ayumi hamasaki 15th Anniversary TOUR ～A BEST LIVE～ V

[OyTony]

Originally Posted by ~angel*ayumi~

Yeah here you can see some girls holding a whole set:
http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/abestlive_b...a-629-630.html

And damit, my friend has no time to go to the concert location, she is busy beacause she has to do many things for university over in japan ><

I can help you if you want. I will be there on 27. and 28. July. Will try to win some magnets too. =)

[~angel*ayumi~]

Originally Posted by OyTony

I can help you if you want. I will be there on 27. and 28. July. Will try to win some magnets too. =)

It´s ok^^ I bought a magnet on yahoo just to have one^^ (like i did with those member card stickers back at some CDL) I don´t think I will have the luck again to win the granz prize like last year xD

[AyuWorld]

Saw on For A ver fb, and if im not mistaken, Ayu cancelled the upcoming show this weekend in Hiroshima, wonder why?? >.<

[axmish87]

Too bad
I wonder what's wrong

[marekcarey]

She's sick.

[ExodusUK]

Pray for her!

[mizuki-7]

I don't think it's exact. She has an urticaria crisis but it's not stated that she will cancel the show ^^

[saigodansu]

It's actually in a news headline, both Hiroshima shows are cancelled.

[mizuki-7]

humm it's strange nothing on her website ...

[saigodansu]

The link to the thread about her illness and the concerts being cancelled for those who missed it. http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118280

[mizuki-7]

it's false ... the shows are not canceled

KAYZU ‏@kayzu_teamayu 19 min
【グッズ販売/開場/開演時間案内】7/13,14 広島グリーンアリーナ公演のグッズ販売は13日 14:30(開場17:30/開演18:30)、14日 12:00(開場15:00/開演16:00)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。

[ayumisrael]

So she's not even sick and it's fake?

[saigodansu]

No, she said on twitter that she's sick, but the press went crazy with it. ModelPress that used to sometimes print about tabloid stories as just being "this is what this tabloid claims" is now printing their own tabloid story adding cancellations to her saying she is sick. Kayzu tweeted the start times at the venue after that story though.

[RealLight]

These tabloids are getting on my nerves. Looks like they're desperate for something about Ayu come out and just make a soap opera of it. Are they really that stupid? geez '--

[kotora]

Originally Posted by RealLight

These tabloids are getting on my nerves. Looks like they're desperate for something about Ayu come out and just make a soap opera of it. Are they really that stupid? geez '--

This.

First, the rumor of the empty seats
Now, something called HIVES.

So, what is next to put her down? Stupid as Like, she will get emotionally collapsed because she could not buy enough shoes? Or, she twerks at the end of the year because Asian Nicki Minaj?

Haters gonna hate, as usual.

[JEWELian]

Just back from the tour- what can I say?
More like ~A HOT MESS LIVE~

Maybe because it's the 8th time I've seen her- it just felt like a copy-and-paste ayu show, with short segments (no more than 2 songs) and long interludes, lots of dancers, acrobatics, and lots of ayu just standing around.

Sure, I loved last year's ARENA TOUR- but this one... well it fell flat, souless just like the album she released this year.

JEWEL (and I guess HEAVEN too) saved it for me. It's my song- and I cried. What a beautiful performance, suspended in the air in water.... (Shame I had to kill JEWELian but w/e).

Sure, her voice was great- a bit of a mess when she was singing against heavy backing music (I guess because of her deafness), but no worse than last year, if not better (or maybe because Hiroshima's Green Arena had better sound that Shizuoka and Fukuoka?).

The theme was a mess, the setlist was odd- ending with Voyage? The random English wasn't that nice... And Timmy. Ugh.

The opening was really strange also- all this drama and hoo-hah around dolls and marionettes on strings who break free. It should've just started with ayu appearing on stage as she did.

The allusions to past tours were good- I obviously noted the last segment's to ASIA TOUR 2007's opening segment, but it wasn't until Nem pointed out to me that the trick in Wake me up was taken from Ladies Night at AT06.... and I'm sure there were other illusions in the show to past shows, too. (Like the mask in the opening to CDL 10-11, maybe the tiara and hair in JEWEL/HEAVEN to HANABI/End roll in AT08, etc).

The encore was strange with the double encore... it was funny tonight though because these *****es wouldn't shut up and kept shouting and ayu had to take three times putting the mic down, then being like "seriously you guys can't keep quiet? please?" until she finally got to do her mic-free "ARIGATOU GOZAIMASHITA~~~~~~~" but then obvi came back for MY ALL.

Erm what else... pokerface~Fly high and HONEY were totally mimed... shame HONEY is a short version... Also You & Me? Seriously? BLUE BIRD was nice though...

But the interlude with DJ 2-YAN playing Sweet Nothing and Starships and Gangnam Style (to which I was totally twerking to the first two btw) before ayu came on stage? Total wtf moment!

That's all I can say really- was a bit angry I won't be going again tomorrow night because Celga are completely incompetent (guys don't ever use them) but after seeing the show I'm not too fussed lmao.

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by JEWELian

Erm what else... pokerface~Fly high and HONEY were totally mimed...

Unfortunately that's true :-(

[~angel*ayumi~]

Originally Posted by JEWELian

That's all I can say really- was a bit angry I won't be going again tomorrow night because Celga are completely incompetent (guys don't ever use them) but after seeing the show I'm not too fussed lmao.

Really? o.o I never had any problem with them, I got my fanclub tickets through Celga and teh tickets arrived safe at my Hotel in Japan^^

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by JEWELian

Just back from the tour- what can I say?
More like ~A HOT MESS LIVE~

Maybe because it's the 8th time I've seen her- it just felt like a copy-and-paste ayu show, with short segments (no more than 2 songs) and long interludes, lots of dancers, acrobatics, and lots of ayu just standing around.

Sure, I loved last year's ARENA TOUR- but this one... well it fell flat, souless just like the album she released this year.

JEWEL (and I guess HEAVEN too) saved it for me. It's my song- and I cried. What a beautiful performance, suspended in the air in water.... (Shame I had to kill JEWELian but w/e).

Sure, her voice was great- a bit of a mess when she was singing against heavy backing music (I guess because of her deafness), but no worse than last year, if not better (or maybe because Hiroshima's Green Arena had better sound that Shizuoka and Fukuoka?).

The theme was a mess, the setlist was odd- ending with Voyage? The random English wasn't that nice... And Timmy. Ugh.

The opening was really strange also- all this drama and hoo-hah around dolls and marionettes on strings who break free. It should've just started with ayu appearing on stage as she did.

The allusions to past tours were good- I obviously noted the last segment's to ASIA TOUR 2007's opening segment, but it wasn't until Nem pointed out to me that the trick in Wake me up was taken from Ladies Night at AT06.... and I'm sure there were other illusions in the show to past shows, too. (Like the mask in the opening to CDL 10-11, maybe the tiara and hair in JEWEL/HEAVEN to HANABI/End roll in AT08, etc).

The encore was strange with the double encore... it was funny tonight though because these *****es wouldn't shut up and kept shouting and ayu had to take three times putting the mic down, then being like "seriously you guys can't keep quiet? please?" until she finally got to do her mic-free "ARIGATOU GOZAIMASHITA~~~~~~~" but then obvi came back for MY ALL.

Erm what else... pokerface~Fly high and HONEY were totally mimed... shame HONEY is a short version... Also You & Me? Seriously? BLUE BIRD was nice though...

But the interlude with DJ 2-YAN playing Sweet Nothing and Starships and Gangnam Style (to which I was totally twerking to the first two btw) before ayu came on stage? Total wtf moment!

That's all I can say really- was a bit angry I won't be going again tomorrow night because Celga are completely incompetent (guys don't ever use them) but after seeing the show I'm not too fussed lmao.

I think you are a little hard on the tour. But it is true that this tour really isn't anything that special compared to previous years. What saved it for me was the setlist. It does bother me though that they held a vote for the top 50 songs, yet the setlist doesn't change except for one song in the encore. When I first saw the tour, I thought the reason for the pretty basic setup was because they would be changing the setlist every other show or something. For example, the ballad section - No Way to Say/M could easily be changed out to Days/Dearest, the cute section of the concert could be using different cute songs that made the top 50 etc. etc. The fact that the setlist has remained the same is the biggest disappointment imo.

[channy]

Originally Posted by JEWELian

what else... pokerface~Fly high and HONEY were totally mimed... shame HONEY is a short version... Also You & Me? Seriously? BLUE BIRD was nice though...

Shocked to hear she's fooling her audience with full-playbacks even during her anniversary concert tour. Obviously it's not even well done otherwise you guys would not have noticed it.

Biggest problem I have with this is poker face as her very first single, a song that is in some way reminiscent of her grandmother and she willingly lip-synchs it...