#2017 aishuu to antique to itami mo homuru

[aoimori]

08.12.2017 MUCC @ Shibuya WWW (Satochi birthday edition!!)

Mucc added a few extra shows to the end their Aishuu to antique to itami mo homuru tour and I managed to get a ticket to the one on Satochi’s birthday!

As you probably already guessed, this tour was dedicated to their earliest albums - Aishuu, Antique, Tsuuzetsu, and Homura Uta. 

Setlist and various Satochi celebrations below!!

Setlist

01.ホムラウタ 02.絶望  03.黒煙  04.僕が本当の僕に耐えきれず造った本当の僕 05.五月雨 06.幸せの終着 07.鎮痛剤 08.夜 09.焼け跡 10.廃 11.嘘で歪む心臓 12.暗闇に咲く花 13.断絶 14.帰らぬ人 15.家路 16.背徳の人 17.前へ 18.娼婦 19.大嫌い

EN 01.夢の街 02.オルゴォル 03.NO!? 04.夕紅 05.スイミン 06.狂った果実(笑)

First I just wanna say... I’ve been a Mucc fan for a loooong time and while I still enjoy their new stuff, I am a HUGE fan of their older, super moody dark angura flavor music. I was in heavy Mucc heaven.

When we entered staff gave us balloons...

Shibuya WWW is kind of an odd venue that’s set up like a theater with lots of steps. But it meant I could SEEE. I was a few steps up in front of Miya. It’s also a very small livehouse since this tour only hit small venues. 

They opened with Homura uta and we all clapped along and it was really cool

Once the lights went down some things on the stage GLOWED like glow in the dark style. The amps had the album artwork of Myakuhaku but in the light they turned pink with light blue kanji from the tour name.

The members all had some kind of glow in the dark paint on their faces. Really dramatic in a kind of psychedelic way. Mucc’s lighting has been amazing lately tbh

The harmonica solo in Mae e is my aesthetic

I feel like there were a lot of really beautiful and sad moments in these songs. Danzetsu was especially emotional. I love the end where Tatsurou and Miya both sing “sayonara”. Haishi also stood out to me for some reason.

Yukke stood up on the platform on my side and stared at us with these really wide terrifying eyes for a while, then laughed and ran away. He had his blonde bowl cut and was wearing black overalls.

Before one of the last songs, Tatsurou looked back and forth with this really curious look on his face, like hm??? What’s that?? What song could this be!?

The mood of the main set was REALLY dark and heavy. Tatsurou said a few times in his short MCs that it was Satochi’s birthday and we should all be celebrating and be thinking of him, even though the mood is soooo dark. It was pretty funny lol

Satochi was mad because the day before was a festival and the day after they had recording (!??!?!?!?) so this particular day was his only day off. But they still scheduled a show anyway.

During Daikirai Tatsurou jumped up on the drum platform and got right in Satochi’s face and sang SATOCHI DAIKIRAI DESU!!!

As usual... Satochi was hilarious/complained a lot while everybody else made fun of him. Tatsurou is a natural performer who is completely at ease on stage. I heard him without the mic pretty often. Yukke is such an interesting character lmao. I was so excited to see him with Robert and also with his signature bowl cut look. And Miya is still one of my favorite guitarists ever, he’s such an emotional and dynamic performer and he stole my attention for almost the entire show. 

Something I find interesting is that calls for an encore at Mucc shows never seem to be very strong? And it takes a while before somebody tries to start one. Really different from Dir and Merry where we start the chanting up the second the last member leaves the stage. Mucc fans seem pretty chill overall honestly lol

Before they came out for the encore we all blew up our balloons but hid them. 

The members came out and brought out Satochi’s cake!! We all sang happy birthday to him. Tatsurou said the cake looked like pom pom purin

Tatsurou brought out a black can of “helium” and had Satochi breathe some in. He tried it multiple times but his voice wouldn’t change, so Tatsurou brought out the “real” can and held it up to Satochi’s face aaand sprayed whipped cream all over him lol

Then they got the REAL can of helium and Satochi breathed some in and talked/yelled, Tatsurou tried a little and like screamed, then Miya tried but first said his voice is already high so there wouldn’t be any difference. It took him a few tries but his voice got REALLY high and he like SCREEEAMED lol

When the other members were talking there was loud feedback from Miya’s mic and he literally jumped back with really wide eyes and it was adorable

The members all stood at the edge of the stage with acoustic instruments and Yukke got out Robert. First song of the encore was a special one for Satochi... Yume no machi!!

Tatsurou parted the crowd and their manager came on stage and jumped down into the audience. Satochi got on his shoulders and rode around while everyone sang along together, waving their balloons around. At the end of the song we were given the signal to throw our balloons directly at Satochi lol

He got back up on the stage, which was covered with balloons. Tatsurou was like WHAT IS THIS STAGE!! LOOK AT THIS!! WHAT... IS THIS!? while Miya stomped around and popped balloons 

Tatsurou making us sit down during Suimin is still really fun

During the very last song (kurutta kajitsu)  there’s a part where we repeat 1 2 3 GO!! and each time, the members took turns smashing foam “pie” in Satochi’s face lol. They even had a fan come up on stage to do it too. Everyone kept throwing balloons at him while he played. This song was wild overall. 

This was my only show of this tour and I’m soooo glad I got to go and appease my inner old Mucc fan. Super moody main set, really really fun encore, lots of Satochi hijinks, just great all around. I hope Satochi enjoyed his birthday even though he had to work lol