Fukui Concert (found on Ayusphere facebook page, they currently are in Japan to see Ayu)

Opening : Miccie

01. alterna
02. Microphone
03. GAME
04. Dearest
05. how beautiful you are
06. 1 LOVE
07. Shake It
08. STEP you
09. kiss o' kill
10. Free and Easy
11. Mirrorcle World
12. Fly high

ENCORE
13. WORDS
MC : ayu, ZIN, subaru
14. evolution
15. Boys & Girls
16. TODAY

^Ayusphere is still alive? I had totally forgotten about their existence. XD

Thanks for sharing the tracklist.

Anyone going to Gifu show on wednesday? I'm skipping work and will be going to the city early to do some touristy things lol Please feel free to join me.

maaaan I haven't applied for tickets

:(

What an amazing setlist :love

AHS went down when the intl lottery was announced. I got a ticket to Jan 29, 31 and Feb 6. Depending on the shows I might see if I can get tickets for the 30th and the 5th but it will have to wait until I'm in Japan most likely.

Currently I'm planning the actual trip around the shows xDI'm so relieved I won tickets this time though, last time I didn't win any of the tickets I applied for over 4 weekends so this was a nice present :)

I won ticket on February 20th in Okinawa
Anyone attend this?

I won tickets for 19th! :D

AND IM SO HAPYP AHS IS BACK OMG

I'll be attending the Nara show on december the 3rd, won a ticket (and the Chiba one for the 2nd chapter, so excited!!)

Any idea if there will be Round 2 for overeas fans? It seems like the tickets are already on public sales/Yahoo priority sales?

Also, we wont know the seats until we actually collect the ticket on the day right?

I think it's unlikely for OS fans. I think there was a Japanese fan second lottery just recently but since it's so close to the start dates they probably won't do a second round :(

Hmmm damn..because Chapter 1 and 2 both had their 2nd rounds :/

I really want to have 2nd round for overseas fans!

I really hope it does so I can retry for the two dates I missed but it feels a bit too short notice to announce, have the lottery period and then announce.... I don't mind being wrong tho :D

On my way home now from the concert. Awesome show and really good vocals for the most part. The venue is rather small, i think its just me but from my seat, there were parts of the stage i couldn’t see because of a platform above me blocking it. lol

Todays setlist:

01. alterna
02. Microphone
03. GAME
04. Beloved
05. how beautiful you are
06. 1 LOVE
07. Shake It
08. STEP you
09. kiss o' kill
10. Free and Easy
11. Mirrorcle World
12. Fly high

ENCORE
13. WORDS

MC

14. evolution
15. Boys & Girls
16. TODAY

It was Kuni-chan’s birthday today so wwe sang a happy birthday to him during the MC.

Do we have any more recordings? I'd love to listen to Free & Easy

:love I love the setlist so much.

I hope she brings Dearest back for a recording of the show :O

Wasn't expecting beloved.:)

This looks like a TA tour somehow. I don't mind anyway, I like the setlist a lot!

Just wondering if 3rd chapter will look like a TA tour or like a regular tour.

^definitely felt like an upscaled TA TOUR really. I kinda miss Ayu performing on arenas and will definitely feel sad if she stopped doing so. Third chapter probably would be similar to this since they’re also on halls.

Some halls are bigger than others, but this one seems really small.

I wonder what Ayu's true feelings are about this. TA is also small venue, but it's different knowing you have an audience with more "real" fans vs. a casual concert goer.

I think she must like the intimacy of a smaller venue, and being able to go to locations that she normally wouldn't be able to. But, from a business standpoint, each venue makes less money than a larger one would (that said, production costs are probably significantly lower too). And it is of course more strenuous physically to have to do more shows for the same money.

Thanks for sharing! I'm really hoping she'll keep Beloved in the setlist until the end of the tour - didn't realise how much I wanted that until now.

^ Also the price of booking halls is a lot cheaper.

There has to be a lot of financial merit to hall shows considering Namie did a number of hall tours when she easily could have been doing arenas instead.

Oh great that she brought back Beloved. ♥

Me too. Beloved is one of those few song that can still hit me hard.

As opposed to Ayu though, I always feel like Namie's Arena tours aren't really a spectacle. Her stage is usually simplistic, and relies mostly on screens and light shows, which can down scale a lot more easily. She also doesn't have much by way of band, performers, and dancers (as opposed to Ayu's giant troupe) -- so smaller venues seem like a no brainer for her. I also think there's something that creates higher demand when it's smaller venues, because the tickets are harder to get and thus seem more elusive or something.

I applied for Kobe and Aichi and won both :) Just to make sure there's no way to know the seat until I get the tickets? Because they have A1 and A9 on them but I'm not sure if it hints the seat or not.

^ Yes, you'll only know the seat when you get your ticket

Have to say namie’s one didn’t wow me and when it ended I was like ‘ended?’. Anyway, is anyone going for the Kobe show this week?? And what time is the sale of goods? I can’t find info on the site

Right, I'm not saying which artists shows suit a smaller venue more though, but rather that smaller venues must have some kind of money making incentive for the record company considering the fact that she could have always been doing arena tours, but instead would rather do super long hall tours.

^i think i could straightforwardly say that Ayu still doesn’t suit for smaller venue like halls with the entourage she has and the kind of stage she’d always had. Unlike TA TOUR, this hall tour looked rather cramped.

The stage setting is basically the exact stage of the cdl/1st Leg just without the cat walk and the center stage and imagine all that having fit on the halls’s smaller ones. I just realized now that it might be a reason why the band isn’t present this time.

I was kinda hoping they’ll be back on the third leg, but having the shows on halls too i doubt. Not unless Ayu will cut off dancers to give way for the band which I actually prefer. We haven’t seen her tour with just band in a while.

Praying hard tomorrow will go on as planned despite the warning of typhoon

Why can ayu fans just leave namie alone. The world will never know. :o

for me personally, namies tours look all the same. despite the songs, its very monotone. its not that i dont like them but when we have a performer like ayu, it shows how performers differ.

Why can´t ppl that like both discuss the difference in performance?
It´s not that anyone is bashing namie, they just leave their opinion in mature way^^

If Namie's tour are the same, Ayu's are too!
She didn't show anything new for ages! So...

That being said, Ayu and Namie are very different. I couldn't imagine Namie offering a tour like Ayu, it isn't her. Namie prefers to focus on dance and lights and energy.
Ayu don't dance so she focus on the stage with usually a theme.

And you know what? That's totally fine by me! Ayu is Ayu and Namie is Namie.
I will miss Namie's tour so much!

The opposite can also be said.

But I wasn't saying anything critical about Namie at all. I was comparing two artists who have performed in both large arenas, as well as small hall tours. My only point was that her tours scale much more easily because she doesn't have the big show that Ayu does with an intricate stage, and tons of dancers, background singers, etc. It was all related to profitability of a hall tour and how I think Namie's overhead costs are MUCH lower than Ayu's because of all of those things, and for her, hall tours are probably hugely profitable because of that. For Ayu, even though I'm sure she's still making money, it's probably more of a significant drop for her in terms of time investment vs. profit.

^There's a way to adapt the way Ayu tours to halls keeping quality, and if she keeps touring halls I'm sure she will get there. Matsutoya Yumi has a similar style of performance and it works pretty well in halls ^^

Haven't we had this exact conversation before?:rolleyes

Just for the sake of comparing, because when you think about a grand jpop spectacle, it doesn't really gets grander than a Matsutoya Yumi concert, even Ayu or Koda at their most extravagant:

Yuming in arenas or big venues:

Yuming in halls:


This is a direction I think Ayu can take if she really scales down her concerts for now on.

Omg at 12.41pm japan time they announce today’s concert has been cancelled! I already in kobe

^ I'm so sorry for everyone who made all the way to Kobe to attend her concert :(

Long queue for buy goods. I guess the sheer number of person here in the queue shows that we don’t mind being stranded at sannomiya station. Afterall some might not even be able to go home now. If only ayu can just continue with concert.

Edit ayu came during the goods sale with her dancers for a short period

http://i.imgur.com/45XZavZl.jpg

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

https://twitter.com/absoluteicyness/...88261987328000
https://twitter.com/TA_tomomi_15/sta...98549721608193

Haha that is my account. One personnel said ok to take photo but another subsequently said no

Why was the show cancelled?

Because of a typhoon

Though I wonder, Ayu and her team were fully there as apparently a lot of fans as well already - so why not doing it as planned?
Wasn't it a bit late to cancel?
But maybe there are some safety concerns.

As far as I know public transportation is almost completly shut down during a typhoon.
And I am sure many fans could not get to the concert hall, so a re-shedule is the best way (and the fairest) Of course it´s rly bad for overseas fans but you can´t change nature. Japanese ppl whould say "Shoganai" what means "it is like it is"

^^Of course it's for safety reasons. Above all when people'll go home after concert, it'll be dangerous. I suppose it's that. Ayu is sweet to show herself even if it's cancelled. She really care about her fans. ♥

No, public transportation is not necessarily shut down during a typhoon. I was even able to fly home within a typhoon in September. But transport can be stopped at any time during that.
I guess it went stronger than expected.
I hope everyone is safe somehow.

Ayu gets some nice coverage in the media cause of her 'fanservice', how they call it:
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=2...7-spnannex-ent

The last part also says though, that there were also fans criticising her for behaving like that here, but not doing it back in Tokushima when the other concert was canceled in September.

I have foind that i am watching latest Ayu concerts just to watch them and see how she perform. Unfortunately, when i want to watch her great show, i have to watch old blurays like PoM or a wake up. Her latest shows are somehow not what she has showed for the last 15 years. They lack something.

^ Since the other concert seemed to have more time before canceling, she may not have even been in Tokushima yet? Whereas this concert seems as though it was cancelled at the very last minute, so Ayu was likely already at/around the venue.

I was expecting a Round 2 (Overseas) announcement yesterday/today since the Japanese TeamAyu confirmation deadline was yesterday. Now, I'm really wondering if there is gonna be a Round 2 even anymore

Managed to get a ticket for today and ayu allowed photography after mc. Those at first row were supppppper near to ayu, nearer than last yr’s at zepp coz basically they just rushed forward to the stage. Just before ending, ayu came down to the audience, sadly she was on the other side but I managed to high five with some of the dancers since I was at the aisle. So happy to catch it. This certain reminds me of her performance at a nation in singapore MBS hall

https://i.imgur.com/F7KY7wOl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4N0oQJLl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eKha4Khl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/uvkqGVxl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/k5LclBPl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/PEvvBell.jpg https://i.imgur.com/dfy4Hk3l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/WZaN8dxl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/GdQsHi3l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/yuRgZKDl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Ambbf2il.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Dcl0v6Bl.jpg

I love Ayu more for these! And the pic with the lil girl! <3333 looks like shes getting closer to the fans during this hall tour, very nice and sweet

Wow Aderianu were u there? Lucky u being so close.

so close!

I want to attend the Kyoto concert so bad!!!

So random, but I love that she wears a jacket over her outfit. It finishes the looks.
Also, the picture with the kid is so cute.

I guess you were really lucky.
She sounds terrible in Hiroshima and shouts really bad:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bal5uvKh-wE
https://www.instagram.com/p/BamN9NFB7Tz

oh I'm really really far from this place )

Tbh it’s not that terrible this part of B&G always sound like that and it’s seems she begins to cry during today I heard worst lol

:tconfused This sounds exactly the same than other performances of these songs in the past.

You are gettig ahead of yourself...

wow today sounds very off.

I didn’t know the Hiroshima show only lasted a few seconds of two songs. looool

It doesn't sound great but somewhat typical. Not Ayu at her best but not her worst.:shrug

I feel like she's exerting a lot from her throat :/

Boys & Girls https://www.instagram.com/p/BamVw3sAQg_/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bal_ywLgXfE/

evolution https://www.instagram.com/p/BamJ2mthUu9/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BamHkanB8W3

as for setlist
is this right?

2017.10.23 - Hiroshima: Hiroshima Cultural Academy HBG Hall
01. alterna
02. Microphone
03. GAME
- Interlude - Pieces of SEVEN
04. beloved
05. how beautiful you are
- Interlude -
06. 1 LOVE
07. Shake It ♥
08. STEP you
- Interlude -
09. kiss o' kill
10. Free & Easy
11. Mirrorcle World
12. Fly high
ENCORE
13. WORDS
14. evolution
15. Boys & Girls
16. TODAY
ENCORE 2
17. NOW & 4EVA

Ayu sounded quite good on the last evolution video!!

I didn't think she sounded so bad at the TODAY video. Yes, she was out of breath at the last (high) note, but I have heard much worse from her.

She looks so cute! And the stage is better than I thought! It`s very well planned! Nice! When is the broadcast of the second chapter? Anyone knows?

on news about it yet

Ayu was wearing red outfit for the opening today. Was it new?

^ I thing yes, because she reutilized Chapter 1 outfit of WARNING for alterna. She started Chapter 1 wearing outfit from CDL too.

Hoping that the 31st October concert will have some Halloween special :)

Oo there is no Concert on 31st October, the next is on 1st November, the re-sheduled Tokushima concert.

During CDL 14-15 I thought she souded fantastic, then I watched the TV version and for a whole year I thought she sounded fantastic and when I listen to it now I can tell how bad the vocals were. The concert was so amazing to me I couldn't admit the vocals weren't the best xD

^What? CDL 14-15 had one of the best vocals of Ayu's entire career xD Is there a chance that you mistook with another concert because I seriously can't imagine that someone finds those vocals to be bad.

Im looking for 1-2 tickets for the 19th Feb show. If anyone has tickets they want to let go, do let me know! Thank youuuu

OR

can anyone advice me are there currently still any avenues to get 2 tickets for the 19th Feb show?

Have to agree) I'm tone-deaf but for me this live is amazing in terms of vocal

YES! That CDL was amazing in general. :heart

I Liked Made in Tokyo than Made in japan to be honest. It felt fresh and fun.

Anyway, anyone here attending the 1/29 show in Nagoya?

What I can't stand of CDL 2014-2015 is the childish/helium voice she uses on forgiveness, Zutto, SURREAL and MOWY.

This one was unbearable.

They're still showing up on Ticket Pia, maybe a service like japanconcerttickets.com can help you?

http://ticket.pia.jp/pia/ticketInfor...lotRlsCd=62727

I'm going to this one and the one on the 31st :) If some more AHSers are going we should do food after the concert!

Rescheduled live performance

2017.10.22 - Hyogo: Kobe International Hall
Doors open 17:00 - Start 18:00
↓
2017.11.15 - Hyogo: Kobe International Hall
Doors open 18:00 - Start 19:00

did anyone manage to get tickets for 31 Dec show?

Sad I couldn’t get leave to attend. :(

Aren't you scheduled to come down with the flu that day? ;)

few photos from today's encore

http://i.imgur.com/kUkL8cal.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RyvdLegl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XiOh9Kyl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/d0SP4agl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XVJZiX7l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/q8kPJBEl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6Qnb8pul.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0thA55el.jpg http://i.imgur.com/s0HpZjSl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BMWFntql.jpg

Wow thanks for sharing!

I'll be landing in Japan then so I chose 1/31 to make sure I can make it, I'm also going in Kobe. Those are two tickets I got through TA.

Can I join? :)

Thanks, things were getting a little out of control (not pun intended) here :yes

I was trying to research and I realized...Ayu has never performed in Okinawa before??? Or at least in the past 7 years?

No costume?