Love & P1ece in Chicago with P1Harmony

Photo curtesy of: SubKulture Entertainment

P1Harmony visits Chicago for the first time on May 11, 2022 at the Copernicus Center though SubKulture Entertainment during their 2022 P1Harmony LIVE TOUR [P1ustage H : PEACE] in USA.

The tour originally scheduled for mid March got postponed partway through as members of the group and their staff tested positive for Covid-19. Now with everyone back to full health, the tour resumed two months later. 

As the lights get darker and music higher fans (P1ece) buzz with excitement and immediately chant for the group to appear. Keeho, Theo, Jiung, Intak, Soul, and Jongseob make their way onto the stage shortly after.

The tack "Pyramid" officially kicks off the show and is followed up with "BOP" and "Do It Like This." Both P1Harmony and the audience wasted no time on getting the energy up. P1eces sang along at the top of their lungs to the point where they were sometimes louder than the members.

While taking a short break from preforming, the six idols welcomed everyone at the sold out show as a full group. They all apologize for the tour being postponed last second back in March but the Chicago crowd insisted that it was okay and that the group's and staff's health came first. "We're so glad to be back at the...I don't know how to pronounce the stage we're at" Keeho admits. P1eces help him and the others by yelling back how the difficult venue name is said.

One by one each member quickly introduces themselves while gaining extremely loud cheers from the audience. During this time, a single fan yelled that they loved the group and without missing a beat, Jiung returned the love. "I'm getting chills because of your guys' screaming" Intak comments after hearing P1eces go wild for them. 

The idols were glowing on stage during "Before the Dawn" as individual spotlights hit each member. Things slowed down for a moment until it picked back up again with "That's It" and "Reset." All three songs displayed a wide variety of their talents from vocals, dancing, rapping and even their stage presence. 

The group splits into two as four members head backstage to prepare for their unit performances, leaving Keeho, Intak and Jongseob to chat with P1ece. Fashion is brought up after the trio complements the crowd's outfits. "Who wants to go on a shopping spree with us" they ask the fans and everyone instantly agreed to join them. After mentioning Lake Michigan, the pizza, Starbucks Reserve Roastery, The Bean and other notable Chicago landmarks, they say that the Windy City is like a second home before promising to return again.

The next set of performances were spilt up into three different units. First up is Soul with his solo dance. As the instrumental begins, fans start chanting his name to hype him up and in return, the dancer wowed them with his moves. Slowing things down a little is Jiung and Theo with their Justin Bieber cover of "Off My Face." Both singers sat in chairs the entire time and harmonized with one another to create a beautiful sounding melody. Final song for the unit consists of Keeho, Intak, Jongseob. The track, "Big Three," starts of strong but suddenly the music cuts off. Replacing their song is a completely different song that all three freestyle to. They rap incredibly fast that it was virtually impossible to keep up.

Following a short video, "If You Call Me" and "Butterfly" are preformed. No chorography occurred during the first of the two songs but that didn't lessen anything as their raw singing and rapping were incredibly powerful. Almost the exact opposite happens during "Butterfly." Instead of only letting their voices tell a story, the dance moves added an extra layer that drew everyone in and left them mesmerized.

Instead of only screaming after the set of songs end, the audience starts singing the chorus to "If You Call Me." It catches the guys off guard for a moment before they all smile and join in. One fan brought a sign that inquired when the group would release a sequel for their movie, P1H: The Beginning of a New World. "If you guys want it that bad then maybe we'll talk to our company" Keeho said. "Chicago P1eces want a second movie!" 

As P1Harmony talked about the unit and solo stages, they share the real reason why the music stopped during "Big Three." The goal was the scare the audience into thinking the music really stopped before playing a random song but they knew it wouldn't fool P1eces. "I know that we've done it so many times everyone knows that we're going to do it" they joked. 

The next stage prepared were going to be a very special performances, so special that the word very was said 11 times. because they're the title tracks. To have the fans be more involved, fans were requested to do a bowing motion to the beat at the start of "Scared." "Be careful you guys don't smash your head against the person in front of you" Keeho warns as the audience practices.

Keeping to their word, the crowd did the motion to the beat while chanting once "Scared" began. From above it looked like everyone was part of an ocean wave. The flawless dancing and vocals made the performance for both "Scared" and "Siren" top notch. P1eces didn't let up for a moment throughout  both songs as they either sang along of participated in the fan chants nonstop.

At each stop, the audience is asked a simple question, if they liked "Do It Like This," "Scared" or "Siren" better. Chicago P1ece were to scream to vote on their favorite after the track is said. "If you scream before, it's a disqualification" Keeho jokes "I'm playing. You guys do whatever you want." Doing what they want is exactly what the audience did. Instead of voting for only one song, fans screamed for at least two song which created a tie between "Siren" and "Scared." 

P1Harmony decided it'd be fun to hold a competition with their fans. The crowd got spilt down the middle (those dead center were allowed to choose their side) and whichever side was the loudest would win. Two P1eces at the barricaded played rock, paper, scissors to pick who went first. The competitiveness hit its peak as both sides tried their best to win, some even provoking the other by pointing their thumbs down. In the end, the musicians acted like their fans and called it a tie as they are all one unit in the end. Instead of protesting and demanding a sole winner, the audience started chanting the group's name together. 

The supposed 'last song of the night' was the track "Follow me." Everyone instantly started singing along with so much energy that you'd think the concert had just begun. As the colors illuminating the stage changed, so did the light sticks in the crowd. After what seems to be the perfect ended to a concert P1Harmony left the stage as the lights darkened. 

Following a short video showing behind the scenes of preparing for their tour, the group returns to the stage for an encore while wearing their tour shirts. When the song "Peacemaker" begins, many people held up paper butterflies in various colors. Once the song ends, all six members went to the edge for the stage to get a closer look at the paper butterflies and read the individual messages on each one that they could see while saying how touched they were.

During their final individual speeches, each member gave nothing but praises to fans and thanked them all for coming. Theo even admitted that Chicago became his favorite stop "your energy was amazing and I'll defiantly come again." Following immediately after were the photos with the crowd that turned into a mini photoshoot session with numerous pictures being taken on different cameras.

Chaotic. That was the entirety of what took place during the final two songs of the night. During the English version of "Do it Like This" and "Ayaya," All six members run around on stage doing whatever felt right at the moment, mainly random dances, Soul twerking being one of them. Theo brings out a small handheld camera and films himself and other for a while before retuning it backstage to continue dancing.

Until the very last second, Chicago P1eces made the most of the concert. Even when P1Harmony were about to leave the stage, fans sang along to "Follow Me" playing in the background not wanting the moment to end. After wishing everyone a good night and safe travels home, the group does their greeting again (and dances along with the fans singing a few more times) before heading backstage.

Both P1Harmony and Chicago P1eces made the long wait worth it and left lasting impressions on each other that they will remember forever.