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Aira Mitsuki LiVE TOUR 2009 "Plastic" final: report

Last week's Friday, I went to Shibuya O-East to see Aira Mitsuki's final show of her "LiVE TOUR 2009 'Plastic'" tour, following the recent release of album "Plastic".

The medium-sized venue was quite packed, and the stage had a large runway at the back, covered in red and black vinyl like the album's jacket. Aira showed up on the runway in the pink skirt outfit from the album's cover, she walked down the center stairs and sat at the electronic drum kit in the middle of the stage. She first played hitting different parts, which showed different "plastic" images on the large screen, then the first song started, "China Discotica", and she proved that she could play rather well too! I've been enjoying how she always plays more instruments every time I see her. Soon her 4 cute dancers also joined, wearing slightly different outfits based on a white T-shirt and pink or purple leggings.

For "Sazae Funkadelic", there was choreography using Japanese paper umbrellas. Later "Summeeeeeeeer Set" (which features Ayuse Kozue on the album) got the audience going crazy dancing. Next up Aira sat on a stool in the center for ballad "Distant Stars".

1st part set list: China Discotica / Knee-high Girl / Bad Trip / Sazae Funkadelic / Robot Honey / Freedom Star / Supli / Fantasy Candy / Summeeeeeeeer Set / Distant Stars

Then during a costume change, there was an animated piece on the screen with cute robots walking together, sometimes falling or going in the wrong direction, and text that said things like "sometimes there are things that go wrong but in the end we're all happy together"... to then be followed by a much darker suicidal part about how people end up betraying each other and blah blah... There was a similar part in the show I saw in March (see DVD) and these have gotta be the only parts that I don't like of her shows.

Anyway then Aira came back in the Barbie Barbie outfit (blonde wig), and followed by one of my favorite songs, "Time is", during which Aira DJ'd on a kit stage right. That song is quite good and strangely has a male-sung verse by Shigeo (SBK) that reminds me of Takahashi Yukihiro. This set was really good with other favorites, "sayonara Technopolis", "Valentine Step", "Barbie Barbie", "Colorful Tokyo Sounds No.9", and the hyper and chaotic "Yellow Super Car". That last one had the otakus spinning their "Yellow Super Towel", and while I was quite at the back I couldn't escape being hit in the head repeatedly by a guy behind me.

2nd part set list: Time is / Beep Count Fantastic / sayonara Technopolis / Change My Will / High Bash / Valentine Step / Barbie Barbie / Colorful Tokyo Sounds No.9 / Yellow Super Car

We had to call for several minutes until Aira came back for an encore, again having changed outfits and now with long wavy black hair. Drum kit back to the center it was time for "Plastic Doll", probably my favorite from "Plastic", with her playing and singing as she does in the video. Great stuff!! And to finish the whole was a reprise of "Robot Honey", same as in the March show, closes nicely with some fun dancing.

Encore: Plastic Doll / Robot Honey (Sound Around rmx)

There was a good news that pro photos from this show will be released as a photo book later this year. Meanwhile, you can see a few photos in these reports at All About Technopop and natalie.mu.

Larger size photo at Flickr

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 01:19 | Tweet |

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