So we ended up in our actual seats and well, the seats were kinda to the right side, but not really that right side, so the view was still okay, still got to see the whole stage
It was still 15 minutes for the concert to start, we were all getting excited, but I was not really talking since I was kinda tired. Better to take a rest for a moment before the concert started, right?
The concert was late for like 5-10 minutes but not as late as when I watched at HK last year though.
So the concert had started at around 8.15 pm, the building lights had started to dim and left with all the blue color stick lights (gosh no stick lights for this year, so we were all waving the fan-made stick lights), all were shouting so hard when it first came out the interlude..
reBiRTH
along side with the video that showing all Ayu’s singles covers from her very first debut poker face until the latest one Mirrorcle World and ended up with the 10th anniversary congratulation message. All the ppl had started to shout Ayu’s name and getting crowded.
Then continued with the beginning of the interlude..
The Judgement day
The interlude began with the video of the ship moving around where we got to see Ayu’s back walking down the hall also to the deck, we just got see her stirring the ship inside the ship controller room. The “lalalalala” part was sung LIVE from the backstage. We were all so exciting when hearing her voice then all the male dancers coming out from the 2 different “doors” from the left and right side holding “A” logo flags then dancing around with the music. The concert had finally started!
talkin’ 2 my self
Then Ayu came out from the middle hydraulic stage singing the chorus part of talkin’ 2 my self in acoustic/acapella style. Her voice was powerful!!
Then she hit the first song with talkin’ 2 myself and I was singing along with her from the start, I didn’t even take any pics since I really wanted to just enjoy the concert that day.
The costume was just the same like she was wearing at HK concert, no difference.
She danced just like on the PV.. just so cool!
Then came the 2nd song…
A song for XX
I even didn’t know what the setlist of this Asia Tour 2008, so I was kinda surprised when she sang A song for xx, since it was my fave song, she sang it with the mic in front of her just like at a-nation 2008. just so amazing!! Her vocal was so so so powerful..
After she finished the song, she went back to the backstage from the middle hydraulic stage.
Then Peco and Princess also the band just like usual, introducing themselves with the video behind and doing some improvisations.
Depend on you
The 3rd song, the curtain on the left and right sides were projected with lots of dotted pink squares or boxes and a video was shown in the center stage, showing very cute Ayu with the female dancers also the male dancers wearing the pinky school uniforms and they were acting like high school-ers who were teasing each other. It was really a very cute video I love it so much!! Ayu was extremely cute on the video. After the video had been finished shown, then Ayu appeared with all the female dancers, I don’t remember anymore whether the male dancers also appeared or not. Then Ayu started to sing and like I had told before at ASIA TOUR 2008 thread on the News section. I don’t like the way Ayu sang, she sounded “too cute”, she strained her voice too much where sometimes, it sounded like an old grandma singing seriously. I think a lot of ppl were surprised when hearing her singing that way, why didn’t she just sing normally just like she sang HONEY at AT05?
The concept of the dance moves was looked like STEP you though where the male dancers were trying to catch the girls attention but the girls were playing hard to get.
Oh yea one thing, I thought that Ayu would sing Depend on you the 10th anniversary version which I really like, but too bad, it was not that version.
Then the next song was fly high
Fly high
Ayu was doing the same bowing-to-the-left-and-right kind of action again and clapping at the beginning of the song. Then she started to sing, all the audiences were following the way she always does, the hand gestures whenever singing Fly high. And I was the part of it. I was enjoying singing the whole song and getting high~
Before the fifth song, there was a video showing Ayu was being chased by her female dancers and we got to see the flash back and forward of Ayu was being tied on the wall and also being released by the female dancers. I didn’t really get the story of the video though but one thing was that Ayu’s action was pretty convinced when she expressed her fear, she really looked great. We felt like watching a movie.
The video was for the opening of the song..
(don’t) leave me alone
At first, I was wondering where the big circle wall thing would start to appear, was it from the center of the big screen? Where the big screen would be separated in two, then the big circle wall would start to rise up and Ayu was tied there. But it was not.. it was appeared in the middle of the main stage that we didn’t realize at all that Ayu suddenly appeared being tied on the wall then she started to sing. And it sounded live for me. When the big round wall thing was being turned Ayu was not singing because it was the part before the 2nd brigde. Maybe during Japan tours, the big circle wall thing was being turned, at the same Ayu was still singing the part of the song. Therefore, she needed to lipsynch on that song or even not, I couldn’t really tell.
Then she finally was being released from the wall, she walked down to join the female dancers and danced the choreo like on the PV. Then the black jacket was taken off from Ayu so left with the outfit for my name’s WOMEN but without the feathers yet since Ayu would sing another song before my name’s WOMEN.
Decision
It was just the same like in the previous CDL07-08 very rockish atmosphere in here and she didn’t crack a bit. Totally powerful if compared with CDL07-08.
My name’s WOMEN
In this song, Ayu and the female dancers were just doing the same choreo like on the AT05 not much difference, except for only the outfits. Very sexy moves all the way.
The next song..
Marionette
Before Marionette was sung, the opening video for Marionette was shown; the scenes were almost 100% looked like the PV but just different outfits, different hairstyles and also each of the male dancers were formed as dolls before they suddenly turned into the real human.
Then they were all appearing from the middle hydraulic stage together with Ayu then walked to the certer circle stage up front and got ready soon after the beginning of the music was being played. Ayu was wearing a white gown with pink laces on it, a very dolly like kind of gown. They were all acting just like on the PV and Ayu was definitely really great in acting as marionette, totally looked like a living doll plus. Her expression was definitely looked so blank; she really did a great job in impersonating it. It has become one of my fave performances throughout this tour. The way she danced throughout the song was just amazing, I was so amazed an I think everyone (Vadise, remember I told you that Ayu looked a lot like a doll?). I really can’t wait to see the making off vid of this asia tour 2008, really curious of how she learned to dance the Marionette dance moves. When come to the first chorus, the thing like the merry-go-round (sorry don’t know what to call haha) was rising up and made the performance much more mesmerizing.
after the song had finished, there was a video shown again, where showing Ayu was trying to switch on the merry-go-round toy but she couldn't, she looked so afraid then she looked around, where suddenly the male dancers were looking at her from the top, where she was actually the marionette herself locked inside box, all the male dancers were laughing at her, then Ayu faced back with her eyes became white and she turned into a marionette.
Another video was shown before the song Hanabi..
Hanabi
Another amazing acting by Ayu . All the ppl were amazed by the beauty of Ayu when the video was shown, she was wearing the dress just like she was wearing during the Japan tours. She looked definitely like a goddess, and once again Shuya was the main actor on the video and the scene was about the separation of two lovers again, Ayu was liked on the top of the stairs where they tried so hard to reach each other, but they couldn’t then Shuya felt down to the ground where we could see Shuya was already on the main stage laying down. Then he did the routine dance by himself, where the video was still being shown in which Ayu was crying so hard which made me cried as well, and the ppl on my back, kept on saying, “goshh Ayu is so beautiful….”. The music that had been played as the background was making the atmosphere even more heartbreaking.
Then, Ayu appeared from the hydraulic stage in the middle again wearing the same outfit just like on the HK tour. Then she moved forward and the beginning of Hanabi was played. Ayu started to sing. She was so into that song and I felt like she wanted to cry. Most of our group members were crying on this song because Ayu was just too beautiful. Hehe
After Hanabi Ayu continued with another song End roll
End roll
Never expected that she would sing this old song, I was so surprised. During End roll, Kaeru did the Tissue Dance again~
Oh well, I didn’t really like Ayu’s voice in here too, when she tried to hit the high note, she couldn’t really do it well, she cracked a little bit.
But it was better than depend on you though
Ayu finished the song and went down through the middle Hydraulic stage
then Kaeru finished the whole show all alone. She was doing it so amazingly as well as so breathtaking A big round applause was given to her.
*thanks for
jiarongisme that i've finally remembered that only Kaeru did the tissue dance for AT08 during End Roll..*
Next song is the medley ~
Starting from here, I started to capture pictures because I thought that the securities were kinda lame that they didn’t really care at all whether ppl would want to take pics or not, so yea, I took the opportunity that I didn’t have during the HK asia tour last year, where I was escorted out from the concert hall then I missed appears performance really, the securities there were everywhere to look whether who captured the pics. Since it was nearly end of the concert, so I just captured every pics for the rest of the show.
i don't remember anymore when the black curtain that covered the main stage’s 4 pillars on the left and right sides vanished with the loud BANG sound then we could see the whole stage design in the colorful colors which was mostly dominated with gold color and it was so amazingly beautiful. I thought that the 4 pillars were only being shown by the projector without the real forms (I’m sorry if u can’t understand what I’ve explained haha). So it was really surprising when we saw the whole stage finally.
SURREAL ~ evolution ~ SURREAL
Before the start of the song, the band members were playing music, and then Ayu came out again from the middle hydraulic stage and started to sing SURREAL. Ayu was wearing the gold sexy outfit when the the wavy long hair (I think she was wearing wig or having hair extension because when we saw her at the time she came to the Grand Stage, her hair was short). They were singing in the same concept just like any SURREAL performances. Like usual, Ayu, Yoochan, Enrique, Peco and Princess Yoko were walking to the center circle stage up front. I don’t remember if the center circle stage was rising up or not, maybe it was because on the previous performances of SURREAL, the circle stage would always rise up.
Like the usual medley performance, before Ayu hit the “lalalala” part on SURREAL, Ayu started to sing evolution then Ayu walked to the left and right side of the stage to greet the fans at both sides. All the dancers had already come out to dance the evolution dance. Then, Ayu continued singing the “lalalala” part of SURREAL until the end.
We were all getting exciting throughout this medley performance then finally we reached the climax of the show. Everyone had been so anticipating seeing with our own eyes the flying ship that could turn around in 360 degrees.
Mirrorcle World
Before the start of the song, a video that was being shown was the continuation of the 1st video that had been shown before during The Judgment day interlude. It was liked the 2nd part of the story. I couldn’t really remember what I saw on the video, probably, it only showed the flying ship that had finally landed somewhere and Ayu was on top of the ship to look around. Then the big white curtain with the A logo printed on it, was covering the main stage so we couldn’t see how the flying ship appeared, maybe Ayu just wanted to make a surprise for us. Though, I kinda know how the flying ship appeared on stage, my opinion was that, from the very beginning, the ship had already been hidden behind the big screen in the middle where it could be separated/opened into two parts then the ship was pushed to the front. But all the way, it was still a surprise for me to see the most attractive view of the entire show.
Then, all Ayu’s dancers were appearing to the stage wearing the captain-like kind of outfits, they were like marching to the middle main stage and dancing to the music, then the white curtain was opened/vanished/risen up or whatsoever trick they did, it was just disappeared, so we could finally see the ship and Ayu was on the top of the ship then she started to sing Mirrorcle World. There were lots of sparkling lights (like stars) at the flying ship’s background as if it was during the night, and it was indicating a flying ship! The outfit she was wearing was the same just like the one she wore at HEY3X and HK tour. She looked so sexy and hot!
All the audience was getting high because Gosh!! Listening to this song live was just purely amazing. Ayu’s powerful voice, the beat of the song, the electric guitar sound were all completely stunning, even more stunning when the ship could turn around when the song reached the chorus part. Then Ayu left the ship, joined the dancers in the middle stage and dancing around and even did high kicks just like she always loves to do lately in tv performances. The ship was liked “playing” by itself, it turned around again following the music.
Then at the end of the song, Ayu was standing together with the dancers in the middle and sang the part, “Nakanai de irareru no wa…..” then the song was actually extended where Ayu went back to the ship and went up to the top of the ship and continued to sing, “Yeah… yeah yeah Yeah…”, we were getting high again.
Gosh, I can’t really remember where Ayu started to introduce her band members, maybe it was during SURREAL ~ evolution ~ SURREAL. And she even forgot her lyric in evolution song, if I’m not mistaken.
So the main concert had ended.
We were going to encore.
Encore
Just like usual, the “A…A…AYU” was back alongside with the video of dancing A logo on both small screens hanging on the left and right side of the main stage. The video also showed a message that asked the audience to answer the questions that were being asked on the video. It was liked, “Does everybody happy?” and all the audience was answering it with a loud noise.
Then a moment later, Ayu and the whole band members were coming out from the backstage. Ayu’s appearance was exactly the same just like on the HK tour, with the braided hair at the front, kinda reminded me of the 2003 style. So Ayu greeted everyone in English, liked “how’s everybody?” etc… then she said, she would like to sing her favorite song in english, which was
Dearest
then she said, she would like to sing her favorite song in english, which was Dearest.
Oh~ it was my favorite song at all time, since that was the song that made me love Ayu for the very first time. She sang this song beautifully, she really could hit all the high notes right, just plainly wonderful
Voyage
Then she continued with the next song which was Voyage, oh so wonderful again, remembering that I was just singing that song at karaoke a week before I went to Shanghai
So wonderful to listen to both old songs and she did really great on that song too but just, she did a slight mistake by singing the part “Bokutachi wa….” where she had not supposed to sing yet. and she was smiling to that mistake
And If I’m not wrong, Ayu was crying on this song but she tried to endure it.
MC part
Finished singing both songs for the encore, the MC part was the next section. Ayu introduced Yocchan to the audience as the MC of the concert. Then Yocchan greeted everyone with mandarin and he was just so funny, Ayu was like teasing him about the mandarin he had learnt. Ah surprisingly, and I just thought about it, we didn’t celebrate her 10th anniversary at all, wondering why~ since it was her 10th anniversary tour where last year, her 9th anniversary was celebrated where the whole audience singing for her.
And we also tried so hard to rise up our 10th anniversary message banner to show her during the MC part, but we knew that the chance for her to see was kinda slim, so we just hope that our banner would be filmed by the Ayu’s staff.
Then they continued to talk in Japanese which I didn’t really catch haha. Then Zin was called up to the stage to teach the MY ALL hand moves. He greeted the audience with mandarin too. She and Ayu chatted for a while then Zin started to teach us.
We were surprised that Zin’s mandarin was real good, very fluent!! i wondered was he really could speak or he learnt so hard before the show? But never mind, he was so good in fact. He guided us step by step with Ayu as his assistant. It was very funny when Zin started to say the first step in mandarin, then Ayu was following whatever Zin was saying but she missed a few words of the mandarin that outcome with different meaning which made the whole audience laughing so hard. Then Ayu even teased Zin that he looked very nervous where his face was full of sweat and Zin made a funny expression about it (goshh I love him even more hahaha
). Then, they started from the beginning again, more seriously this time.
Because Zin was the person who taught us how to do the MY ALL hand moves, at every hand gestures, Ayu taught us to mention “Zin Zin” just to have fun. We were practicing MY ALL hand moves 4-5 times and the last attempt together with the music on the background.
Finished with MY ALL hand moves “class”
Ayu mentioned that they would have acappella section then I didn’t know what they were talking about on stage that made Yoochan suddenly impersonated Ayu singing Never Ever just the chorus part.
Who… acappella
Ayu chose Who… for Shanghai acappella section then Peco and Princess Yoko joined Ayu at the middle stage. Ayu started to find the key first then they started to sing in a great harmonization. At first I thought that Ayu would sing the Chinese version since she had ever sung the Chinese version for A Complete Overseas version. But, too bad, she was not singing it where I was really expecting she would sing it. a big round applause by the audience for Ayu.
After all the ballads/slow songs, Ayu continued the show with upbeat song.. which was Boys & Girls..
Boys & Girls
Though, I was kinda bored with Boys & Girls already since it was not really my fave song and the song has been kept on repeating in every concert but because I was at the concert, I was getting high too.
All the dancers were coming out from the backstage and they started to dance with the song. Ayu and the dancers walked to the center circle stage waving, dancing and greeting the fans at the VIP area (how lucky of them, how I wish that I bought the VIP ticket price).
Then the concert had finally reached the end,
MY ALL
The time had passed real fast when we felt that the concert was just starting but the fact that we were finally at almost the end of the show. Then, MY ALL song started. Ayu started singing then with the dancers walked to the center circle stage again. All of the audience started to do the MY ALL hand moves when Ayu sang the chorus part. Like usual, Ayu introduced the dancers to the audience. We thought that the “ASIA IS ONE” colored paper clips were not thrown to the audience (according to my friend who went to the concert last year), but this year, we were surprised by it but we couldn’t get it since it was only thrown at the VIP area so my friend already took as much as she could for us. Thanks to her.
After finished singing the song, Ayu said that she was happy and asking us whether we were happy or not and she even said, “I’ll see you soon” in the end, does that mean there will be the next ASIA TOUR 2009 ??? since she also said the same thing last year. Everyone gave big round applause for her. Then she ran to the left and right of the stage also the circle stage up front to wave at ppl. And she went back to the middle stage to sign the audience to stay silent. But, got some fans who were kept on shouting her name, kinda rude and she was waiting for quite a long time to wait until all the audience went silent. In the end, Ayu shouted “Arigatou Gozaimashita!!!!”
Then the song
“Who…” instrumental was being played
All the lights were on and all the audience started to find the way out. Some of them were taking pics with the stage including us.
1st November 2008, 05:06 PM
Indonesian fans Ayufreak at ASIA TOUR 2008 Shanghai 18th Oct 2008
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