Note: YUI is mentioned at the last part.

Continued from Sokeisen in previous post.

GO!GO!7188 at Nihon University school festival (砧祭, Kinuta-sai), College of Commerce. 2300++ yen. Alone, yeahhh.

In case you guys don't know who GO!GO!7188 is, I have included youtube links for the songs I mentioned in this post. I can't remember how I discovered them, but it was around the time when they released PARADE album.

That's why I prefer their recent stuff, old stuff is cool too, more folkish, weirder.Fall in love with them after watching the performance of ROCK during random youtube surfing. So kakkoii!! Never knew that such awesome female guitarist and bassist exist in Japan.


Pictures were taken after live because I was literally rushed to the venue.

I discovered the existence of school festivals thanks to YUI. She went to a couple of universities to perform during their annual school festivals, which are normally held around autumn. Waseda has one too.

After the dinner, I took Odakyu line (reminds me of Ikimonogakari) for the first time to Soshigaya-Okura station (祖師ヶ谷大蔵) from Shinjuku station.



The live started at 6.30 pm. I reached the station around 6.20, and I still had to walk another 12 minutes according to Yahoo maps.

Luckily I have memorised the route, I just followed the road which has the most student looking people came from. On my way, I was wondering why the street is called Ultraman Shopping Street.

When I reached the campus, I could hear Nounai Traveller. OMG OMG.

I quickly rushed to the information booth, and the staff pointed me some building and told me the live was on 4th floor.

4th floor...by the time I reached the hall (classroom to be exact), I felt so hot and took off my jacket and rolled up my sleeves. Freezing in the morning, now very hot. I won't to be late in my next concert any more......

But then, because that I came late, I got to move around the classroom. So I went as near to the stage as possible. Less than 5 metres away from them. I could see Yuu's Custom Made Vintage White Telecaster or maybe the other yellow one clearly.

Yay for Fender Telecaster~!!

But Yuu was at the other side (right), Akko was at the left side of stage. Bah. It was definitely 100 times better than DAI live I went anyway. No one was beside me, because it just happened that that row was completely empty. It feels weird to watch a live with nobody around, literally. But after a while, I became used to it. Shock sendiri you know.

During the MC, Akko (bassist) was really funny. She asked us to repeat after her these phrases:

「俺の、ものは、俺のものー！！」 (What belongs to me is mine~!!)
「お前の、ものも、俺のものー！！」 (What belongs to you is mine too~!!!)

Then Turkey's (drummer) turn:

「世界の、ものは、俺のもの！！」 (Everything in the world is mine!!!)
「世界の、女も、俺のもの！！」 (Every woman in the world is mine too!!!) *Akko pointed her middle finger at him LOL*

And she was saying that the 5 pretty girls standing in the front row was a rare sight in GO!GO!7188 live.

Yuu said that they better be careful of Akko XD And she told the audience that she went to check out the school festival before that too.

*Imagining Chatmonchy walking around Waseda school festival......*

Set list: (Thanks to 琴≒ごりこ san in mixi)

1. ROCK (OMG WTF I MISSED THIS!!!!!)
2. Nounai Traveller
3. Ska
4. Sandaa Gaaru
5. YOME toshite 2008 (Akko)
6. Bariburi (Turkey)
7. Kataomoi Fighter
8. Otona no Kusuri

I really like when everyone did the yeah! thing. It was fun. Yuu made weird + cute faces when she paused during the yeah part, very cute.

9. Futashikatashika *New Song*
10. Koi no Uta
11. Ukifune

I got very excited when they sang this song. Because this is the only GO!GO! song I've learned before, I can play 15 seconds of this song =.=

12. Hyokkori Hyoutan Jima
13. Manhole
14. Bungu

~Encore~
15. Jetto Ninjin

When Yuu moved to the other side of stage (my side) and started playing a bunch of crazy solos, only then I realised how pretty she is =3 Apparently she is left handed. She plays right handed guitars because she thought that there's no left handed guitar back then. Omg so cool *Salute her guitar skills*

One thing I noticed was when GO!GO!7188 first stopped to check the sound or had a break, the audience screamed here and there, after a few attempts with no response from GO!GO!, the audience stopped doing that. There were even times that the classroom turned completely silent for 5 seconds, which is impossible in Malaysia.

And during the final encore, Akko was promoting their upcoming releases and ask us to buy the tickets of year end tour in Akasaka BLITZ. When I heard that, I was so eager to shout at them that I already bought the tickets but I didn't dare to do so.

They always say, when you are in your dead bed, the things you regret the most aren't the ones you already did but the ones you never did. In this week, I have regretted on a bunch of things I didn't do.....haih. And I thought that I've become braver and willing to take actions but apparently not. Still have a long way to go.

All in all, awesome live. The best I've seen, because I don't really watch concerts in Malaysia. Right now it is the best haha. For 2,825 yen, I think is worth the money. We won't get to see overseas' artist in Malaysia that near for that amount of money, plus 15 songs, no way. Going to see them again next month~


Something I bought after the concert, I'm running out of clothes to wear so this might be a good one. V.I.S.C. = busaiku (不細工, ugly, plain, clumsy). Akko wore it in the live too.

As I was googling around for GO!GO! info, I bumped into Yuu's blog and she went to dear YUI's live TWICE, because YUI's bassist, Eikichi san is the bassist of another band of hers called チリヌルヲワカ (Chirinuruwowaka), so Yuu gets to watch free YUI lives so to speak.

It is weird to see Yuu not playing solos for the very first time. I really like カスガイ(Kasugai), sounds very different.


Shinjuku's Sakuraya, near West exit. There are more than 5 Sakurayas in Shinjuku. Very confusing at first.

Everything comes back to YUI =.= In the diary Yuu said that YUI has both voice and looks, there are times god will gave both voice and looks as well, to someone like YUI XD Yuu san, you are pretty + talented too, and I like your cute voice, don't get jealous of YUI. She's different =x

So when are you two going to do a duet or something?? (Bokura no Ongaku!!)

Next live will be,



Some band featured in this picture, in 10 hours time.