ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2012 A ~HOTEL Love songs~ II
 

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TOUR DATES
01. 2012.4.07 (Sat) / Saitama Super Arena / 17:30/18:30
02. 2012.4.08 (Sun) / Saitama Super Arena / 15:00/16:00
03. 2012.4.14 (Sat) / Osaka Jou Hall / 17:30/18:30
04. 2012.4.15 (Sun) / Osaka Jou Hall / 15:00/16:00
05. 2012.4.21 (Sat) / Fukuoka Marine Messe / 17:30/18:30
06. 2012.4.22 (Sun) / Fukuoka Marine Messe / 15:00/16:00
07. 2012.5.03 (Thu) / Fukui Sun Dome / 17:30/18:30
08. 2012.5.04 (Fri) / Fukui Sun Dome / 15:00/16:00
09. 2012.5.12 (Sat) / Yokohama Arena / 17:30/18:30
10. 2012.5.13 (Sun) / Yokohama Arena / 15:00/16:00
11. 2012.5.19 (Sat) / Kobe World Memorial Hall / 17:30/18:30
12. 2012.5.20 (Sun) / Kobe World Memorial Hall / 15:00/16:00
13. 2012.5.26 (Sat) / Nippon Gaishi Hall (formerly Nagoya Rainbow Hall) / 17:30/18:30
14. 2012.5.27 (Sat) / Nippon Gaishi Hall (formerly Nagoya Rainbow Hall) / 15:00/16:00
15. 2012.6.09 (Sat) / Hokkaido Kitayell / 17:00/18:00
16. 2012.6.16 (Sat) / Sekisuiheim Super Arena, Miyagi (formerly Grande) / 17:00/18:00
17. 2012.6.17 (Sun) / Sekisuiheim Super Arena, Miyagi (formerly Grande) / 15:00/16:00 NEW
18. 2012.6.23 (Sat) / Niigata Toki Messe / 17:00/18:00
19. 2012.6.30 (Sat) / Nippon Gaishi Hall (formerly Nagoya Rainbow Hall) / 17:30/18:30
20. 2012.7.01 (Sun) / Nippon Gaishi Hall (formerly Nagoya Rainbow Hall) / 15:00/16:00
21. 2012.7.07 (Sat) / Hiroshima Green Arena / 17:30/18:30
22. 2012.7.08 (Sun) / Hiroshima Green Arena / 15:00/16:00
23. 2012.7.21 (Sat) / Osaka Castle Hall / 17:30/18:30
24. 2012.7.22 (Sun) / Osaka Castle Hall / 15:00/16:00
25. 2012.7.28 (Sat) / Shizuoka Jou Arena / 17:30/18:30
26. 2012.7.29 (Sun) / Shizuoka Jou Arena / 15:00/16:00
27. 2012.8.11 (Sat) / Fukuoka Marine Messe / 17:30/18:30
28. 2012.8.12 (Sun) / Fukuoka Marine Messe / 15:00/16:00


making of tour videos



~HOTEL Love Songs~ goods

Wow at the pictures!! I get like a Circus/Hotel vibe out of them :D

It looks amazing *o* Loving the outfits!

Thanks.

pics are awesome!!

omg so excited about this tour!!!!

Have a feeling this tour is going to be her best for a while.

photos are amazing. i love all the outfits!!! and her hairstyles are stunning :)

This is sooo cool :
http://i.imgur.com/8D3KU.jpg

I think this could be my favourite tour :3

wowaa.... wow wow wooow... It's Wonderful MAGIC! LOL~

The pictures give me an AT09 vibe :D

looks like a sexy hotel! :lech

looks so fun! lol at the bellhop outfits :P just now realized the chest baring-ness haha
next weekend!!!!!!!

OMG why the male bellboy uniform needs a gap like that :roflmao
Despite that the pictures look great :heart I hope it'll be as epic as AT10 :yes, the bad thing is that I saw them now, kinda ruin the surprise XD no matter

So, is it likely that she'll use CDL's set again this time? :P

It looks amazing *o*

YES! Called the maid outfits, though I'm seriously digging the bellhop ones too. Her glasses remind me of my name's WOMEN. eeeeee! So excited for this tour.

She's like a girly geeky maid or something? lol I also thought of my name's WOMEN :D

I'm so seeing Party queen, NaNaNa, Shake it and perhaps the next LOVE and eyes, smoke, magic being in the setlist after looking at these pictures :D

I LOVE this, especially because my school is about hotels and such too! I cannot wait for this!

So excited for this tour!!

look at those outfits...
hehe...
I wish I could go to this tour! (fingers still crossed!)

Ayu is so cute in all photos ! *O*

5 months till this tour finishes?:thud

omg all her outfits are so awesome and sexy :love. i love how she keeps showing off her toned stomach.

Considering the photos for Party Queen were taken in a hotel, maybe they will incorporate PQ songs as well...

^ i would be disapointed is she didn't...
But im still hoping for two tours this year... one for hotel love songs and one for Party Queen.

INTERESTING..
but start from 7th April i won't open this thread anymore
because i'm going to watch it by myself, and i learn from my experience...it's best to know nothing, that know everything..
like when i watched AT08, i already know...what song after next...and what kind of property, etc....make it less exciting
it's better for know nothing...so it will get more exciting when watch it..

AWESOME PHOTOS OMG...there's a THEME for the concert videos after....after what? Is this a first??!!

and Ayu looks amazing...shes reusing the Sparkle and Part Queen costumes i guess?

Thank you for the pictures!

I hope she won't be reusing CDL costumes for this tour. I mean, I get that they have the same theme and name, but it's just not cool if she keeps the same set list or wear the same costumes as CDL.

Those pics are amazing! I'm really excited for the tour!

cute!

Love hotel indeed :laugh

so excited for the tour!!! but I really wanna see more goods as well as the tour shirts! I FINALLY have enough money saved to afford some things.
And.... ayu cookies...hahaha iiinteresting.

Oh my god.
These photos are fantastic!
I love her! Gah. She looks so cute! Love the outfits! Cannot wait to see these videos :D

The one with Ayu in the bar scene looks like the setting for the next LOVE & Eyes, Smoke, Magic.

^ I think so too
and Ayu+Maro in bed for ballads section

OMG, the cuteness. :) I can't wait.

I can see that she will preform Ladies Night in this tour.

I hope I have a bad judgment and she will surprise me.

well..i wont be surprised since she had that for CDL last year. i foresee the Sparkle section to have Shake It and NaNaNa added :)

I think you're right.

I'm very positive that these songs will be added:

Ladies Night
Sparkle
Lady Dynamite
GREEN
and how beautiful you are.

One or the other. I don't think she will perform both. Hoping for next love over eyes smoke magic.

I tihnk she might perform Eyes, Smoke, Magic in the pigtail look with specs and all..ahah

We don't have to wait much longer either before we will get our first concert reviews from our dear AHS'ers. Tracklist, stage, outfits, everything just a couple of day ahead of us. I love this time of the year. :heart So much excitement!

I hate this time of the year xD Too much excitement
but I will watch concert with my own eyes only few months later.. if not a year

looking forward this tour so badly :luv2

I think we will see some of the same costumes sadly. Though they look to be polished since her CDL. From the pics it looks like her Sparkle/Moon/ladies Night outfits are used. I hope the set-list isn't too alike to her CDL. Though with ayu, her costumes will probably change a bit in the last week of this tour making them more awesome

Even in PoM she changed her costumes and setlist dramatically. So it won't be a wide stretch to say she will do the same here.

4 More day bb's, until the tour starts.

I have a feeling the Green coat outfit is for sending mail...feels so rock and suitable...I hope she replaces NEVER EVER with reminds me. I think its a perfect swap out. Sometimes I listen to reminds me and I tihnk of NEVER EVER.

Went to the reseller shop and the better seats only came in a pair SO if anyone would like my extra ticket please PM me!! If your nice maybe I will give it for free!! haha It is for the first date, 4/7 in Saitama!!

4 more days until I need to stay away from this thread xD
I don´t want to spoil myself with tracklist xD

^ oooh so excited about it!

can't wait for the setlist :laugh :laugh

i cant believe only 4 days till this starts..
wow... time flys.

Wow the tour screen photos... I hate when someone wear THAT huge glasses without eye defect, I don't like that "cute nerdy" style (cause it changed the REAL definition of it word.. -_-) and she doesn't look cute. BUT I LOVE THE BAR ONE OMG. SO SEXYH. all of the above are so pretty~ especially the bar ones.

I am mostly interested to see the setlist, I hope she include the songs that I long for (such as Like a doll, crossroad, and blossom)

I'm hoping Ayu chooses a setlist that tells a story. Eg. Love songs' songs in the first half, and then Party Queen's in the latter half.

is anyone know where to get concert ticket in osaka?
I'm planning to go to 14 april concert in osaka but still have no idea where is the ticket reseller located.

What kind of story is that?

^

a love story maybe..

This is probably a first but, I just got an e-mail from avexlive (AVEX's official live concert ticket service) saying that they still have tickets onsale for the show on 4/8.

Or the other way round :D

I'm really wondering now if she lost lots of fans after her divorce and the release of PQ :/

http://www.avexlive.jp/pc/index.php?...ategory_id=top

Is it this? It's a very odd sales thing since it's popping up only a few days before the show and the period to order them ends tomorrow night.

And I doubt she would've lost fans because of a divorce or an album. Really now? If she 'lost fans', the reason would more likely be a lack of interest than anything.

Actually yes, I wouldn't be surprised knowing how dramatic the Japanese fans can be.

The Japanese fans are dramatic? That's the first I've heard of that, haha.

Some of them got jealous of ayu tweeting too much in English, and all the drama with the international fans lol :shrug

Well, that was understandable, I think. They pay to see exclusive information and have that 'connection' with Ayu while a lot of the international fans were able to have that via Twitter free of charge though a lot of overseas fans are now also members of TeamAyu.

I think most fans now think of all fans as "TeamAyu" since Ayu scolded the Japanese fans for their outbursts a while back.

^Well,if she want i can be a TA member but then i must say 'bye bye!' to buy the expensive edition of her singles/albums/dvds...i prefer the second option though xD

Yes, its that. I'm not sure how to take it exactly but I am pretty sure that I don't remember tickets still being available from the official source this close to one of her concert dates. Combine that with the significant drop in sales for this album (as well as her concert DVD) maybe she really did actually lose some fans recently.

What time does the goods booth start selling and if i wanna get the ayu pans, what is the best item to start queuing?

on 04/08 will be Ayu's 14th anniversary?

【グッズライブ会場販売開始時間】4/7(土)、4/8(日)さいたまスーパーアリーナでのHOTEL Love songsグッズ販売は、12:00開始予定です！※GOODS販売開始時間は多少前後する場合があります 。

I can't wait to see the setlist. I'm hoping for something amazing to reignite my spirits after CDL 11-12. More love songs, less party queen.

What did Ayu scold her Japanese fans for?? I missed that.

GUYS GUYS GUYS. HEY. GUYS. GUYS. GUYS.

She looks fantastic.

They got really angry because she was tweeting in English to international fans and also sort of 'leaking information' on Twitter before she did on TeamAyu. It was mainly an issue because TA members pay to see the information ahead of time.

I think a lot of overseas fans would pay if they could (and they do via Tenso) so that was all resolved, imo.

As for the April 8th date having a ~special sale~ of tickets right now, I wonder if they were more strict about people buying X amount of tickets so scalpers didn't get to buy them as quickly as they usually do?

^ Honestly, being an overseas ayufan is way worse than being a japanese fan. Why should I pay money if im not gettin the 90% of Team Ayu advantages? (TV programs, concert tours, special events....) i wouldnt even understand ayu's entries so...
I hope she creates an international TA with english entries (and less expensive since we get way less advantages)

I think its more unfair for us too, I'm glad Ayu scolded them.
Though we too get out of line, but.... lets just end it there :P

I have hoped for this for a long long time..
About the tour: I neeeeeed the setlist ;D

Pff, TA members don't even get TV lives anymore -_- haha

But it's interesting to see tickets still available. Could be saying something about fans reactions over her music or personal life.

WHat if I am not particularly interested in the ayupans but the towels, fans, and (if there is one) a tour book. Is getting there at 12 necessary?

I can't remember at what time they open the shops, I remember lining up and waiting for a couple of hours, but it wasn't that bad, once it is open people go crazy and many of the limited things sell out (I remember we got just in time before some of the glasses with the singles' covers sold out), but most things this time don't seem that limited, it should be okay, if you wanna make sure you get what you want I would personally get there a bit earlier :)

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If you buy Party Queen or PoM at the concert area, you have a chance to win Super Ayu or false eyelashes from CDL.

Or nothing. It's a lottery-type deal I believe...?

It's only until 5/27 at Nagoya that you are able to receive anything. The tour dates after that don't have this. :)

Yeah I plan on getting there early but just not right at noon haha One thing I am still getting used to is how early concerts are in Japan!!

AAGGRRRR why they don't sell it normally? what's the reason to make book soooo limited

lol Whyyyyy. I was gonna wait til I got home to get PoM but I want that Super Ayu book, hmm... I'd be a bit disappointed if I got the eyelashes. I wear them occasionally, but they're normal looking, not all fancy like the lottery ones. Hmm, decisions, decisions... Haha.

omg what should i do? previously I intended to go to Shizoka on July 28-29, but I've just learnt that Radiohead will attend Fuji Rock festival on July 29 and now I don't know what to do :O

do you guys think they will add new dates in summer or no?

hmm... or should I go to Osaka? is it expensive to go there from Japan? hmmmmm

The tour starts tomorrow! =D excited.

Ahhhh, I think I´ll buy CD Only Version then at the concert venue, want that book *_*

so the book is only at the concert now...
lame...
i still want to go!!

We will find some copies on Yahoo Auctions for sure, but at incredibly high prices !

Yayy excited for today!! Can't waitttttt!!

http://i.imgur.com/7NhQt.jpg
Credit: ☆なな★ @ twitter

I want the book but it's so limited ToT

So I guess this is the back cover then?

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/848...3403548010.jpg

^is that a new tattoooo ??????

me too! why won't the just take my money? I don't get the point of making everything so limited. man... :headache

They're trying to boost the album's sales together with PoM's, but I don't think it'll boost them that much, as only a percentage is considered in ORICON when sold at the concert venues.

the photobook photos look so much better!!

Well, Oricon counting makes no difference to their pockets...

That's true lol

^ Yeah I agree with that.. I'm wondering how many copies are there for lottery prizes...

And here's a pic I found from crea1002ma4 @ twitter:
http://i.imgur.com/QtM7V.jpg

Look at them! XD

Her body is soooo damn hot :love

Can't wait for the setlist and some reviews! *o*

I think she she edit her tattoo with the heart last year?

I like how the SUPER AYU thing just got evolved over and over again