Peter's Japan blog

Today I've gotten my first TeamAyu and P.T.A. stuff in the mail!! After I saw other fans in London that also had TeamAyu membership cards, I just had to do it too. I had put it off for too long while all the means were there. And also last year, when I was at the Perfume concert "Disco!Disco!Disco" they sold fanclub-exclusive t-shirts, which I liked much more than the regular t-shirt!
So, when I got back home between the 2 weekends in London, I looked up a good mail forwarding service which was easy, simple, not too expensive and good for receiving mail. There are two that are very good and trusted (tenso.com and japantodoor.com), but JapanToDoor requires you to notify them when something will arrive within 2 weeks prior. Although afterwards, you do get emails when the fan clubs are going to send you something, but tenso.com is easier and cheaper. But I'll go more into detail about that in a later post about actually using them.

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The tour was already announced for a few weeks, but today the official title has been released: "Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2010 A ~Rock'n'Roll Circus~". So we will get a more rock oriented tour? Will this also be the title of the new album? Because the title is usually also the title of the album. But "Rock'n'Roll Circus" sounds weird for an album title, and a new album hasn't even been announced as of yet. So this might mean we will get a new album before or after the tour... Will keep you posted.

Update Feb 20th 2010: logo released!

Two of the videos I took from Ayu in London. These are the longest ones. Please watch in HD if you can :-)
The first video is quite dark, but you can see her through the flashes. The second video is by daylight and has a very good view of Ayu! <3

First video from Friday evening January 29th:

Second video from Saturday afternoon January 30th:

Here are the pictures of my stuff that was signed by Ayu in London, over the course of 2 weekends.

The first two are from the first weekend. My Arena Tour 2007 fan (my first concert tour that I went to) and the CD+DVD version of Days/GREEN. It is a large CD box so it has a large surface which can be easily signed, and it's a cardboard case around the 2 cd cases. So I can just use the cardboard box to frame ;p

The last two are from the second weekend. My Countdown Live banner and a cardboard with a personalized autograph. I consider the banner now to be complete being signed by Ayu herself :-).

And now for the combined photo. Some of these will be framed and hung on the wall of course ^^

Okay, I'm going back to London tomorrow, until Sunday morning. Since it was kind of confirmed that Ayu will be staying until Saturday, maybe Sunday. I will be trying to take more pictures and/or videos. I have a better strategy now and learning from previous mistakes <^-^;>
To other fans in London, see you there!

Flights and hotels are booked for Japan 2010 trip. I'll be flying with SAS this time with connecting flight in Copenhagen. There was a cheaper flight, but that was with Alitalia through Rome, but for an hour shorter flight to Tokyo, I'd pay 20eur ;p.

Will be going from April 6th until April 23rd. My friend Matt who is now coming along for 2 weeks, will only stay until the 19th.
General schedule is 4 days Tokyo, 7 days in the south and then the rest back in Tokyo.

Ayumi Hamasaki concert will be the first concert of the Arena Tour 2010 in Saitama Arena on April 10th, so the whole concert will be a surprise ^^. And we're going to try (but I'm very confident as I may have found some reseller shops in Osaka) to go see Koda Kumi in Osaka-Jo Hall on April 11th.