[JEWELian]

Just back from tonight's show

Spoiler:

They're kinda already teasing her next (60th) single - (report from tonight's show in spoiler tags)
the tour ends with a video scrolling across the list of her singles on the jukebox and she presses on 60 (or it highlights 60) and the screen goes white and then you see her in the studio recording (the mixing board had 'oxford england' written on it, guessing she went to the UK??) but it cuts out with no sound and then says 'see you next stage'.

The show was great, too many half songs (nearly all of the setlist actually), which is the main issue I had. My favourite performances were Shhh! BUT (was nice hearing the second verse for once), suki de (acoustic version was great - just her and guitar), Can We Go Back and POP DIVA. Also I was LIVING for Trust Your Love~love across the ocean - they sounded so good - but only 1 minute of each really sucked. Moon Crying was a short version was disappointing too as she had a great outfit on and did a nice dance routine to the song with aerials.

Aside from opening, Moon crying, and Can We Go Back, she didn't really have any tricks or special performances. The whole show was just about song and dance.

The whole stage is a giant jukebox with a vinyl shaped platform that revolves (however she only uses it in maybe two-three songs which was a shame). They had a crane-lift like platform which was the arm/needle of the vinyl player and that's what she started the show on. There was no opening which I didn't like, she's been just jumping into the songs the last two tours - I much prefer build ups to the first song.

Outfits were all amazing, really stylish and sexy (aside from the second ballad outfit which looked like a toilet paper cover). Not really any visuals for the tour aside from Shhh! (footage from single cover shoot of her miming the song) and the one interlude video of her in a bar looking at the jukebox and then they photoshopped her into the you and LALALALALA music videos which was funny. They also at the encore showed her rehearsing the tour and some footage that was taken that day (I could tell as it was the same outfit she rocked up to the venue in) in Naruto at the bridge where you can see the famous Naruto whirlpools from. I guess she's doing that for every prefecture which is nice. For most songs they had her on the screen, start of every song they had the name of the song and what number single it was as well.

That's about it! Off again tomorrow night and again next weekend.

Oh, also, international fans beware- they fucked me around a bit today as you need to collect your ticket from the KodaGumi booth, however it's inside the venue (at least it was today), and you can't access that area unless you have a ticket ... so yeah took a while for me to get mine! But all sorted in the end, and I was 13th row back which was nice to be so close

Truck photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/BExV-mBF-5F/
Pre-show photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/BEyQbqXl-5y/