W And B

The venue where the concert was taking place had a chill atmosphere. There was a community area full of mostly old men. The room where the concert was played in was bigger than i thought it would be but it was still a tad bit small. The room had this little bar where the merch was being sold and you could buy drinks and kind of relax. We forced the bartender ladies to watch are bags and take photos of us, they were actually really sweet and smiled a lot. They had these lights on the stage and they were pretty awesome. We got a stamp that was, like, a sign that we could enter so YAY! Leeds was dead cool as well. There was graffiti everywhere and it kinda looked like the 90s basically, maybe I only think that because I live in the middle of no where and I rarely venture outside. Anyway, the overall look of the venue was chill and nice. 

The first act was a band from Ohio called Leggy. If I’m brutally honest most of their songs were quite similar but two that stood out to me were Grrrls like us and the Consent song (i didn’t catch the official name) however the similarities in the songs are good if you want to use it as background music for a drive with your favourite person and you just want to chill. The crowd wasn’t big as the show started out and no one moved much.

The second act was Say Sue Me who come from South Korea. I am now 100% in love with this band now and the vibe you get from their music is so calming! I adore their lead singer Sumi she’s so sweet and she has the voice of an actual angel. W and I were in the bar for the first part of their performance buying merch, we’ll get to that later, and I was instantly drawn to them. Their guitarist Kim ByungKyu is really cute in my opinion. I didn’t dance much because 1. no one else was and 2. MY FEET WERE KILLING ME!!! Tip: don’t wear heels to a concert unless you’re sitting down. Their stage presence was quite strong and the vibe they gave off as artists was very welcoming and friendly which is one reason I am so deeply in love with this band. Keep in mind that W and I had never heard of any of these bands before buying the tickets so our opinions are quite unbiased I would say. The crowd got slightly larger but not by much and more people were letting themselves become one with the music and the entire atmosphere was enjoyable.

The bar in the concert area was a relaxing place to kind of chill out in the short breaks between each act. I think its really cool that there was a bar there because I don’t think many places have the bar in the actual room where the performances are. The merch was being sold in the bar. There were three sort of area things for each act. Leggy had their albums and some cool shirts. Can’t remember if they had anything else but i remember they had a selection of their CDs and the style had this really nice pastel look. Say sue me had their CDs, vinyls, Badges and this cute yellow tape with their name on it in pink. Anyway there stuff was really cool as well. Otoboke had a really awesome selection of merch. They had stickers that I still haven’t used because they are so cool! They had their albums of course and some cool looking T-shirts. We got these little picture sticker things and we thought they were photos, I’m still gonna use it as a picture because I don’t wanna stick it somewhere stupid by accident. I’m pretty sure they probably had more merch but I cant really remember. When we first went to the bar to get some leggy stuff, we met them and they signed our things! Later on we also met them again and we managed to get a pic together, HELL YEAH! In the bar we had this super sweet lemonade, it was well nice, and while we where drinking it we saw Accorinrin from Otoboke beaver and so we gave her a little wave and she waVED BACK!!!!!!!!!!!! We turned to each other like “holy shit”. That was an iconic moment from the concert. Also when Say sue me where selling their merch in the bar, B was in love the guitarist, she really liked him, like a lot. We really liked the bar because even if you went in there for a while you could still hear the crazy music and see all the lights and dancing from inside and you could chat and drink for a couple of minutes.

I WAS NOT IN LOVE THE GUITARIST just casually staring at him because damn he was hot. Anyways so I’m going to talk about some key people that we saw/met at the concert. So, when W and I entered the room there was this granddad that had this really long ponytail and it was actually majestic. I wish my granddad had one of those but my granddad is bald. The next iconic person was this Japanese fanboy who I only really saw when Otoboke Beaver performed. He had an OB towel with a matching OB cap and he was by far the most hyped person within a 20-mile distance. I kind of wanted to be friends with him but I kind of didn’t want to at the same time because he might’ve stabbed us if he found out that we didn’t really know the acts. However, we did make a “friend” that was more like those people who peer pressure you into doing this that you kind of want to do even though you know you shouldn’t. She was about 20 something and was pretty damn drunk and we said hi. The first thing she does is ask for our ages and then proceeded to hand us a bloody beer. W and I don’t drink for reasons so W just stood there with the beer in her hand staring at me and I stared back. I think we both knew that we wanted to chug it but we didn’t because it wasn’t ours and the drunk lady had drank some of it. Also because we don’t drink. We went to the bar after she wondered off. I think the bar was a kind of safe space for me, I don’t know about W, but my head kind of hurt slightly after being in a cramped room full of sweaty, drunk older people with loud music being blasted from the speakers like bad diarrhoea and it was a really nice atmosphere as most of the time it was pretty empty. Finally the last iconic person I can think of is Teenage Fanclub boy. So we didn’t interact in the slightest but he was literally the only person under 20 so that was pretty cool.

The concert was really fun overall. My favorite band was obviously OB because, you know, they were the ones we went to see originally. But I definitely enjoyed the two other bands as well. All the bands had their own vibe. I have to say the car rides there and back were not that great but it made the concert more worth it tbh. 

Leggy (credits to the person who photographed this)

Otoboke Beaver  (credits to the person who photographed this)