On March 3rd, rock band L’Arc~en~Ciel started their
biggest-scaled world tour at AsiaWorld-EXPO ARENA in Hong Kong. The tour
is slated to pull in over 300,000 in total. The vocalist hyde
shouted to an audience of 10,000 in Cantonese, “Hong Kong!! I really
missed you!!”, and overwhelmed them with a stage that intermingled hard
rock with ballad.
In Hong Kong, L’Arc~en~Ciel is known as the “pioneer of J-rock”, and
their popularity grew even larger after the spread of the internet. The
Hong Kong audience was humming the songs in Japanese, and there were
fans that were moved to tears. The band performed 19 songs, including
the tracks from their latest album “BUTTERFLY“, as well as their masterpieces.
In the end, the audience gave the members generous applause, and hyde
thanked them saying, “Thank you everyone!! I love you all, and we had
great time. See you again!!”
This is their first world tour in four years, and they will make a stop in 10 countries (check the schedule on their world tour here), and as reported earlier, their concert in New York will be held at Madison Square Garden on
March 25th, that makes them the first Japanese artist to hold a one-man
live there. Moreover, it was announced that the live concert at
Madison Square Garden will be live broadcasted at 29 movie theaters in
Japan.
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