[Official Message] ayumi hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2016-2017 A

[dreamalley]

For me to travel to Japan would take a minimum of $800 (roundtrip flight) and 15 hours divided into 2 flights (there's no direct flight from my country).

But to travel somewhere in Europe it would cost me about $60 depending and only 2 hours of flight more or less.

Even KOKIA did concerts in Paris, 10 years ago. Also I see lots of unknown (to me) Jpop and Jrock bands performing in Europe. And they always manage to sell out (small/medium venues).

Ayu could do a sort of Europe TA Tour and sell out easily.

[BabyJane]

^Exactly. I see it the same way, if she would be willing to do something like TA Tour in Europe.

[Aderianu]

★ ayumi hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2016-2017 A『Just the beginning -20- 』
Important announcement of opening times on December 31st

venue opening times has been changed due to staging direction.

Previous schedule: Doors open 22:00 / Main act 23:00
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New schedule: Doors open 21:30 / Main act 22:30

[Chris85]

Oh yes, I hope that's an indication that the show is going to be longer!

[Ryusei]

she did say that there would be a lot of material so this is exciting let's hope her voice is in shape

[Aderianu]

^I think she was talking about last concert at TA tour. But she can use this show as rehearsal before CDL

[AyuGAME]

wow..looks like we will get longer setlist

[truehappiness]

Since it's just on the 31st, it could be because they need that extra 30 minutes as a safety net so they can get to midnight a bit more easily for the countdown.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I wish this was going to be available to stream :-/

[EndOfTheWorld]

Me too.
I hate not being able to see the countdown live until many months later.
They could at least release the DVDs in January or February.

[~angel*ayumi~]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Since it's just on the 31st, it could be because they need that extra 30 minutes as a safety net so they can get to midnight a bit more easily for the countdown.

That makes no sense.
Other concerts can be longer as well, but they don´t need to be planned arround midnight, they just can extend it to the end.

[Aderianu]

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[ayu-michan]

When will the day come, when ayu's cdl is streamed online instead of just television,,

[Aderianu]

I'm afraid one day her CDLs will not be streamed even on tv

[roanmy]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

If people were going to travel all the way around the world, I think they would just go to Japan.

Overall, I agree that the time has passed and the only way I see if working would be done in conjunction with some kind of Japan Expo or anime convention.

The only band/artist that immediately comes to mind that consistently tours worldwide is Hyde/Vamps/L'arc en Ciel, and I really get the feeling that it is more of a passion project than something that makes them great money especially Hyde/Vamps who are consistently playing small club venues overseas.

Also the bands people are mentioning are visual kei bands, which the genre itself has a built in set of fans worldwide that are into the genre; I would say jpop in general is less popular than visual kei outside of Japan, whereas actually in Japan it is the exact opposite.

As someone who's been to a few of these concerts, I'd say I agree. I've seen a few in Stockhol and Berlin, and the venues are first of all small, not like 4000 people "small", but 800 - 1500 people small. And their shows are pretty much just the band on stage, so I don't really see someone like Ayu, who can't rely on her voice alone, doing that. All though I'd go in a second, haha!

[Aderianu]

general ticket sale starts 10th December

http://avex.jp/ayu/news/detail.php?id=1043920

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by ayu-michan

When will the day come, when ayu's cdl is streamed online instead of just television,,

The most likely scenario is that it will stop being streamed at all/shown on TV at some point rather than be online again, so we'd be forced to wait for the official release. However, it's probably still guaranteed at least for a few more years to have it on TV. There were quite a lot of issues before with some of the streams we had previously on UStream and such and the prices were also a bit high for what it was.

Originally Posted by ~angel*ayumi~

That makes no sense.
Other concerts can be longer as well, but they don´t need to be planned arround midnight, they just can extend it to the end.

Given the 'staging' reasoning, I can't see why else they'd move up the start time.

[hayasaki]

Can we hope that its a center stage this time?

[Earth_maiden]

^I love centre stage shows, especially in person.

[AyuCanada]

Originally Posted by Earth_maiden

^I love centre stage shows, especially in person.