Miku Expo
+26/01/2025
+I've been thinking again about Miku Expo recently.
++ I still kind of can't believe it was real? Miku is this nebulous + thing that's basically just an instrument, yet on one night in + October last year, she was real and playing music in London. An + experience that really hit me quite hard. +
++ I've been to a lot of gigs in my life. A few of them have been + like that - concerts that feel unreal, like they shouldn't + really happen? It's a brag but I once won tickets to see + Gorillaz' dress rehearse for their Glastonbury set in like, + 2010, and that was genuinely insane. +
++ But obvs that was insane because it was so small, like. 30 + people, maybe? Lou Reed was sat behind me asleep until he was + needed, lol. But Miku was a big gig, in Wembley Arena, with + hundreds if not thousands of people there. Yet it still felt + really revelatory? +
++ It was just kinda surreal. The opening song of the set was + Anamanaguchi's Miku, a favourite of tiktokers. I'm a longtime + guchi fan, pre-Endless Fantasy, and I've seen them all three + times they've done a UK tour. And all three times they've played + tiny little venues; the Bodega in Nottingham holds maybe 200 + people max? +
++ And to see that track performed by Miku at a venue orders of + magnitude bigger than anything Anamanaguchi have played here + was, frankly, utterly surreal. I loved it! I mean, I loved the + whole set, it was amazing to see artists like Kira, synthion and + SAWTOWNE get represented alongside the classic big hitter + vocaloid producers. +
++ We went in cosplay, too! First gig I've been to in cosplay, + probably reasonably, but again a lovely choice because so did so + many other people! I think this was helped by MCM being the same + weekend so plenty of people came straight from the con in + cosplay. +
++ I was Magical Mirai 2023 Miku! Just cause the wig is bananaramas + big. It was a good choice honestly, super comfortable + streetwear, and while the wig was unwieldy it was honestly + really fun to dance around in. I mean it ended up fucked, + obviously, sweat + dancing + close proximity to a million other + people tends to fuck up a wig something fierce. Cat was + The Vampire Miku too and so got insanely excited when + that was second on the set list, lol. +
++ But, yeah. Just a kinda insane experience that I really loved. I + am so excited for the next time Miku comes to the UK!! Next time + I'm getting tickets Avery and Asa. +
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