News coverage on last day of ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2003-2004

[tetsuo69]

Originally Posted by matt

I saw the second last show at Yoyogi on Saturday night. It was amazing.

The No Way to Say dress: ok, the bottom of the dress kind of covered most of the stage, and it was multi coloured - deep purples and reds and greens from memory. then, the back of the dress kind of lifted up and fanned out kind of. like a peacocks tale behind her, and all the lights shined on it. it was amazing.

some other little bits: when she did Surreal, she stopped just before the `la la la la la la la la doko ni mo etc etc etc` and launched into evolution. she did all of evolution then returned back and finished surreal.

during the talk, they talked about ayuready and fuji tv a bit. and they made this little routine that had ayu say `ayu ready?` then the audience says `yo-chan` then ayu says more things to the dancers and staff, then it ends with `ayu cookie time`. it was funny.

on the saturday night too, she ended with putting the mic down. she stood with her eyes closed with her finger on her lips and waiting for complete silence before shouting out `arigatou gozaimashita` and running off stage.

it was an amazing concert and everyday i just count my blessings that i was able to see it.

thanks for the review.. cant wait to get the DVD

[nmskalmn]

Originally Posted by matt

some other little bits: when she did Surreal, she stopped just before the `la la la la la la la la doko ni mo etc etc etc` and launched into evolution. she did all of evolution then returned back and finished surreal.

Sounds cool

Thanks so much for the report matt. I'm dying to see it now

[squirty]

Originally Posted by matt

some other little bits: when she did Surreal, she stopped just before the `la la la la la la la la doko ni mo etc etc etc` and launched into evolution. she did all of evolution then returned back and finished surreal.

That sounds like the ending track for RAINBOW, where independent is cut into by more than... hmmmm, coinceidence?

[Larisa-chan]

I'm excited to hear she's planning on an album for this year...

I wanna see her dress from No way to say!!!

[mimika]

OMG! u were actually there!!??? lucky u! how i wish to see an ayu concert live!

[Mirror Shard]

Man, this is uber not cool... It'll be at least three years before I'll have the chance to move to Japan, and I don't foresee any trips there beforehand either. Do you have any idea how many shows like this one that I'll be missing out on? I would say "suicide is the only option," but that would prevent me from seeing -any- of her concerts live. Grr... I love my country and all, but the whole desperate lack of Ayu thing is -really- getting on my nerves <_>