【連載】BAND-MAID＜10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR in NORTH AMERICA＞5月後編

■5/22 Charlotte, NC Underground

6日目は、ノースカロライナ州シャーロット・Underground公演。前日に続きお給仕初開催地となった本公演は早々にチケットが完売。開演前から歓声の飛び交う熱い公演となった。

小鳩ミク（Vo, G）による“”おまじないタイム”コール＆レスポンスの掛け合いでは、小鳩がステージから徐にフロアへ降りると、「moe moe!」とコールした後フロア前列にいる観客へマイクを向ける。向けられた観客も小鳩に負けじと大声で「moe moe!」と返すなど、初めてご帰宅したご主人様・お嬢様も多い公演にも関わらず、MCでのコミュニケーションもバッチリだ。



この日はMC中にメンバーが全員一列に並び、「Service time!」とフォトシューティングを促す場面も。「Carry on living」「FREEDOM」などを含む全21曲を駆け抜けた。


The sixth show of the tour brought BAND-MAID to the Charlotte, North Carolina venue Underground. Like Nashville the day before, Charlotte was a tour first, and tickets to the OKYUJI had rapidly sold out.


The crowd got fired up long before the band took the stage, filling the theater with cheers. During her call and response "Omajinai Time," vocalist and guitarist MIKU Kobato leapt from the stage and onto the floor amid the audience, and after calling out "MOE MOE!", turned the microphone toward the masters and princesses in the front row. Doing Kobato proud, the audience responded with a thunderous "MOE MOE!" call of their own, and even the first-time attendees got into the onstage chatter and a warm, communicative OKYUJI was the result.


The band took this opportunity to provide a photo op, lining up together on stage with a call of "service time!" for the audience to photograph. BAND-MAID blitzed through a total of twenty-one songs in total, including "Carry on living" and "FREEDOM".

JAPANESE TEXT ＆ PHOTO FG5
TRASLATION Natalie S. Hadjiloukas