ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2015 A Cirque de Minuit ~真夜中のサーカス~ “The FINAL”

[luna7996]

^when does it air ?

[truehappiness]

Next month it looks like? August 9th on WOWOW.

[luna7996]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Next month it looks like? August 9th on WOWOW.

Yey! Can't wait!

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Vocally my faves were Anything for you and forgiveness--they were amazing.

[rainbow_smile]

Unpopular opinion: I LOVED the Anything for you ~ forgiveness ~ progress section. It was probably my fav part of the concert along with HAPPY ENDING.

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by rainbow_smile

Unpopular opinion: I LOVED the Anything for you ~ forgiveness ~ progress section. It was probably my fav part of the concert along with HAPPY ENDING.

Happy ending is amazing live, very nice choice.

[Chris85]

Discussion about people giving away free tickets/ selling them for 1000 yen to fill arenas for this tour so that Ayu's pride wouldn't be hurt. I don't know if it's really true, but no doubts Ayu has a decline in tickets sales.
http://girlschannel.net/topics/410915/

[YukiUsagi]

Originally Posted by Chris85

Discussion about people giving away free tickets/ selling them for 1000 yen to fill arenas for this tour so that Ayu's pride wouldn't be hurt. I don't know if it's really true, but no doubts Ayu has a decline in tickets sales.
http://girlschannel.net/topics/410915/

I heard something like that in the past.

[Yoake]

Originally Posted by Chris85

Discussion about people giving away free tickets/ selling them for 1000 yen to fill arenas for this tour so that Ayu's pride wouldn't be hurt. I don't know if it's really true, but no doubts Ayu has a decline in tickets sales.
http://girlschannel.net/topics/410915/

Who are those people you are talking about? Are they avex staff or fans?

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Chris85

Discussion about people giving away free tickets/ selling them for 1000 yen to fill arenas for this tour so that Ayu's pride wouldn't be hurt. I don't know if it's really true, but no doubts Ayu has a decline in tickets sales.
http://girlschannel.net/topics/410915/

Most likely not true.

Girlschannel seems like a female tailored version of 2ch which is known for similar topics. I mean just looking at the other threads there, it's hard to take them seriously.

[ayumisrael]

I think that this whole thing is kinda wierd.

avex wouldn't let her keep performing in big venues and sell tickets for 1000 yen to fill it just for ayu's pride. Things don't work that way.
They won't lose money just for ayu's pride. If things were that bad she wouldn't have many dates/perform in smaller places.
It's really fishy.

[AyuGAME]

My friend tried to buy the ticket from Lawson several days before the concert but it's sold out..

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

My friend tried to buy the ticket from Lawson several days before the concert but it's sold out..

You're probably talking about the final date which is the most popular one, other dates might not be sold out.

Originally Posted by mizuki-7

Who knows what happen behind the scene but Avex selling at a loss just for the pride of Ayumi ?? It's stupid !! The fact she has difficulties to sold out immediately all of her shows is true since 2012/2013 but come on ! Ayumi and Avex are not a non-profit organization and her staff don't work as volunteers ...

Well, if most people buy tickets for the full price and there are some tickets left that might be given away for free, AVEX can still make money and Ayu doesn't have to see gaps in the audience and can continue performing in arenas. Who knows. I believe that she has hard times selling tickets in smaller cities.

Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

The performance of WARNING was so damn good.

~dreamy sigh~

It could be better if it was not lip synced. The vocal track she used had some very off-key parts. The performance looked good visually though, I have to admit.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Chris85

Well, if most people buy tickets for the full price and there are some tickets left that might be given away for free, AVEX can still make money and Ayu doesn't have to see gaps in the audience and can continue performing in arenas. Who knows. I believe that she has hard times selling tickets in smaller cities.

I reaaallly don't think tickets for concerts would be given away for free just because. Sure, there are cheaper scalped tickets or resold ones, but just given away on the street? I don't think any artists really do that unless the concert was free to begin with.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Chris85

It could be better if it was not lip synced. The vocal track she used had some very off-key parts. The performance looked good visually though, I have to admit.

She did not lip sync it during the Yoyogi dates. She used the regular microphone and it sounded different both times.

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

She did not lip sync it during the Yoyogi dates. She used the regular microphone and it sounded different both times.

I highly doubt that. Using regular microphone doesn't prove anything. She used it in Saitama shows too, but still vocal track is completely the same in both Saitama shows and Osaka show based on recordings. Why would she suddenly decide to change the routine and sing it live during Yoyogi dates?

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I reaaallly don't think tickets for concerts would be given away for free just because. Sure, there are cheaper scalped tickets or resold ones, but just given away on the street? I don't think any artists really do that unless the concert was free to begin with.

They write they give them away through twitter and line, etc, but not openly on the street. Well, since we don't live in Japan, we will never know the truth.

[Yoake]

Originally Posted by Ryusei

it's sad how most people just believe everything they read somewhere without there being actual proof -___-

Unfortunately people don't have critical mind anymore.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Chris85

I highly doubt that. Using regular microphone doesn't prove anything. She used it in Saitama shows too, but still vocal track is completely the same in both Saitama shows and Osaka show based on recordings. Why would she suddenly decide to change the routine and sing it live during Yoyogi dates?

They write they give them away through twitter and line, etc, but not openly on the street. Well, since we don't live in Japan, we will never know the truth.

Unless you have a HQ ver of the recordings further discussion is pointless. I don't really believe anything was lip synced, there are some parts where the back track was obviously prominent, but to me the whole show sounded very live unlike poker face/HONEY in 2013 when all of sudden the sound was different. Plus I don't think performance was that complex, so don't even get the need for her to lip sync it, which I would totally understand for GAME or 1LOVE.

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Originally Posted by hayasaki

Ayu wouldn't have added two more final dates if she is just giving away tix for 1000yen LOOL

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

She did not lip sync it during the Yoyogi dates. She used the regular microphone and it sounded different both times.

horray for common sense!! I agree with both of these statements.

[mizuki-7]

Yeah these days when Ayumi promotes something or is active there are one article per day published by these fishy tabloids to explain to us how miserable Ayumi is compared to 10/15 years ago ...

Who knows what happen behind the scene but Avex selling at a loss just for the pride of Ayumi ?? It's stupid !! The fact she has difficulties to sold out immediately all of her shows is true since 2012/2013 but come on ! Ayumi and Avex are not a non-profit organization and her staff don't work as volunteers ...