ayumi hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2014-2015 A, Cirque de Minuit

[Chris85]

Ayu's husband was 2 meters away from me all encore:-) He was so happy, smiling at Ayu and fans.

[Ayumi Romania]

Same setlist?

[AyuGAME]

Originally Posted by Chris85

Ayu's husband was 2 meters away from me all encore:-) He was so happy, smiling at Ayu and fans.

wow..so romantic...

[holy_arrow]

Will the show be broadcasted tomorrow ?

[Chris85]

Yes, same set-list, no cuts or changes

[AyuGAME]

Originally Posted by holy_arrow

Will the show be broadcasted tomorrow ?

No it's on 01/31

[holy_arrow]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

No it's on 01/31

I saw this :

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=271

[Chris85]

Guys, there will be two broadcasts, tomorrow and in the end of January.

[pimenta]

So the second concert ended and it was again perfect

I'll did review of it, if anyone is interested:

Spoiler:

Duty + Microphone:
The beginning was circus like, as expected, but not too much, just a few acrobatics and soon Timmy appears from the central stage, the curtain opens and Duty starts. Ayu is wearing and circus' presenter like top that ends in a dress. Tbh I don't think Duty is a great song for an opening, but I love this song, so I liked it anyway. Ayu sings on a elevated part of the stage while there are acrobatic stunts going on on the stage level.
During the end of Duty the dances remove the dress part of her outfit and she had a black mini-skirt under it. Then she sings Microphone in front of the stage, it's a powerful performance as expected from it. The whole beginning is like a dark circus theme.
After Microphone, Ayu leaves the stage and Yo-chan, Enrique, Timmy and Pricess perform while she changes outfit.

GAME + my name's WOMEN + 1 LOVE:
GAME is the performance where she does the air acrobatics, and looks sooo cool! It's like the reharsal video, and it's very high. She sings the song on the floor, and during the brakes the acrobatics happen. There's a part in the middle of the song that two male dances are doing acrobatics in the air with those ropes around her while she is suspended in the middle by just one hand, looks supper cool! And at the end she steps on the dancer's body and they all go up with her standing on him while he's only supported by those ropes, that guy must be super strong o_o She's wearing a golden short dress and a black jacket during this song btw.
my name's WOMEN is just like the MY STORY TOUR performance, her black jacket is gone and replaced by those feather tails on her back.
1 LOVE is really really cool. The feathers are gone and she's just with the golden dress. She and the dancers all dance in front of a screen, and the lights, the screen images and the dance steps all match. There's a part where she and the other female dancers lie on top of the male dancers' backs and open their legs and big hearts appear on the screen between their legs, brilliant haha I loved this performance!

End roll + Zutto... + Last Minute:
End roll was played while Ayu was out of the stage changing outfits. Michi played the piano and sang the complete song while Midoring danced around him.
Ayu sings Zutto... seating on a suspended half moon. She's wearing that amazing a-nation Singapore's dress and no shoes. Beautiful performance, and during the break before the last chorus she lies on top of the moon's face (yes, the moon has a face), so cute!
Last Minute was like the performance from the MS SUPER LIVE (but it was the full song, obviously), just her singing. So powerful and so awesome!
At the end of Last Minute a big ladder appears with that female dancer that always do the air acrobatics at Ayu's latest concerts (I keep forgetting her name >_<). After Ayu leaves the stage there's an act with that dancer and the ladder, while Michi plays the piano. There's a moment that she goes down spinning through the ladder's side upside down, it's awesome o___o By the end of the act a male dancer appears as well. At the end she "dies" and even spits fake blood!

Walk + forgiveness + progress + SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL + NOW & 4EVA:
For Walk Ayu appears at the center stage wearing a silver dress with a long white feather tail (I'm so bad at describing things >_<). It's a simple but very beautiful performance and on the 30th she cried while singing it
On the beginning of forgiveness the dancers appear on stage holding red shiny hearts, similar to the opening of the opening of PoM that they were holding spheres. They get aligned in a cross shape on an elevated part of the stage and Ayu appears at the center of them. The arrangements of the song were similar to PoM's performance. The CDL will be during this song, it's easy to tell because her message appears on the back screen, as well as messages wishing happiness and so on on a screen on the top. She cried during the end of forgiveness on both the 29th and the 30th.
For progress the long tail pf the dress is removed, and she's left with the silver short dress. I love this song so much, always sounds so powerful!
SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL is like always, and was super fun. I was soooo happy those songs were back in the setlist, because I don't know when I will be able to see Ayu live again, and I really wanted to see them performed live. The energy during this part is awesome. Right before the last evolution chorus a small part of Beethoven's Symphony No.9 started playing with a male dancer spinning super fast doing air acrobatics, then the chorus started, I think that looked really cool.
NOW & 4EVA was like the Feel the love Showcase performance, I think it's a good song for this ending part.

Encore:
The encore starts with a DJ playing popular EDM tunes, it really helps bulding up the mood for the EDM section that is coming. Then the Blasterjaxx remix of Feel the love sarts playing and I thought she was going to sing Feel the love, but turns out Ayu appears and starts singing Movin' on without you. She's wearing the concert's purple t-shirt and black shorts. She sings Movin' on without you seated on the side of the DJ table on an elevated part of the stage, I think she was seating and not doing much because she seemed to be concentrating a lot to sing this song since it's not her normal pitch, but she sounded absolutely great!
XOXO and Lelio were super fun, she sang Lelio on the center stage. The energy during this whole EDM part was amazing and I LOVED it. Most fun encore ever! (not counting MC parts of previous encores, of course)
Boys & Girls was like always, whith she and the dancers throwing balls at the audience. The audience gets so exited during this song, it's so great to see it live and sing along.
how beautiful you are was beautiful. It was like the previous times she sang it on the end of concerts (it did look like the end and she did say it was the last song), with dances presentation and they all thanking all sides of the audience and everything, like a real ending. On the 29th though the curtains didn't go down at the end of it, so even with the lights off you could see the dances lining up and you knew they were preparing to yet another song, but on the 30th they decided to change and the curtains went down at the end of this song.
Not much after it "ended" Born To Be... started playing (and on the 30th the curtains raised again). I love love love this song, so I was really happy o see it in the setlist, and it's an amazing song the end the concert! The arrangements were similar to the performance of PoM, with the whole "TO BE FREE!" part at the beginning and end, but of course it wasn't "orchestrated" like all PoM songs were. At the end she thanked the audience again and the curtains went down this time for good.


Overall this was an AMAZING concert. The setlist is awesome, her vocals were really really good (and no lip sync, I can guarantee no song sounded "the same" on the 29th and 30th, they all sounded very much live) and she's so perfect! I love her so much, this concert and her energy made me so happy. I'm glad I decided to invest a bit more to get good tickets for today as well instead of only attending the 29th (I was planning to go to a different concert today, but I gave up and went to Ayu's instead). I like it way more than the Feel the love Showcase. It's such an amazing concert!

(sorry if there are typos >_<)

[AyuGAME]

^thank you..sounds exciting!!!

oh wow..then we can see it very soon!!! if they broadcast it tomorrow...i wonder if i can watch it via streaming

[holy_arrow]

Loving pimenta's review, CDL always makes me enjoyable ... tks for this
I'm waiting for the rip of tv broadcasted on the beginning of January

So happy that She sounded good and no lip sync at all

[Chris85]

http://i57.tinypic.com/50pshf.jpg
This is one of the photos from 29 I bought.

[chocopockymaster]

It's nice in theory that she's recycling costumes, but--I loved that dress the first time I saw it, I didn't mind it the second time I saw it, and now I don't ever want to see it used again.

[Chris85]

Ayu is standing with her back to public and drinking some sort of drink in the dark right before now & 4ever. Then she gives it to her dancer and he leaves with it:-D I was very close to the stage in arena, so managed to see this almost backstage moment:-)

[AyuGAME]

wow the moon is so lovely...

isn't this is the time for new thread?

[tsumekaze_]

Originally Posted by Chris85

Ayu's husband was 2 meters away from me all encore:-) He was so happy, smiling at Ayu and fans.

AWWW! I'm so happy ^^

[harkasan]

pimenta's review is spot on! I too enjoyed the show very much, Ayu's voice was great thru the whole concert.

[pimenta]

Originally Posted by Chris85

Ayu is standing with her back to public and drinking some sort of drink in the dark right before now & 4ever. Then she gives it to her dancer and he leaves with it:-D I was very close to the stage in arena, so managed to see this almost backstage moment:-)

I noticed this too haha
I was able to see everything going on on stage when the lights went off from were I was. It's kinda funny, after GAME when they were helping ayu and putting the feathers on her while the acrobactic dancer left it was so messy, and someone must have spoken near her microphone, cause you could faintly listen to someone saying "ok... ok, out!"

[Anna.L]

So 1Love isn't on the cage? Like Tour of Secret?

[attractive nausea]

a few seconds video of movin' on without you

She sounds so good