Olivia News + Concert Review

[SunshineSlayer]

Just got back from PMX (literally^_^)

The little bit of news that Olivia gave out is that she is still working on her upcoming mini album and that now it will be released in early 2007.

Overall the show was great. Both of the opening bands were very good. I had never heard of either Dig Jelly or UchiSentai NOIZ, but I am now a new fan of both bands.
Olivia didn't take the stage until about 10pm because both opening bands played pretty long sets. She has an amazing live voice. So perfect that one would almost think she is lip synching but she isn't, which was proven when her mike went out for a little bit in Alone in Our Castle. I really don't think her tv show performances that I have seen do her voice justice - I always thought her voice sounded just a little bit thin and weak on tv lives, but hearing her in person it doesn't sound that way.

I do think that she lacks a bit in stage presence and didn't have much audience interaction but I pretty much knew that going in from the performances I had watched on video, so I wasn't suprised. You can tell that even when she is talking she just seems very timid and shy. What makes it worthwhile though is her voice and the music. She also seemed to loosen up and get into it more as the set went on.

The only real disappointments were the following:
1. She only played for an hour (one of the opening bands played longer than that) and for tickets that cost as much as $70, that is really short - makes me wonder if that is the reason why they added two other bands at the last minute.
2. She didn't play any songs from the Synchonicity album, which is where most of her hits are.

I suppose Avex was probably thinking that this audience would only know the Nana songs and that it would be best to have the rest of the set filled with songs from her second album?(which is mostly in English) But durring the encore, you could tell people were dissapointed not to hear Dekinai, My Dear Angel, Dress Me Up, ReAct etc. Someone even shouted for Into the Stars to be played. I DID like the songs that were played, I just would have liked to hear some of the old favorites too.

Set list to the best of my recollection:
1. Sea Me
2. Fake Flowers
3. A Little Pain
4. Tears and Rainbows
5. Alone in Our Castle
6. Celestial Delinquent
7. Blind Unicorn
8. Starless Night
9. I forget which song was played here (it may have been butterfly)
10. Wish (she incorrectly introduced this as Spider Spins)
11. Spider Spins (I really think she should open w/ this song since it is always the one she gets into the most)
Encore -
12. Devil in Me.