A note from the fan: This is zhuu :] I was able to go to the concert at the last minute, all thanks to Jee :D (Jeeelim5). This fan account was hastily put together from notes I tried to take during the concert. Please forgive me if it's hasty xD But it IS super late at night >< The concert was seriously six hours and more @___@ (All pictures are with Jee - she was the one who brought the camera xD)

PreCon

Dude. Cassiopeia is freaking amazing. They're so organized, it's crazy. I wasn't there for the ticketing part, or anything before 2:00PM. (Ticketing for the section where Cass was seating together was at noon). It was super hot when I arrived outside of the venue. There were lots of carts with unofficial fangoods, as well as pitched tents with official fangoods. I didn't see a lot of TVXQ fans with official fangoods - I think maybe because of the boycott that's still going on? I asked Jee about the stuff, and she said the individual TVXQ stuff only had Yunho, or Changmin (nothing with them together). SM did everything to not print "Dong Bang Shin Ki" on their goods xD But epic fail on their part because all these fanclubs were passing out TVXQ goodies for free. :] With all five of our boys x) (Except for the goods from the Yunho fanclub. There were no events done by a Changmin fanclub T__T)

Once inside the venue, it was pretty cool to see the seats fill up. It was weird sitting where I've seen pictures of Cass doing crazy things ^^ I think there were over 3,000 fans sitting together or something? Cassiopeia took up the most room - 2.5 sections. 2 for ELF, almost 2 for SNSD. Almost one for Shinee. About half of one for Boa.

Cheering was really fun :D Before the concert started, we sang Mirotic, Balloons, did TVXQ cheers. ELF also did it back and forth with us - it was cool to see Cass and ELF support each other ^^ ELF sang Sorry Sorry and some other stuff, along with happy birthday for YeSung and such. Throughout the entire concert, they called for Kim KiBum. "KIM KI BUM, KIM KI BUM." But of course, he wasn't there...

Concert

It began around 4:30? Or a little before? Still lots of light, so everyone used balloons. TVXQ's were red, with TVXQ in Chinese characters with "Always Keep the Faith" on it as well. J-Min perfed first. Two songs, I think? And then CSJH the Grace came out. I was amazeddddd. Stephanie was still missing, due to her injury. Everyone went crazy for CSJH, including Elf and Cass. They sang "My Everything" and "One More Time, Okay?"

Some old guy named Chuga Yeoul was next... Definitely old style. The old guy suddenly became so much cooler during his second song, when SungMin from SJ came out to play acoustic guitar and sing with him in English.

Then there was this SUPER cute video of this little girl who was sick at the hospital. And she had this fish or something. And then you could see SJ all at the door, crowding around and peeking in with party hats and gifts and excited. The music was nice and mellow and sweet as the video showed the SJ boys making fish dolls/gifts for her and taking her to the aquarium.

And... Much to our disappointment, SJ didn't come out xDDD It was one guy from this group called TinTin Five. He was later joined by four more guys at the end of the first song. I can't remember if they sang a second song or not. F(x) came out and did their debut song. This was the start of the use of light effects and it just went downhill. The big screen TVs (one big one in the middle, two on the sides of the stage) went black during TinTin Five and kinda flickered to life during F(x)'s perf. After the debut song, F(x) explained that Amber wasn't on the stage with them because she was hurt.

Then there was like, fifteen seconds of a dance perf with Crystal (Fx) and Jessica (SNSD) before the music system failed. They were going to dance to Tick Tock, originally by Kesha but they were dancing to a version re-sung by themselves. Girls went off stage. Fifteen minutes of technical difficulties. Fans were a bit irritated. It was kinda funny to hear the ones around Jee and me say things like, "Aish, typical of SM. They can't do anything right and screw up the important things." When the screens came back on, F(x) came out and did their debut song again (the wholeeeee thing). Then Crystal and Jess had their dance thing. F(x) came out again, performed Chu. MinHo from Shinee came out and rapped in the middle. Then one more song (a slow one, with the lyrics "happy happy happy birthday" or something, by F(x).

More technical difficulties. A break after F(x). Ten minutes later, Zhang Li Yin does an amazing job with a Korean song and then a Chinese one. She's so talented... It was kinda sad to see that her popularity wasn't as high as others though :(

Short video. Then Kangta comes on stage. Slow song (sorry, I don't know the title). Then Song Kwang Shik comes out to perf live with him on a piano, and Go Ara comes out to sing with Kangta. The stage had two benches on opposite sides of the main stage. (BTW, layout of the stages: main stage with extended left and right side. Path in the middle leading to middle center stage. Middle center stage also has wings on the left and right. Another path from the middle center to the back center stage, which is the closest point to Cassiopeia. Also has left and right wings. The whole stage looks like a big, connected tic-tac-toe thingy. However, to get from the main left to the middle left, there's a "cart" that people manually push. Same for the middle left to the back left, and same for the right side). AHEM, right - two benches on opposite sides of the main stage xD Go Ara sitting on one, Kangta starts off at the mailbox behind his bench. He reaches in and pulls out a mic, looking at it and then the crowd with an expression saying, "What in the world? :D" Then he sings. Then Go Ara sings. Then Kangta goes to the coat hanger next to the mailbox and gets a white tux jacket. Puts it on. His expression is so innocent and cute as he reaches into the pocket and pulls out another mic. He sings. Onew (? not sure if it was him or not) runs on stage with a jjajangmyun delivery box. He opens it and pulls out the mic and gives it to Go Ara (or maybe she takes it out, I forget). She sings. Then Kangta and her sing together, meet in the middle. Finish the song. Fans yell, "Kiss! Kiss!" but they don't.

Kim Min Jung was next. He did two songs. During his second perf, the TV screens go down again. Another break for technical difficulties. Cassiopeia sings Balloons (the WHOLE thing) acapella :D It was so fun! Half of them did the adlibs, too, while the other half kept going, hehe. They yelled the boys' names at the respective times, too.

Twenty minutes later, Shinee comes on stage. They sing a song called "Stand By Me"? (Is that the title? >< I'm really sorry, I don't know many of any of the SM artists' songs except TVXQ T__T). Then they perfed "Noona/Replay". Then something along the lines of "Break Up" (rock-ish? I think?) where they run all over the stages, eventually getting to the back middle. Perf Juliet.

TRAX! DUDE. THEY WERE FREAKING AMAZING 8D I looooooved their perfs the most, after TVXQ of course ^^ But within the first few lines of the song, the mic went all weird and popped and the vocalist stared at it funny because no noise. It was so sweet how Elf and Cass immediately started singing his lines during those moments of SM-fail. Then the Trax perfed a song that will be on their album to come. It was pretty good :]

Lee YeonHee sang a song, Shinee's Taemin on the piano.

Tiffany, Sunny, Jessica from SNSD did a song. The SNSD fans switched from pink balloons to lightsticks for them. It was neat hearing the SNSD fans because they were mostly guys in pink. xD So like, pre-concert, when Cass and Elf cheered, it was at a high pitch. Then SNSD would cheer and it would be at such a low pitch xD

Zhou Mi and Luna perfed a song in Chinese.

Electric guitarist of the Trax did a short solo, and then suddenly went into Fur Elise and Kim HeeChul from SJ appeared! He did his solo, along with the main vocalist of the Trax. Fans went crazy when HeeChul got super close the electric guitarist (close enough to kiss) and later in the song, as he did the same to the vocalist. (At one point, HeeChul turned his back to the crowd and hinted at a kiss or something with the vocalist. Fans went crazyyyy). I was shocked O_O Though I have to admit, it was definitely an interesting performance, and pretty good because of the energy HeeChul put into it.

Next was a duet with [/b]SJ's KyuHyun and SNSD's SeoHyun.[/b] He holds her hand at the end. Fans went INSANE. The ELF girls I could see jumped out of their seats and screamed with grins.

SJ's YeSung and Shinee's JongHyun sang FTTS's By The Sea.

The one Korean song, that goes, "1 for the money and 2 for the show...hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" or something? SJ's HyukJae/EunHyuk and ShinDong and Shinee's Key and Minho perfed it together.

SNSD perfed Run Devil Run. Then a slow song called...DongHwa? (The fans released lots of balloons). Then they sang the song that went with "Oh" during their comeback? And then it was Kissing You, Baby (or Loving You, Baby?).

Super Junior came out and perfed Super Girl. It was a good perf :] They then did their introductions. Fans screamed in question of KiBum. "KIM KI BUM, KIM KI BUM!" and LeeTeuk went, "Huh?" and cupped his ear, to really listen to what the fans were saying. And then, ELF really became one voice as they shouted KiBum's name. And then LeeTeuk went, "Oooh, KiBummie?" And then he grinned and did something SUPER cute xD He jumped back and said, "Kim Ki Bum ibnida!" *jump back* "Kang In ibnida!" *jump back* "HanKyung ibnida!" ELF cheered. Then SJ perfed their newest song? Then they perfed the song that came after their third album (the one with lots of drums?)

SNSD perfed NengMyun (that one song for One Night, Two Days with Park MyungSu). And then they did their Hahaha Song.

SuJu perfed Miracle. Then they did this happy song where HeeChul opens the song with a rap? And then after that, it was Dancing Out. (Miracle and Dancing Out are my fav songs by them x) ).

BoA came. Perfed My Name, and then an American song ("going to the dance floor"?). And then she did I Did It For Love, featuring Shinee's Key as her rapper. Then a video timeline of BoA. And then an event celebrating Boa's 10th anniversary with SJ and Shinee and SNSD (they all came out to celebrate, sing for her, throw cake in her face). What irritated me was that TVXQ wasn't there. (Or rather, Yunho and Changmin). Then SJ/Shinee/SNSD perfed Boa's "Number One" for her. It was sweet ^^

Cass started getting restless at this point. They called for TVXQ - "Dong Bang Shin Ki, Dong Bang Shin Ki!" Dude, Cassiopeia is LOUD. And it's amazing that they were the largest fanbase at the concert because TVXQ has been one of the lesser active ones in SM. Cassiopeia is very strong, and very powerful. At this point in the concert, it was dark enough that everyone had turned on their light sticks EXCEPT for the largest part of the upper division of the crowd - where Cassiopeia was sitting. They refused to turn on their lightsticks until TVXQ came out, because the Red Ocean was for the boys. I was really amazed at their discipline and the one heart they shared as they didn't turn on their lightsticks for five hours throughout the concert. Because yes, we had to wait for five hours to see ChangMin and Yunho because they were saved for last. As always :] The best for last.

Anyways, after Boa's anniversary party, there was about a fifteen-minute intermission. At this point, my notes about the perfs get short because I was short on batteries and low on patience. I was just waiting for TVXQ ^^;;

SJ did Sorry Sorry. SNSD did Genie. [/b]Shinee[/b] did Ring Ding Dong. [/b]Fx[/b] did New Epio (???). SJ did some dark dance song. An Fx girl did a duet with Luna. Fx did another song together. SJ did some song. Then SJ T did Rokkuggo. Cassiopeia still didn't turn on their lightsticks (an amazing sight, really. It was a reminder to everything that we were waiting for TVXQ. We were the biggest section in the decks. And we took up a good portion of the entire middle and the right side of the decks. No lights. It was like, green lights, pink lights, NO LIGHTS... NO LIGHTS... And then blue, and more lights on the side. But nothing in the middle. Lol, I'm saying a lot about this because I was just so awed by the power and will of Cassiopeia).

SJ then did a happy rock song. Then the Trax did a rock song. Then they did another, older rock song with HeeChul. Fx perfed a song. Shinee did a song. SNSD did HimNae. Ryeowook and a guy from Shinee did a duet. Dance performance by HyukJae and Taemin, and then two girls from Fx and SNSD, I think? And then they were joined by a lot more people and it turned into a legit dance perf. Like, full team and stuff. Boa did a fast song. Then a slow song. Then another fast one.

AND THEN FINALLY. TVXQ! Cassiopeia had started calling them out since like, an hour ago xD But this time, before Changmin and Yunho appeared, Cass called for them and it was crazy loud. When they appeared, the lights all went on like an ocean on fire! The boys appeared on the left and right ABOVE us, on these like, sky hook thingies? (Like the thing that Yunho rides down from during the intro of CheckMate?) Only these hooks were REALLY high up, and they took a good minute or two to glide down to the stage, looking freaking amazing and hot xD Cassiopeia had come ALIVE. Everyone was screaming, shouting, cheering. After like, twenty seconds of just screaming, we started chanting, "Saranghae! Saranghae!" :] When Yunho and Changmin landed on the stage, they went into The Way U Are but after like, five seconds, Yunho threw up his arms in an X and stopped, and Changmin shook his head and waved his arms high. Something was REALLY funky with the music - it didn't sound like the Way U Are. O__O After another minute or two in blackness, the music started again - this time, correctly. Fans sang along with one voice while the boys danced. The Way U Are was mixed with Mirotic, Rising Sun, and O (not in that order). Lol, Cass sang along with everything. During Mirotic, Yunho and Changmin did the sequence in the middle, the bridge? With the chorus, the rap, and then the bridge. The rap - Changmin did Yoochun's part. It was freaking hot. (Of course, Chun does an amazing job, too! <3) Then the bridge - Cass sang with them the ENTIRE time, INCLUDING the bridge xD It was mindless screaming but so fun and so loud. Then Min had a solo perf, and then Yun had a solo perf. They were both songs I didn't recognize...

SJ came out then, as the boys disappeared, and perfed Don't Don. In the middle, when the violinist is supposed to appear, the TRAX appeared! And in the middle was Changmin! (IN THIS SHIRT THAT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS MAULED BY A TIGER SO YOU COULD SEE STRIPS OF CHANGMIN'S CHEST - LOTSSSS OF CHEST O____O I was shocked he wore something like that! xD Our Minnie, he's grown up ^^;; ). And Min perfed with them, and looked hawtttttttt.

Yunho and Changmin did another song together - it was a great perf. They both did an excellent job with the dancing and stuff. Afterwards was a ment. They introduced like so: "Annyeounghaseyo! DongBangShinKi ibnida!"/"Hello, we are TVXQ!" Cassiopeia had a screamfest - everyone was so happy to hear the boys call themselves TVXQ, though SM had done everything they could to stop the name "TVXQ" getting on anything. They talked about how it was good to be on the stage again, how it's been too long, and such. It was really good to hear their voices on the stage again, tbh. After a pretty good length of a ment, they left the stage.

Shinee did another song after that. SNSD did Gee. SJ did U. Boa did another song. And then my notes end. xD

I can't remember if there was another perf after Boa, but I do recall that there were no more of just TVXQ. The next perfs were by the entire SM Town. Yunho and Changmin came out then, hugged SJ and Shinee members, etc as they all sang together on the stage. Changmin and Yunho slowly made their way to the back middle (closest place to Cass) throughout the two songs. At one point, Yunho picked up a red balloon and played with it - Cass screamed every time he came out on the screen.

During the SM Town songs, 60 to 70% percent of the time, Changmin and Yunho were on the big screens. The cameramen followed them and Cassiopeia was all too happy ^_____^ Yunho and Changmin stuck together most of the time. Yunho had his arm around the maknae when they were together. When Minni wasn't with Yunho, he was with SJ or Shinee. When he was with SJ, he was so playful it was sooooo cute! Changmin looked so dang happy, it just melted our hearts. At one point, I think it was Yunho who yelled into the mic and said, "SHIM CHANGMIN! SHIM CHANGMIN!" to just cheer for his maknae. Cassiopeia immediately helped him and it was SOOOO loud - you couldn't hear the music XD

There was a third SM Town song, but during this song, everyone was saying goodbye and leaving the stage. Except for a lot of the guys. Changmin and Yunho made their way to the back middle stage, and greeted Cassiopeia. Yunho said, "Cassiopeia... Cassiopeia... Thank you so much." Cass when nuts! We all screamed and then started yelling, "Saranghae! Saranghae!" It was SUPER loud!!! And Yunho and Changmin were grinning, standing side by side as they thanked us again. Yunho spoke to Cass a lot, saying things like, "Thank you for waiting" and "We love you!"

Cassiopeia had their hearts captured once again. They had waited five hours to show our boys, and only our boys, their sea of red love. It was an amazing experience, to be a part of Cassiopeia for one day and to be with them as one body, spirit, and mind. Going to a concert and sitting with Cassiopeia is something every fan has to experience, I think. It really shows you how love can unite so many people. It was truly an awe-inspiring and crazy night, and one that is completely worth remembering.

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