^ mostly resellers. It's easier and most of the times cheaper to join TA and buy there though, unless you really want to choose a good seat

^I always ask my friend to get me tickets and every time he got me the furthest seat possible so except for the very first time (and I regret it so much, since It was 2nd date for Rock n'n Roll Circus and an awesome concert) I exchanged them in resellers for better ones anyway.

^ Yeah, like I said, the only way to guarantee that you get a good seat is to buy from a reseller. But if you're on a low budget and don't want to pay too much extra, buying from TA is most likely gonna be cheaper, even including the membership fee.

Thanks guys! Well noted :D

Hmm, I would have thought that if you by seats from TA you'd get better seats, since it's the fan club..?

nope, it's all random. Though global TA members seem to get better seats (not amazing, some of them are quite far from the stage, but I've always gotten arena seats from the global TA lottery)

I would always get Arena B & C seats, I also know people who'd get Arena A a couple of times (TA). If you go with general lottery you will most definitely not get arena seats.

^ even Japanese TA members? because from what I've heard, the Japanese fanclub members can also get non-arena seats (and not only TeamAyu, other artists as well)

My friend has gotten Arena seats in that one time he won the Global lottery. It was pretty near the centre stage :)

The only time I applied for TA tickets, I won Arena seats really close to the center stage. For the first day I was just one seat away from the center stage and in the second day I was 3 seats away from the runway. I don't know if it was because it was my first time aplying or because I'm a foreigner member... or just lucky.

I only know for Kuu. And for her it's really, really hard to get arena seats. No matter if global or Japanese FC.
I only know one global member, who ever got arena seats and this was for The Artist, a special line of concerts, and not one of her tours. I got 2nd level tickets both times I went (one time tickets through the Japanese FC, the other time the global). Lee-chan her on the forum went to see her 7 years in a row with tours and special concerts and never got arena seats for arena tours and concerts...

I always wondered, why it seems to be easier to get arena seats with Ayu.

I also always got Arena seats from Global TA (I bought tickets for 6 concerts via Global TA, half of them were still quite far away from the stage though), but I'm curious if it's because I live overseas, so I'd appreciate if people living in Japan shared their their experience ^^ And I'm also curious if anyone has ever managed to get Arena seats from the general sale.

somebody has a mp3 rip of ourselves?

Oh wow, this all sounds so complicated! I just thought, you know, if you want seats from near the Arena you just have to be quick and get the best seats before they're taken! :roflmao

^ no, it's all random via a lottery, you can't choose the seat :laugh

A friend of mine bought tickets to the same concert as me at Lawson and she get the worst seats ever. She said Ayu was just a tiny dot jumping around lol

And I got better seats from buying through Lawson than I did some of the times I went through TA, lol

There's really no rhyme or reason to it

I was a Japanese TA member when I lived over there and I'm pretty sure all of my seats were in the stands from what I remember. As a global TA member I've gotten amazing seats right by the stage.

http://i.imgur.com/JNrwBYHl.jpg
https://twitter.com/ayu_poy/status/901076879850864640

thats probably because kuu is known to have songs she brings fans up to the stage

Y'all talkin about your great seats and the time I applied in 2015 I applied for 3 weekends worth of concerts and didn't get a single one LOL

She did that? Wouldn't she be afraid of her safety? :yeek
I remember when Ayu did that meet-and-greet with handshaking for fans during her SEASONS-era (it was shown in that documentary, the one that came before "Light and Shadow", I think) and all I was thinking was OMG YOU'RE GONNA GET SICK OR STABBED! :D :D I've watched too many movies... :cool

Ahhh, I like this one, would love to have it as a poster! :love

Omg did you apply via the global site or the japanese one?

Ayu did it at TA Tour 2016 - one guy and one girl were called on stage (one at a time) for a lap dance from the dancers, and then Ayu sat in their lap.

It was the global one! I had really bad luck with the draw! :grumpy I ended up buying tickets from a sales site and got arena both days. On the second day I traded with a shady dude and paid some more money to get a seat on the floor.

Maybe we'll see that on a DVD...... in 10 years........

^ UGH, my biggest fear! I was finally at a recording date and I'm dying to know if I made it to the recording anywhere lol

So the second leg is now officially titled ~sacrifice~ (Just the beginning The 2nd Phase ~sacrifice~) I wonder how will the set list change.

oh god, so dramatic :\

^And it only took you 19 years to notice how dramatic she is... :P

Yeah that is a bit dramatic. Kind of exciting though.

Seems some new goods were supposed to be revealed?

Now I want a performance like ourselves but with a sacrifice lol

wonder if she would name her new song 'sacrifice' as well. It suits.

I guess if the whole tour is about being reborn, she needs to die at some point!
I honestly hope "sacrifice" means she knows she needs to drop the 10/20 songs that she won't stop singing and start fresh! Maybe leg 3 of the tour will only have songs from 2015 onwards!

I think we will not get any big updates for new chapter. Maybe ayu will replace feminist songs with something more dark. I'm actually afraid she will keep outfits...

A little more than one week to find out

This is the impression I have too, I also believe the progression of the concept started at the CDL^^I mean, ourselves already isn't as dark as kanariya

She's literally sacrificing her hearing to be on stage so... I think it refers to that, it's not all that dramatic moreso realistic IMO

I'm loving where this is going. Like ryusei said ayu has sacrifice who knows to what lengths?? We just see what she's willing to tell us, who knows what's really going on. I'm excited

Yes, that's what I thought as well, I think she means she's sacrificing her own health for us/for her passion.

for her passion. Who of us need this sacrifice? And I'll better call it choice.

^ maybe she doesn't have a choice. Maybe she will end up deaf anyway; whether she goes on hiatus, or continues on. I think 'sacrifice' suits the tour theme. Hopefully she adds some positivity in the last chapter.

Also, I believe that songs like Mad World and/or FLOWER could fit the theme. Curious to see what is happening. She hasn't told us much about it.

I believe the setlist will consist of ballads and rock ballads (such as "Because of you" or "Decision").

IMO it has more to do with a death-rebirth theme than with her deafness... Even because death-rebirth is a recurrent theme during her career. My bet is that every chapter will be more optimistic than the past one, a little like POM

Sounds even more intriging! Cannot wait for the next chapter!

I love it that I will be able to watch the sacrifice part of the tour. I want me many rock ballads on the setlist. Going next week's Thurstday!

To me the word sacrifice just portrays how her career was managed just after the beginning. Do you remember Dearest? Do you remember A Best? She was always a sacrifice, a slave that was sacrificed for the sake of music and money. That's how Avex and her build Ayumi Hamasaki. On that strategy that is as old as music industry. That's why I'm not surprised about the title and I don't think that's dramatic because this tour is about her career.

^Thats a good take on the title, it makes me wonder what the third leg could be called!

I love Because of You but I hope it's not there, in my opinion it's been overplayed to death.

I don't think the title of sacrifice is too dramatic. It could relate to so many things about Ayu. Her personal life, career, songwriting. It's better to wait and see what it will actually be like.
I would expect melodramatic songs to be added. But there isn't much information to make a good prediction.:laugh

I also love "Because of you". I hope "Memorial Address" is included.

People forget we are talking about someone who gave us super cheerful titles like "endless sorrow" and uplifting songs about freezing to death in the snow. :P

pleasee that songs is so repetitive im going to vomit

she should include, Guilty, Criminal, Liar, Reminds Me, Tell Me Why

Put in Like a Doll with those and I'm down.

One of the Show date of chapter 3
Leaked,

12/21 thurs
Kagoshima Show.

I don't care why she named the tour like that, but now I really want a super dark rock ballad called sacrifice so I can listen to it and cry alone in the dark

Because of you is such a great song that I don't care seeing it included on the setlist time after time.

I think she is not performing rare songs this time because I feel this tour is more for casual fans so she prefers to go with popular singles.

Have you peeps not learnt anything over the years? lol The name ~sacrifice~ might not hint at anything major at all. I can remember years ago when people speculated about the Future Classics name or how the cover of GUILTY would look like. Or even the cover and PVs of M(A)DE IN JAPAN last year.
Nothing was how it seemed.
We're talking about someone who calls an album with hardly any rock songs Rock'n'Roll Circus, because every song she sings becomes a rock song.
So hold your horses, everyone. lol

The worst thing is that I can't agree more with that quote from Ayu lol

Well, I'd say she likely means a rebellious attitude or going against the norm, so she's not wrong. But I imagine someone who doesn't know her going to Japan, seeing the cover of an album by a Japanese glam rock chick, buying the CD and listening to it.......... Song 4 will be a huge surprise indeed. LOL

God I love her so much. Please bring (miss)understood and is this LOVE? to life again.

Can we get a Still Alone performance please? :yes

And no more words? I'd love to hear that song again. :love

i remember reading that interview back then and it made me roll my eyes so hard I gave myself a headache :rolleyes she was trying so very hard to justify that album title

Well, Rock'n'Roll Circus is a retrospective album. She have put her essence as Ayumi Hamasaki in the album and in the tour. Using her diferences styles and generes. It has sense, her career has been like a Rock'n'Roll Circus. Her soul is Rock'n'Roll, she is rebel and her most produced genere is rock (hard rock). Moreover, Ayu has used the circus theme to represent her image. She is like a clown, hiding her real face only to entertain the audience.

Really? I'd say the most she has done are pop ballads.

I think It depends of the person too... Maybe is my opinion only, but a lot of her pop ballads have a rock influence.

Id say Pop Rock and pop ballads

EDIT: Ayu just uploaded new video with Microphone the song, and looked like they rehearse for 1 Love too haha

"Seven days left until the opening of 2nd Chapter.

If I can think of myself as a sacrifice
Then I just have to be prepared
To pretend till the very end, even should I lose everything"

tour rehearsal video https://www.instagram.com/p/BYa1IpjgtNb

http://i.imgur.com/bJqx6fW.jpg


This post is lyrics from End of the World, song Microphone.
The headbang looks like 1LOVE from AT2015?

A lot of chairs, maybe reminds me too? and I need End of the world too, please

She also included lyrics in the post from "End of the World"

Maybe she is going to reuse performances from TA2016?

I would say most of her songs from every genre has some rock influence to it

I want End of the World as opening Song so badly!!

End of the world would be a risky choice with her current voice so I prefer Microphone or any other more recent rock song

I don't care about her voice tbh... I want her emotions and if she sings like a-nation or 2017 tour (not cdl) I will like it.

what's wrong with her current voice and this song?

she did EOTW at PCDL

in the vid her dancers dance to the routine of 1 Love at AT 15/ AT 16

Please ayu not the cross thing, your not Jesus.

I agree. It's too much for my taste.

Definitely 1LOVE and pleaaaase End of the World <3

I'm getting 2008 vibes. Hope for a rock album in the vein of Guilty in the future

Thinking about last upper from 1st chapter and sacrifice from 2nd chapter, I think 3rd chapter will be resurrection.

I thought the same today. A cross in this chapter wouldn't be a surprise given this scenario.

I think when it comes to the Rock n Roll Circus title it is all about your personal interpretation. I personally don't really understand it but it makes sense to Ayu and a lot of other fans in their own way. If I had to reach for it's meaning I would say that the Rock n Roll refers to Ayu's personal love for rock and in a way I see Ayu as a pop artist with the soul of a rock star. As for the Circus, it could be about her career and fame. Having the public standing there watching her every move and having expectations to be entertained and passing judgement on her.
I also didn't like when Ayu did the whole crucifixion thing. It just felt embarrassing because to me it feels like a straight up copycat of Madonna who did it recently before Ayu did. Also, religion aside Jesus was in fact a real person on this Earth in history.

I like the crucifixion performance but now it would be repetitive, I would like a satanic sacrifice :)

Uh-oh, this sounds legit. I am not against a crucifixion-performance, allthough it sounds so passé. Curious to see what's gonna happen.

It's extremely high pitched for her to be able to do well now imo; but hey, give it a shot? Maybe change the key, arrangement et cetera. Lots of rock songs in the setlist would be great, although I could do without Because of You (vocally, she has been struggling with this one for a long time now) and 1 Love, though I love it has been done to death. Let's get songs like Liar, Criminal, alterna, end of the world, Still Alone, Far Away et cetera some play from her lesser known rock song catelog.

And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if chapter 3 is resurrection. lol. These all fit with the theme that's been in her career since at least "M" or really from Duty onward.

I'd be pretty happy with any setlist changes at this stage, even though I've never seen Ourselves live and would love to. I hope the addition of Love song at Osaka's last date remains!! Going to the Fukuoka shows in a bit over a week, excited!!

alterna, please!

And I believe the first time she used ressurection as a concept was during the opening of the Concert Tours, the coffin one, wasn't it?

Yes she goes in a coffin during CT2000 and pops out on the stage in a new costume. She brings the coffin back in a-nation 2010 for Microphone, where she emerges from the coffin

http://i.imgur.com/n1s91mtl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zhGzpZsl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/lTg1SP6l.jpg

She had too many performances with cross before. I'm sure this time it will be something different.

So are Microphone and 1 LOVE basically confirmed for sacrifice?

I feel she'll probably keep the table but replace ourselves with Microphone and change how that performance works.

I think she will. But maybe not from the first day. I belive new song fits her mood and tour theme the most

I don't want to create a lot of expectation about the second chapter and then it's just similar to act 1. But I'm loving the theme.

Im curious for the setlist with this "dramatic" title. As im not into the first chapter, i wonder what will this second chapter offer us, something new? Interesting? Nice outfits maybe?

p/s: also praying for this short hair era to past quickly lol, dont like this look much

Somehow I think the song might even be called sacrifice.:rolleyes

I also prefer when she has long dark hair!

Don't be rude and don't forget that we are different. No matter if we believe in god or not, everyone deserve respect.

i think chapter 2 wont have a huge change in setlist. 20th anniversary is just next year, she must be saving it for next year.

I think the same. Maybe she will change a few songs.