^ me to, i like the other shoes more, they had more glitter.

OMG the whole thing looks very interesting. it's still such a long time before I get to see this.
I really love the costumes, especially Microphone's, rainy day's, and Sexy little things's!
oh wow...
thanks for the information and photos!

Was just in the Osaka Concert and it was AMAZING!!! I love the setlist! and they used the video screens amazingly!!! And if I recall correctly, she performed a new song! I was expecting Last Link or Meaning of Love, but it was really different, and with my limited English, I heard something about Moon, it was her first time performing it and she asked the audience's thoughts. Amazing concert! Osaka audience was amazing also :D

wah ! she already perfomed MOON ! ^^! hope to listen to this full song soon ! u're so lucky !

She sang MOON?! That's great! :thud

omg she sang MOON? omfggggg

looks great... wanna know more detail about the performance
cant wait for MOON @@!!


waiting for more videos / pictures of the tour LOL

MOON?! Wow, I didn't expect her to perform it @_@

Maybe someone recorded at least part of it... *prays*

Sad. She didn't do that during the first 2 shows at Saitama as well. Just like with the 100 postcard winners thing... :shakehead

MOON!?!?

omfgd'lkwsdkf'l$@%@(% GOTTA HEAR/SEE IT T_T

can someone else confirm she sang moon :O:O:O?

MOON??
How was it? Boring? Calming? Good?
What was the audience reaction?
Did you like it?

Sorry for all of the questions...! xD

Woah MOON? I hope someone has record it

MOOOOOOOOONN? WHOA!!

MOON?!
May be it will be single in a few months??

But these "bunny ears".... I don't know....

I checked Mixi, and indeed she did sing full MOON at Osaka, and everyone is saying it's so great.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet!!! I really want her to release it soon!!

http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/blog/index.html
There are new blogs!!!

She sang MOON? No way! I wanna get to hear it so bad~

Wow that's a great news, I didn't expect her to sing it THAT early ! Hopefully someone recorded it !

I hope this could be the start that she could release this song later in the future... Maybe in conjunction with a new single...

It's ok! let me try to answer these questions based on what I heard :D

1. The song was not boring or monotonous at all. It's quite emotional, but not too dramatic or anything. A bit uplifting, though I don't really remember. It also sounds like an anime theme song I heard before hehe. there is a rock tinge, but it's not that heavy. I'd probably categorize it similar to moments or no way to say in terms of how it sounds music-wise, but in emotions it conveys, I think a bit similar to meaning of love.

2. Audience reaction was ok, during the song I think people were very silent since we were focused on it, though some arms were waving here n there. When the song ended, everyone clapped, she asked our reaction and we all applauded :D Oh, I think she forgot the lyrics for the verse and people screamed "ayu!", hehehe.

3. I think based on my answers, you can see that I liked it :D imo it's like a rock-ish meaning of love, which made me like it so much. I wish I recorded it, I was very surprised to hear that since I heard the thursday show still had meaning of love anyway.

^
thanks for the explanation..ahh rock-ish ver of meaning o f love?
can't wait to hear that..
MOON must be really good!

^^ Thank you so much! :shughug
Can't wait to hear it in full someday *.*

Oooo, sounds beautiful! :yes

wow... XD osunds amazing!

I wonder if she will keep changing songs... LAst links, meaning fo Love, MOON... I love Last Links and moL!! I wanna have them all in the DVD, LOL she should sing the 3 of them in the last one ^^

^ That would be very nice...the three of them :yes

Maybe in the next shows she will sing, instead of one of those, You were... or Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~? xD
I know people will hate this idea :laugh
But it would be nice, for me, though :P

Moon and a Rockish Version of Meaning of Love? MEaning of love is such a beautiful song.. why she has to sing it rockish? I would prefer the normal Version.
But I really wanna hear Moon full!

meaning of Love rockish version???

*dies* :thud I wanna hear it now!!! T__T

meaning of Love was not performed at the 2nd or 3rd Osaka dates. MOON was being described as a rockish meaning of Love.

MOON was performed yet again.

I think this song will replace Last Links / meaning of Love for quite some time. I wonder if we can convince Ayu on Twitter to add all 3 songs to the encore?

Waaaah I'm so excited to hear MOON!!!!!! :thud

A rockish version of meaning of Love? Maybe this could be a supplementary candidate for a new single (like the orchestra version of fated on the talkin' 2 myself single)...

:luv2:luv2:luv2

sooo wanna listen to it :thud:thud she got to sing Last Link,moL and MOON,or must include it in the DVD :D

not sure if this has been posted yet.

『Rock'n'Roll Circus』 Special Postcards x 10 from 『ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2010 A〜Rock'n'Roll Circus』

http://i41.tinypic.com/30tos2r.jpg

source: YAJ

you will get the postcards if u r one of 100 lucky people who have attended any one of the concert dates.

These are the postcards from the photobook that 100 people win randomly if they see the show depending on their seat number.

It started just after Saitama, so Misa-chan was a bit angry, haha.

No one said there's a rockish version of meaning of Love. S/he said that MOON sounds like a rockish version of meaning of Love. That was explained like... two posts above yours. >>

I'm not angry, I'm sad. :( It's ok, I'll try again.

She use to throw like 20 balls, but recently she has only been throwing 3. :(

Ah, I see. You are going again right? Maybe someone from AHS will win!

The initial reaction is probably what I remember, haha.

I need HQ scans of those 10 postcards lol... so awesome! <3

hey~ a question for those who went to saitama concerts~

In Last Links, they did the beggining like in the album? I mean... you noticed like the sound was only on the right side or sth??

^ That would be so cool~!!! :heart

I must say...the costumes look absolutely fantastic this year and best of all she actually looks good in all of them!

I doubt they'd do it like that exactly...

But since the song starts out with guitar (Yocchan is on the right side from the audience's perspective) it does sort of start off like that.... but Yocchan is on Ayu's left facing the audience. Soooooooo, yeah. It sort of unintentionally starts on the right side due to the guitar solo at the start, but for Ayu, he's on her left side anyway.

MOON sounds amazing, can't wait to get it.

I wonder why she's throwing fewer balls this year :shrug

has this been posted?? well anyway i saw it on youtube and the description says 24 hr vid or something. .. it has parts of Meaning of Love, Sunrise, and Boys & Girls in it and something im too lazy to distinguish. RED LINE with different arrangement at end i guess. cool.

God the stage looks amazing. She's really out of tune.

Are there any more pictures of the red Memorial address dress? :love it looks freakin' gorgeous. And unfortunately I'm kind of let down about the stage, it really looks like a step backwards from the AT09 stage which was awesome. :\

lol idk what she thinks she's doing with moL but it is just all over the place and not sung right at all.. come on ayu, all you have to do is sing softly, it's not so hard!

^well it may be hard for her. just sayin. ^__~

anyway the stage looks gorgeous and the encore seemed fun. and she looks beautiful. i forgot to comment that in first post.

oh and shouldn't someone take this since its only on there temporarily?

I think she's making it harder on herself.. the song shouldn't be so loud, but she's making it that way. It's like if she tried to scream-sing in her performances of Sunset, it'd sound weird and bad like this.

She didn't really sound bad in meaning of Love, she just couldn't sing "dakedo" in the right tone and went off pitch, it sounded really emotional and pretty! She even didn't exaggerate the vibrato!

Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ another live epic version *_________*
I love the new arrangement!! (Once again)

I don´t like meaning of love perf., the song is so much soft

yeah and i think shes having more fun with meaning of Love. and why not? and yes to Sunrise. the song is just so great live :)

hope someone can save that new video >< !!

Ooh, another new type of Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~...

MOL sounds so much better live. Voice isn't perfect but she still sounds good.

Seems like this sort of thing is what she meant by "When I sing all of these songs, they become rock" or whatever, haha.

I wonder if she thinks she'd be sacrificing vocal power or something if she sang softly?

anyway, in which city is that?
Osaka?

she did better with meaning of love than with all her microphone lives lol

she still went out of tune a few times but she did alright...



i think she forces her voice because if she sings too quietly she can't hear herself properly (it happens to me too).

anyway forcing her voice isn't gonna help at all... she can't even sing Boys & Girls

http://www.mediafire.com/?izfyitjwdza

Download link for the mp4 of that performance/MC/encore thing.

I would say she's not really even trying to "sing" Boys&Girls. Same sort of thing goes for evolution and so on. She's just screaming the lyrics because she's having fun. With those songs, it's sort of forgivable since it's a party-like atmosphere and no one really cares, haha.

Yeah that's what I thought too.. she hasn't really "sung" Boys&Girls very many times in her career. The performances are usually full of screaming to get the energy up and also since her voice can't be as high pitched as it is in the original song.

yea for encore parts, I don't think she should necessarily sing the songs perfectly..
she's having fun after all haha XD

I don't get why she kills the "dakedo"-part in Mol? Other than that it's pretty good!

Either she couldn't hear herself well at those moments or just couldn't reach the notes at the time.

This recording was from the Niigata live I think. Isn't that where she lost her voice?

It is also pretty obvious the reason she tends to force her voice live, the poor girl can't hear herself properly. Stage looks awesome though. :)

she lost her vocal in Osaka :)
She performs in Niigata today :)

Ahh, thanks! Got my dates mixed up lol.

she like does that for every song she ever sings live anymore :l...

She lost her voice at the end of the Osaka leg (the 3rd show) but this is from the first Osaka date (OR the Nagoya dates) where she performed meaning of Love. I wonder if she switches the song because the songs aren't that great live? (Like how RAINBOW was axed in ARENA TOUR 2003-2004)

I'm really not sure why it sounds so bad, but eh. Cam recordings of concerts usually don't sound that great anyway.



She's still got it, it's just... very on and off, it seems.

why are you making excuses for her...

if i was to pay full price for a overpriced concert (such as this) i would want singing not screaming, I can do that at home...

She probably doesn't since "bad enough" or sing at least decently most of the time since I don't think that Japanese fans (even hardcore) would tolerate it often. Specially when they will to pay a high price to go to her concert. And she has many dates for big arenas.

It seems to me like from most reviews that her voice starts out really good, but by the encore, things start to get bad, haha.

http://ameblo.jp/hg-going/entry-10519363268.html

This person went to all three Osaka performances and most of the reports start out with "Great voice!" for the beginning of the concert, and then they avoid talking about her voice in the encore performances, heh.

What song is this?

Present from asfxx

Yeah, she can pull off a good live vocally, but when she messes up it's kind of sad, because it gets really, really bad. As long as she doesn't sound like that all the time, I'm ok. I'm kind of scared though, because I'm planning on saving up money to go to one of her concerts next year or the year after and I would be disappointed if I had to witness something like that moL performance.

Haha, poor ayu. At least she tries her best to give the best performances :).

You're going in circles people ^^ This story has already been told.

people (specially in AHS) love going in circles ^^

I count myself in lol



anyway when is the next date??

I like how this always happens whenever an early rip or live broadcast (CDLXX-XX) comes out, haha. It's like one of the most predictable things that "fans" do.

Oh wait, Niigata happened yesterday... next up is Nagano on Mon/Tues. She performed MOON in Niigata.

The count down/Ma dress is gorgeous! ♡♡♡
I love the bunny outfit, and the ballad dress is actually a really nice change of pace. It's not gaudy like her usual ballad dresses, so I like that one, too. :) And I noticed no thigh high boots this time around. As sexy as Ayu looks in them, it's time for a change.
Thanks so much for sharing the pictures/info with us!

At least she hasn't resorted to mass lipsynching. Rather have a few off notes than that.

^:yes

Yeah, a lot of the songs that have been speculated to be lipsynced before, like Until that day..., are definitely not, because she's been making lyrical mistakes in those songs. I feel proud! ahaha

Present sounds so much better in this version. I really totaly dislike, who we can hear it on the CD... but this is much much better. She sould do a 2010-Version of it. (^.^)

Scanned my R'n'RC notebook.

^oh, thank you very much!

OMG Tony..
THANK YOUUU!!!
that's so BIGGG..
thank you!!

@LostHeaven & AyUmIXx
You are welcome. : D

Os noes! She is almost naked! That means she is not virgin anymore! Why Ayu?! Why?! ;-;










Gorgeous picture!

She did MOON again at the latest tour stop.

Seems like she'll never do meaning of Love or Last Links again... -runs off crying-

;_; I want Last Links live. Oh well, I hope MOON in full is an awesome song too.

I want them ALL!!!! Y_________Y

Thanks OyTony for the scan!!!

Oh I hope the include all 3 encore performances on the DVD :yes

she might pull out an extra song or two for the final shows? Who knows.

Omg, gorgeous! Thank you oytony!

Oh my, this tread suddenly died. :O