NEWS JPOP

One of the highlights of my recent trip to Japan was the chance to see Toma live on stage in Grease!

It was the stage version of the show so it doesn't include a lot of the most famous songs that people know from the movie, but it was still a fun and entertaining evening.

Toma just lights up the stage and it was hard to look anywhere but at him when he was there, even if he wasn't front and centre. Greased Lightning was a real highlight thanks to some great choreography and tightly rehearsed dancing. Have to admit that through most of Summer Nights though my brain kept sending up flares ... "look it's Toma! It's Toma!"

Anyway here is just a taste of the show.



( Clips and scans ... )

My adventures in Japan had to come to an end, and now I'm back home in Australia, very tired but with many trip memories to sustain me. And so I bring some of the spoils of my trip to share.

This is a track by track breakdown of the News Winter Party Diamond Concert. These audios are all from Sunday, November 2 at Fukui Sun Dome.

The photos are a mix of concert and shop photos and will hopefully give you a bit of an idea of the visuals that went with the songs.

I was mostly inspired to list them this way because we'd all spent months looking at the photos from the pacific tour and it wasn't till the dvd came out that the songs and photos went together. I hope this will be a little sneak preview.

Enjoy!
( On to pics and songs ... )

Well today was the big day that I finally attended my first News concert! I think it's probably totally redundant to say that I had a great time, but it was bizarre. My expectations of what it would be like were pretty accurate I guess. They looked just like I thought they would. If anything, I was pleasantly surprised by how good our seats where and how close everything seemed. I still had my binoculars of course.

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