Mutsessions - 11/30 Jap-Ro Festival, Cologne

Another Mutsessions Post ♥

This time it's about the

Jap-Ro Festival in Cologne, Germany

2012/11/30

Line Up:

SPEECIES
ZIZ

Reasons why I've been going: Chargee (famous drummer), Közi (ex Malice Mizer), free entry

Yeah, free entry! But: only for girls. Due to the fanbase of Japanese musicians in Germany being 70% female I didn't see the meaning behind offering free entry for girls, but...yeah, that part belongs to the organizer.

I'm usually doing some research before attending concerts, I want to be kind of prepared. Another reason is: I don't want to look too out of place.

Luckily my favorite style fits both ZIZ and SPEECIES.

Let's have a look at my Make Up & Jewelry first:

Knuckle Ring: eBay

Spider Ring: Bijou Brigitte

Bracelets: eBay

Spike Necklace: H&M

Stud Bow: monomania

Another Make Up Shot and a "We are almost there!!"-Shot
(Spot Anna & Sashi ♥)

Arriving in Cologne the first thing tourists usually do is:

Taking a photo of the cathedral right next to the main station.

Being used to attending concerts in Cologne we easily made our way to the venue:

"Die Werkstatt".

I've already been to several concerts at this venue and I like it ♥

The venue quickly filled up:

..of course 99% girls.

SPEECIES started:

♥

& ZIZ got the main act:

Whew hands everywhere.

Close to the end of ZIZ's show the merchandise sale began. SADIE (SPEECIES) being not only musician sold limited graphic shirts and didn't care about selling them himself. Thumbs up for that. After ZIZ's show Yugami (ZIZ) supported them as well.

Left shot: SADIE selling merchandise surrounded by fans

Right shot: Yugami selling merchandise

Stuff I got:

♥ SPEECIES "GLAMTRONIK" sticker (for my suitcase)

♥ SPEECIES Hi-Boy Fi-Girl (Album)

♥ Graphic Shirt designed by SADIE

♥ Omega Dripp - Shout at the Neo Devil (Album)

(Chargee is part of Omega Dripp, so they sold their Album as well (and yep, I like Omega Dripp so I got it)

Anna wearing the Shirt ♥

Signed SPEECIES Album ♥

Wonder why I got so much SPEECIES stuff?

Well, after listening to both ZIZ and SPEECIES live, I came to like SPEECIES a lot and grabbed the chance.

Last but not least:

Anna, SADIE & me

(Anna and me kind of look like groupies, don't we?)

Catch Up #11 - Christmas Party & obvious Snow-Love

Muloha!

(...weird mix of Mutsuminism & Aloha; stop that)

Only 1 Catch Up post left! Yay!

First shot will probably only be funny for those who can speak German:

Google translator. Hilarious.

As I'm trying to talk to one of my Japanese friends in Japanese only I sometimes use Google to help me translate sentences I don't get. Well, as this certain friend is calling me "キャットリン" (Kyattorin - Kyatto (Cat) and rin (my real name is Catrin; for those who didn't know)). Of course Google Translator is always messing up my name. I usually ignore that fact but...that sentence was just hilarious. Google is translating my name in "Forest cat"; whole sentence: "The physical condition of the forest cat is sad and bad."

Right shot shows part of a rather funny coord.

Shortly after I killed the bacterium I was talking about a few posts ago I caught a cold. This was my breakfast:

Yay.

The obvious love for snow ♥

Spot the Japanese part. "ソーセージ & グリューワイン" lovely sign for the Japanese tourists haha.

( It says Sausage & Hot spiced wine)

Christmas Ice Cream ♥

(it's supposed to look like a tree)

Snow:

♥

Even more Snow & me preparing for a Christmas Party at work

Been using Red and Gold to represent Christmas ♥

Yep, we had to wear mascs for the party.

Party shots:

Looks delicious, right? ♥

Mutsessions - 2012/11/10 AN CAFE Dortmund, Germany

It's time for Mutsessions!

This time I went to see 

AN CAFE in Dortmund, Germany ♥

The interesting part: I've been there both as a journalist and as a fan.

Due to the journalist part I had to be at the venue at 1 pm ( interview time, yay (such an honor))

Luckily I had another Cafekko accompany me on my journey.

She even planned a short stop in Düsseldorf ♥

Bookstore Nippon in Düsseldorf and me eating a Brezel at 7 am while waiting for my train.

Fellow Cafekko Serina bought this chocolate bun for me ♥ thank you!

Japanese super market in Düsseldorf

And yep, I won't ever leave Düsseldorf without Onigiri.

Arriving at the venue this was the place I had to wait at before the interview started:

Inviting, right? haha

Shortly after the interview I met one of my friends:

Kiki ♥

Press Pass wuw.

And a Teruki Fan Senja got for me ♥♥♥

You know, some years ago Senja contacted me on MySpace (yeah, it's that long ago) only because I was wearing a "I love Teruki" shirt on my profile pic. We then got to talk a lot about our love for An Cafe and met each other 1~2 times a year. She even visited me at home once ♥ 

For knowing and loving her that long I am always glad to be able to see her again.

This time, at our usual occasion-to-meet (An Cafe concerts) I've been able to spend the whole night with her, we even (accidentally) booked the same train home ♥ (well, I've been driving home, she has been driving to the next An Cafe gig in Munich haha)

Another Senja/Me shot ♥ (after the concert btw)

Right shot shows Frankfurt Airport, one of our stops on our way back.

Let's have a look at 2 shots those girls will probably kill me for:

Yeah. This happened within like 5 Minutes.

Now flipping back to camera shots and the journalistic part of the trip:

Strange building in front of the venue

Those of you who know MJP (musicJAPANplus) probably know that they are doing Fashion Checks. Well, I was in charge of doing the Fashion Check of An Cafe Fans in Dortmund.

Enjoy some preview shots:

Nice picks, right? ♥

Unfortunately the full report isn't online yet...so I can't link it yet (=____=)

Same to the live report (not online yet). But I'll be sharing one of the photos I took that are too blurry to be prohibited to post:

♥ 

And last but not least:

The fans ♥

For those of you who'd like to read the interview I did:

German Version

English Version