[report] Arashi Live Tour 2014 The Digitalian
My first Arashi Concert in Kyocera Dome!
The whole fanlight thing wasn't something I was very excited about. It had potential, but I saw pix of it and was sad about the lack of design... I ended up buying one though because I'm going to two shows and I can't be one of the rare few who didn't get one.
When you get your ticket, it's color coded by member color for the section of the venue that you're sitting in and before the concert you have to register your fanlight at the table of the color on your ticket. We had yellow, so we went to the yellow tables and registered.
Our view was pretty good and the way the stage was set up this year was pretty cool. As if the moving stage couldn't get any better, this year's is HUGE and also is on some high lifts so the people who are towards the middle of the stands have an AMAZING view.
From before the show starts, there are circles with member colors and mysterious numbers in them. At first, we thought they were numbers of fan lights in each member's colors since instructions flashed on screen to turn your penlight on and choose the color you preferred. But later we learned that it was the heart rate of each member.
1 Asterisk
2 Take Off!!!!!
3 Wonderful
4 Welcome to our party
5 Bittersweet
-Greeting-
I don't think we were giving them enough energy. All of the boys were trying to get us to scream louder for longer than usual... Nino even taunted that we were going to get left behind.
6 Disco Star(相葉Solo)
7 Hey Yeah！(櫻井Solo) Sho-chan started standing at a tall round table and when he opened his mouth....ENGLISH!!! He said he wanted to ask us three questions. 1. What's you happiness? 2. What's your dream? 3. Who are your real people? (Where my real peeps at, y'all!?) at one point the Jrs. turned around to show the equation 1+2+3= and Sho-chan went to the end, dropped his jacket off his shoulders to show Hey Yeah! written on the back of his shirt.
8 One Step
9 Oh Yeah！(アレンジバージョン)
10 ハダシの未来(アレンジバージョン)
11 Love Wonderland - you know real life has taken over when you hear a song and it's the first time you've ever heard it... I was shocked I didn't know this song. I seriously need to open my singles and update my iPod!
-MC-
They talked about how much Sho-chan likes camouflage. He said he really didn't like it THAT much, but Nino mentioned about how his camo bag that he used to use a few years ago was probably the reason for that image being so strong. Nino also said that having camouflage things probably calms Sho-chan because he can hide easily and Sho-chan said that if he wore it in the forest it might work, but on the streets he actually stands out more than blends in. Lol.
I was pretty surprised that they were still talking about Hawaii! The talked about how four of them (Sho-chan was filming for his TV show) were planning on drinking together but it ended up being just Oh-chan and J. Then the two of them ended up on his show because they were drunk and being loud in the hallway. Oh-chan said he didn't really remember that happening. Lol. Aiba-chan said he was on it too and then one of the guys noticed Aiba-chan's heart rate increasing and Nino said Aiba-chan must be lying and Aiba-chan was telling his heart rate to lower itself. Lol. Sho-chan asked Nino and Aiba-chan what they were doing and Nino said he was sleeping. To which Aiba-chan said he was sleeping more... And Sho-chan told Aiba-chan that he wasn't trying to make it a competition about who was in a deeper sleep and Nino pointed out that Aiba-chan's heart was starting to race again.
The. The conversation switched over to comparing their heart rates. Sho-chan's was the lowest by far and J's was the highest (throughout the whole concert actually). The other three had heart rates that were all pretty similar to one another and Sho-chan said that its like the three of them live together. Sho-chan mentioned that his is low because he does spin class at the gym.
Then Oh-chan and J left the stage and the others warned them that they had to come back so they shouldn't run off and get drunk now.
The upcoming project talks started and Aiba-chan had done a stage greeting in the morning for Miracle and talked about how his dad had watched it and called right after to say that he was now an Eikura Nana fan. Lol. And then Nino asked him how his relationship with his assistant was because he overheard his assistant asking him for advice about what color leather jacket he should buy (between tan and navy) and Aiba-chan seemed cold with his response. Aiba-chan tried to defend himself and said that they are so close that he didn't need to sound enthusiastic with his response. Sho-chan backed him up saying that Aiba-chan calls his assistant "Jijii" (old man) and Aiba-chan said he does that cuz his assistant is older than all the others. Lol.
Then the two came back and Nino and Sho-chan talked about their upcoming projects before they started the second half of the concert.
12 マイガール(fanlight song)- honestly, we didn't know what to do and weren't really paying attention when J was explaining what to do. Lol
13 メリークリスマス(二宮Solo)- all of
Our fan lights got turned off for the first two thirds of the song and the screens were black and white. Nino was soooo cute in his outfit. It kinda sounded like the track was singing for him at first.
14 STAY GOLD(松本Solo)
15 Imaging Crazy(大野Solo)
16 Tell me why
17 TRAP
18 Troublemaker(Digitalian Version)
19 Lucky Man(Digitalian Version)
-Accent Performance-
20 Hope in the darkness
21 Zero-G
[encore]
-Video- the went backwards from the most recent single cover to the debut one and had a countdown clock
22 A・RA・SHI
23 SUNRISE日本
24 君のために僕がいる
25 a Day in Our Life
26 言葉より大切なもの
27 サクラ咲ケ
28 Love so sweet
29 Happiness
30 One Love
31 Monster
32 迷宮ラブソング
33 Calling
34 誰も知らない
35 GUTS！
-Final Speeches-
36 キミの夢を見ていた
The show ended at 8:43... A little over two and a half hours and the exit staff came out pretty much immediately after the boys left us.
The whole fanlight thing wasn't something I was very excited about. It had potential, but I saw pix of it and was sad about the lack of design... I ended up buying one though because I'm going to two shows and I can't be one of the rare few who didn't get one.
When you get your ticket, it's color coded by member color for the section of the venue that you're sitting in and before the concert you have to register your fanlight at the table of the color on your ticket. We had yellow, so we went to the yellow tables and registered.
Our view was pretty good and the way the stage was set up this year was pretty cool. As if the moving stage couldn't get any better, this year's is HUGE and also is on some high lifts so the people who are towards the middle of the stands have an AMAZING view.
From before the show starts, there are circles with member colors and mysterious numbers in them. At first, we thought they were numbers of fan lights in each member's colors since instructions flashed on screen to turn your penlight on and choose the color you preferred. But later we learned that it was the heart rate of each member.
1 Asterisk
2 Take Off!!!!!
3 Wonderful
4 Welcome to our party
5 Bittersweet
-Greeting-
I don't think we were giving them enough energy. All of the boys were trying to get us to scream louder for longer than usual... Nino even taunted that we were going to get left behind.
6 Disco Star(相葉Solo)
7 Hey Yeah！(櫻井Solo) Sho-chan started standing at a tall round table and when he opened his mouth....ENGLISH!!! He said he wanted to ask us three questions. 1. What's you happiness? 2. What's your dream? 3. Who are your real people? (Where my real peeps at, y'all!?) at one point the Jrs. turned around to show the equation 1+2+3= and Sho-chan went to the end, dropped his jacket off his shoulders to show Hey Yeah! written on the back of his shirt.
8 One Step
9 Oh Yeah！(アレンジバージョン)
10 ハダシの未来(アレンジバージョン)
11 Love Wonderland - you know real life has taken over when you hear a song and it's the first time you've ever heard it... I was shocked I didn't know this song. I seriously need to open my singles and update my iPod!
-MC-
They talked about how much Sho-chan likes camouflage. He said he really didn't like it THAT much, but Nino mentioned about how his camo bag that he used to use a few years ago was probably the reason for that image being so strong. Nino also said that having camouflage things probably calms Sho-chan because he can hide easily and Sho-chan said that if he wore it in the forest it might work, but on the streets he actually stands out more than blends in. Lol.
I was pretty surprised that they were still talking about Hawaii! The talked about how four of them (Sho-chan was filming for his TV show) were planning on drinking together but it ended up being just Oh-chan and J. Then the two of them ended up on his show because they were drunk and being loud in the hallway. Oh-chan said he didn't really remember that happening. Lol. Aiba-chan said he was on it too and then one of the guys noticed Aiba-chan's heart rate increasing and Nino said Aiba-chan must be lying and Aiba-chan was telling his heart rate to lower itself. Lol. Sho-chan asked Nino and Aiba-chan what they were doing and Nino said he was sleeping. To which Aiba-chan said he was sleeping more... And Sho-chan told Aiba-chan that he wasn't trying to make it a competition about who was in a deeper sleep and Nino pointed out that Aiba-chan's heart was starting to race again.
The. The conversation switched over to comparing their heart rates. Sho-chan's was the lowest by far and J's was the highest (throughout the whole concert actually). The other three had heart rates that were all pretty similar to one another and Sho-chan said that its like the three of them live together. Sho-chan mentioned that his is low because he does spin class at the gym.
Then Oh-chan and J left the stage and the others warned them that they had to come back so they shouldn't run off and get drunk now.
The upcoming project talks started and Aiba-chan had done a stage greeting in the morning for Miracle and talked about how his dad had watched it and called right after to say that he was now an Eikura Nana fan. Lol. And then Nino asked him how his relationship with his assistant was because he overheard his assistant asking him for advice about what color leather jacket he should buy (between tan and navy) and Aiba-chan seemed cold with his response. Aiba-chan tried to defend himself and said that they are so close that he didn't need to sound enthusiastic with his response. Sho-chan backed him up saying that Aiba-chan calls his assistant "Jijii" (old man) and Aiba-chan said he does that cuz his assistant is older than all the others. Lol.
Then the two came back and Nino and Sho-chan talked about their upcoming projects before they started the second half of the concert.
12 マイガール(fanlight song)- honestly, we didn't know what to do and weren't really paying attention when J was explaining what to do. Lol
13 メリークリスマス(二宮Solo)- all of
Our fan lights got turned off for the first two thirds of the song and the screens were black and white. Nino was soooo cute in his outfit. It kinda sounded like the track was singing for him at first.
14 STAY GOLD(松本Solo)
15 Imaging Crazy(大野Solo)
16 Tell me why
17 TRAP
18 Troublemaker(Digitalian Version)
19 Lucky Man(Digitalian Version)
-Accent Performance-
20 Hope in the darkness
21 Zero-G
[encore]
-Video- the went backwards from the most recent single cover to the debut one and had a countdown clock
22 A・RA・SHI
23 SUNRISE日本
24 君のために僕がいる
25 a Day in Our Life
26 言葉より大切なもの
27 サクラ咲ケ
28 Love so sweet
29 Happiness
30 One Love
31 Monster
32 迷宮ラブソング
33 Calling
34 誰も知らない
35 GUTS！
-Final Speeches-
36 キミの夢を見ていた
The show ended at 8:43... A little over two and a half hours and the exit staff came out pretty much immediately after the boys left us.