Finnish glamrock bands Negative and Lovex performedat the V-Rock Festival in Chiba, near Tokyo in the Makuhari Messe on Oct 25th, the same venue where Loudpark festival was held the week before. The venue looked surprisingly similar, even the timetables and food stands. But there was something very different, and that was the crowd. I have never witnessed such an overall majority of female fans at a rock festival not to mention the peculiar costumes of some of the most dedicated fans. Unfortunately I arrived at the festival sight too late to see Negative perform on the main stage, because of arriving in Tokyo the same morning. Fortunately I did catch Lovex's perfomance a couple of hours later on the V-stage. Lovex was forced to start their set by doing soundcheck behind the curtain which led to some amusing interaction with the fans. When they were finally ready with the soundcheck they had only 30 minutes to perform. Even though the stage was quite small and there weren't that many people watching, Lovex gave an energetic performance and they were able to attract more people in front of the stage during the show. Bogfires also had the opportunity to meet and catch up with some of the members from Negative and Lovex after the show. Lovex was planning on staying in Japan for a coule of days and "explore the countryside" whereas Negative flew back to Finland the next day. Negative had not performed or even practiced together since they finished the tour following the release of their previous studio album Anorectic. In spite of that, Antti Anatomy and Jay Slammer both seemed very happy with their performance. The reason the band hadn't been practicing together in such a long time is the recording process of their upcoming album, taking place in Los Angeles, CA from where Jonne Aaron and Larry Love flew straight to Japan from. According to the guys, the album is almost finished, only vocals missing from a couple of songs. Negative recently singed a global record contract with Warner and the new album will be released in April 2010.
