Thanks alot kiseki89 for the nice pictures!

thanks for the good quality pictures!!
i wanna see right now my name's WOMEN

Question:

Do you think ayu can make it to the nest bird at beijing? does she has fans over there?.:shrug

Well, I can't imagine that... I guess she has lots of fans, but she's not THAT big overseas to fill up a whole olympic stadium! But I wish she did stadium tours in Japan more often haha, I'm kinda bored of so many arena tours

LOL well it doesn't matter if there's not enough fans in china because all her fans from other countries will flock to beijing? If she really can she will make headlines all around the world for days, and she will also have to recruit many many more dancers. Ayu in the middle of bird nest singing?..i would like to see that =]

I see, thanks! I hope she makes it happen in the future :D

thx to the article kiseki! the descripion is good! but did they wrote (d)lma wrongly?

I was thinking about the opening... I've never watch it, so how she appears on stage and starts Talkin' 2 Myself??? I hope not an Ourselves or Evolution AT2007 opening

The opening isnt on any public vid yet so the only ones to know how the opening was, is those who was there.

Yes, but i thought someone who went had told it somewhere in the forum.
Anyway, it must have been amazing

Thank you fro replying ) I still think that there MUST be some bootleg but maybe the owner is reluctant to share ((

Ayu is doing a concert tomorrow and the day after in HK, so remember to post here if you have any stories / news / photos. I will repost any photos on the main page so PLEASE use ImageShack.

i want to ask before the concert start is it ok to take some photos inside the venue ?

this is my 1st time go to ayu concert.

I am not sure what the policy is there, but in Yoyogi they were extremely strict about prohibiting photography inside.

can i request that the pics/setlist/information about AT2008 overseas stop be made in a separate thread? it's neater i guess..

But no issues if no one agrees.. :)

The beginning of the concert starts with reBiRTH playing while a video is shown of all her covers, and then they come together to form Ayu's logo, which is followed by a video that goes along with an extended version of The Judgement Day. The video shows Ayu with a massive steering wheel from a ship, and the video ends on a close-up of her feet as she walks down a flight of stairs. The lights go out, save for two white spotlights shining up from the floor from the back of the stage. Ayu rises up from below center stage on a platform in front of the lights (so she is in shadow, all you can see is her figure outlined) and sings the last two lines of the chorus acapella before bringing her arms out and slamming them down...when she brings them down, the band starts up, the lights go on, and pyrotechnics go off on the front of the stage (I remember that part because they were so loud I shrieked.)

And that's how it all begins. :D The extended ver. of The Judgement Day is epic. I want the DVD nowwww~

I know at Yoyogi they really didn't want people to take pictures, but I don't think they care too much as long as you don't take pictures during the concert. Before and after is fine, I think. =)

cause i didn't see people who go to shanghai concert last year share the information about camera..

cause i afraid that they will took my camera ^^;;;

really can't wait for the report of HK concert...
want to see some pics and read some info

yay it should be soon when we find out info from the concert right?? in a couple hours?

:)

can't wait to see if she made some changes!!

i went to misia's concert in singapore last week, and they kindly put your camera to the deposit center. but i think there's still phone camera which can took photo

I think..her concerts oveR?

i think she most probably gonna end the concert with Who.. Chinese version instead of MY ALL, which i learned the dance already.. :(

No, she can't do that. MY ALL was made for the end of this tour I think. (And like everyone watching probably wants to do the MY ALL dance.)

Who... (Chinese) will probably open the Encore segment, replacing Dearest or Voyage. She's definitely changing the setlist somehow though.. maybe even more drastically compared to AT07 since she had months to reprepare.

^ of cos i wished MY ALL will be performed. I shall not make anymore assumptions haha.

waiting for someone to blog about the setlist and then u can grab those info to here! :P

Isnt the concert over by now? o.o

I WANNA SEE .. wad changes!!! lol

just back home from the concert...Asia-World Expo is really a long way = =

1. The setlist is exactly the same in previous, she didn't sang the Chinese version of "Who..."
2. In the beginng of "A song for xx", Ayu wrongly "started" sing the song earlier...
3. When the encore begin, Ayu immediately started the MC and later yo chan told Ayu she remember wrongly~
4. In the MC part, one dancer came out and teach the steps of "MY ALL" in mandarin

Overall it is a wonderful concert (I like mariontte most), but Ayu's voice seems a little but strange (maybe she got a cold?), she can't reach some high notes (eg.Dearest)

Also, I really doubt that her left ear was not fully deaf...since she use the earphones in both ears...

thanks for the briefeng :) can't wait for pictures och news videoclips :)

You didn't catch the discussion about the earphones did you? She still uses both of them because it'd be impractical to just cut off the other one. It's not like she can hear anything from one of them. They probably still stick sound into the left earbud just because.

That sucks. I seriously wanna smack those guards.

Jin san is so cute speaking in madarine and he speaks so well.
The MY ALL dance is really nice!

Ayu also made a mistake when singing independent

and I really love the mirrorcle world performance!

But the setlist isn't the same. One song is different. :)

JAPAN SETLIST:
1.reBIRTH
2.The Judgement Day
3.talkin' 2 myself
4.is this LOVE?
5.Depend on you
6.Fly high
7.(don't)Leave me alone
8.decision
9.my name's WOMEN
10.Marionette-prelude-
11.Marionette
12.HANABI
13.End roll
14.SURREAL～evolution～SURREAL
15.Mirrorcle World
~ENCORE~
16.Dearest
17.Voyage
- MC -
18.independent
19.Boys&Girls
20.MY ALL

HONG KONG SETLIST:
1.reBIRTH
2.The Judgement Day
3.talkin' 2 myself
4.A Song For XX
5.Depend on you
6.Fly high
7.(don't)Leave me alone
8.decision
9.my name's WOMEN
10.Marionette-prelude-
11.Marionette
12.HANABI
13.End roll
14.SURREAL～evolution～SURREAL
15.Mirrorcle World
~ENCORE~
16.Dearest
17.Voyage
- MC -
18.independent
19.Boys&Girls
20.MY ALL

^I't's a nice change.

i'm glad she changed something!!
but i want her to sing who... in chinese!

A song for XX?? Did she sing asfxx in the japanesse tour?

thansk for the info!

^EDIT aaa okey i havn't seen Mary-Tina's message ^^

ok, nice change ^^

bye!

hope this wasn't posted yet...found youtube clips from the HK concert

marionette...awesome!! :love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWQKYTAKkfU

MY ALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kkF4PvPW8w

^OMG!!!!!!!!!

MARIONETTE IS SOOOO COOOL *----------*!


tnx a LOT for the links >w<!!!

Wow, that person got really good seats! That's some of the best cam video from a concert i've seen in ages.

The marionette clip ROCKS.

no acapella..?

Glad we get to see it before it gets removed, ty for the links. :)

Edit: Man I want to see her live. :(

Love the Marionette performance! :D And she certainly did NOT lip-synch!

Marionette performance is so AWESOME!

it's a great show indeed, judging from MY ALL and Marionette videos..

ooohhhh..i'm so wanna go there..

Marionette perf is sooo amazing O_O
And the choreography was so mesmerizing.
Everyone was completely synchronized.


Totally kick ass!

maybe because of the vid quality cery low but i still can hear ayu sounds quite out of tune...she can even reach the Marionette 'high' notes

Marionette is soooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!! i love it. Can see that the pink ribbon on the white dress had been changed to a blood red riboon.. :P

MY ALL.. ayu isnt wearing the beret anymore.. She still looks stunning. Does the stage has an extended runway?? or it's just like the concert last yr in HK Coliseum??

And.. changing is this LOVE? to A Song for XX... it's a nice change. But both talkin' 2 myself and is this LOVE? are rock songs. How can A Song for XX fit in?? i wanna see!!

The runway is extended.
Also, Ayu really cried after HANABI...forgot to mention yesterday...

Looking forward to the 2nd show tonight :luv2

Wow, Marionette 0__________0 the performance looks so awesome! I hope the DVD could show both concerts, both the Asian leg and Japan one. Or at least, show both the ASFXX and Is This Love? performances, because I love theeeem.

LOL, notice at the introduction of dancers, it's like "wooo~" and then comes ZIN and Shuya, it became "WHOOOOAAA~" XD Maro too, a little. :laugh

i like the marionette performance and her vocal sounds alright

and i like how sincere and energetic she performed in MY ALL

Yea, U can hear some parts were off in Marionette....o gosh she does the puppet SO WELLLLL!!! O.O
and its like...from that video..she looks like a doll HAHAH

MY ALL is nice! I love her new look. the a-nation look. no fringe hahaha

Hmm, that's a pretty loose encore shirt she's wearing. What happened to her baby tees? XD

ThX for the links! I think MY ALL sounded pretty okay but her voice in Marionette was pretty off... >.< But the performance was very cool! Amazing!

aww..no beret~
marionette's performance looks awesome! ayu is like doing the robot in very slow-mo ;)

I liked both performances :D And so much for her lip-syncing Marionette :p

I think that she sings better than at her last concert in Japan :hmm:

Wow, ayu sounds awesome in the Marionette video!

OMG OMG MARIONETTE

thanks for the link i love her performance

i like the marionette, pretty good

but i'm alittle bit dissapoint there's no big change from japan's setlist

Wow, the two videos are pretty good. I really can't wait for the DVD of this tour... and I hope they'll include A Song For XX inside some 3rd disc or something, since they'll most likely show the last tour from Japan on the DVD instead.

And she literally wept after HANABI? Well, perhaps some scars will just never heal...

Wow... the marionette perf looks so cool XD

Report from a user at JPM named ricekid. It was his first Ayu concert, so I dunno if he knew what he was going to get..

I went back from her 2nd concert in HK~!! Her voice was much better than yesterday!!:luv2

Things different from 20/9 show:
1. In the MC part, Ayu sang the acappella of "Who..." !!
2. When ZIN was teaching the steps of MY ALL, Ayu also teach and said a lot of mandarin~
3. Before the encore, the dancing A-logo shows a sentence of "今日去澳門呀" (Today go to Macau), it is not sure whether she went to Macau today or go to Macau after the concert (tomorrow?)
4. Independent was not performed today, it propably because of the acappella performance and the late start of the show (nearly 15minutes later than yesterday...started at around 8:35pm)

Ah, that's nice~

Thanks for the update! I'm gonna add your info to the first post!

*scratches head*

I just don't know what to make of that guy's review. :doh

I went to the Ayu concert at 09/21 and it was AMAZING !!!
MUCH MUCH MUCH better than 07 concert IMO

her singing and vibrato has improved a lot and it was just jaw-dropping altogether

Lol I watched today. It was simply amazing since I watched her super close (I was the pink glowstick in the center near the front)
WA!!
ayu !! sugoi!

Wow, I'd feel SO cheated if I payed a huge amount of money to have good seats, and she doesn't do indepentent or leaves out an other song.

I agree with that. I hate dancing and plotlines for the ballads and most songs for that matter. They're almost ALWAYS recycled. Like, DROP them and then once in a while come up with something original. -__- I hope Shuya doesn't dance DURING HANABI. That would suck SO MUCH, but from the news clip I don't think he does.

Obviously, you don't know that circumstances can change things. They got Who.. instead of independent. IMO Who... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> independent ANY DAY.

And btw, there was once where an MC was cancelled due to an earthquake in Fukuoka during the concert.

Ooooh circumstances. Let's leave out the entire encore next time because of "circumstances".

Who... is acapella and really short. Independent is much more fun at a concert imo.

I'd forgive them if they left it out because the audience wasn't into it though lol.

Yea, I agree. Singing >>>>> show. I'd rather have her sing until that Day... live and without the choreography than lip synched and with all the show.

They also started later than usual, if you didn't catch that. There might've been a strict timeframe in which Ayu had to finish the concert by, so independent had to be scrapped, or was decidedly scrapped before the concert began.

The interlude vids seem so cool!

Lol wut?

Regardless of the reason (why did you start about that anyway?) I'd feel very cheated if they left a song out of the set list. Period.

Well, certain situations cause certain effects.

AT03-04 was riddled with randomness, and some songs were taken out of the setlist during certain shows and some were left in [RAINBOW, random songs in the middle of the setlist.. etc] I have no idea why, but it happens.

I don't see why it'd be a problem, since most concert goers try to stay blissfully unaware of the setlist until they see the concert for the first time in Japan. Setlists in Japan are often labelled with "NETABARE" aka SPOILER TAGS so that people don't figure it out too quickly.

Wait wut

A problem to who?

Yeah?

Wut?

more pics:

http://www.dahe.cn/xwzx/yl/ylyy/t20080922_1389663.htm
http://music.ent.tom.com/2008-09-22/000B/07297725.html

so slim looking!

Whoa, are those new pictures?? Or just larger resolutions of the same pictures we've seen?

EDIT: Oh hey, she's not wearing the white shirt under the DoY outfit!

looks like pics from the HK concert..right? her hair is different!

WAHHHH AYU IS PRETTIER IN THIS LEG OF THE TOUR!!!...i rather she had no fringe! and yea slimmer...hahaha

she is much prettier now hahaha...

and i too dunno wad to make out of that guy's comments...guess, he was expecting perfection...sadly

uhh my GAWD....

my friend was calling his friend during LIVE and she sang really well for Mirrorcle world

ayu changed the mirrorcle world inner outfit and hat! I like this hair more. :D

is that me you were talking about..i dunno, i listen to it, and its quite good compared to the one she sang live for the TV show...and the extension after the MW song finished is cool~

http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?...1347271231&p=0
don't know if this video have been posted or not~
the goods still amazes me every time i see them
MW looks so good!!!

Wow Ayu has a much cooler cap for MW now. XDD
Also, is it just me or did the outfits get more revealing for this leg of the tour? XD

Maybe Ayu will release two versions of the DVD? The JPN version and the HK version? But then again.. that means waiting another 5 months for it. D:

lol I think I need to offer a balance to the report by the person at JPM. (Someone at JPM read my report??)

Well this sure is a pessimistic way to look at the concert. It's understandable to be disappointed because it's not what you expect it to be, but it's up to the audience in the end to make it the best they can with what there is. If nobody else knows what's going on, show them! When I stood up (being the only person standing up in an entire block is seriously awkward), the entire row behind me followed. When I did the special move in Fly high, so did the others.

Not true! Even in Japan, the "A~A~A~Ayu" 'A' symbol chanting and clapping doesn't last all the way throughout. Neither does the shouting. It comes in tides no matter where you are. I don't know where the idea that people weren't getting into it was coming from but there were plenty of people who wanted to stand up and dance, including myself and my sister, even though through half of the concert, we weren't allowed to. So the stadium wasn't full of people with glowing sticks, nor did everyone really know what was going on all the time, but as part of the audience, you can't enjoy the show if you don't make the most out of it.

In every part of the stadium, there are a few people who actually know what they're supposed to do. At first, not many did the fist pumping for "Wow~yeah" in 'evolution', but eventually, lots of people followed the lead of those who knew it (there were actually quite a few), didn't they? From where I was, I saw the entire stadium move in unison for Fly high, Boys & Girls, and evolution.

I'd have to agree with you on the DoY comment. HOWEVER, the performance in HK was actually better than the one in Japan, because back in Japan, maybe Ayu's voice was in lesser condition, it sounded really scratched while she was trying to change her voice to make it nasal for the song. Her voice was smoother this time round and it was better suited. I'm still grateful that she sang this song.

When Ayu said "Vocal, Ayu deshita" like she does in every concert, there wasn't a cheering uproar like there was supposed to be because most people misunderstood and thought whatever she said BEFORE was "Ayu deshita". The loudest cheering came right BEFORE "Ayu deshita", and that was why the stadium was a lot quieter when it wasn't supposed to be. But don't let the language barrier dampen the mood. :)

Boys & Girls-- well, I was singing... I was probably one of the few people who did the proper B&G moves, at least in my part of the stadium. I'm sure a lot of others that I didn't see did it too. I seriously had the most fun in B&G. I don't know why you thought it was awkward when you could have sung too.

As for the off-pitchness, that's actually kinda normal. She wasn't even that offpitch most of the time, just some flat notes here and there which is kind of what is expected. She sounded better in MW than she did during the 6/29 performance. She didn't go offkey or cry during MY ALL. I think it's actually a really good concert. I came out of the stadium afterwards and couldn't stop grinning.

Haha, because she lost weight again. : D I prefer this look to the other one, but I'm afraid they'll put the Yoyogi version on the DVD where some stuff went wrong. .__.

Shuya bound with a collar..haha (I wonder if Maro was one of the decision dancers too O_O). And if this time Midoring was a my name's WOMEN dancer. Idk who I'm seeing in the image. XD

Is not crying a good thing? =p

I don't know what the whole issue with the moves is, and with others not knowing them. o.O IMO they're mostly kinda silly. Of course when I go, I'll do them, but I liked her non-choreographies pre-2002-ish more. ^^ Jumping and pointing your hand into the air ala rock concerts is awesome. =p

lol i read the article (the chinese news article) and its quite funny

since when shu-ya is ayu's gossip BF? i thought its only the role he made, and not really making a real relationship.

I went to the 09/21 HK concert and calling anything less than breath-taking would be an understatement ...

I was sitting 10 rows from the runway around the middle portion and Ayumi was so up-close the whole concert ! Her singing really seem to be better this year IMO because her annoying vibrato is gone and she look so much hotter than last year concert at HK ...

Fans involvement was not bad at all .. or not as bad as that review up there .. I would say at least 50% of the crowd participated throughout the concert ... many people around me never touch their seats since the light is off LOL

Whoa this concert seems more exciting as each day passes! I honestly just can't wait for the DVD to be released!

And for that JPM "report", well I don't know, but I think he made a lot of unnecessary complaints? Like how he said it was more show than singing... I guess, in a way, because she has lost the hearing of her left ear, she needed to compensate for the lesser musicality (although I really don't think it's any lesser), that's why the whole show-y concert.

In fact, she has been doing very dramatic and grandeur concerts since like when, AT 05? That is a new generation of her concerts, not the ones you get pre-2005... so I don't know.

I want a Fly high uniform.They're so cool!

Anyways,she should have sung independent instead of Dearest.The crowd would love it!

I thought all the dancers for Decision has collars with chains. Man, the bondage theme just gets better every year. XD Is Kayanocchi being the backup singer again? I wonder who replaced Yuri or Yuki or whatever her name was in the AT05 performance?

She changed up some of the costumes a little bit...

t2m/ASFXX: it's two pieces now...it used to be one
DoY/Fly High: the white shirt underneath is gone..
Mirrorcle World: different hat and a completely different dress underneath *I think*

she changes her MW hat into this nice one
so she doesnt have to put on wig ^^

I love each and every photo, and ayu certainly looked much better, and silmmer than when she was performing in japan.

I enjoyed watching the short video of marionette and MY ALL too; they are simply amazing.

Im also glad that to see many hongkong fans posting their experiences and opinions about the concerts (thanks for everything); all these make me more excited about the release of at08 dvd! X]

And thank god for that! I mean the other costumes with heavy textures ans such made her look bigger then she was. So this "slimmer" look doesnt suprice me since some things have changed to the better.

Thx for the pics!!

seems like her vocals are an issue these days...but i'll just take all the audience's word for it...
wadeva the case, she still delivered im sure

i love all her new looks...i HOPE they can have a seperate ASIA DVD...really hope
i dun mind

anyway, SHE SOUNDS GD IN MW!!!

^

I really hope they'll use one of the oversea concerts for the DVD, but I doubt it as Yoyogi had a TON of cameras from what people said. But at Yoyogi, she still had the bad MW outfit, the fattening t2m outfit, no A Song for XX, her vocals were worse if I compare the Yoyogi newsclip with the HK newsclip, the my name's WOMEN costume fell apart and the intro of Dearest was messed up.