NO PENIS? NO DIR EN GREY FOR YOU!!!
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
Thanks to MetalSucks Maniac Amanda Dobbs for pointing us towards this very unusual story on Pollstar. It seems that Dir En Grey will be playing two shows in their native Japan that are “male only,” and have posted a note on their website to this effect:
“We will confirm your sex at main entrance, therefore you will need to bring a public certificate including health insurance card, pension book, passport, resident’s card. In some cases, we will conduct careful checking. If we cannot check your sex on the day, we may have to refuse your attendance.”
We were curious as to how the band is planning to “conduct careful checking” of audience members’ sex, since we can’t imagine any world in which the ticket holders line is asked to drop trou right there in the street. So we contacted them* to get some answers. After the jump, learn six ways the band plans to make sure everyone who attends these concerts is, indeed, a dude.
- If the audience member has an Adam’s apple, he is a male.
- If the audience member checks his own nails by clenching his finger towards his palm as though making a fist, he is a male. If the audience member checks his nails by holding out his hand flat, then he is, in fact, a she.
- If the audience member has facial hair, said audience member is not necessarily male.
- If the audience member has tits, said audience member is not necessarily a female.
- If the audience member is wearing make-up, said audience member is not necessarily a female.
- If the audience member is in line for a Dir En Grey show, said audience member is not a male.
-AR
*Not really. They don’t speak English and, besides, we’re far too lazy to do any actual reporting around here, especially if there’s a decent joke to be made.
How old is that picture? I coulda sworn they haven’t dressed like that in quite awhile now…
lol @ #6. I’m a male Dir en Grey fan, but I get pissed off at their music a lot. It’s like 1/3rd really cool faux-metal, then 2/3rds soft pop targeted at hot topic shopping teenage girls who masturbate while reading Twilight. I call it “Marilyn Manson syndrome”, because he suffers from the same issue.
You’re telling me people would actually work that hard to see this band?
Why the hell are chicks not allowed to go?
Wow, so Dir En Grey are trying to outdo Anal Cunt in terms of sausagefest metal shows. WTF?
I do what I can for you, pimp daddies.
I’m STILL waiting to hear some kind of explanation for this, other than the logical conclusion that the band is collectively suffering some kind of a gynephobic episode. You know us women: We’re communicable AND terminal, especially to band boy TOOLS. *rolls eyes*
Love and Rockets,
Shinaain
Maybe March is bear season in Japan…you can never be too careful.
That second dude from the right sure does look a LOT like David Bowie in Labyrinth.
This isn’t the first time they’ve done this; on previous occasions, though, it’s been first night, guys only; second night, girls only. (No, I don’t know why.)
bear season ftw
Ah so it might be girls only for another show, I was curious as to why a show would be guys only.
You have to say to yourself “How straight are Dir En Grey fans?” and it all falls into place. ;)
Fricken sausage fest, thats fun! -_-
…Guys like Dir en Grey?
i don’t know.
it would be nice to go to a show were you can actually hear the band not just little cunts screaming on top of their lungs that they love *insert band member name*.
one time i saw a video for this band on headbangers balls, it seemed pretty good, like there was gonna be an amazing solo because the whole song seemed like one big build up… then there wasnt any…. and i was confused then i remembered i was watching headbangers BALLS.
aslo since they like sausagefests soo much im just gonna assume they are gay
Maybe they signed one of those 360 degree record deals with NAMBLA?
Fucking chinks man
MIKE ^^^^
If you’re going to be a racist and a bigot, at least get the terminology correct.
They just want to make sure that everyone at the show is a person that they would be willing to take backstage and suck off.
This band is horrible
Well, with the way the sexual culture works over there, I’m sure a LOT of gay guys will be going home with someone that night.
Reminds me of the Combichrist song “What the Fuck is Wrong With You?”.
The Oriental obsession with androgynes is worse than the European obsession with fucking animals. I can’t even tell which people in that band are female (if any are, and it wouldn’t surprise me if none of them are).
FINALLY!!!!FINALLY FINALLY!!!!
I can now say “That band is gay” without knowing that I just said it due to not having any intelligent insult directed toward them whatsoever.
GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY
That band is gay
don’t believe me? Look at that picture. LOOK AT IT!! C.C. Deville and Nikki Stixx got nothing on that.
The Oriental obsession with androgynes
Indeed! No self-respecting american metal band has ever dressed up in tight womens clothing and worn make-up. Never!
So, the won’t play for girls even though they all look more feminine than me. Interesting.
No Schlong.
No Sack.
No Service.
You people do realize that this picture is over 10 years old right? They USED to be a visual kei band, but they stopped a LONG time ago. And frankly, they could do without the obsessive fangirls who won’t shut the fuck up and enjoy the fucking show.
yay for #6
At first I was all like ” WTF, that’s really odd.” Then I thought about it and realized this was occurring in the land of the used panty vending machine, and the tentacle porn, and all of a sudden it didn’t seem quite as odd.
The ridiculous amount of bigotry and stupidity of the readers of this site never fucking fails to amaze me. And by the way, “Retin”, Nikki fucking STIXX? He’s not a fucking snack food. It’s Nikki Sixx.
Hey Aaron. Fuck you. This band sucks, and wouldn’t you say not allowing women is also biggotry?
Fuck you, fuck this gay ass shitty band.
Oh Aaron, fuck off. The Asians are absolutely fucked up with what they find erotic (bestiality and seppuku manga, tentacle porn, buying vials of piss and spit, baggies of damp used panties….give me a fucking break), and trying to pass someone saying that off as “bigotry” implies nothing more than the person screaming “BIGOT!” having no clue as to what the word actually means. Not to mention, a fucking band full of dudes expressly forbidding females to attend a concert (in a culture where females are oppressed orders of magnitude worse than they ever were in America, even during the Puritan days) being defended by a guy calling others bigots is so funny, it hurts.
Grow up. Its fucks like you who try to repress any negative (sorry, “non-positive” is probably the term today) thoughts people have about things that’s fucking the world up. My opinion, and those of everyone else who’ve posted, are mine and their own respectively, and if you can’t deal with someone thinking differently than you do without breaking out the bullshit PC label bag, piss off.
this band… chicks or dudes? i can’t tell.
Hey, at least you can were your that sweet-ass new Tegan and Sara shirt you got when you you go.
I saw these guys at Family Values tour 2006. it was the first time I had ever heard of them and I wished it would have been the last.
These guys are terrible. Purely fucking terrible.
Sausagefest or gayfest?
It’s not uncommon for Japanese bands to have guys only/girls only concerts.
You just had to add this shitty ass picture did you. At least now they’re actually listenable thanks to them abandoning this… transie look.
It’s like a truck full of my chemical romance crashed with a truck full of kiss (yeah fuck gene simmons, he’d sell his own grandma)
Man, terrible.
I freaking love Dir en grey, it’s an acquired tasted. And that picture is fucking old.
The main reason why they do male only shows is so people can, you know, mosh, without crushing all the little crazy japanese maniacs/girls that would be overly present in any of their other shows.
Sheesh, calm down.
Old picture is old. They haven’t dressed like transsexuals since about 2000.
They started making good music around the same time they dropped the visual kei scne like the sack of shit it is.
And the idea of the penis only show was so the boys could let loose without worrying about twatting a girl.
FUCK YOU DIR EN GREY HATERS !
DemonicLemming: I think I sum up the majority opinion here when I say fuck you, don’t piss morality down our throats on a metal site, especially not with your backwards fucking view of it as evidenced by your Political comments in the past which make you out to be a real dirtbag in regard to the social spectrum of those politics.
I’m incredibly amused by this though, so having guys nights and then girls nights is bigotry? So let me get this straight, if it’s a bunch of guys, it’s “Faggy gay ass shit”, but if it were a bunch of girls, aka a girls only night, that would be totally awesome right?
Jesus, tough to spot my fellow Americans with that fucking sentiment.
Tough as fucking shit.
Rev completely missed the point, as usual.
Yeah, fuck socialism, which is what my view on politics boils down to, and going by the steadily declining popularity numbers our current president is seeing, along with appointing one of the most crooked Cabinets in recent history, I don’t think you really have a leg to stand on there. If you really think being against welfare, corporate handouts (that went straight into the pockets of CEOs), the government sponging up previously private assets, and an absolute joke of a “tax break” for the average American somehow makes me a “dirtbag”, well, goody. Shows me exactly where you stand in the political spectrum, and how much you actually know about the real-world political system. Maybe you could actually concentrate on the discussion at hand, instead of bringing up shit that’s months old….but, I’d imagine that would be too hard for you, because you’d actually have to stop and think.
What you missed is that I said fuck morality – Aaron is the one pissing it in everyone’s faces. If you actually think someone calling someone a politically-correct asshole is somehow “pissing morality”, I’m not quite sure what to tell you, because it simply exhibits an inherent inability to understand what morality is. People saying a guy-only night is pretty faggy in Japan or China isn’t automatically bigotry, because it could very well be a truly gay event, as in an event primarily for homosexuals of the male persuasion, given the cultural context. Did I say that was bad? Did I say anywhere a female-only night would fucking own? No. You seem categorically unable to make the correct assumptions when it comes to anything, so maybe you should try to stop making them. Aaron came in and called people bigots for making statements based on things not only culturally accepted, but culturally encouraged – and if you don’t think the things I listed are true, or that Asian countries are seeing a steady decline in birth rate due to increasing numbers of gay couples (men, since females are still extremely oppressed), then you need to go read up before you start calling people out on things.
Maybe once you actually gather a little of of intelligence and the ability to focus on the argument at hand and make some viable points, I’d actually make a serious effort to refute your argument. As is, you really just symbolise the generic American forum troll. Good game, try again next time.
Wow stop arguing, who cares? if you’re a girl just go to the normal nights, if you don’t like the band, don’t watch or listen to them. Arguing on the internet is retarded, end of discussion.
Also, wow you could have used a better picture of the band.
“I hate this band with all my might because they dress differently to the bands I listen to. I don’t understand it, which makes me angry. And since I don’t like the way they dress I’m going to throw in some racist and homophobic insults because apparently I hate people of a different race to me and I also hate gay men. I’m assuming the band members are gay based on their alternative fashion sense and the fact that the country I live in don’t have “male only” and “female only” music performances. I won’t accept that other countries do things differently to mine. I have never heard of glam rock.”
Old picture is old. Like ten years old LOL. Its common in Japan to have male only shows. They’ve had female only shows too. Oh and none of them are actually gay.
“Oh and none of them are actually gay.”
Actually one of them is gay, but it doesn’t make a difference.. well not to people who like them. As for everyone else, get a life an if you don’t like them, go listen to something else.
one of them is gay? REALLY?
no
“Dir en grey fan” has no evidence that one of the band members are gay. The members of Dir en grey keep their personal lives very personal. Anyone who says they know if they’re married, have kids, are gay or straight, etc. are lying. Don’t believe them.
Dir en grey fan: LOLOLOLOLOLOL YOU READ TOO MUCH FANFICTION
As much as everyone thinks Shinya is gay, he’s not, he’s into little girls-morning musume?
And while Die is one of the faggyest people i’ve ever met he’s got a reputation for, like shinya, dipping it into the occasional barely-legal teenage girl.
Kyo is probably into deeply kinky shit or is scared of sex because he was molested by Kisaki.
Kaoru is into mirrors.
Toshiya will probably screw anything alive or dead, penis no penis, human or not if he got drunk enough.
Person above this comment, shut up.
Who gives a fucking damn if its a male only show. You’re not in Japan so shut the fuck up. If you dont like them then shut the fuck up, you’re seriously wasting your time. I cant get over how many fucking nerds there are that waste their time commenting on shit that doesnt affect them. It’s a male only show… it only really affects you if you are a female fan in Japan, and I’m gathering that the majority of you are American “Omg I’m totally not gay” homophobic twats. Shut up and get the fuck off.
WTF is with everyone bashing Dir en grey lately?
theyre fucking amazing!
they have female only, and couples only shows too.
but no one throws a fucking fit about them!
Ridiculous to complain about ONE all guy show out of 3809843058 co ed shows.
Seriously a ridiculous article…
Haha, yeah… Wow. I’ve seen another article making fun of/bashing the male only show. The other one even went so far as to suggest that no “self respecting female” fans should even bother to listen to them. Which I might add, was quite insulting, considering I’m a female Dir en grey fan, who does actually listen to their music and does not drool over the members. I wonder why Dir en grey is the only Japanese band that’s been called out for having gender specific shows from time to time? The price of fame I guess. I wonder what will happen when another Japanese band rises to prominence?