J-rock trio Acidman gave a solid performance at The Wall (這牆) in Taipei on Saturday night, treating the sold-out venue to favorites from its catalog and excerpts from its newest album, Alma. The band played two hours without a single minute’s break before returning for another 20 minutes following sustained calls for an encoru! encoru!
Most of the concert’s songs were from the band’s last four albums Green Chord, Life, A Beautiful Greed and Alma, though older ones, often less complex musically, were also added to the mix. The two-hour-plus show demonstrated the band’s variety of influences, from punk to post-rock, with the occasional hint of bossa nova and jazz, a fusion that is refreshing.
Front man Ohki Nobuo did a respectable job on vocals — far better than Japanese bands usually provide in a live setting. While rarely departing from the album version of its songs, the band played with skill and energy.
Photo courtesy of The Wall
After polite efforts by Ohki Nobuo and drummer Urayama Ichigo to communicate with the audience in broken Mandarin (Urayama did so from his notes), the pair realized they might just as well do so in Japanese, as many people in the crowd appeared to be Japanese majors at university.
Photo courtesy of The Wall
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