Velvet Eden - Behind the Tales

This is a bit late to write, but for me Behind the Tales feels kind of new since I didn't get a chance to see it until february.
The DVD was pre-released at Velvet Eden's live gig on the 31 October and officially released on the 26 November.
This DVD is the bands second since the revival (I don't count the Sad Mask DVD) and contains 6 live videos and a PV for the song Marionette Waltz.

Me and a friend talked about the livevideos for some time, we both got a bit annoyed and confused by the way they've edited them...

Most of the time it looks like the above, several images a top of eachother, making it rather hard to focus on one thing.

I thought that was rather sad, it felt like the images got blurry after a while.

The setlist was good though, we finally got to see Street of Alice, old style.

Dada and Kalm used to fence during this song and so did Dada and Chro.
The DVD also included a PV for Marionette Waltz, which I have to say is my favorite of their new PV's. It's not recorded as a selfie, and it's in black and white.

I've noticed Behind the Tales haven't made it up on Starwave records topchart over sold items, and it doesn't seem like that many international fans have ordered it, how come?

Setlist:
1. Street of Alice
2. Freakshow
3. La fin
4. Luzifer
5. Masquarade Alone
6. Confession of Mask
7. Marionette Waltz PV

Velvet Eden at Chop

Last night Velvet Eden had their somewhat "secret" livegig at club Chop in Ikebukuro.
I don't mean secret as in no one can find out, but it was a bit weird they didn't promote it until really late (I found out last week).

I'm not that good at finding directions, acctually I'm worthless at it. I'm still getting lost in my hometown, that's how bad it is. So when I'm supposed to find my way around Ikebukuro, where I haven't spent that much time, well to put it simple, I'm fucked.

Me and my friend had a hard time finding the club, and an even harder time finding the station on our way back (yeah, not kidding).

But we got there first! *yay* Not that lines matters in Japan :P

Chop was small, but not as tiny as Ikebukuro Cyber (thank god), and they even had soap in the bathroom! *yay* (Cyber doesn't...)

There were 4 bands playing, カルぺディエム (Carpe Diem), ジグラット (jiguretto), ロクダマカルタ (Rokudamakaruta) and Velvet Eden.

This time Velvet Eden wasn't last out....just 3rd :P The first band to play was Carpe Diem. Never heard of them before, but the vocalist (who also calls himself Chro) made me think of Tetsu from first era Malice Mizer. He had that kind of hysterical voice going on, and their music was kind of okey. The second band was  one of those amazingly random bands...which makes me laugh on the inside because bands like that would seriously not work on any other place than Japan. The singer looked like some sort of Marilyn Manson copy, while the basist and guitarist looked very visual kei. The guitarist was really pretty, with pink pigtails (at first I thought he had a wig because that might have been the most perfect pigtails I've seen, plus he had pink hair, but then I noticed it was his real hair which really impressed me XD) Their music varied quite a lot, some songs were kind of hard, and some more regular rock. They were kind of fun watching from the back because they had a lot of set movements for the fans (love seeing how synchronized everyone's moving at gigsXD).
I kind of liked one song they played, so I'm just gonna post a link to a preview from their Youtube channel;

Then it was time for Velvet Eden, well before that they sat by their merchtable as usual (from what I saw they didn't sell anything though...). I was sitting in the back amazingly bored when I just randomly looks up and see Dada and Chro passing me.

This stage didn't have a real curtain so while we were waiting by the front of the stage we could see Chro walking around, setting up his keyboard and guitar (fun leg-entertainment).

Their opening song is not something I recognise, I wonder why they haven't released that as a demo on youtube... anyway, the setlist was just like last week, exactly the same, so was their outfits. 

I've also finally figuered out the mysterious song XD That was my head being retarded and mixing up Luzifer for Jailed Prince... so no new song, the song I meant was Jailed Prince.

This MC was a bit fun (I also acctually understood more of this than at the gig last week). Dada mentioned he had a hard time grasping things when he has his gloves, so he had his stage pass stuck to his ass, and a girl seriously got to remove it for him and then it was given to Chro, who put it on his mic XD They also mentioned they'll play in Osaka in December, and that they haven't decided on Tokyo yet, so it will come later.

One funny thing was that one of the women in the audience shouted kawaii at Dada at some point during the MC and he began to laugh, saying he's 44, but thanks XD

When Velvet Eden's session was over Dada got back to their merchtable, and since it was empty I decided to go over there. I wanted to thank him for this evening and for Velvet Eden, because it's been a HUGE part of my life since I was 16. He didn't really seem to care that much though. This made me feel extremly embarrassed to be honest, and I regret saying anything at all....

Dada then began to shake hands with those who came to see Velvet Eden, (even me:P), and then Chro showed up out of nowhere, he was really kind.

Then I decided to go, partly because I had early class and partly because I felt really weird after that to be honest.

I might not see Velvet Eden again since they don't have a date for the coming Tokyo live and I'm leaving in February, would've been fun to hear some other songs though :P

Tomorrow I'm going to Khaos Rave Decadence to see Schwarz Stein for the last time ;_; and on saturday I have a ticket to see Közi (I just randomly got the ticket when he announced the new cd, have to get that *_*) so a fun weekend ahead of me.

Velvet Eden at Ikebukuro Cyber

So last night was the Black Lips event, on which Velvet Eden would officially release their new DVD Behind the Tales.

Sign outside of Ikebukuro Cyber

So, Ikebukuro Cyber is one of the smallest livehouses I ever seen! The floor (excluding the stage) feels like my kitchen, so I'm happy not that many people were there at the same time. At these kinds of events most people don't stay the whole evening (it can go on for 5 hours), some knows when their favorite band's playing...(it's not announced so I'm guessing some bands tell).
Anyway, I felt like I was late, I didn't have time to buy something I really wanted to bring..., but I did have time to run and buy a silver pen :3
Me and my friend arrived about 10 minutes before they picked us up (The street Cyber's on is so small they don't want people to line outside of their dorr, you do the lining a place further away and then a staffmember picks you up). Something kind of important in case someone's going to Cyber to a similar event and haven't been before is that sometimes there will be a person making a list for the front row of each band! So if you see a person at the front of the stage by the time they let you in with paper and pen, make sure to go up at tell which band, your name and where you want to stand!

I made sure to get a place on the left of the middle, so I had a good view of Dada. I never know in which order bands appear so I was, to be honest a bit bored waiting for 4h.
There was however some more interesting bands, a lolita trio called Die Milch who had a somewhat electric sound with violin, Rose Noire, I'm not a big fan of their music recorded but they were pretty good live, especially when both Jill and Louie played violin (and I think he's one of the most gorgeous people in the VK scene at the moment, so my eyes were happy).

After about 4h of waiting I see Dada coming out from the backstage area and in behind the Velvet Eden merchtable! This might sound crazy, and slightly fanatic fangirl:ish, but I felt so nervous and hysterical on the inside XD Felt like I almost had to pinch my arm, it was slightly unreal.

So, we went over to the merch table to pick up a copy, some people were infront of us so Dada went backstage again, but Chro was really nice explaining in english what I had to fill out on the ticket to attend the photoevent afterwards.
Then after 2 more bands or so Velvet Eden was finally on!
I felt like my heart jumped out of my chest when the curtain was pulled away and I saw Dada stand infront of me. So what were they wearing? Both Chro and Dada had the same outfit (Chro didn't have Dada's gloves though), which looked like a full body suit in pleather, with tiny holes in it, corset, thong, the ruffles they Dada wears on the DVD cover and those wide legs (the kind Dada has had a million times, like in the Ningyou Shoukan PV). Ow yeah, Chro hadblack feathers on his behind, looked really cute.
They opened with Street of Alice, this has to be like the 3rd version, or 4th probably. It sounded like the original but at the end, it had bits of the 2.0 version. Of course they also played Toxic Queen and Jailed prince (Toxic Queen was so awesome *_*), but I got a bit confused, the second last song, I really didn't recognise... so either I'm a bad fan or it's a new song! It was very rock for Velvet Eden I think, so it stood out a bit (hence me not recognising it).

They had some pretty long MC's this evening (talked about T-backs of course and some other things).
After their session Dada and Chro was back behind their merch table (Dada crawled under the table, looked so cute). This was the reason I brought my silver marker, hehe, so when no one was there I got up there and asked if they could sign the DVD, and they did <3 I was so happy, finally I have their signatures for real XD (I have other signed items but I've never seen them being signed, doesn't feel real then), and finally we got called in by Chro for the photos!
So, Dada posted some night's ago that those who buy the Behind the Tales DVD this evening will get a photo taken and then he will make a gothic VE retouch! Unfortunately since Dada was taking the pictures he could not be in them =( But I got to stand with Chro, so I was happy anyway^^ (I hope Dada's ready for some heavy retouching, I'll need it).

My outfit for this evening had alot of planning, well at least my legs^^
I've always loved the wide legs Dada has most of the time. For people who haven't been paying attention, it might look like ordinary socks/stockings, but it's not. They're open at the foot and wide, so I thought I need a pair of those for the first time of seeing Velvet Eden! So off I went to buy some fabric, and stiched them togheter right before I left for Japan. This is the result:

I looked at a lot of pictures and noticed...other members... having overknee socks under so that they're not as seethrough as they would've been, so I did that as you can see. (I wore a meshtop to this, and a collar-like necklace)
I'm quite satisfied with how these ended up, so when I get home I'm really going to try and make a full cosplay of one of Dada's looks when he has these.

Setlist:

Street of Alice
Toxic Queen
MC with Rouge d'noir
One caress
Luzifer
MC with Girl's End
Jailed Prince
Confession of Mask