Thanks so so much for the recording!!!! Finally I can hear my favourite Heartplace and Key ~eternal tie vers. in live voice
but sadly she really struggled to hit those high notes in the last verse of Heartplace..

God bless you, JEWELian!

Thanks a lot for the recording!

thank you for recording and sharing!! <3

She sounds really good!
Currently I am listening to the part where they play the remixes (for the dancer's part)
and it is frustrating me all over again that we haven't had a remix album in such a long time T_____T *cries alone in the corner*

Thank you so much. I'm so happy that someone finally recorded the show. And she SANG DOLLS!! I'M SO HAPPY.

UNITE yeahhh

Thaaaaank you for the recording! <3

Glad to see Dolls performed and it's great to see Unite back!

Thank you very much!!

Finally Dolls!! :D one of her most underrated songs. I really hope there is some plan to release this tour with all the diferent songs, but after 15th anniversary (when it didn't happen) I have my hopes so low :(

Thank you so much for recording and sharing!!

She sounds pretty good, not perfect but I'd be happy to hear her live like this. Especially, considering some of the songs she's performing! Super excited about the acapellas, Letter and Heartplace! Other songs too but can't remember those right now :laugh

I do hope that all those different songs she's switching around and singing will end up on a DVD but I really doubt we'll get that. Considering the last TA tour, I'd be happy if we get any kind of DVD in the near future. But let's see, since this is still going on one can't really tell what she's going to do with it.

Has anyone else close to the front seen them filming?

There was a camera guy filming the whole concert on her birthday, but I wonder if they're filming all of the shows or that one in particular for some later use.

There's a permeant filming crew that travels with Ayu when she tours. Every show is recorded for archive purposes and for her to watch back before the next performance to check for any mistakes or things that can be improved.

I'm sorry, but I've been waiting forever to hear Days and couldn't help myself lol

I agree :) but all this why she wont, sort of how dare she attitude for not singing a song. Its her music, her words, her choice :)

We don't even know the true meanings to most of her songs, they just can apply to so many different situations and she has never really gone into depth about them. It would be stupid and naive to think we understand her from her stage life. She may also not like the song that much. Its not up to us what gets sung. If she sings it, she will, if she has her reasons, she has her reasons, end of story :)

Thank you for the recording...

will give my thought later..listening to it right now...

Her voice is sooooo goood

and omg...I think one of the best is in TSMGO!!! The part immediately after the woah woah woah yeah yeah yeah part... <3

^that part is apparently a pre-recorded voice over. Ayu was only dancing abit on that part without singing on her mic.

YAASSS KEY!!!

Hey guys, what are those?



Because this one says It was and I don't want to start being happy for nothing...

have no idea why ayu post this
maybe to tease fans


http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...psb2b7393c.png

Does Ayu post this? I only see it in For"A"ver Club on FaceBook

she uses this pic as cover on her twitter page

Sorrows - She did a good job..not an easy song..
Startin' - Perfect vocal..
Unite - not as strong as usual...kinda shaky especially on the chorus part.
Last Minute - she always did a good job singing this song
Heart Place - she struggling...but not that bad..
Days - off key here and there...but it's fine
Beloved - good job
Summer Diary - good job, but I feel that she kinda running out of breath
Dolls (acapella) - she always did a good job on acapella. maybe because she is half deaf, she can't clearly hear her vocal if there is a background music.
Key ~eternal tie vers. - struggling a little bit..but the emotion reach me
XOXO-Lelio-Sparkle-Feel the love-You & Me - good job, she nailed it
Love Song - she did good job singing this song like usual, not perfect but 8.5/10
Evolution-Surreal - well..very fun song, she can sing these two songs in her sleep
The Show Must Go On - wow..she did a good job with this song..her voice is so stable..even though the beat is so fast...
Replace - what a nostalgic song...her vocal is good here..
My All - always love the song and she did amazing job...I wonder if everyone still did that hand movement in that crowded room

It was? :O

Tonight:

09. Dolls (acapella chorus) -> part of Me (acapella chorus)
10. Key -> HEAVEN
13. evolution~SURREAL -> Boys & Girls

I'll post the audio tomorrow or Thursday.

Thank you! So M is still missing.

Yeah. And no Present either >.< I'm so sick of MY ALL.

Also in the MC Yo-Chan was talking about tomorrow being the day from Back to the Future and ayu said she didn't know what that was lmao clearly she's never been to Universal Studios

And fk okay I've not said anything about Timmy for a few years now but seriously, her bringing him out this tour was just a new low. Both nights it was the same routine of Timmy pretending to barely speak or understand Japanese and not know anything blah blah blah. He's been living here for four years! FOUR YEARS. Even someone who is terrible at picking up languages would surely have learned how to actually talk without just bumbling around. It's sad that the one foreigner in the show is just being used to reinforce negative stereotypes. And it's also sad that Timmy goes along with it. (Shows how desperate he is I guess for his pop star lifestyle).

I knew she won't sing It was :(

I meet a guy that's has been in the USA for 14 years and doesn't know a word in English It happens. Maybe Timmy just wants to be funny. :yes

Tears!! I want it was too.

I don't think it's an act, sadly. During the LINE live fast they did before the start of the tour the emcee asked him a pretty basic question and his answer was like...completely not even related to what had been asked. :shakehead

In his defense my aunt has been living in U.S. for the past 17-18 years and still doesn't talk any english.

When you go for a country which has totally different alphabets and grammar structure, I dont think it's that impossible not to get the basics after some years... Of course it also needs some effort from his part, but I dont think it's cause he's a duck, I guess it just isn't his priority lol

Having read his Twitter and newsletter entries I'd say his Japanese is ok.

LoL ayu killed immortal evolution~SURREAL. WELL DONE.

It's really possible not to learn the language, me & my parents have been travelling to Germany each year (sometimes twice a year) for the past 26 years and they didn't learn a thing, maybe few words simply because they were among people who spoke their language and even in stores they didn't try to use it always relying on family members. I learned German because I was watching a lot of cartoons (RTL2 ftw) but since no-one actually spoke German to me (besides short conversations in stores when I was older) I understand everything but I'm not that good at speaking.

I've been learning Japanese on and off for the last ten years but whenever I'm in Japan, Japanese don't really want to talk to me in Japanese, they always want to try their English on me (which was funny the first time I went there because my English was very bad and I tried to aswer them in Japanese).

If Ayu (and others) keeps Timmy as her English practice tool then he actually can still be pretty bad or it can be an act, a kind of 'cute gaijin' image. Maybe.

I really hope for It was / Liar / Criminal, omg, I can't :p

Timmy has few songs in japanese. I was thinking he wrote lyrics for them

Maybe he has gotten good at writing/reading in Japanese bit still sucks at listening :shrug My mom is an English teacher (since like 1995) and is a grammar expert, but she can't watch movies without subtitles and also is not good at conversations because written English is what she pratices for 99% of the time :P

^Your mum doesn't live in an English speaking country though. Timmy's been here for 4+ years and would be hearing Japanese all day every day.

About comparisons with Western countries, those don't really hold up. In US, Canada, Australia, UK, France etc. there are significant culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The same cannot be said in Japan, at least when it comes to Westerners. Timmy would need to speak the language to live here - there's no way around it. There's no "Western town" where all the shops are run by white people who sell imported food and other items from US/UK. The overall ability of Japanese to speak English is limited as well. So yes, Timmy is either faking bad (speaks Japanese well and is pretending to not be able to) or he's an idiot (can't/won't learn the language but will still live here). Either way, he's still giving foreigners a bad wrap in an already highly unicultural and somewhat xenophobic country.


Anyway. I'll get off my soap box now.

Here's the audio from last night: https://soundcloud.com/goldtransam29...15-zepp-nagoya

My husband's Australian customer who is currently residing in Japan for many year, he speaks super perfect Japanese (if you close your ears to just listen, you won't be able to tell he's white), my jaw dropped when I first hear he talking on the phone when I first met him (my husband did "warn" me before but I still surprised how fluent he can be :P)

JEWELian, I can't access to the link anymore. Maybe it died.
Can you reupload for me ?
Thanks in advance

So apparently as I only have a free account I can only upload 3hrs of audio so it's been hidden. Sorry :( Not paying $60 a year for this.

Pics:

https://36.media.tumblr.com/545a8867...cyq9o1_540.jpg
https://41.media.tumblr.com/7898b3c3...cyq9o1_540.jpg (my view from last night with ticket #153. I got into a fight with security after the show for this photo lol)
https://36.media.tumblr.com/d2cdd18e...cyq9o1_540.jpg

I like how you call out Timmy for "giving foreigners a bad rap" because of his ambiguous language abilities and then go to a concert, stand right at the front, and take pictures despite numerous signs and security people telling audience-goers *not* to take pictures, thereby giving the rest of us foreign fans a bad rap.

Oh, the irony of it all.

Lots of Japanese fans are taking pics and selfies before and after the show, it's not smth common just for foreigners.

What's your point? As foreigners, we inherently stick out from the rest of the people in the audience, which means more eyes on us, which means we should be on our best behavior. How many times have we heard fans complaining on mixi about poor behavior and lack of etiquette from foreign fans attending Ayu concerts? It DOES reflect on the rest of us as a whole, even though it shouldn't, and if you're doing something that security feels the need to pick a fight with you over I certainly wouldn't be laughing about it. It's rude.

tldr, don't be an asshole/behave like a prat and just enjoy the concert

^How do you feel about the entire concert audio being recorded then? I've been going back and forth about it.

I took a few selfies once I found my seat, and I'm glad I did. I wasn't the only one doing it. I understand that maybe I stuck out more than locals would, but since they were doing it, I was going to do it too. How often am I going to get to go to an ayu concert? :/

I don't know how I feel about it, and I haven't listened to the recordings from the concert. I don't think what we as foreign fans do in the context of this forum ever really radiates out to her entire fanbase so there's not much of a chance for it to reflect badly on us as a whole? As long as it was done discreetly no one else at the venue knew anything about it. :shrug But when you're doing something to cause a scene and interacting with security, THAT is a problem.

Listening to these recordings, and even at the show I was at...I really wish she would do a studio recording of Love Song with the live arrangement and closing. The ending of the album version feels so empty compared to the live version.

I adore acapella beginning of Love song

to me, this is similar to black people getting more eyes from polices in the US.
this is so racist. i am sorry...

:love I love you for this comment.

JEWELian, thank you for your uploads! It's really wonderful to listen to them:-) I like how she sounded.

chocopockymaster, don't try to start something by personally attacking me, especially over something you know nothing about.

Your "giving foreign fans a bad wrap" argument is unfounded. There were multiple groups of people taking photos/selfies of the stage after the show had ended. I was just the unlucky one to be pulled up on it by a security guard as I was trying to leave the venue after the show. A security guard not even employed by ayu herself does not equate to Japanese fans complaining about the etiquette of foreign fans on mixi. I doubt any of those local fans who were taking photos at the same time I was would have been as hypocritical or belligerent to post anything online about me being 'rude' or an 'asshole' like you've just done. I even received messages and a comment on my insta from Japanese fans asking my permission for them to use the photo on their own social media accounts.

So please, keep your misinformed judgements to yourself next time.

So you already knew that recording and photographing are strictly forbidden during the concert, but you still decided to do all these and even uploaded and distributed the audio files?
If you think that it is just about the so called “rules” which the audience has to obey, then you are wrong at the first place. It is about the minimum respect you should give to the one who sings for you, whether or not you are an international fan.


I totally agree with your point that as foreigners we should be more careful of our behaviours, thinking about the fact that Japanese people have the best manners.


Taking selfies before and after the concert is totally different from photographing the stage and recording ayu’s performance during the concert.
You are simply wrong when doing it wrong, not when you are getting caught.

rap - a type of popular music with a strong rhythm in which the words are spoken, not sung
wrap - something to eat / something you wrap something into like paper-wrap
rep - short for reputation which is the word you guys wanted to use...
just saying

Thanks for adding nothing to the conversation...you might find this interesting:
http://www.patrickkphillips.com/gram...ap-or-bad-rep/

^ lol thanks, good to know, sorry I couldn't resist but I'm really on neither side I see both sides of the argument. I think it's really nice of JEWELian to share his recordings but I also see how it can be seen as disrespectful. I don't see the fuss around the picture though, he got pulled aside by the security by chance, could've been anyone.

Yeah 'bad rap' is acceptable, even moreso then 'bad rep'.

I don't get how this recording is disrespectful. Or more disrespectful than this forum itself.

Yes, any recording is forbidden. But also uploading of CD/DVD rips... but I don't see angry comments in download section.
And that is not the first time... fancams and audio rips appears every year, at every tour/cdl. Chinese fans made fancams of almost full AT08, for example.

Thank you, JEWELian, for posting your recording

JEWELian
wow lucky you!
you're super close to the stage!
so envy!

I don't see a problem with people recording audio of the show or taking selfies BEFORE the show. What pisses me the most are people who wave the cameras during it. MORE SO the folks who go balistic/violent when the singer throws something in a crowd. There were cases recently of foreigner literally bitting japanese fan in gazette concert to win the drumsticm or a water bottle... the fan came home with bite wounds... now this is what gives bad rep. As long as you don't annoy anyone else or disturb their good time i don't see a big deal.

JEWELian, I first want to start by saying thank you for going through the trouble of recording and sharing the recordings with us. Your photos are really nice too :)
Secondly, don't listen or even engage with the holier than though crowd that I've noticed exists here in the forums, because alot of things here would be considered against the rules (but you'll still find them posting in the downloads section :P).

Strictly speaking, it is true that so many things we have been doing are disrespectful, including sharing CD/DVD rips. But sharing TA limited content and unauthorized recordings are extremely disrespectful, and ayu does care about it, because she has posted tweets begging people to not leak those stuff, and she has done it for so many times.

Just because fancams happen all the time, doesn’t mean that it is ok to go against ayu’s will again and again. Talking about AT08 in China, haven’t you realized the reasons why she has never had any concerts in China again?

Everyone has his or her own bottom line. If you secretly recorded the concert without disturbing others or posting the files online, then that’s not too unforgivable (even though literally it is still wrong), but fighting against the security person and sharing the files online are something shameful to show off.

During this year’s TA LIMITED LIVE TOUR, all the international fans has won all their requested tickets in the lottery reservation, and all of them got the seiri bango that are less than 200. Ayu and the fan club are paying more and more attention to international fans, providing them the best seats to watch the concerts. But in return, some of them are just taking this advantage to record or take pictures of the concert ignoring the “no filming” sign. And they even distributed the files online, thinking they are doing something good. I doubt if ayu is more important than their self-satisfaction?

I understand that one of the main purposes of the forum is sharing, but there are things we should not share in order to minimize the negative influence.

http://imgur.com/Pu8NyTo.jpg

Thank you so much Jewelian for the recording. ;)

We just want to listen ayu to perform rare songs.

We just want ayu to put all different rare songs in the future release..

If the member "ayumi" is ayu, then she should know how "disrepectful" we can be... :P

My shirts should be shipping soon with the Cirque de Minuit blu ray! I can't wait to see them in person ;)

He's been here a lot longer than 4 years. It's quite sad.

Timmy hosted some NHK stuff in English for a few years. I think he even acted in a drama before that.

Timmy is just a drama queen. He gets attentions from people who talks about his Japanese, the way he dresses etc. He has good voice. We should stop talking about his appeals, sexuality, or attitude. He will never change or go because we complain.

Honestly, it kinda bothers me how almost everyone talks so much crap about Timmy while none of us know him or even met him. Those of you that have all say how nice he is. I feel as though a lot of you make such terrible assumptions because of how he dresses on stage or his onstage persona. I think we might just need to stop talking about him altogether, to be honest, because there really is no reason for anyone to be talking so badly about someone we really know nothing about.

^ that's true, because we complain for years and nothing changed =)

Hello guys!
On 02.10 she didn't sing "Letter" she sang "Love ~Destiny~ ^_^

To celebrate the release of 「ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2015 A Cirque de Minuit ～真夜中のサーカス～ The FINAL」special lottery will be held

■ Date: October 27-28, 2015
■ Start time: both days 14:30 - (planned)
■ Venue: Zepp Fukuoka

＜Prize＞
■ Personal autograph! Your name + signature on DVD/Bluray
■ card (randomly signed)

Regards to what i have read from instagram.
Many fans who attended Day1 Live at Fukuoka said that her physical condition wasn't so good
I really hope that she is gonna be okay soon *crying

Btw, she sang who... in acapella part today

Question, as this is my first time attending Ayu's concert in a week in Sapporo.
How early do you guys recommend lining up for the goods/concert?
I figure the concert is assigned seating so as long as I pick up my ticket an hour before I should be ok? But the goods, I hear to go early...but how early?
I'm BEYOND excited to finally attend an Ayu concert after over 10 years of wanting to! Thanks!

according photos. at 16:30 all t-shirts may be sold out

Ayu loves Timmy more than she will any of us.

^naturally. Her staff/crew is obviously more important than fans. because a lot of them have became family and friends to her. While fans, well....they will be just fans. And i see nothing wrong with that.

Different type of love.

But without fans, no staff/crew and no artist ;)

Timmy is a facebook friend of mine and I chated with him 5 ou 6 times. The guy is very open, really sweet and always talked to me as any other facebook friend. He even told some curious stuff about Brillante video recording.

Just saw this email from TA

Just got it too! I am just devastated on behalf of the fans that were going and were looking foward to it! And on behalf of poor Ayu as well! Praying for her to get better soon. Sending all my good vibes!

GET WELL SOON AYU! ayu rarely fall sick, take care ayu!

Omg. Has she ever cancelled a live before?

Oh no, I hope she's ok, praying for her recovery. :(

Omg Ayu :cry you should rest more!

The press will eat her alive, if they still care about her.

:no Hope She will get well soon.

What do you mean? Why would they eat her alive? It is not her fault that the show had to be canceled. She didn't ask to get sick. :(

Anyways...I sent her a letter thru team Ayu. Hope she is getting tons of positive letters and a lot of love from her fans tonight.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure she's ever outright cancelled a date that she didn't reschedule... The first few dates of HLS 2011 were probably cancelled but she made them up later in the POM tour I think.

I'm sure she'll just reschedule this show though. Poor thing, hope she takes care of herself.

Oh you know the tabloids, they'll insist it's a conspiracy, she's not really sick, she's ducking out of the limelight cuz of the whole Twitter business, that she's running away, blah blah blah all that sort of BS. >_<

A rescheduled concert is mentioned. Dang though, that stinks. I hope she gets better soon!

I wish the concert will be rescheduled on a weekend. i myself, skipped off work just to attend and the majority of the japanese rarely do that for just a concert. but more importantly, i wish Ayu get well. She'd been working so hard since the start of the year and I can't imagine how she's feeling now, not being able to perform. :( Poor ayu. Let's pray for her fast recovery. I'm 100% sure it'll be rescheduled.

overseas fans who came for that concert will be the most dissapointed...

but pneumonia! this is serious! I think she should cancel her trip to HK and stay at hospital

As far as I remember they were all re-sheduled, except the Sendai dates, because the hall got massive damage from the earthquake.

Ayu, we're definitely thinking about you. The diagnosis doesn't sound good. Hope she'll recover really soon.

2015.10.27 Fukuoka: changes in setlist
part of Me (acapella chorus) ↔ Dolls (acapella chorus)
HEAVEN ↔ Key
---double encore---
MY ALL
Who…
http://dailysetlist.net/archives/12436

#GetWellSoonAyu

Well, things have gone a bit too sour over the past week or so (especially after that Twitter spat), hopefully things get better soon... :(

hope she gets well soon and i'm sure she'll have a reschedule concert, pity those Overseas fans who has come to see her too but yeah, what can she do? she certainly doesn't want this too. she's been working hard this year..concerts after concerts.. hopefully after CDL she'll relax herself for a while, go somewhere else quite to relax..like she did with Bali..

I hope recovers soon, pneumonia isn't something to be taken lightly and I'm glad they decided to cancel the concert. It's sad, but if she has pneumonia she definitely needs to rest.

I hope all the overseas fans at least got to attend the show on the 27th. Even if not, being in Japan is still an amazing feat, though a canceled show is still unfortunate :( Ayu's performed through illnesses before, it must've been downright awful if she had to cancel a show. I hope she gets some rest! And I wonder if she'll still be going to Hong Kong; she shouldn't be traveling while so ill...

Edit: I see in the post about her HK trip she isn't appearing. Then she must restrestrest!!!