#bb london

Let me start with my impression of each of the members!

G-dragon: the very first thing I thought when I saw him was 'wow he's so tiny... so. tiny.' Not just his height but also the way he is built. You get quickly used to it though, and once you are you notice that he has quite a nice body: slim and toned. His tattoos look better in real life than they do on pictures, yes, even the dragon ball one. His pink hair also looks really pretty :D I wouldn't describe him as good-looking, but he has a beautiful smile all right, honestly. Like, I don't understand how the people in his life aren't hearts-eyed all the time because of it haha. Same with dancing, because he's so immersed in it and clearly enjoys it and it's then that he really starts to shine. :) Out of all the members, he speaks the best English I think. Yes, he has an accent and seems a little uncertain sometimes but his grammar and vocabulary are good.

Seungri: seemed to have a waxen face almost, maybe because of the make-up and the sweat. He looks better in real life than in pictures. As already mentioned: he is the fanservice king, but this is 100% a good thing. Everything he does is genuine. His English, though still Engrish, is definitely getting better and he will say things at random intervals. After the concert Seungri became my second bias and I think it's safe to say that he is able to make any concert 100% better :)

TOP: the bar was set high for him after all the David Statue stories, and perhaps that is why he initially disappointed? I think he looks better in pictures than in real life -- he is nice looking for sure, but I wouldn't say exceptionally handsome. Though then again, perhaps he needs to look at you directly for it to have its full effect haha. Also, Big Bang pictures are a little misleading because TOP looks like a giant while in reality he really isn't that tall. Anyway, it took a while before he let loose so therefore I was wondering at first if he was enjoying the concert, but towards the end he became really playful etc. His English is probably the least good out of all the members, at least pronunciation wise, because I couldn't really make out what he was saying (except for the 'I remember every single faces' part haha). But perhaps he was shy. :)

Daesung: looks so much better than in pictures or videos. To me he was the best-looking that night. It's like he was literally shining, smiling all the time and clearly immensely enjoying the concert from start to finish. His lilac hair looks really good. He also has a very nice body, as is well-known of course haha. Plus I was pleasantly surprised at his English: though he didn't say much, his pronunciation was really good - the best of all the Big Bang members, certainly! Basically everything about Daesung in the concert was A+++ haha

Taeyang: he has an insane energy level, early on he got a nosebleed but he just continued as though nothing happened. It's obvious how much he likes to dance, and that he's good at it. It's also obvious how much he loves his fans :) I don't think I need to point out he is short, because everyone knows of course (but still he was shorter than I'd had expected.) As for his English, personally I think it's a bit annoying to listen to (it's this mix between extreme American English but still with Korean accent) but out of everyone he seems most comfortable using it. 

All right, then some general impressions / moments /etc.!

Favourite performances include: Monster, Wings, Wedding Dress, acoustic Haru Haru, Last Farewell, How Gee (where GD and TOP appeared on segways) plus everything in the encore. If I had to choose one it'd probably be Haru Haru though: the acoustic version is gorgeous live, especially when the audience sang along. I don't know the words but I do know the sounds so I just sang along without knowing exactly what I was saying haha. Even Seungri commented at the end: "You have beautiful voice!" (to the audience in general). And it did sound really beautiful. Big Bang seemed rather moved, perhaps because even fans here in London could sing along to the Korean words.

The concert only became really enjoyable for me around Monster, which is halfway. Not that Big Bang weren't good before that, because they totally were, but because of the audience: there was lots of pushing and trying to get to the front (maybe that was what Taeyang meant when he said that UK vips were 'hyper'...) but anyway it was super annoying because you had to defend your spot and couldn't fully enjoy the performances because of that. Fortunately I'm strong enough to stand my ground but I saw several smaller girls who had to leave because it became too much for them. That kind of took the fun out of things. So if you're planning to see them live you ought to ask yourself if you'll be able to handle that, because yeah not everyone plays nice. I'm not sure why halfway suddenly I got enough space to dance and there was hardly any pushing anymore -- perhaps enough people had left by now or everyone who wanted to be at the front had reached their goal. But anyway, from then on I could really focus on Big Bang :) Also I have to mention the lightsticks, because it really looks super pretty when you're in the audience!

It was clear that Big Bang enjoyed the concert. I'd been hoping that they'd be in a good mood, because obviously that makes the concert ten times more enjoyable, and yeah I think it's safe to say they were in an amazing mood. I can't even remember how many times they promised to come back soon, or how they loved being here, or loved us, or thanked us, or just had smiles on their faces almost throughout. Even GD, who I'd been warned might be a bit standoff-ish, was very interactive, making cute faces at the audience, posing for cameras, going down to the audience, jumping around, etc. etc.

Speaking about GD's cute faces... that just needs a separate entry. He wasn't looking at me but still it made me go (｡♥‿♥｡) like honestly do not underestimate the effect haha. Seeing it in videos or pictures, or live, is a different thing entirely.

GD looked best when wearing the black sleeveless shirt (with the Rolling Stones logo on it) and tight black jeans and a fur hat. Later on he also used his towel as hat (GD style, you know what I mean) and later still a cowboy hat which also looked very good on him ok, ehm.

I need to talk about Seungri because there were lots of Seungri moments. Like I already said: he's the most interactive out of the five. After this night it's also become abundantly clear that he loves the UK / London, because he carried an English flag; comment he really wanted to live in London; said that the UK was 'sexy' (of course); and talked with a British accent which was the best. thing. ever. Among others he asked the audience (+ Taeyang later on when he had a nosebleed) "Are you all riiiight?" and also "bloody hell!" and more but I can't remember. Bottom line is that hearing Seungri speak like that is everything one could have wished for basically.

Also Seungri wore a cowboy hat (yes he wore it first) and he acted as though he were a toreador with the English flag he was carrying, you know, waving the flag for the imaginary bull. Perhaps the bull was supposed to be the other Big Bang members but I don't think they noticed haha. He then also did a little bit of Gagnam Style. Ehm and there were a lot more Seungri moments, honestly, but it's all slipping from my mind already..

Taeyang is Big Bang's new pr person (yes, Seungri has retired from the job haha). First he asked the audience if they liked GD's album, and then if everyone had bought it (Jiyong seemed kind of shy about this, haha, but happy when the audience all screamed 'yes!'). Then later he announced Daesung's Japanese solo album and he also told us to buy it when it came out. "When you buy it, we will come back. Got it?" So the audience cheered and he said, "Then buy it." and then he laughed really cutely haha

Also really cute talk segment with Taeyang, Daesung and Seungri. I think it was scripted because sometimes I could see Daesung looking at a small screen at the front of the stage (where I presume the words were projected). I can't really recall everything they were saying but it was so cute and a good opportunity to 'observe' them, you know (because they were standing still and pretty close). It was here that Taeyang's nose started bleeding (because of exhaustion?!) and Seungri was like 'are you all riiight?' (british accent) and Daesung too was concerned 'you should rest' but Taeyang just waved it off and put a handkerchief in his nose and continued, honestly. 

I think it was here also that Taeyang did a cover of Chris Brown, which sounded pretty amazing. But then Seungri commented 'I can be the Rihanna to your Chris Brown!" which ehm wasn't the best comment one could make obviously, especially seeing as Taeyang's nose was still bleeding at that point. But I don't think Seungri really appreciated what he was saying. Anyway, it was nice to see the 'singers' interact and have the spotlight on them, idk, it'd be nice to see some kind of collaboration from them in the future :)

Then they introduced GD's solo stage, and Seungri did it in Seungri style with lots of praise for his hyung. It was nice to hear him say that live (though I must admit that some of it felt a bit scripted.) Cute though when Seungri said "I love him" and Daesung was like "wait, you don't love me?" haha. Yeah it was all rehearsed probably but it was just really cute to watch. And then Taeyang introduced GD and he said 'he's my best friend' and that kind of made me feel all warm, to hear him say that in person.

GD and TOP hardly interacted with each other, not even during their duo stage (except for the 'shake that ass' moment but it happened so quickly that I only realised it had happened when it was over haha). There was one small gtop moment though, which I thought was really cute. When TOP did his talk in English (very mumbly) GD looked at the ground with this little fond smile on his face, like ':3'. Seeing that was really cute :)

Jiyong also held a speech which I thought was very moving. I wish I had recorded it somehow. Basically he said that, even though him and we (the UK / international fans) were far apart from each other, he could really feel our love and support and he was very thankful for and appreciative of it. He was very happy to be here and would definitely try to come back soon. It felt very genuine, especially because you could also see his expression as he said it. Idk, I was kind of :') in that moment.

The encore stage was the best ever. I knew there would be one because they yet had to play My Heaven, and they did indeed start with that one. But after that Fantastic Baby came for the second time, High High for the second time, Feeling I think, Hand Up, and man it's like it never ended (to everyone's joy, of course). GD even lay down on stage, completely exhausted while the other members were still running about, but after a while he also joined the others again. They also introduced the dancers and the band here, was was cute :D and there just were so many cute moments here, I needed four eyes instead of two... apparently there was a todae hug but I missed that one. Here TOP also put on the antlers and got really playful, haha. One of my favourite moments was when he got down the stage and walked in front of the audience: the only thing I saw was a pair of antlers passing by haha, but I knew it was TOP of course. That was so cute.