HANABIE, a 4 piece all female Kawaii-Metal band from Japan came to America and visited us in Los Angeles and ROCKED the house of The World Famous Whisky A Go Go. Their music is hard and electrifying and the ladies are all cute and adorable but fierce and wild on stage and in command of the show with constant interaction with the audience.
Written by Don Marcelo
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As written on Wikipedia:
“HANABIE is a Japanese metalcore band from Tokyo, formed in 2015 The band consists of Yukina (vocals), Matsuri (guitar, vocals), Hettsu (bass) and Chika (drums). They are known for combining loud and heavy music with contrasting Harajuku aesthetics in a style self-described as “Harajuku-core”. – [source] Wikipedia
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HANABIE is fronted by the petite yet powerful and strong presence of Yukina (lead vocalist). She has such great command of the audience that she can tell you what to do and can command you to open up a space for “the wall of death” so that participants can start a mosh pit. The venue has maybe a capacity of 500 or 600 people. To have a mosh pit inside this small venue is almost unheard of (at least I’ve never seen one this big in the past 3 years I’ve been coming to The Whisky to photograph). Participants can sometimes get kicked out when a mosh pit gets started from my understanding. But not at the Hanabie show. Hanabie’s fans are/were respectful on that night that the mosh pit was non-violent and fun (though I’m sure some people had small bruises the next day…I made sure I got topside since I knew a mosh pit was coming up and stayed away from the floor and pit section).
Anyway, the action was non-stop full of intensified energy and emotions from all the members and from the fans. The fans and oh the fans. I love JROCK FANS. They are passionate about the music and the band despite the language barrier. That is the beauty of music. There is no language barrier and despite the differences in language. The audience loved every single minute of the show. I’ve never seen so many flailing hands raised up at The Whisky A Go Go. I became part of the fun with the audience jumping up and down. Flailing my one hand and shooting with my camera with the other hand. I was drenched in sweat after the first song and I wanted to get out of the front row pit area and get on upstairs and continue to shoot from above. But I stayed for at least 4 or 5 songs and the rest of the night I stayed upstairs and continued to cover the show.
One last note, The venue doesn’t allow crowdsurfing and you WILL definitely get kicked out if you do, but if you are the performer, and you’re light weight and petite and can sell out tickets to the venue, I’m sure the staff of The Whisky can make an exception for you, especially since Yukina is small and light weight and she was able to crowd surf and she didn’t get kicked out…oh wait, she’s part of the act…she can’t get kicked out. Nothing really else to say except that this show was EPIC and was so much fun and it has to be one of the best concerts I’ve covered this year. Thank you for coming to visit us in Los Angeles, HANABIE. We all hope to see you again soon. Have a great rest of your 2023 tour. Let’s do this again in 2024. Arigato Gozaimasu!
Photo Gallery of the Hanabie performance. © Don Marcelo Photography 2023
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FOLLLOW HANABIE on all their social media platforms for some hard rockin Japanese Style Metal Core Music AKA Kawaiimetal.
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FOLLOW The World Famous WHISKY A GO GO for all upcoming shows happening at this venue. Also a very huge shout out to the staff of Whisky A Go Go and for being the best music venue on The Sunset Strip. Thank you for being a great host and always taking great care of us pro-photographers. On behalf of all the pro music photographers, I thank you very much for being amazing.
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HANABIE MEMBERS on INSTAGRAM
@ha_na_bie_
@yukina_hanabie – vocals
@hanabie_hettsu – bass
@hanabie_chika – drums
@mtr_hanabie – guitar
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LOCATION:
WHISKY A GO GO
@thewhiskyagogo (INSTAGRAM)
October 5, 2023
Thursday
📸: ©️ @marcdphotos 2023
📸: ©️ Don Marcelo Photography 2023
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