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Old 10th October 2012, 04:08 PM
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^^ Yep, I agree with pretty much everything Elin said. Also, yes, that set list is correct. Party Queen just hasn't stuck with me much as an album over the course of the year.
Kiss O' Kill was the biggest surprise of the night and the only time during the show that she used the side stage at Yoyogi. I was surprised to see Return Road out. I saw this tour back in May and that was treated like one of the main performances of the set list. I was expecting it to come on after Kiss O' Kill, but it never came.

A Song for U was good. Missing, I liked but I feel like it needs to grow on me a bit. Melody unfortunately was easily forgettable. The only thing I remember about it was Yoshio had a nice guitar solo towards the end. Missing and Melody are both mid-tempo ballads but Melody is a little softer. It kind of reminded me of Meaning of Love in that it is just kind of "there" and easy to skip over.

Oh btw, the show didn't start late because of the audience. The doors were supposed to open at 5:30, but for some reason they were not opened until 6:00. The show was scheduled to start at 6:30 but was probably more around 6:45.

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