and killing daze met the challenge by booking tsuzuku and a guy who hasn’t been in a band of any relevance for half a decade to sing karaoke… I think I’ll take b7klan for now lol
But yeah, this is a pretty bad look and I hope they’re not financially dependent on these additional gimmicks working out for supplementary revenue on top of tickets, because if they are, then this is the last time this is happening — if it even does (although just randomly adding stuff on and then realising your organization is too small to handle all the moving parts is also not much better)
I’ve been to roughly 10 B7 events since 2010, it was always fine. Never bought VIP from them so can’t comment on that, but everything else was pretty standard.
But yeah, they’re definitvely AWFUL at communication lol I think they’re still stuck in a pre-social media world, but hey, at the end of the day as long as we get our 10 bands, that’s what matters most.
My experience with them was a) they being good artists b) that’s about the only good choice they make usually
That’s why I was skeptical about them at the begining. They seem to continue to struggle with stuff, but at least they are correcting on the fly despite comunicating It all wrong and embarassing themselves
Survivorship bias. For me, most of the concerts by them I had tickets have been canceled. The others were not great either.
Nightmare VIP package said you get “a signed” picture (or poster?) and it was an A4 sized picture with signatures. Well, prints of their signatures that is.
Lmao the theatrics, let me add “I survived B7” to my bio. Again, as I said, I’m talking about the concerts themselves. I never bother with a VIP with them.
But two things can be true at once. Those VIP experiences sucked, but I have nothing bad to say about the concerts, which is still the most important thing (to me at least, I get that people are more excited about meeting the band than the music itself, and that’s totally fine, it’s not just my thing).
They mostly started in times, the venues were mostly good to excellent (except Kamijo’s last gig in Paris, that one was atrocious), etc
And I get that having a concert cancelled on you sucks balls (I was supposed to see Matenrou with them, and I’m still not over David’s cancelled one-man in Paris 5 years ago (but that was another company)), but in the case of the festival, considering half the tickets sold out as soon as the sale started, unless natural disaster we’re totally safe.
Im just hope general sales and merch go well. Im not too crazy about the VIP or anything but i hope whoever is buying VIP their situation works itself out.
136 days to B-Day and we have more posts about Mr Torpedo’s photoshoots in Japan rather than:
information about the bus to Paris (this one’s really important so people can plan their accommodation accordingly)
new m&g info (or at least just a “new info about m&g dropping soon!“ post). I found out they’re refunding already through a comment on Insta, jfc
any info about the contest - we know they have 3 bands lined up for the Eurovkeision so they could just announce those for now
idk, some signs of life, he was very very active in Japan and then crickets
Normally I’m not in a hurry to sort out logistics, but for one-off or first edition festivals where you don’t know what to expect, things are always announced sooner.
They said in the video announcement of the contest that Hévn’s 3 bands will be revealed on March 9th, alongside the 5 most voted by us! So a little under two weeks to go for that.
I’m guessing the M&G info takes a while because they need to re-negociate with all the bands/staffs, but I agree about the bus situation, they should have put these on sale immediately with the tickets.
