Please please please same in Berlin 
faves!
I understand that WtD and ROO should be the focus of this tourâŠ
But god damn, Iâm more hyped for the chance of witnessing TDFF and Eddie live!
Any attendees here with us?
Can someone elaborate if THE FINAL was the old or the new version, and what exactly was used as the ending SE?
Someone wrote this on reddit about the VIP meet and greet lol
âEach member hands out a signed postcard (without saying a word) Kyo was wearing something like a paper bag so I couldnât see his expression.â
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then wasnt worth paid a lot for that lul
Itâs never worth spending money if you want to meet Kyo. Youâll have much better luck hanging out in a McDonaldâs near the venue.
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Turns out it really was the original THE FINAL
First time since 2012 they played it, too!
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Dear GOODNESS THANK YOU.
the remake is Garbage.
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lul
OH THIS IS AWFUL IM GOING TO CRYYY pic.twitter.com/qu0OF6ervW
â robin đ || toshiya month! (@necr0bat) March 19, 2024
Thanks, it sounds like shit!
thatâs a different song
But arent they basically the same? 
I would never ever have dared to dream of seeing Akuro no Oka live one day. Curious if they play Yurameki and/or Zan at the Uroboros show.
A little bit sad that they didnât play Kodoku⊠But maybe it will rotate into the setlist on the next dates. Iâm so excited for the concerts!
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Sorry for the longass post. A concert report from last night by yours truly,
After some late changes-of-mind and fluctuating living circumstances, I opted to swap out my Berlin tickets for hometown tickets in Warsaw.
Although I wasnât sure about it at first ââ the Polish crowds for Dir en grey are notoriously timid ââ the idea of saving a few hundred Euros in what wouldâve gone for inorbidably priced drinks and lodging turned the tide in Warsawâs favour.
As I started to make my way to the venue, I noticed a few more alternative faces about town than usual. A Dir en grey concert makes its presence known in the frequency of neon-colored hair and piercings that multiply accordingly with oneâs proximity to the venue.
Progresjaâs grey, informal exterior resembles a warehouse, and itâs connected to an equally dreary communist-era office block by a turqoise annex. Iâm not sure what the offices are for these days, and with Warsawâs creeping getrification and the centerâs expansion deeper into Wolaâs previously wasteland-like urban spaces, I wouldnât count on this venue being around for much longer.
The line isnât massive at around 18.00 ââ the unpredictable Polish spring treated us to a snowstorm just the other day, and understandably many didnât feel like gambling whether theyâd be soaked or freeze to death. The early attendance and VIP were separated into two other lines, while the general attendance snaked around the parking lot. A quick survey of the crowd reveals an equal measure of alternative types, normies with splashes of color to remind them of their weeb days and averagely dressed males ââ and quite a few foreigners running the gamut of all three. The age demographic of the attendees ran from early 20s up to the late 30s.
Once out of the cold, I immediately head towards the bar, and this was my tally from stepping into the venue and the lights turning off for the introduction:
Two pilsners
Two or three shots of vodka, I forgot.
As I found out, Progresjaâs practically a dry county that day, and it wasnât just that it was a Tuesday, but Progresjaâs bar counter has received some adjustments from the last time I was a round, and a shot of Ostoya ran for 18 fucking zloty with the beer not far behind. These prices arenât far behind those in Berlin ââ so youâre best adviced to drink outside before the show. Beggars couldnât be choosers that day, and I wonât go into a concert sober, so I did what I had to do ââ pay.
The band gets on stage with an interestingly mismatched attires, which is just about the norm. Each of the members has quite a distinct personality, and thereâll be surprises in the outfits, if you get to see them on YouTube. Naturally Kyoâs shaved hair and gold chains stole for me from the jump, but Toshiyaâs glitter top wasnât far behind.
And speaking of which, my god, these guys look young and in shape for being almost in their 50s ââ Toshiya especially couldâve passed for a bandman in this 20s. Kyoâs face has some miles on it, but his stage presence is otherworldly, and just by looking at him these days, it doesnât feel that youâre looking at Kyo but one of the characters heâs specifically made for the theme they have at any particular time.
This is Dir en grey in the mode weâve seen in the Mode of tour DVDs. The performances are much crisper than when they were touring these albums initially, and the vibe is that theyâre simultaneously calling back to those times while taking everything theyâve learned along the way.
And for me, there was an element of the surreal in getting all these bangers back-to-back, and I felt like Iâd eaten too much; any one of these songs wouldâve blown the roof off the places years ago, and now theyâre all one after the other without much fanfare,
and that feeling of disconnect leads to my biggest initial fear that turned out to be exactly what happened: the Polish audience is so bad. Theyâre timid, incredibly passive and lose enthuasiasm quickly. It took them almost the whole concert to warm up, and the break between the initial set and the encore was just as embarrassing as it was last time, where almost complete silence engulfed the venue. Itâs not that people arenât stoked to see the band ââ theyâre just shy. Things finally picked up for the encore when, finally, I saw a pit erupt in the front, and I pushed my way through to fuck shit up. The pit seemed to be appreciated by the band, and I recall some interaction between Kyo and the people in the pit, including a pretty broad smile for the first time in the gig and some hand signals. Naturally I offer my gratitude here to everyone who made that happen, and although I ran out of gas as a 30-year old chainsmoking alcoholic, everyone else made up for it.
As everyone has seen by now, besides the songs from Withering to Death, we got a couple of other songs. Domestic Fucker Family mightâve been the biggest surprise, and I noticed that in the pit, it seemed like people werenât exactly sure about what song it was. I eavesdropped some conversation, and it seemed that quite a large part of the audience wasnât hardcore by any stretch of the imagination. For the boys and girls in the pit, the band bust out Phalarisâ Eddie, which I believe was significantly extended from the album runtime â maybe even doubling in length? Or I was just so gassed that I felt like an eternity to try to keep up with it.
Oboro was played in its live rendition, which involves this freak-out screaming section towards the end. The Finalâs original version was also much appreciated and infinitely better than the remake ââ the stupid solo interrupts the momentum, especially for the crowd.
Kodoku from WtD was skipped entirely, and this makes me worry about what songs theyâll skip today from Uroboros. Akuro no oka came out for the end, and I assume Yurameki and Zan will be cycled in an out throughout the tour. Itâs nice that theyâre putting in this element of mystery and incensitive to go see all the shows.
Ok thatâs it for now. Basically tl;dr: band good, drink expensive, polish crowd bad, pit boys and girls legends, and setlist interesting. Iâll come back with Wednesdayâs report tomorrow.
I also got Toshiyaâs pic and it says âDir en gacyâ lol
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Kyo also likes Warsaw
this is a complete nonsense, I was there and itâs just straight up lie lmao. Just because Polish deg audience does not have interest in literal drunken fighting and punching each other, as I saw some abroad fans do when they come here, doesnât mean they are a bad crowd.
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there was no such song, must have been a different show sweetheart
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lmao you are right i mixed it up with oboro. I even told this to someone yesterday and i was not corrected
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Awww, but I LOVE Dieâs solo in the remake!!
There it is, the obligatory Poland crowd bad.
I disagree wholeheartedly with that comment. The crowd yesterday was great, all people around me were clearly very hyped to be there and we had a blast singing on top of our lungs and head banging like crazy. I seriously fail to see how the lack of a moshpit is immediately categorized as âtimid audienceâ. I also donât think these guys come in with the expectations to see it, considering they come from a place where everyone in the audience has an assigned spot and is expected to stick to it.
The gig yesterday was great, except for some minor sound mixing issues in the beginning that seemed to be fixed about two songs in, and Iâm looking forward to tonightâs one.
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blud was vibing more with alcohol than the band and the crowd clearly
itâs a bit mental when people come to a different country/different culture with a set of expectations and they complain when people fail to meet them tbh.