@ayuuk: Chapter 3? Wow, interesting. I wonder what she'll do next. I kind of like that it evolves, though--it means that if you go to see her multiple times in one tour, the show is certain to be different in some way each time!

@Onton: Try to get there a couple hours beforehand so you are sure to get a keyholder ticket. Last year when I went to RnRC, they'd already sold out of a few things that I wanted, and I was there an hour early.

I was looking at Ayu's site and there seems to be something about her being in Osaka on September 29 and October 1st. Is that confirmed yet? I'm going to be in Kyoto on those days, and it's not too far for me to go by train.

Would I be able to buy tickets a resale shop for those days?

confirmed
2011/9/30 (Fri) Osaka jo Hall 17:30 / 18:30
2011/10/1 (Sat) Osaka jo Hall 17:30 / 18:30

@lividillies, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to. Which shops did you have in mind?

Woah, so the Saitama show for POWER of MUSIC will be the DVD/Blu-ray show?

Oh, yay!!! So she will be there!! This is so exciting!!

I don't actually know of any shops. Actually, I wonder if I could get the tickets without going through a resale shop? I'll be there starting September 1st, so I think I'd have a good chance getting a ticket based on what I've read around here.

Do you guys have any recommendations for getting tickets? I've been lurking in some of the threads about it, but I'm not sure if it changes for "encore" type performances like these are. Would they be more popular, or less? Or just about the same?

when was that or when is it?? the last show?

Last two shows, yeah. Mid-October~

ohh true, as expected then xD

I just thought it was like the first show or something, since you pointed out surprised :P

Yep, looking forward to the DVD! ^^ Saitama Arena is HUGE!!! Yoyogi is like intimate-pub-venue size compared to Saitama, so it should be cool to do the recording there! :)

^Did she record a concert there before?

Yoyogi National Gymnasium capacity - 13,291
Saitama Super Arena capacity- 37,000

Yoyogi enters almost 3 times in there! It's really great if Saitama's show is the DVD's! Hopefully it will become a trend XD

^I assumed that Saitama was selected this year because it's now the last show on the tour...? It'll probably be back at the beginning of next year's tour, but I guess anything's possible. :)

did she already recorded something there??

If I understand it right...

tomorrow second part of Power of Music goods will be available at mu-mo

new PoM goods??:heart

@ayu_19980408 さて、今日からPOWER of MUSIC第三章が始まります。
Today begins the third chapter POWER of MUSIC.


I wonder what changes she will do today ...

TODAY?..in the middle of the week??

anyway, what changes were there in the second chapter :/

Why is it a third chapter? And what were the first two?

Did you see the shedule? =) Ayu has concerts in Nagoya today and tomorrow

in second chapter she cut BLUE BIRD and blossom and add Love song and UNITE

I - from the beginning until second stop in Yokohama
II - from Yokohama to Nagoya

^ thanks for explaining that, I wasn't really sure what the 2nd chapter had been.
I am really curious to see what she will change for the 3rd chapter but wondering if I should check back here later or wait one more week until I see it myself... I would like to be surprised, but I am just too curious!

Can somebody please tell me, what's POWER of MUSIC, and what's HOTEL Love songs? The names confuses me...

ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2011 A ~HOTEL Love songs~
tour that Ayu planned to make (first thread)

POWER of MUSIC
after disaster her plans changed
she decided to make absolutely different show

@Aderianu: AHHH I see thanks!! cant wait for the new evolutions :) (damn i want blossom)

guys have u noticed that there are the lions from HLS logo above the stage?

(a pic from a friend from todays show I think. Nagoya.)
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/861...ncertstage.jpg

^ yeah that could be seen on other photos too ^^

oh~ that must be part of HLS stage designs~
thanks for sharing

^ yeah it probably is the part of it..y'welcome :)


yeah~ I checked the other photos, theya are visible but probably wasn't too obvious for me in those ones, because I didn't notice them xD

O cool, thanks for pointing that out!

I didn't notice lions before

Yeah we talked about them right after the first pictures of the stage got uploaded. :) They probably didn't have time to scrap them just like the goods.

so is there any info about setlist changes for today??

maybe towards the end, the concert will become hotel love songs, and will be grand concert like she usually do?

wow this idea is cool! and i like the chapter 1, 2 and 3 concept too. it looks like when the DVD releases, it will be like a book with different tracklists in different chapter.

didnt notice that lions before.. *--*

how about the runway? it's already been there before?

seems it was

http://i.imgur.com/IHV90.jpg

yea i was thinking of that too..maybe by the end, it'll add on the HOTEL elements and..TADA..welcome to the HOTEL LOVE SONG tour

Hopefully Ayu will do HOTEL LOVE SONGS as some sort of special concert like the whole SEVEN DAYS portion of last year's tour though the schedule doesn't seem to allow for something like that unless she did it in November or December..

Well... if at some point it'll become Hotel Love Songs I hope at least we'll have two dvds, one for PoM and one for Hotel Love Songs. 'cause I'd like to watch both of them!

looks like the lion symbol already there before as well

7/13 tracklist

!!!!!

01. forgiveness
02. progress
03. A Song for XX
04. M
05. NEVER EVER
06. walking proud
07. part of Me
08. Love song
09. July 1st
10. SEASONS
11. Bold & Delicious
12. Mirrorcle World
13. Boys & Girls
14. evolution
15. Born To Be...
16. A Song is born
17. Thank U

changes
+ progress
+ July 1st
+ Thank U
- Moments
- vogue
- Far away
- fairyland
- UNITE!

:thud progress and part of Me :luv2

people who going next week will hear full progress!

Very excited for "progress," but with "Thank U?" Really? Win some, lose some, I guess...

I want to hear progress full!!!!!!

i will listen to progress yayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! and Thank U! i love it! omg!

So excited for the 24th!

SO SOON.

Though I'll miss UNITE!...I love that song live.
vogue too :(

July 1st is a major plus though!!

Oops! she added Thank U ( thi*************** song) and deleted Vogue and Far away! so sad!

I want Far away,monochrome,blossom,Moments...

progress!!!

waiting for the reviews impatiently...

Oh people get to hear the full version of progress !?! Oh I'm so jealous >.<

17 now. Wasn't it 19 before?
Why did she shorten the tracklist?
Still don't forgive for removing blossom in the bossa nova style.
And a big NO to Thank U.

Great she added progress. But it could be just a part of it and not the full song or just something a capella.
Waiting for a review.

July 1st for the SUMMER
AND OMG I LITERALLY GASPED WHEN I SAW PROGRESS!!! O.O
Seems like the tour is evolving into the HOTEL LOVE SONGS :)

(and noooo..I want Moments & fairyland!!)

7/14 tracklist
Same songs, little different order
01. forgiveness
02. progress
03. A Song for XX
04. M
05. NEVER EVER
06. walking proud
07. part of Me
08. Love song
09. SEASONS
(09. July 1st 7/13 名古屋公演)
10. July 1st
(10. SEASONS 7/13 名古屋公演)
11. Bold & Delicious
12. Mirrorcle Ｗorld
13. evolution
(13. Boys & Girls 7/13 名古屋公演)
14. Boys & Girls
(14. evolution 7/13 名古屋公演)
15. Born To Be...
16. A Song is born
17. Thank U

can't believe Far away and Moments are gone!!!! :( but I'm excited for progress though :D

Sick tracklist! :)

9 shows left? after this, will be FIVE star HOTEL LOVE SONGS...♪

Only two songs from Love songs in the tracklist

I'm really doubt that PoM will transform into Hotel Love songs... Ayu already mentioned that she will not do anything like that

progreess OMG

After those 9 left shows, the tour will be over.
Two left in July, 7 in September and October, those are the ones replacing the cancelled ones from April.
The last concert is 10/19.

OMG, progress! The problem is that vogue and Moments are out now... I hope she puts those songs back.

So she did never make HOTEL Love songs? Thank you :)

They were almost done apparently and then they decided to start from scratch with POWER of MUSIC.

Aaaah, it's kinda sad that these songs are all gone, but I guess they'll be able to find room for them on the DVD/Blu-ray somehow. So many changes~ (if not, then I think a lot of people are gonna be reaallllly disappointed, haha.)

01. forgiveness
02. progress
03. A Song for XX
04. M
05. NEVER EVER
06. walking proud
07. part of Me
08. Love song
09. July 1st
10. SEASONS
11. Bold & Delicious
12. Mirrorcle World
13. Boys & Girls
14. evolution
15. Born To Be...
16. A Song is born
17. Thank U

All the songs I marked are ones I love more than anything and that I hoped for... you see... this is my perfect setlist!! :heart:heart (well, except that BLUE BIRD was kicked out, but I can live with that)
thanks for posting that setlist!

With all these setlist changes, I'm gonna be really irked if we don't get all these extra performances on DVD :\ It's not just one or two songs being changed from start to end, like alterna at AT10, it's a whole bunch... x_X

Wow that's a huge set list change! Please ayu add back far away please:yfrown

Noo!! Ayu please put Moments back in!! I was so excited for that! That's my favourite track from MY STORY. ):

Well, no matter what happens I'll be happy just to hear her sing, but still. Maybe she'll put it back in...? >.>;

I hope when she returns in September/October she's revamp the setlist further again, perhaps even full circle return to the original.

As the tweet by yukaringo_ayu says, there should be 11 concert dates left, including yesterday's at Nagoya.

So does that mean that 2 of the remaining shows in the list will not be listed as part of PoM tour? If that's the case then we'd expect the last 2 shows at Saitama to be special then, cause it's the last shows. But because the Yoyogi show will not be recorded anymore, the DVD footage will come from the last Saitama show, which means that we'll have no full recording of the PoM tour should ayu change the show at Saitama to something different... Maybe I'm just overthinking lol, but really hoping that we'll still get PoM tour in its entirety on DVD!

awwwww~~~~ mysterious Ayu

I just got my ticket for PoM on 23/7 Today.

The seat is South-Step 1- Row B5 3 and 4.
And I got an extra ticket B8 - 39

Anyone know are those seat good?
Is it close to the stage or the runway?

no more vogue~Far away~SEASONS trilogy!?!?!?!? i cant believe she made space for THANK U as the ending song. but for progress i shall keep one eye closed.

Cant believe she made Thank U the final song, is just bad

I just hope she'll bring the trilogy back!

Since she said only 9 shows until PoM will end, maybe the last two shows will be HOTEL Love songs? Or something that goes in that direction?
But if we really get no recording of PoM at all, that'd be kinda sad.

or to something related to FIVE

I'm sure they have recorded pieces of PoM at least if they aren't going to film the whole thing. But really, we're talking of Avex here, aka. money suckers, wouldn't they be happy to make 2 DVDs? One PoM and one HOTEL LOVE SONGS from the last 2 shows?

Just saying. Lol

So many setlist @_@

I kinda like the idea of Hotel Love songs for Saitama concerts. *____*

the trilogy got axed???? NOOOOO!!!!! and she added Thank U??? This setlist is falling lower and lower =( I really hope she´ll bring back those. I´m dissapointed because I loved so much the setlist in the first dates

progress full is good though

I WANNA HEAR progress so BADLY!!

This show started with an amazing setlist, it's still good. It's been weakened with more staples, the original had just the right amount and had some songs which are like half staples (if that makes sense). More crowd pleasing/I love you all songs weren't needed, should have just added one song that fitted both these categories rather than one for each.

I will be very sad if we don't get the trilogy on the DVD.

POWER of MUSIC Chapter I ftw.

Yes!!! Really hope she'll held Hotel Love songs for the last two concerts. I'm so excited for that :P

ayu's having great fun by surprising her fans with changing setlists! Hahah! (x

So many different setlists! :confused

Yeah I agree. I also don't really like that she took out 5 songs and then replaced them with only 3. Makes it seem like people going to the shows now aren't getting as much of their moneys worth compared to people who saw the show earlier on.

But considering that most of the songs that were replaced were not the full song, it's likely to say that the length of time for the concert has not been depleted.

sooner or later Thank U was going to appear like an ending concert song xD I think it was made for that! D:

But we still don't know if progress for example is the full song or just a part. And isn't she singing a part acapella?

Well they get more staples now even if the tracklist got a bit shortened and we know that the japanese audience love staples.
Also the duration of the show is probably still the same.

I agree, with Tal, removing a couple of a capellas isn't THAT bad.

I think if they were a cappellas, they would have been labeled as such. Seems like everything was a full version at the last two concerts.

haha, my first thought was "OMG, Miki will get to hear progress!!!!!!"

As the new setlist also is very good...... I'm sad to say that I miss this one and I'm actually feeling a bit bummed over the fact that this setlist won't make it into the DVD. :/



I would almost kill to see monochrome, vouge/far away/seasons, blossom, mini MC and finally A Song is Born as the final song.

I guess she is becoming more upbeat at the moment whereas before it was very much focused on her feelings towards the earthquake. A shame to cut A song is Born as the final song though. I imagine that was pretty damn good!

I think she's in tune with the rest of Japan in the sense that as difficult as it is to have to deal with the pain of the 3/11 disasters, people need to bring their moods up after four months of tribulation. Though the country's far from being out of the woods, I think they're trying to push forward with a positive outlook, rather than slip further into melancholy. Thus, the more upbeat setlist.

I'm pretty sure that's what she was going for with all the changes. Still, it's a bit sad that some won't get to see the "original" show later on in the tour.

I wonder just what she has planned for Saitama...

Also, it seems that in Japan, they have been advertising this tour as "HOTEL Love songs" still despite being POWER of MUSIC for a whiiile now. Weird. Going to make a new thread since we are dangerously close to 500~