I don't know.... the outfits seens to fit the tour concept... I would think it to be very stupid if she used big flashy costumes just for the sake of using them "I'm Ayumi Hamasaki, so I need to look like a birthday cake when singing ballads" o_O

I wanna know how the lights and special effects are, but really? If this a performace-oriented tour, I would love to see it! To me, some of ayu best performaces are very simple like haven, teens, (miss)understood and is this love? at AT06, memorial address and because of you at at03-04, secret at at07, and so on...

I just think thats strange that a lot of people who did not watch the concert are complaining about the concert... the only forum member that went there didn't say anything bad about the tour.... o.õ

youre really calling BoY AT03-04 simple? o.0 It had its own costumes, a video on the screen(even if it was taken from the pv), the spinning platform was only in the stage because of that song, too

The outfits look fine, I just don't like that poofyish wig =|
She looks so cute in that red cheerleader outfit though

Well, we will have videos in this tour also, right? All of her at since 03-04 have tons of videos... And the spinning plataform isn't anything to write home about either...

About the costumes:
http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/live/pa...R_EVER0805.jpg
never ever, surreal at a museum - 2003
http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/live/pa...RREAL22A12.jpg
because of you, surreal, evolution at AT03-04

=)

It's not the first time she is re-using something, she does it a lot... Aways did.... =)

Ah, im sorry, I was kind of...I just forgot she sang the surreal~evolution~surreal medley with it because I usually skip that xD

but the platform IS something special/was something special wasnt it the first time for her to use a spinning platform in concert? of course now its nothing special because it belongs to her stage for so long

Okay, so the costumes are a bit boring. SO?

I'm sure the show's amazing and she's giving it her all!

I'm going to see her in October, and I can guarantee you I'm going to cry, yell, sing, shout, scream and every other thing I can do to show her my support. It won't matter even if she's wearing a brown paper bag for an outfit.

Yes!!! I totally agree with you!!:yes

Remember people that in AT 06 at first she wore during AUDIENCE performance a horrible yellow dress (it seemed that was made of flowers...) and then in the last tour presentations she wore that golden corset with that feathered white dress and the white boots...

I hope that her costumes will change a bit. I think that they are simple ones because of the new stage where she doesn´t have enough space to run, for example, as the previous stages from the other tours.

This is my point of view...

^Let's hope that happens.

HAHAHA REMEMBER THE AUDIENCE CHEAP YELLOW DRESS?

But that was most probably not because the real costumes werent finished in time, she had very much time for the costumes, she usually changes costumes when they get destroyed(yellow dress for Born to Be...) or she just thinks it should be different, everything is planned so that the costumes are finished in time, im sure it is

hmm first i thought , yea this is a copycat of PCDL too truthfully. but i think she looks absolutely amazing. they are going to mess up especially performing this live for the first time to lots of people so i expected that. the setlist is okay, im glad shes singing most of the NEXT LEVEL tracks, but not feeling for the older songs. i dunno i think im being picky. but like i said she looks awesome.

I don't care about her outfits as long as she doesn't look like a 2$ *****.
I just pray that her vocals are great and she's having a great time with the audience without much pressure over dance routines or some unnecessary "wow" factors. (even though I do love the big highlights like alterna at (mu) tour and the ship last year, but sometimes the simplest is the best :b)

I don;t mind the outfits being recycled, as long as they fit the theme and the songs.

However, if executions are recycled that would not be too good, especially the shuya-ayu separation and the tissue performance again and again

I heard that the LED screens this year are really amazing, i actually look forward to the show.

But hopefully, she can modify some of the costumes and ideas of performance along the tour if she has time to come up something new

Exactly. In CDL06-07, all of the costumes were re-used from other concerts (mostly AT02 and AT03-04).
Free&Easy AT02:
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...d_Easy0506.jpg

Free&Easy CDL06-07:
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...d_Easy1006.jpg

evolution AT02:
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...lution1102.jpg http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...lution1104.jpg

evolution CDL06-07
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...lution2603.jpg http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/liv...lution2605.jpg

Her re-using sets and / or costumes isn't anything new. Ayu produces all of her concerts, so she's the one that has the final say about what an outfit may look like. True, she's re-done costumes before, so she may do the same during this tour, and she may not.

You did a mistake, polka-dot-jewel

CDL 0607 was a BEST of her previous concerts, thats why its called BEST of COUNTDOWN LIVE 0607 A, it's meant to copy some of her performances(and make them better like most were...) and theres another difference: this is a TOUR, sure, she copied for tours already, too, but never in this amount + she calls it NEXT LEVEL, whats NEXT LEVEL about copying most of the costumes and at least one of the performances

All I care about is that she sang all the NEXT LEVEL songs, so everything else to me is just a bonus. Some of you whiners are so annoying, repeating the same thing over and over again. Stop please...

My friend finally got back to me. She went to the first show and she only has good things to say. Everyone I have talked to that actually went enjoyed it, so maybe because we haven't experienced it, we don't know how good it is. ;) I know lots of stuff has been posted already, so I will just post a bit of what she said. Ayu interacted with the audience more than she did when she went to AT08, like having them sing more lil parts. Ayu looked really happy and cute, quite slim and in shape. And yeah, there was a little problem with sound, but she said it wasn't a big deal, just a small part of the song. One of the things she also said was that she sounded really great and as far as she could tell, it was live. So as long as she keeps that up, I'm happy. She also got some vids and pics before the security got to her. :D

So is there any prop we dont know about yet?

Really?! Please put them here ^^

yeah, the vids...that would be amazing to have vids from the first evening already! and pictures are interesting, too(more of the stage and the dancers costumes)

I'm glad that she went to the show and enjoyed it!!
I want to hear the good things she want to share =DD hehe.