She's really pulling out the rare songs if she performed Present lol. I don't even remember what it sounds like.

^ dito xD I think I never ever listened to it before, I think I will wait for a recording of the tour before I listen to the song, a nice little surprise^^

Haha Present it stuck in my head. I hear the melody like eveyday. One of the most outstanding songs from that album imo. ^^

Present...really? I listened to it yesterday!

Present is ok, it's not my fave ASFXX song, but I am glad she is performing the older songs which she has never sang live in the past.

We still don't know if Present was mistaken for something else..

I'll stick "It might've been performed" in the first page.

Replaced videos.







Last two are in HD.

Oh my mistake. I wrote "Present" but it is "Signal" ~~ Sorry for the confusion.

About the MC, Yoshio did not speak at all.

Subaru was dressed as a teacher and tought Ayu a game in french we call " 1,2,3, Soleil" with some other male dancers.

To resume it :

Ayu is front of the public and dancers are behind her on the stairs on the scene.

Then, Ayu has to say the equivalent of 123 soleil but in japanese (cant remember what she had to say).

While she speaks and has the dancers on her back, they have to move forwards to try to reach her.

Then, when she finishes her sentence, she turns around to face them.
At this time, they must stop and make no move or they are eliminated.

So you can have a strange pose and have to keep it until she decides to turn again.

2 difficulties :

- she can pronounce the sentence as fast as she wants to
- you have to keep the pose until she decides to continue

It was really funny, even if I could not understand everything they spoke about.

There were also a few questions from fans but not as much as previous MCs.
No dance teaching this time.

EDIT : photos

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^ Thanks! Good thing SIGNAL <3 is still there.

@ Insanes: Cool photos! :)

ahhh....i will stop to watch fancam...i want to give suprise to myself when watch it on dvd...thanks for sharing though...

insanes - you got the ball that ayu signed?! wow...and can you scan those tour pamflet...i would love to see inside it

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The photos.

Thank you Insanes for the information and pics!
The pics are great.

LOL bless them for playing this game there xD
(In my country it's called 1 2 3 salt fish lol).

Is that 1 2 3 stop? Sounds like it.

Thanks for the pics! And aww Yoshio didn't speak at all during the MC!? :(

is 1 2 3 stop the same thing as red light green light? lol

Ah, that must be the 'Daruma-san ga Koronda' game I read about!

@AyuGAME

Photos in the booklet come from the PCDL.

I'm in Japan now so I can't scan it but I'll try when I'll be at home again.

And yes, I got the ball Ayu signed during MC. A dancer also signed it. I was lucky.　Just rose my hands to get it.

Is it Shu-ya? :P

Okay the game sounds REALLY FUN. I hope they either include that in the DVD (I think they would) or just continue this game for the rest for the tour (maybe at different stops, she can do with the female dancers, her band, her staff, etc)... after 8 years of MC-hosting it's time Yo-chan stops for a while lol ^^

Thanks for the MC review~

Insanes - OMG!!! you are so lucky, directly from ayu hand?! wow...congrats to got it...
yeah please scan it if you can...thanks...

Oh you're so lucky to get one of those signed balls!!! And I am SO GLAD to hear they didn't teach the MY ALL dance! And that's weird that YO CHAN didn't speak... well, they were playing that game. Haha.

WOW to get that ball!!! O.o
Who is the dancer?! :)

I used to play it too when I was a kid, here it's called 1,2,3 Baba Jaga Patrzy (1,2,3 a Witch is watching), I want to see them playing on dvd :)

Lucky lucky. I want to see her play that game.

GRRRR! I'm jealous! Lol.
Last year the kid next to me grabbed mine on me! :(

Hehe... That is so cool! Everytime I watch any of her LIVES I think that it's almost impossible to get those balls. But looks like it's not.:P

I think that game is red light green light in English!!
That sounds so fun!
And awesome to get a signed ball!!
And the tour goods look so sweet!

Ayu threw out the balls (I was there) basically it's REALLY hard to get the balls unless you are within 10 meter to the stage or the catwalk or you are tall enough

I'm glad to hear about the possible upcoming changes. Especially about Present. I've been dying for a live performance of that for so long!

^ Present was already confirmed as false information, the poster mistook SIGNAL for Present

^ Oh crap :( I read it on a different board and got excited.

Awww... SIGNAL is better anyway LOL.

^ yeah xD

signed xD

I like Signal better too, but at least its been performed before. Present is a great concert ender that she should do sometime.

Well we've only seen 2 minutes of it xD It'd like to see/hear the 2nd verse too (on the DVD). Honestly Present wouldn't really fit the general mood of the tour (if it wasn't the part of the encore). But yeah I'd like to see it performed once :)

my friend said that it's speculated that a song is born was performed, does anyone else have any news/rumors of this??

^ I would really look forward to that :D But no one has mentioned it here, yet.

I don't think she'd perform A Song is born. :P

i would love that. her acapella of it at AT08 was great

Hey, I was at the concert too. It was a great show!! I post here scans of the pictures I took.
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In Hiroshima, A Song is Born, specially for Hiroshima.
The first day seemed to be sung with all instrumentals,
And second day, she cut Curtain Call and For my dear,
and sang a song is born just acapella.

This comes from MANY reports in mixi~
And in a side note, Maro sang a song in one of the dates in the encore~
I dont know how long the song was~ but he sung!
And people said he could sing good~

^ Do you think a song is born sung in Hiroshima is to somehow... I don't know "remember" the bombing during WWII? Hiroshima was one of the places right?

awesome! i love her acapellas. :angel

^(x2) yeah, Hiroshima and Nagasaki... maybe you're right ^^ I think it's awesome if ayu did it!! so nice :)

indeed! singing "a song is born" in Hiroshima's concerts

ARENA TOUR 2009 ~ NEXT LEVEL ~ HIROSHIMA concert report setlist:

- 2009/05/16 -

...

[ENCORE]

19.Curtain call
20.For My Dear...
21.A Song is born
22.everywhere nowhere
23.Humming 7/4
24.Boys & Girls
25.MY ALL


- 2009/05/17 -

...

[ENCORE]

Curtain call
For My Dear...
19.everywhere nowhere
20.Humming 7/4
21.Boys & Girls
22.MY ALL
23.A Song is born (acapella Version)

^ they better include it on DVD T_T

After not including Life, I DOUBT IT. -sad-

Agree T_T

Ah I hope they don´t cancel the Concerts in Osaka, my friend shall buy me a keychain there *prays*

She sang the acapella AFTER MY ALL? Wow. Is it like, after all the dancers and band members are gone and before she says the "arigato gozaimasu"? Whoa.

The fact that they included so many a capellas and not Life the last year annoyed me T_T I just hope that A Song is Born isn't going to end up the same way as it's been ages since it was performed >.< and I'd really like to hear it again.

It was acappella'd last tour though.

Still :( The last time she did the song was in that World EXPO in 2004 (or 5). And the last time it was actually performed in a concert was on Stadium tour if my memory serves me well :)

Maybe she wants to keep it for special occasions? Probably this year's CDL if all goes well. Or a-nation.

Awwwh, oh man I almost forgot that they didn't include Life in the AT2008 DVD. Now I'm suddenly sad. :(

But a song is born aside, does that mean Ayu might make other additions to the setlist later on? Like... include SEASONS? :D :D :D Can't wait for the other surprises.

Wow. I'm surprised. After MY ALL. Weird. xD

-____- I want to see it!!! but I would be dissapointed if I'm there and she don't sing curtain call and for my dear... the first day is the best, with the instrumental and without delating any performance...

well... they included Momentum, Jewel and Memorial Addres in AT'07 documentary... I hope she'll do the same with a song is born...


and... well... about the changes there'll be for the second leg of the tour... I mean... we don't know if all will change, the stage and all the tracklist... If they only change a few songs I hope there'll be a TV version like with AT 08... but if not... if everything is diferent... there'll be.... 2 DVD's?? DISC1 for 1st leg, DISC2 second leg and DISC3 extras?? because if all is different I want to see how the first leg was.... -____-

I think she'll probably put glimpses of the first leg in a documentary/making video, but.. other than that.. nothing.

Hopefully the second leg is jampacked with hotness. People seem to be underwhelmed by her performances this year.

Ooooh I truly hope that she will have some making of this tour in the future DVD! Its like my favourite part everytime! :D

There is a message popping in ayu's official website:

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It has something to do with influenza, maybe they fear?
Those shows are supposed to be in Osaka (I think).

Wow so the last dates are moved to Osaka...? Thats a bummer... :( Then I might not get to catch those shows...

Or maybe they will broadcast in november the last permormace of the 1st leg, and then the DVD will only have the second leg... (who knows if it will bring documentary or extras... but since this tour has no special meaning as BofCDL is a best, AT07 first ASIA tour, or CDL 07-08 the anniversary... maybe will be extras again...)


I also hope the tour will change to a darker and hotter subject... I want more memorial and my story in the tracklist...

oh my... i never thought the flu will affect ayu's concert too

So what happen with those two days? Why were they moved?

It seems that those are caution regulations for those shows. XD

rough translation of that pop up information

they don't move the dates...just asking the audience to wash their hands, if having flu or sick, wear mask.. and etc...
i think that Osaka has been suspected to have the Swine Flu victim?

So its just more precautions?
and its not avian flu lol

^

that's what mr.google translated hahaha...

hope everybody will be alright...

Actually, the message is talking about the swine flu. (I put the message into another translation site, and it was talking about the "new influenza", which is what they call the swine flu in Japan.) Apparently the swine flu is really spreading around fast in Japan, so I guess they're posting this to make sure people keep themselves healthy and precautious and such.

Ah okok! Well that is only good. But Osaka is like one of the most infected places in Japan right? Like schools and such are closed? O.o

yes with another place but I forget the name.
It's a good decision to take precautions

Ah so they didn´t cancel as I feared 1 page before.
My friend is studying near Osaka, she said all schools (inc. her uni) and other official buildings were closed down for one week and many happenings were canceled.
They are not even aloud to take one feet at the campus.

Hyogo and Osaka are the ones affected most, so they are telling you how to take precautions before the opening and during the concert.
Nothing is moved or modified~ dont worry! ahaha.

I'm glad they're taking precautions to make sure everyone is safe. Too many sick people in a concert hall for several hours is not a good thing, even if it is to see Ayu haha.

^I'm sure they will. Aren't Japanese people usually diligent when it comes to colds/influenzas? :P

I'm not really surprised that Japanese people are concern about the flu... I see they use the masks when they get a little sick...
Here in Mexico, the Hn1 something virus gave big trouble... Even though almost no one from where I lived was sick of that, (more than 2 weeks of vacations! yet they have already said the school will end 1 or 2 weeks later :(... ), people were freaking out and wearing those masks.
Last week, when we entered school, they also made us watch our hands and that sort of things, yet I guess it's good to take precautions.

According to this article: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/music/66263/
Avex has cancelled the concerts of Ayu, Ai and Kumi in Osaka.

Press release: http://www.avex.co.jp/j_site/press/2009/090519.pdf

Ouch, the spread of the virus must have gotten more serious.

^
^
but she said in her TA message she was going to Osaka... -___-

well.. we'll see...

=O Oh wow...

I'm not surprised, actually. If they're shutting down school systems, I'm not surprised they're canceling concerts.

Thankfully, Ayu has more Osaka concerts in July, but I wouldn't be surprised if she adds more additional Osaka dates because of the cancellation of these.

^Yeah probably. If the spred of the virus will slow down that will say...

It's good they cancelled those shows.

Less 2 shows but it's still ayu's longest tour. =D

Oh no!

TRICK TOUR too! T_____T

noooo!
But... i think is the better option u.u

It's normal they have cancelled the shows... it is said that to prevent the flu people have to avoid big masses of people... and thousands of people closed in the venue sure is not a prevention...

Here, some more details: http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90215

Aren't they going to rearrange the dates or make Osaka the DVD show? I'm sure Avex doesn't want to loose out on all that money lol.

Well, people already paid, so they could reschedule some dates around.

from ayu and her tour xD

someone knows if ayu did some new screen videos or mini-movies for this tour?

I think the interludes used in this tour [all of them] had some movie attached to them.

wow really? GREAT NEWS!
i love to make grow my "album dvds" including the interlude pvs :D

i got my ticket email from team ayu, i got tickets to the oct 22nd show for sure :D I just have to go to a convenience store and pay for them ^_^ Keeping my fingers crossed for seats near the front or the center stage :D But my friend and I both ordered 2 tickets each, so whoever has the better tickets, we'll sell the other ones ^_^

edit: my friend didn't end up getting tickets from the raffle, so my tickets will have to do! hahaha