EVNNE (18 May, Liberty Hall)
May. 31st, 2025 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It was an absolutely pouring cats and dogs, windy cold rainy night, and the venue wasn't the easiest to get to - so I'm glad this show was enjoyable. EVNNE were very charming and funny, lots of banter, and they had fun stages, starting from some of their harder songs, then some sunnier and poppier ones in the middle and later. The racing-themed VCRs weren't that exciting but tbh I wasn't expecting them to even have VCRs so that was fine!
They had three unit stages: a rap stage with Keita and Jihoo; Hanbin, Junghyun and Jeonghyeon did a performance/dance stage; and Seungeon and Yunseo had a vocal stage. For their covers medley, they performed Enhypen's Sweet Venom, NCT 127's Walk, and Seventeen's Pretty U.
I didn't know the members going in, and could only recognise Hanbin. I can see why he's the centre and why he came so close to making ZB1 - he's charismatic and has star quality. Keita as the tiny leader was very charming and full of jokes, he made me laugh. I found it quite funny/cute that Jihoo (the maknae) was very wide-eyed boy through the whole show except when he was wearing a cap and rapping, when he became all swag. All of them had good banter and interactions with each other.
For the encore, they did the expected 3 songs, but then they stuck around to do another 3 songs, repeats of songs they had done earlier (Crown, Trouble, and one other I forget - Role Model I think). So I'm going to take that as they liked us, they really liked us…
What I did not realise was that every ticket had send-off, so at the end of the show we attempted to make our way out - only to be BLOCKED by a staff member who was adamant that none of us could leave before send-off. I had an early start the next day and the show was already running longer than I expected so I would've loved to go home! Instead I got a 10 second wave goodbye to them while the staff hustled us out the door lol. It was very funny!
Some random notes:
They had three unit stages: a rap stage with Keita and Jihoo; Hanbin, Junghyun and Jeonghyeon did a performance/dance stage; and Seungeon and Yunseo had a vocal stage. For their covers medley, they performed Enhypen's Sweet Venom, NCT 127's Walk, and Seventeen's Pretty U.
I didn't know the members going in, and could only recognise Hanbin. I can see why he's the centre and why he came so close to making ZB1 - he's charismatic and has star quality. Keita as the tiny leader was very charming and full of jokes, he made me laugh. I found it quite funny/cute that Jihoo (the maknae) was very wide-eyed boy through the whole show except when he was wearing a cap and rapping, when he became all swag. All of them had good banter and interactions with each other.
For the encore, they did the expected 3 songs, but then they stuck around to do another 3 songs, repeats of songs they had done earlier (Crown, Trouble, and one other I forget - Role Model I think). So I'm going to take that as they liked us, they really liked us…
What I did not realise was that every ticket had send-off, so at the end of the show we attempted to make our way out - only to be BLOCKED by a staff member who was adamant that none of us could leave before send-off. I had an early start the next day and the show was already running longer than I expected so I would've loved to go home! Instead I got a 10 second wave goodbye to them while the staff hustled us out the door lol. It was very funny!
Some random notes:
- One of the members complimented the coffee (ah he knows how to flatter Australians) and the weather (I do hope he meant Saturday because that Sunday, as mentioned, was DISMAL).
- One of the members mentioned Keita getting lazier with the choreo. Keita: "yes because I'm tired!"
- They did sexy ments, very cringey, with Seungeon pretending to show his abs. He said "Come back in two years" to see the real thing lol. Other member reactions to sexy ments time: "I don't even know why you guys like this" and "I want to go home."
- For encore, Hanbin came out wearing a koala headband - cute.
- A couple of members said "thanks heaps" and they did "Aussie Aussie Aussie" a couple of times lol.
- Surprisingly a lot of talk about coming back again to Australia.