concert. They were sold out that night but said at 12 the next day the would re-open so we made plans to head back the next day. We stayed at the maple hotel.
Goods line....Thats all I can say...I underestimated true fans ability to line up at the buttcrack of dawn waiting for stuff. In japan if you like a band it is difficult to just buy stuff relating to a group other than waiting in goods lines. When we got in line(we were an hour early) it was already 2 hours long. So we waited... and waited and waited. Luckily everyone was very calm and orderly. We had no water and chairs so we just stood there in line. As the line moved things began to sell out.(another problem with japan concerts) The worst was you had to wait for people leaving the line finished with their shopping to walk past you while you waited in line. There were plenty of sighs of いな！！(the sound of jealousy) By the time I got my stuff I thought I was going to die...
But swag was accomplished
I headed to the hotel and we got ready for the concert. We took the bus back to the concert hall and lined up in another orderly line. Once in we realized our seats were sweet and we just sat back and relax watching BigBang music videos. Security was a joke, conversation about camera:
Security man: Do you have a camera?
Me: Yeah
Security man: no use.
Me: Okay
Security man: ticket please.
Fair enough....
The concert started pretty abruptly and was awesome from start to finish. VI and Sol did most of the talking because they are the only ones who can speak conversational Japanese. Everyone was screaming and jumping and they sang every one of their best songs. I can't express how awesome it was. The fans were going crazy and BigBang was riding around on scooters and segways.
Here's the whole gang afterwards. We were exhausted because the concert lasted 2 hours. Highlight of the concert was :
VI: Amazing singer live, not sure how he sounds better live.
SOL: Being damn sexy and giving away his clothes at every turn.
TOP: He doesn't even dance anymore, he just stands there looking smexy.
G dragon: Leaping around like a crazy man even though he was injured and his awesome songs with Top.
D-lite: His solo song baby don't cry. Amazing!!! He is by far the best singer in the group.
Thus we headed back to Nichinan after the best concert ever!
more to come