[	Tags	|	akiya, autographs, black kids, concert, dresden dolls, drumsticks, dutch, festival, fields, flaming lips, football, franz ferdinand, fratellies, holiday, isshi, izumi, kagrra, masumi, mindless slef indulgence, mizuki, nao, nice people, olyimpics, plane, poster, rants, shin, signing session, the lowlands, the netherlands, the wombats	]
[	Current Location	|	My bed	]
[	mood	|	Finished!	]
[	music	|	Rin - Kagrra,	]

Here is my holiday entry about my random dissapearage to the Netherlands (although I kept calling them Neverland because it seems really similar actually I watched Peter Pan whilst out thier ^_^)

Wednesday - random last minute packing XD the plane ride was bumpy which was quite fun as it was just over and hour. Then me and Masumi (most of you know her by this name so I'll go with that but now I can pronounce her real name properly) at the airport and there was lots of jumping and hugging and YeYs! So we got to the station and OMG they have double decker trains!!! They're amazing I mean we have double decker buses but double decker trains are just WoW it's genius! So we got on the train then when the train was moving Masumi realised that we hadn't got me a tickets lols! So we got off at the next station and brought a ticket before anyone could come round to check if we had tickets or not XD.
So we got to Hilversum which is Dutch Hollywood as loads of tv production companies are there and met Julian who is Stella's boyfriend. Then we had tea and ate Ben and Jerry's whilst watching Peter Pan.

Then on Tuesday I wanted to see Utretch, I don't see the point in going somewhere if you don't bother seeing it. It was really pretty, the canal and the street cafes (I ordered my lunch in Dutch go me) reminded me a bit of Venice. Unfortuantly I can't show you pictures yet because Masu's computer accidently whiped them >.< so I have to wait for her to email them to me :(
Whilst in Utrecht it started raining so we ran into a shop and ended up playing a demo of Guitar Hero for ages which was fun (once I eventually worked out what buttons to press) XD

Wednesday - KAGRRA,!!!

OMG they are love and so amazing - the following text may well contain declarations of love and spazzing, slight/much ranting and yeah...
Oh I might not alway use thier comma at the end of thier name as sometimes it makes things awkward to read XD

We got thier about 10:30/11 am on the day because the Netherlands is sensible and you don't have to camp out (although three people did) just to be at the front and we were 6th and 7th in line :D (I was like lol I feel stupid for worrying we weren't gonna get a good place). Kagrra, had already arrived and they have super nice roadies because one walked past and gave us a chocolate bar so the seven of us all had a bite each :D. A few more people arrived not long after and we soon got talking. WoW these Dutch fans were really nice, I gave lots of people my msn and some have already added me I just have to wait for them to be online to talk to them again. 

The Real Reita Fan and Noa weren't the only nice people so many people were lovely and made me feel included. They were also impressed with my Dutch (well more the fact I was trying unlike Germans who they were telling me expect Dutch people to know German without even asking if they speak it).I was also given lots of food <33 and evryone was sweet - although not enough Dutch people have heard of Vidoll - I've told them they should try to listen to them as they have no idea what they're missing. We then got on to more light hearted topics like how Kagrra, should let us in the tour band as it was raining xD

Really funnily Nao came to the window, looked out and I saw him and waved and RRF (Real Reita Fan has been abreviated) made the peace sign at him. He dissapeared but stuck his arm out and did a peace sign horizontally then did bunny ears/speach marks. Ahh it'd really hard to describe but when you next see me ask and I'll happily show you it was so cool. I'm sure Masumi will tell you (meh half of you are on her f-list to about what happened to her).

Then later on Isshi came to the window, he wasn't looking out though but we could see his reflection so we waved and he waved back. This also lead to the really random and funny conversation about Isshi's fake chocolate cigerettes which was hillarious.

Then it was time to go in *jumps up and down* somewhat annoyingly the Dutch que wasn't quite like an English J-rock que. I may have been 7th but I didn't get in 7th but what annoyed me was the girls who camped didn't get in first when they deserved to. But I still got to the front and won't complain too much as Mizuki who had a riived a bit later got in with us and as far as we know the people who got in first but arrived in the que later didn't get any picks or things :D

The stage had no barrier :D and I was by an amp (but I could see over it and as you will read later it was a great place to be) between Shin and Noa but I had a really good view of them all :D I was next to Masumi and Mizuki was at the otherside of her, it's was so fun as the last concert I saw with them was the GazettE but they were at Uruha's side and I was infront of Aoi.

Then the annoying announcy woman (these women always annoy me >.< especially when they're like who are you here to see and it's like I have no idea who I've just spent ages queing for and I can't read what it says on my ticket just get the fuck off the stage and let me see the band because that's who I'm here for not you bitch!) said no photos (understandable) and no touching the band hahaha fuck that. The band came out and touched us giving us high fives and slapping our hands so in your face annoying bitch lady!

Amazing, stupendous, wonderful, fantastic are all understaments for the concert and Kagrra, themselves. They all came out high fives and hand slaps and all ans Isshi was wearing a sort of Kimono thing (not a proper one like the have worn just one part of it and the obi as he had hi current stage costume underneath) and had his fan - of course! The others were just wearing thier stage outfits (although half the time had thier sandels off - looking especially at you Nao).

It was really energetic Isshi has us all dancing away (sometimes with his fan and sometimes just with his arms) following his movements (my right arm is so much stronger because of you now <33) and they all moves around super much which is where being by the amp was win because they all put up thier legs and leant over that amp so I was just like winner is me and yes I touched them not anything offensive and half the time it was them touching us or my arm getting hit so hahaha fuck you annoying lady!

Shin was so sweet and he had his koto and played that and his guitar so well <333 but it was funny he'd come to the front and we'd all be like "YeY Sin" and then Nao would come up and be like *steals Shin attention* but Nao was also awesome but more about him later when I get onto his English ^_^

Izumi often had a really sweet smile on his face not like Kai's super make anyone melt wide grin but a adorbale innocent smile but not always. kept smilling at him and waved to him, I don't know if he saw me I hope he did maybe he did see me and that's why he gaved me his drumstick...or am I just letting my imagination run away? because drummers need more love and everyone was more taken with the other four because of course they came to the front of the stage more but I was sending him Izumi you're awesome vibes :D I will tell you about his drumstick later (yes it will be me being a bit geeky).

Akiya (woot it's his birthday on the 25th I think I will celebrate), I didn't to see as much of him as Nao, Shin and Isshi but he came over to our side sometimes and I often looked over to him. He's so cute and I loved his outfit and his general Akiya-ness and he played perfectly as well.

Isshi - MY DUTCH IS BETTER THAN ISSHI'S!!! (ok that's not saying much) he said "Dank u" (sp?) and tried speaking some Dutch which I totally respect him for because the pronouciation is really hard for some of it. I understood "We are Kagrra," then Masumi and Mizuki translated "We are from Japan", "We are happy to be here" and "We will be back" (and I am so going again when they do) but for a bit even the Dutch people (they were nearlly all Dutch, there were two Japanese people on Holiday and a really cute Chinese girl who was at university in France and I was the only English person) didn't understand (some annoying fangirl screams didn't help) but yeah we got that they were happy to be here and thanked us all which I guess was the important thing to be understood. Also here's where the amp rocks again because he half stood on it and leaned over and his face was directly above mine and I was looking straight up at him and him straight down at me and WoW! He also held my hand <333 and smiled at me :D (ok this might just be my imagination again but meh no one can dissprove me unless Isshi comes out and says "no I was not smiling at the English girl in the Netherlands").

He also came up to Nao loads (it was always Nao) and would put his arm round him and share the microphone and make Nao sing whilst half hugging him and thier faces were really close.

Nao - He's awesome and boy does he know it XD He came up to the front loads as well actually they all did apart from Izumi obviously. Also he spoke English ahhh!!!

All in English:
Isshi: "Kagrra,'s bassist - Nao"
Nao: *comes up to his microphone* "Ok *breaths hevay* Ok, Ok" *breaths in* Hello"
Nao: "Do you want me?"
Audience: *screams* - translate as "YES PLEASE!"
Nao: *grins whilst listening to the recation, he seems pleased with himself* "Ok you can have me!"
Audience: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (or screams to that effect)

That was so funny and hugs a billion to Nao for saying it XD it was just so cool and his English is really good too and YeY for speaking English!

The concert was so amazing, they played great songs, quite alot from Core as well as older songs, sorry I can't do a set list for you guys I either have the songs names in Japanese and can't rember what order they were in but if you wanna know if they played a certian song I'll try and remember for you. Also I'm informed that Dutch concerts aren't normally like this but I HAD SPACE I COULD BREATH! No one tried to get me out of the front woot and I was only squashed a few times and nothing like at Miyavi :D I could also move my arms, dance and jump even though I was at the front it was so cool. Though Noa was surprised to as she said normally you got squashed because I found her after the concert whilst waiting for Masumi to get my merch for me. They put on such a good show and even though the concert wasn't sold out I'm sure they would have preformed like that for 10 or 10,000 people. They thanked us alot YeY it's great when bands thank you.

Then for the encore they all came out wearing thier tour t-shirts and did some more songs. Then they came to give thier picks and stuff. Izumi came and I shouted out his name, smiled at him and held my hand out and he put his drumstick straight into my hand :D! He didn't throw it, I didn't catch it he actually put it in my hand and gave it to me just WoW. I can't help thinking that maybe he did see me smiling at him I could also see people wondering where the drumstick had gone as I shoved it down my top so fast so that no one could steal it off me. It's a really nice drumstick because it's personallised and it's a similar size to the ones I use but a different brand and actually slightly shorter. I knew it was a simlar size mine because after the concert waiting for Jon (Masumi's dad) I was tapping it against my thigh (thank goodness Rik wasn't there he always tells me off because I use my legs as a drum and he's always telling me to stop hitting myself xD) and it was like hey this doesn't feel weird it feels right I'm used to this. So when I got home I compared it to mine and they are similar sizes. Now I can tell Lousie that's she right about thier small hands (well Izumi's but none of thier hands were giant) about this if she's not alreay reading this *sends hug is you are* but I'll go on in more detail about it hehe.

It's really dented which means it was one it was using. I'm so happy I normally never get things at concerts, but he actually gave it to me *sparkly eyes*

After they left the stage we got the merch as we wouldn't have had time to get merch and to the front before and we didn't want someone who had turned up like an hour ago getting in front of us. I brought a t-shirt, it was a medium as they had sold out of smalls (I alway get a small normally) so I was really hoping it wouldn't be too big as you can never tell with band shirts a small for one band is huge for another. But it's not too big which is good and a poster for them to sign.

The Signing Session:

WoW I was so nervous as I'd never been to one before, the closest was waiting for Girguamesh and getting thier autographs but that was just them being awesome it wasn't an organised thing. But I had practiced "I come from England" in Japanese :D

First up was Akiya, he understood my Japanese <3 and was like "Ingrisu, Ingri- thank you" and shook my hand and smiled. Oh and isn't the face he drew on his signature just awesome.

Izumi next :D I showed him that I had his drumstick and he thanked me and (I thanked them all for thier autographs of course) and isn't that little face blowing a kiss just adorable YeY so sweet <33

Isshi, this was funny (he understood my Japanese to and then said "England" in English) but the best part HE MUCKED UP HIS SIGNATURE!!! I now have a unique Isshi signature. He did it, looked at it, shook his head and made a sort of tut noise (another of those things that's easier to show than explain) and said "nonono" and re-did the line. So you see the squiggly line that looks like a spiral or 3s ontop of each other that

[	Tags	|	an cafe, apartment, concert, friends, kanon, miku, nyappy, takuya, teruki, yuuki	]
[	Current Location	|	My bed	]
[	mood	|	NYAPPY!	]
[	music	|	Cherry Saku Yuuki - An Cafe	]

Now for the proper An Cafe entery (I have now slept lols)

~SO NYAPPY~

I loved it.

Monday: 
Arrived in London I was listening to Snow Scene, it was snowing I was so happy and excited!!
Arrived at the venue 10 o'clock and gave lotsa of hugs before dumping mah stuff and getting to Victoria to meet Kate <3 and Ruby <3. I can proudly say that I got them both safely too and from London without anyone getting killed/mutilated/kidnapped etc I am proud of myself.
So we all arrived, I was 12th in line XD and it was freezing, so we brought loads of food and nyapple juice and ran around in blankets. We also played mini twister but loads of people wanted to play so we instead ripped up some cardboard and made out own giant twister board which was a great sucess and meant I had loads of really hot twister sex with Kate and Ruby (both so very flexible ^_~) I think I won two games of twister if I remember rightly. We also spent much time trying to stay warm (or as warm as was possible). Thus I became....

Yuuki desu!!!

We also went down in the carpark because it was slightly warmer and did manic Gackt dancing (we also danced to some other stuff) but I did some "fanservice" with Dodo <3 when Vanilla came on, heck we couldn't resist and Gackt dancing is so fun crotch out and swing your arms wildly XD







Then Kate, Ruby and I made our very stylish London apartment which loads of people told us was "EPIC WIN" and I agree. More extremly hot sex occured here, well why stop at twister XD



Our for sale sign on the apartment



It was still pretty cold but I managed to get quite a bit of sleep, I am getting rather good at this whole sleeping on the streets thing *is impressed* and  Kate is warm cause I kept squishing myself into her because she was the closest warmest thing XD

Tuesday.
Sazzy = Superly excited (such an understatment) we were counting down the hours, ok the countdown had started long before Tuesday I believe I was counting down the day I got my ticket. We managed to calm ourselves down by making t-shirts using Kate's awesome chibi's. Colouring in is fun, naturally I had Kanon <333, Ruby had Miku, Kate - Takuya, Rave- Yuuki and Lorna - Teruki.

 

 

If anyone is interested from left to right they say "Takuya desu", "Yuuki desu", "Miku desu", "Teruki desu" and "Kanon desu" and we all have the NYAPPY symbol on them o(≧∀≦)o

We gave them to the band after the show, well they should have got them apart from Lorna disaapeeared before we could get Teruki's top so instead we wrote him a note saying "WE LOVE TERUKI" and the like.

I also got to see Kacey which was awesome, we agreed we shall probably visit each other during sunmmer or something but we can work that out nearer the time XD



The band arrived about 5ish but thier stuff and roadies had already turned up during the day. Poor guys were probably scared by the evil fangirls (unfortuantly there were some very annoying fangirls/boys >.< most people were nice however) Miku looked very scared, Teruki was griining so adorkably, Kanon was like ahhh fangirls, Yuuki was just like I am awesome (he is, and had a very soft jacket too), and Takuya was like errr...

Loads of people were like when did Teruki and Takuya come in, because loads of people mistook them for roadies lols I didn't however so saw them all. They are so small, I mean I know they're small but seeing a picture and seeing the real people are two totally different things.

GiG:
I got in, got my t-shirt and went straight to the barrier, positioned myself directly infront of Kanon and then Kate was next to me, and Ruby next to her. It was so amazing, normally I don't really have particular favourites in bands but An Cafe is one of those exceptions where Kanon is my fave memember so being right in front of him was like a dream *dies*. It was so worth waiting well over 30 hours to be at the front. 

Then they came out, I could go on and on about the gig but then I will probably get slaughted for making one entery kill your friends lists so I'll just point out some things.
NYAPPY!!!
Thier music sounds even better live :D
They spoke so much English, and not just Miku, all the band and Miku was adorable. "My English is not very good" and we were all like no it's brilliant, "I do my besto". It was so wonderful of them to make such a big effort.


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FzS7Yp67U94 This clip has some of thier comments, the embedey thing is being silly.

"I am Kanon..... I like sushi* I shall never it sushi again without thinking about how wonderfully dorky he is.
Teruki's adorkable grinning, he was so happy playing his drums it was so infectious.
Yuuki's and Miku's dancing, Yuuki was going wild behind the keyboards but looked absolutly incredible doing it and Miku's dancing was just pure love.
Kanon and Takuya swapping sides, nearly crashing into each other then they just looked at each other laughed and grinned.
Kanon slipping off the amp, then trying to regain his balance whilst making it look like he meant to do that bless. I love this man.
Takuya and Kanon playing back to back, then facing each other.
Miku nearly knocking out various band members with his mic stand and tambourine hehe and the roadie running aroujnd trying to clear them up XD
POM POMS Miku had pom poms.
Dancing the same moves as Miku

For the encore, Kate, Ruby and I took off our member tops and hung them by our wrists. Kanon saw mine and grinned so widley and smiled as he looked at it. Takuya smiled the sweetest smile at them, he is such a wonderful chibi seme I just want to hug him forever (ok I want to hug all of them forever but that's a technicality). Then they all touched my hands which was so mindblowing.

NYAPPY!!! OMG No matter what I write, it is all an understatment because words cannot describe how extraordinarily, mind blowingly, fantasticly Nyappy it was (yes that's also an understatment but words are yet to be created to descibe it the closest is probably NYAPPY!!) o(≧∀≦)oThe on Wednesday me and Kate went round Camden, as Rave and Ruby had had to leave early. I got the cutest leopard/cat ears and we kept seeing people around like Nicky and co which was fun, and we snacked on noodles XD. Kate got a very funky new jacket and we too Nyappy to a new place.


We couldn't resist, we're both in our tour shirts, I got the girls one because the mans would have drowned me, Kate got the small mans and there's still loads of room for her. It's one of the few pink (well something with pink on) I now own. They got the Spanish tour date wrong putting it as a Sunday not a Thursday on the back but that made us lols. It then lead to a highly amusing conversation about An Cafe being wizards, Miku's magic spells going wrong and Kanon's Cherry Saku Yuuki eyepatch.

Then on the coach back we were dancing to An Cafe, then dancing and singing to Vanilla and then dancing and singing to various songs whilst discussing An Cafe (obviously), secret plans and clever tricks, cosplays and NYAPPY 
o(≧∀≦)o

Got back and had pizza YeY. Then checked thier myspace, it was short but so sweet. http://www.myspace.com/ancafe
Yuuki's Rocket also made me grin I love An Cafe.

It was so worth it being cold, smashed into the barrier and waiting for hours and I'd do it all again in a heartbeat and wait out even longer.

Also Miku PROMISED they would be back :D

NYAPPY o(≧∀≦)o

XxX