Gekokujyo Xstasy

Gekokujyo Xstasy

DVD edition cover.
Video Live VHS, Live DVD by Shiina Ringo
Released December 7, 2000
Genre J-pop, Live
Length 90 minutes
Label EMI Music Japan
Producer Inoue Uni
Shiina Ringo chronology

Seiteki Healing ~Sono-Ni~ Gekokujyo Xstasy Hatsuiku Status Gokiritsu Japon
Gekokujyo Xstasy
Tour by Shiina Ringo
Start date April 17, 2000
End date June 7, 2000
Shows 15
Shiina Ringo concert chronology
Manabiya Ecstasy Gekokujyo Xstasy Hatsuiku Status Gokiritsu Japon

Gekokujyo Xstasy (下剋上エクスタシー Gekokujō Ekusutashii, Usurpation Ecstasy) is Japanese singer Shiina Ringo’s concert tour in summer, 2000, and the live video which recorded this tour.

This video was released in VHS and DVD by Toshiba EMI with Shiina’s other live video, "Hatsuiku Status Gokiritsu Japon (発育ステータス 御起立ジャポン Growth Status - Stand Up Japan)" on December 7, 2000.

Outline

Gekokujyo Xstasy was the first nationwide tour for Shiina performed from April 17, 2000 to June 7. The live video takes up two performances at NHK Hall and at Fukuoka Sunpalace mainly from this tour.

The stage design of the tour makes a hospital a motif like her single "Honnou." The stage setting imitated an operating room, and an ECG Monitor or an anatomical model of the human body, etc. were arranged on the stage, and the synthesizer and the drum set were laid on operating tables. Shiina wears a white dress looks like gauze bandages with which she blinds her body. Four members of the tour band also wear the white coat.

The recorded songs are chosen from the second album "Shouso Strip" mainly. Some songs containing single "Koko de Kiss Shite", "Gibs", etc. were not recorded. New songs "Yattsuke Shigoto" and "Gamble" shown during this tour weren’t recorded, but, they were recorded in Shiina’s live album "Zecchōshū" instead.

The content of Video

Track listing

  1. Honnō
  2. Kyogen-shou (虚言症 Mythomania)
  3. Kabukichou no Joou
  4. Aozora (あおぞら Blue Sky)
  5. Tsuki ni makeinu (月に負け犬 Loser and the Moon)
  6. Identity (アイデンティティ Identity)
  7. Keikoku (警告 Caution)
  8. Love Is Blind
  9. Tadashii Machi (正しい街 The Right City)
  10. Tsumiki-asobi (積木遊び Playing With Blocks)
  11. Benkai Debussy (弁解ドビュッシー The Debussy Excuse)
  12. Kōfukuron (Etsuraku-hen)
  13. Tsumi to Batsu
  14. Izon-shou (依存症 Drug Addiction)
  15. Sid to Hakuchuumu (シドと白昼夢 Sid & Daydreams)
  16. Byoushou Public (病床パブリック Public Sickbed)
  17. Marunouchi Sadistic

Special Video

  1. Yami ni furu ame (闇に降る雨 Rain that falls in darkness)
  2. Kōfukuron
  3. Remote Controller (リモートコントローラー Remote Control)
  4. Tadashii Machi (正しい街 Correct City)
  5. Onaji Yoru (同じ夜 Ordinary Night)

Backing band

Tour dates

Date Shi (City) Ken (Prefecture) Venue
April 17, 2000 Utsunomiya Tochigi Tochigi General Cultural Center
April 20, 2000 Kanazawa Ishikawa Hondanomori Hall
April 24, 2000 Niigata Niigata Niigata Prefectural Civic Center
April 26, 2000 Shibuya Tokyo NHK Hall
April 28, 2000 Shibuya Public Hall
May 13, 2000 Hiroshima Hiroshima ALSOK Hall
May 15, 2000 Kagoshima Kagoshima Kagoshima Citizen's Cultural Hall
May 18, 2000 Nagasaki Nagasaki Nagasaki Brick Hall
May 22, 2000 Takasaki Gunma Takasaki Civic Hall
May 24, 2000 Osaka Osaka Well City Osaka
September 9, 2000 Sendai Miyagi Sendai Sunplaza
May 31, 2000 Fukuoka Fukuoka Fukuoka Sunpalace
June 2, 2000 Nagoya Aichi Nagoya Public Hall
June 5, 2000 Sapporo Hokkaido Well City Sapporo
June 7, 2000 Morioka Iwate Morioka Civic Cultural Hole

References