COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 A information thread
 

As always, we'll be closing off the year with a CDL thread that documents the first day of the concert and onward!

I will be updating this post throughout the night, so please check it often if possible.

COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 A's DVD and Blu-ray are set to release next spring!
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Setlist and other info


Video(from Instagram)


Pictures of the venue/stage/outfits


Reviews/Related links
Long review about the 12/30 concert from hayasaki
Short post about the 12/31 concert from tiffanytgs
Short post about the 12/30 concert from Kirshwasser
Review of the 12/30 concert from js_surrealism
OUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 Blog
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 A Live Theater Viewing on 12/31
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 Logo
ayumi hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 A goods
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 A information thread

i cant wait to see the stage and outfit!

also praying for MGR to sounds good!

Ayu Wa twitter also been updating pics at Yoyogi at the moment! check it out https://twitter.com/ayuwa_en

Thanks for the link!

I wonder how soon we'll get the full setlist...

omgg the pics are awesome..
want that DJ hello kitty tshirt! looks nice,,
can't wait to know how is the stage looks alike...what new machinery stage that ayu talked about before!

wow that ramen! i thought the CDL1314 word is not real..but it is real! how they do that?

I guess they did some foil edible gold-leaf printing?

Stage pictures will probably be available in an hour or two?

Can't wait to hear words about the encore :)

CDL looks so fun, I really hope she does 3 dates again next year. I really want to go >_<

Those goods look so goooooooooooooooooood *__*

Music station flowers are back. :)

yay for not being a center stage :)

Yay! Will she be doing Pray on MUSIC STATION then? -excited-

And those things on top of the end of the runway... they must be used in the concert somehow!

Ayuday is great.

http://i.imgur.com/T40fHxo.jpg
https://twitter.com/ggoorroo/status/...753473/photo/1

http://i.imgur.com/ohe5LDT.jpg
Prepping Ayu for tonight?!
https://twitter.com/suyamayu10/statu...761792/photo/1

http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/cdl13-14/index.html

TONS of photos here.


http://i.imgur.com/Zh8cFQR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DeAh0pU.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/yCpQCL8.jpg

LINE warnings, Urata, and LP card!

I love the way the LINE characters are used in that pamphlet lol

Is that the rules of the concert? xD No pictures, put rubbish in bins etc lol

haha that line characters with list of rules are so funny haha..

Yeah, I think the top left one is no pictures/audio recording/filming the concert.

Though I feel like we may get an audio recording from the next two days... perhaps, haha.

The most hilarious one imo is the large hair accessory and chasing after the signed ball!

Best setlist in the past couple years. Really excited for this one.

caaant waaiiitttt! I hope we will get some reviews ot audio recording tonight

aand Im still curious about the stage!

thank you truehappiness for organising all the info about CDL1314 again!

wah i am glad its not a centre stage! waiting for the updated setlist!

The stage is amazing!!!!! Finally something new.

Her voice honestly isn't great. But the set list is amazing!!! We Wish?? We wish and carols got epic performances!

I want to know moooore!!!!

want to know setlist!!!

wow now that you say it I believe it for the stage!!!

her voice,hm MSSL kinda show it

OMG WE WISH!!! I've been waiting for that song since 2005 LOL

So excited about EVERYTHING!!!! :thud

Maybe it's because she was in LA for too long? Hopefully she gets more warmed up for 12/30 and 12/31~

Set list is kinda wrong btw. Will type more on the train. :)

Okay. I figured some things were wrong/fake outs but for the most part, was it right?

8:33pm in Japan now, the concert has finished?

wonder why they start late for the 31st one

The concert starts a few hours earlier on the 29th and 30th. The estimate for live viewing is that it will be around 2.5-3 hours, I believe.

Feel the love
We wish
Free and easy
Because of you
Carols
Momentum
Is this love
Love song (countdown song)
Merry go round
You and me
Surreal/evolution

Encore
Part of me
Curtain call
Boys and girls
Humming
Bold and delicious (new version)

Concert started 30 min late.

I wonder if any song is gonna get axed. I remember Ivy was done last year and it was axed for the 30th and 31st.
Im sure the 31st setlist may be longer a bit?

HURRAY FOR CURTAIN CALL AND BOLD & DELICIOUS!!!!!!!
Tracklist looks amazing :)

Seems a little short, I'm sure she'll add more on the 31st.

THAT SETLIST IS AMAZING. :thud Except for evo/surreal, that can gtfo.

I am so happy she performed the 3 RAINBOW songs, momentum and Love song. part of Me <3

A little bit short,but the songs are great! Any info about the costumes/performances?

The slope stage is really cool but not very useful?? Ayu sounded good today!

why you & me is always in the setlist ! :(

Oh damn, part of Me?

-dies-

SHE SHOULD STICK PRAY IN THERE TOO FOR THE 31ST.

I hope she sang the actual version of Love song, and not that version they made for HLS.

I like the setlist, can't wait to hear what was so original in the performance !

Wondering did she reuse any of the past costume again huh :D

seems short! hope she will add a few more for the 31st

dont like BoY that song had been performed many times already at CDL also its a bit repetitive and boring :dead2 would love it to be replaced by Liar or Guilty :luv2

Curtain Call lol, she did that at AT09 and its forgettable for me

other than that,like it! and didnt realize until now Part of Me is there!! can someone tell how she performed this? the outfit? because I dont really like the one at PoM, AT07 FTW!

Good setlist though I could really do without Curtain Call! And the Evo/Surreal, I want to hear them separately. (Although I did enjoy this arrangement when she did it for AT03, or was it 04? I should go back and watch that performance!)

The setlist is awesome but why so short?

The show didn't really feel short. But there was no cute section.

Awesome setlist! Plus YAY for new stage, I couldn't cope with the center one anymore... as useful as it is it looks a kind of mess to me when there are too many things going on there lol.
But no ending tearjerker song like MY ALL/ivy/who...? How is the queen going to cry to Bold and delicious? how am I going to cry? no no noooooooooooooooo *sparkle dancing*

Maybe there will be a double encore?

eh? :shakehead:shakehead this is so not Ayu :laugh

oh yeah why no Ivy or Melody :thud

how i said before... she'll sing B&D (because of the pop-art logo xD)

great setlist... okay it's a bit short... but maybe the performances will be amazing as 05-06...

sadly she didn't sing Heartplace... :(

^_^

megh... so no heartplace, huh....=/

Maybe she'll add Heartplace, this really seems short, I would love to hear Melody and some of the never performed songs (Liar/It was/Criminal). I'm so happy for Curtain Call, but I wish it was in the main concert, this song deserves some epic dress.

I hope so. Maybe she'll add one on the 31st? There's no ayu concert without a thank you song at the end <_< the best would be WINDING ROAD. I'm dying to hear that song performed with new vocals but I can hardly see it happen. sadly.

I just got back. She didn't sing Heartplace, it's true. If she doesn't I may upload rehearsal version later.

^ Please do anyway! :P

That final setlist doesn't sound bad at all. I'm surprised there's no cute part though!!

Actually I'm quite curious about B&D being finishing song, considering it's stated it's different version. It may work! Let's wait and see.
And i think Heartplace will appear in the final concert. Still sounds nice, i need revieeeews, photoooos, descriptioooons ^_^ of course after you rest (those who attended).

Waiting for the review of someone ! >.<

why Ayu?? plus Guity too :thud:thud:thud maybe one day she will perform those , also petal,Ivy,Melody,songs from Love again need to get some lives too :(

oh please!

The vocals were stable but lots of screaming as usual. Free and easy is short version.

So she did rehearse Heartplace... it must be in consideration for another date?

the number of songs seems a few less than normal.

<3<3<3 WE WISH! I wanna see it again more than 10 years from its release! Exceptionally long encore huh! :P Bold & Delicious (newer version).. interesting!

Possibly, some of these songs is gonna be recycled in her next ARENA TOUR. so we may get more of these awesome songs next year!

I'm SOOOOOO glad, the only cute part I don't skip is the Sexy Little Things / STEP you from AT10

AT06's 'cute' section is tolerable imo. AT10's and A BEST LIVE's are also watchable without thinking "Ugh." haha.

a "cute" part is like a staple of an Ayu concert so while I'm surprised I'm not overly disappointed. It feels like maybe she's trying to turn this concert up a notch. I'm so stoked to see this, for realsies!

I hope Heartplace will appear on the last date and CAROLS won't be cut..

thats true, while last year's CDL cute part is a meh though coz they keep doing the same storyline with 2-yan (who didnt fit the role) being like Go-mi again :thud

somehow Im going to miss the cute part though or maybe not,let see how the concert turns out to be

noww I cant wait for the stage pic! really curious about this new "machinery"

hoping for heartplace as well, but that's not an easy song to sing. i wonder how is she going to sing that with her current voice now.

SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL needs to just stop but I'm glad WE WISH and part Of Me is being performed.

Gimme this encore for the last day please ayu

Feel the love
We wish
Free and easy
Because of you
Carols
Momentum
Pray
SAKURA
Heartplace
Is this love
Love song (countdown song)
Merry go round
You and me
Surreal/evolution

Encore
Part of me
Curtain call
Boys and girls
Humming
Bold and Delicious

Probably she will do heartplace on the 31st, if she did it on reherseals it's probably because she will sing it at some point, I hope XD I will miss the cutesy part, I love those parts of her lives <_< I guess it's the akb48 fangirl who's in me who's talking. But anyway, if she needed to get rid of the cute section to make room for those ballads, it's okay hands down.

I didn't pay attention to the fact that it was a different version...now I'm curious. But it's still no ivy. meh

edit: I just can't deal with humming 7/4 anymore. replace needed. SING SOMETHING ELSE <_<

Oh i didn't notice humming xD Maybe because i just don't like the song that much. Yeah it should be replaced.

wow, it's really an awesome setlist!!
part of ME omgg..dies... SAKURA! great!!

omgg..i'm so so so curious bout the stage design now!!

Running my wildest fantasy (leaving much of the original setlistuntouched, but FTL and Y&M must go, hate them):

Liar (think what you want it has a great beginning)
Guilty
We wish
Free and easy
Because of you
Carols
Momentum
Heartplace
Criminal
Is this love
Love song (countdown song)
Merry go round
Surreal/evolution
Curtain call

Encore
Part of me
Boys and girls
Humming
Bold and Delicious
Melody

Really great Setlist. For sure, I prefer when Ayu does the setlist herself rather than let the fans do it. It's better. My only wish for this CDL is the addition of pray in the setlist.

No Heartplace? gosh, I was waiting for it too much T_T

Anyway, I love Curtain Call, and it should be in the main show, I'm happy to see it included :)
Now I hope they don't cut it in the last show!

From the pics I don't see any difference in the stage, what's exactly new? I'm very curious!

Ending the show with B&D? Is it a joke? :thud

this setlist is strange but it looks short O.O only 16 songs

I'm ok with 16 songs, in tours you have to add interludes etc. Besides songs are mostly very nice so let's wait untill we see it in action :]

Finally she inovated and ended the show with an upbeat song *--* I was getting over those goody-bye songs all the time... it's good to change things sometimes.


:love <3 WE WISH and Free & Easy <3 :love

Yay for no center stage. Yay for Bold & Delicious, although she put it on the last. Yay for no cute performance, sick of it. Curious about the costumes... especially for the winter ballad songs.

The new machinery is actually the new feature of the main stage. Instead of the usual stairs or rectangular platform, they had a oval shaped slope (about 30degrees) on the stage which looks like a huge slide. Ayu came out from the bottom of the slope when the slope was lifted up. This slope can also be separated in to smaller sections to create different elevation.


It's hard to explain... Lol

Gosh xD And what's your opinion on it? Does it look nice/very nice/bleh expected more? ^-^

^a slide like that bed in HLS?

wow ! I don't reaaaally understand but I can't wait to see that ! xD

Very good setlist ! YAY for WE WISH <3

Beds were just beds xD I think it's more about stage itself and bigger but...can't tell since it's still a mistery!

The "huge slide" makes me very curious ! =D

This :P I know the Japanese people have this tradition and I understand why she keeps doing it, but.... Thank lord this CDL is really being a fan gift more than just any other show :love

It's like the bed in HLS but a mega one.

Guys, are these good seats or really bad ones ? 1st floor row G15 and 2nd floor row D17 ?
Which one is better ?

Setlist looks amazing. I really want to see costume pictures and just how 'epic' WE WISH and CAROLS are!

...and the entire concert TBH

Aww bummer. From the first time I saw that bed performance, it was a dull and a bit over the edge. Hope it will work differently when they perform it with an upbeat song.
For what song is that machinery used?

It's not a prop but the design of the stage itself. They used it for feel the love, we wish.. The rest I could not remember. Mainly for the songs which have the dancers.

I think 1st floor you get to see ayu closer. G is about the middle of the stadium 2nd floor you get a fuller view of the entire stage, D is about back half of the stadium.

Oh I see. Thanks

There's a short video clip showing the stage and a bit of FTL on instagram, the costume looks like a mix of the mirrorcle world costume from PCDL and the silver coat from AT2003-2004, dancers are in the AT2010 robocop costume where its silver and not gold

This is like, the best setlist in years, and everyone talking about this new stage just make more excited to watch it. :love

Absolutely love the set list!! I'm so hyped now!

I want outfits pictureees! :D

I'm glad she performed MGR and lots of old songs :)

wonderful setlist :D:D:D

Humming 7/4 is kinda boring,its always that song, why not Indipendant or other else Ayu

Love this setlist! Looking forward to catch the real thing!

I reach the venue the moment the concert ended and it was sooo crowded! Popular items like the kitty tee, dahruma were sold out ;( non the less I still manage to get the lightsticks, pouch, sports towels, horse ayupan, the new yr thingy and capture some shots of the fan vans and unofficial shops.

The thank you soup is actually a corn soup.. its actually awesome to receive it on a cold night ;D