by Devon Sponheimer
For those of us who are J-Pop fans, I don’t think that you have truly ever experienced ‘real’ J-Popdom until you’ve been to a concert. With the announcement that J-Pop Princess Kyary Pamyu Pamyu was doing a world wide tour and hitting up both North America and Australia, we jumped on the chance for tickets!
The venue was the Chicago House of Blues, a multi-storied club that holds at max 1,300 people. Doors were slated to open at 7pm and as we arrived around 6:30, the line was already nearly a 1/2 mile down the road. On a chilly Chicago evening in March, I can’t say we were thrilled about the long wait to get in, but checking out all the costumes in the crowd was enough to keep us entertained.
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