{"id":9503,"date":"2021-12-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2021-12-20T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:06:17","slug":"24-days-of-desire-21-band-maid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9503","title":{"rendered":"24 Days of Desire (21): Band-Maid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d like to say that I&#8217;ve really missed going to concerts during COVID times, but I really go to all that many concerts to begin with. At least one a year, I&#8217;d say, which could seem like a lot to some, but I think there&#8217;s definitely room for improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also don&#8217;t really miss concerts because I&#8217;ve checked off a lot of the most important boxes on my &#8220;bands to see live&#8221; list: Queen, Tesla, Matthew Good (twice), Joe Satriani, Dweezil Zappa. As for the ones that are still outstanding? Thrice, Tonight Alive, Story of the Year, TWRP&#8230; oh, and Band-Maid. We absolutely <em>cannot<\/em> forget Band-Maid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since the first time that YouTube randomly auto-played <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8070\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8070\">DICE<\/a> for me, I&#8217;ve been more or less obsessed with Band-Maid. A hard rock group formed by five unbelievably talented young ladies, I don&#8217;t think that it would be a stretch to say that Band-Maid is my second favourite band of all time (Queen will likely never be dethroned). Over the last two years, I&#8217;ve purchased all of their albums and followed them on all the socials and anxiously awaited every new song release. It&#8217;s been a heck of a ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_3577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9508\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve also been living under the depressing assumption that I will never have the chance to see Band-Maid play live. For one, they&#8217;re a Japanese band, which means that they&#8217;re going to need some <em>serious<\/em> clout to do a tour that includes any venues even remotely near me. And they&#8217;re just not quite that big. As far as I can tell, the only North American cities they&#8217;ve played in are LA and New York, and that was in the pre-COVID days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that travelling for a concert is completely out of the question for me, but it just seems like a <em>lot<\/em>, you know? Plus, with the threat of Omicron looming over the globe right now, and whatever other COVID variants that come after it, I don&#8217;t really <em>want<\/em> to travel at all, even if it is allowed. And, you know, I&#8217;m not flying to Japan on my own, and that&#8217;s a <em>big<\/em> ask for pretty much anyone I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it&#8217;s seeming pretty unlikely that I&#8217;ll attend a Band-Maid concert anytime in the near future. Which is sad, but at least they&#8217;ve published a lot of live performances online, so I can live vicariously through those for the time being. But I really would like, more than anything, to be able to actually go see them live. I&#8217;m not even exaggerating. If I could have any one thing from my 24 Days of Desire list, it would be this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to say that I&#8217;ve really missed going to concerts during COVID times, but I really go to all that many concerts to begin with. At least one a year, I&#8217;d say, which could seem like a lot to some, but I think there&#8217;s definitely room for improvement. I also don&#8217;t really miss concerts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 Days of Desire (21): Band-Maid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9509,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions\/9509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}