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mixi presents Aira Mitsuki: live report
Tonight was a live event with Aira Mitsuki at Liquid Room in Ebisu. It was hosted by mixi, Japan's leading social network, and it was even free of entrance... as long as you had bought the latest single and were one of a thousand lucky contest winners.
Aira's show is mostly awesome for all the great dancing, with really fun choreographies, and plenty of robot dancing! She was accompanied by 4 cute dancers (only 2 for the first half of the show) all with the same haircut.
There were about 5 different costumes during the show, first with Aira wearing the plaid jacket from "Robot Honey", then the clear vinyl jacket from "sayonara Technopolis" (while her dancers wore some hilarious "JUST F*CK'IN DRINK" T-shirts — only in Japan!), then all wearing red and black wizard-like capes, and then all wearing cute fluffy dresses. And last for the encore all the girls wore the original T-shirts sold at the event.
As for the music it all sounds pretty much the exact same as on the album, although I really love those few moments when Aira jumps behind her Korg and plays some live keys. Of course you don't get to hear these on this kind of sound system everyday. Some of my favorite moments included "Robot Honey", "sayonara Technopolis", "Yellow Supercar", "Fantasy Candy", "Colorful Tokyo Sounds No.9"...
Here's the full 19-song set list courtesy of someone on mixi with way too good memory:
1st part: Robot Honey / Sazae Funkadelic / Knee-high Girl / China Discotica / L0ne1yBoy L0ne1yGirl / sayonara Technopolis / Cosmic Chopper / High SD Sneaker / Heart Line Alive / distant Stars
2nd part: Rock And Roll Is Dead / Swallowtail D.A.N.C.E / Beep Count Fantastic / Valentine STEP / High Bash / Fantasy Candy / Yellow Supercar
Encore: Colorful Tokyo Sounds No.9 / Robot Honey (Sound Around remix)
I was just a little bit disappointed that while the set included most of her entire repertory, it managed to miss a few of my favorite songs, such as "Candy Light Mode" and "Romantic Rope". But otherwise it was really a great show!
And, right in the middle of the show was announced the surprise news that this will be released in its entirety on DVD on March 20, just 2 months later! I probably won't being able to resist. :) Also, she announced her next single, titled "BARBiE BARBiE" and out on the same day.
Photos were prohibited throughout, except for a 30-second photo time during the encore... The best I could manage was this one taken a bit late when Aira was already saying that her manager said it was enough. :)
On the way out there were some large flower bouquets and also a board for fans to write messages to Aira.
My biggest thanks go to some really nice people for who kindly made it possible for me to go there!... and of course to mixi, which rules for making such a cool event happen, all free of charge!
Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr
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Nice review... I got into Aira thanks to you, and she's great. Nice electro songs... I was just wondering if she's just mainstream J-pop or she's at the same level as Capsule...
Posted by Damian on March 21, 2009 at 04:55
Great! I'm glad you like her too. :)
Actually, Capsule has grown to kinda mainstream last year because of Perfume's popularity. Aira is on a major label but she started doing small shows, and just now she's getting quite a lot of attention. This is also thanks to the techno-pop boom going on since a year or two.
Posted by Patrick on March 21, 2009 at 13:20
have you used Mixi? I read some about it on the news and how they don't want it to be used as a dating service -- how do they stop that??
Posted by alan on March 27, 2009 at 06:38
Yeah I use mixi daily, it's really useful to keep in touch with my Japanese friends.
I haven't heard of the dating service problem, but at least I don't see it invaded with that type of people around where I look, so to me it's not a problem. :)
Posted by Patrick on March 27, 2009 at 19:48
Just seen the short special PV of this show thta's on Plastic's DVD ... and just wondering.. does she really sing? it seems just lyp-sync...
Posted by Damian on August 7, 2009 at 03:02
Who knows... This kind of artist often has a vocal track playing in the back during shows, and the mic is probably not at 100% volume, it could be 10% or 50% or 0%... It's a mystery.
As long as the show is good, I think it's forgivable. :)
The full live DVD is great, btw!
Posted by Patrick on August 7, 2009 at 20:26