Tuesday the 13th of April we went and saw
Rival Schools at
Shibuya O-West in Tokyo, two Japanese supports also played;
Killie and
As Meias. I Didn't intend on taking photos but I'd been carrying my camera around during the day and we didn't have time to go back to the hotel before the show. I really enjoyed
Killie, they sound a bit like
Thursday and
Poison the Well. There was no security at the show so when
Rival Schools came on I just walked in front of the barrier and started shooting, then after a while I walked back stage and watched the rest of the set from there. I took some video, it'll turn up one day. Everything shot with the 50mm f/1.8
The stage lighting here was great, huge amount of lights and more than enough light to shoot without flashes. The stage was comparable to the size of the
Manning bar, but the standing space was probably about half that at
Manning. Despite being described as a hardcore supergroup
Rival Schools sounded more like
Weezer than anything else.
We saw two other shows while in Japan,
Gauze and
50 Lions, both in Tokyo at a venue called
Antiknock, I didn't shoot either of them.
