Hangry & Angry in London

Here's the famous DJ with Yossie & Rika

With only days to go until I see Morning Musume live in Paris, I realised that I haven’t posted my thoughts here on Hangry and Angry’s concert at the Underworld in Camden back in May. Most of the following was posted on Musume-Central after returning from the concert on 27th of May. Some was posted a little later. Edited for clarity.

Well a good night was had by all.

Highlights:
Opening video showing providing background to the uninitiated. Including a potted history of their time with Morning Musume. Tsuji, Ai and Risa all had some nice (and occasionally funny) things to say about them. Apparently they both regularly turn up to Momusu concerts.

Slow start to the music. The volume seemed quite low for a Camden club, but that didn’t discourage a small group of hard core wotas, thrashing about with their glow sticks.

The spectacularly well-endowed DJ, really working it. And Yossie describing her (frankly astonishing) cleavage (with appropriate hand gestures) as Hangry and, err, Angry. Yeah. Big laugh.

The truly dreadful questions asked by forum members. Seemed like everyone wanted to ask in Japanese, which still had to be translated for H&A (but not, alas for us). One poor girl, so excited by speaking directly to her heroines, seemed to be having an hysterical fit of some kind. I have no idea what she asked, or even what language she asked in. According to Jmol @ M-C only one question was asked in Japanese. To my recollection there were at least two (both a guy and a girl) and I think at least one more, although I was pretty drunk, so my memory may be hazy on this point. I think the main problem was the audio. You couldn’t really hear what the questioners were saying on the mic., especially with so many people talking at the same time.

No matter how banal the questions themselves may, or may not, have been, the Q&A session did produce some very entertaining moments. Worst question ever? If you could travel back in time to any period, where would you go to? I giggled for days over the pained expression on Yossie and Rika’s faces when they were finally made to understand the meaning of the question. Absolutely priceless. And then the interpreter trying (I think, in vain) to get Rika to tell her how many years ago the Edo period was. Vintage stuff! Yossie gave the best possible response she could – she’d travel back to the sixties to watch the Beatles perform in London.

Asked where they saw themselves in 10 years, Yossi & Rika both said still singing and, probably, married with children. A show of hands was requested for volunteers and many guys (including yours truly) and a few girls immediately raised their hands. At this point both Yossie and Rika made a point of letting everyone know that they like boys. They were very insistent on this point. All this despite their choreographed groping (which seemed more overt than in Paris) and Yossie later flirting furiously with one of the very pretty winners of the photograph draw.

Best moment of the night? Yossie & Rika performing a short impromptu acapella version of Mr Moonlight.

One thing I noticed in many online postings about the night were comments regarding how the show was almost a sell out. Well, I don’t buy that for a second. The place was half empty. Plenty of people bought tickets on the night; presumably they saw the queue and decided see what the fuss was about. And I noticed a slow but constant trickle of people walking out during the first half of the concert. presumably it wasn’t the typical indie rock gig they were expecting to see at the Underworld.

Although I didn’t take any pictures on the night, I did take many photos when I saw Hangry & Angry in Paris last year. Here is a selection.