La Poem's First Full Concert Scene#1

La Poem and La Views finally shared time together.

La Poem's very first full concert was held in KBS Busan Hall, Busan on April 10 and 11. 

Image from La Poem official instagram

The concert started at 5 o'clock. The four members appeared together as the session band was playing the grand introduction of the Phantom of the Opera. La Poem had never sung this song in public before. It was our first time (both La Poem and La Views) to sing and listen to this song. During the concert, La Poem performed cover versions we had never listened to before. One of them was Perfect Symphony. Chaehoon and Sunghoon played the Ed Sheeran part in English; Minseong and Kihun the Andrea Bocelli part in Italian. This is one of my favorites among the cover versions La Poem performed in this concert. 

La Poem is a fantastic quartet as a whole. At the same time, each member is a fantastic soloist, who is capable of holding his own concert. Yes! La Poem did not forget to perform solo during the concert. 

• The solo performance started with Kihun singing a beautiful song "Un Amore Cosi Grande." His incredible vocal power shone through this performance.

• Sunghoon then sang the song "Because I Miss You (그리워 그리워서)" from a Korean TV series "Love in the Moonlight (구름이 그린 달빛)" original sound tracks. 

• After Sunghoon's performance, lights were back on. Minseong was sitting at the keyboard. He started out the song "Nothing Better" (originally sung by Jungyup) nicely but made a mistake with his keyboard performance in the middle of the song. He perhaps realized that it would hurt his performance if he kept going. Still singing, he slowly moved away from the keyboard. He made multiple bows to the keyboard session player as if he was asking him to continue playing it instead of him. He then focused on singing until the end of the song. For me, it didn't matter whether he made a mistake or not. The mistake itself and how he handled the situation looked endearing to me. What matters is he finished his song safely and attempted to make a special performance for the audience.   

• Putting on sunglasses and a long leather-jacket, Chaehoon sang the song "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley like a rock star. It was a shocking and entertaining performance. His vocal versatility is truly amazing.

La Bikina (from the movie Coco) was a cheery song that the audience enjoyed much. The four members moved around quite a bit on the stage. I hope that more cheery and fun-packed songs are included in the future concerts. 

La Tempesta is one of my favorite songs in the mini-album Scene#1. I finally got a chance to watch La Poem singing this song in a live concert. As intense as the song was, La Poem put their hearts and souls into singing. Thank you La Poem! I have nothing to ask for now.

The slogan shown to La Poem

The concert ended with "Gleamy Night." La Views prepared something for this moment. As the music began, we took out a printout on which some phrases were written. They were "라포엠의 눈부신 날, 라뷰와 함께 해" meaning "La Poem's dazzling day, La Views are with you." We were holding it to show La Poem while the four members were singing the song. Sunghoon and Minseong broke into tears and couldn't complete the song. Listening to their voices quivering, I also got teary-eyed. I was sad to see the concert heading toward the end as well.

Given the uncertainty we still have as to when La Poem will be holding another Scene#1 concert, I think that I made an excellent decision to come down to Busan to witness La Poem's very first concert of their own. There were certain things that could have been better. Nonetheless, it was the very first day of the concert tour. I was just happy to see them perform live. 

The time at which I arrived in Seoul Train Station. 
I was physically tired but
mentally elated.

Twenty-two songs including 2 encore songs were performed without intermission for more than two and a half hours. 

Here's the set list.

1. The Phantom of the Opera
2. Mademoiselle Hyde
3. Shining
4. Crescent 
5. Perfect Symphony
6. Fantasy 
7. As Flowers Bloom and Fall (movie “The Throne” OST)
8. Angel
9. Starai Con Me
10. Un Amore Cosi Grande (Kihun)
11. Because I Miss You (Sunghoon) 
12. Nothing Better (Minseong)
13. Crazy (Chaehoon)
14. La Bikina 
15. Make You Feel My Love
16. Rain That Drops First Time 
17. La Tempesta 
18. Dear My Dear 
19. Love Poem
20. Gleamy Night 

Encore

• Can’t Get You Out of My Head
• Amigos Para Siempre 

The bold titles represent new cover songs (5); the green ones are the songs that were sung during Phantom Singer 3 (6); the purple are from La Poem's mini-album Scene#1 (7); and the rest are solo performances (4)