I’m going to COUNTDOWN JAPAN!

By Shay • Nov 12th, 2006 • Category: Japan, Opinion, music, news     

WOW! I’m extremely happy. Not only will I be visiting Japan in December and January but I will also attend one of the coolest mega-concerts imaginable. I’ll try not to gloat.

I’m going to Japan for Christmas and New Years. We’re going to do a lot of things especially touring Kyushu: Kumamoto and Fukuoka. But we’ll also visit the cities of Kyoto and Osaka. In Osaka we’ll attend the COUNTDOWN JAPAN concert.

COUNTDOWN JAPAN is a 3-day concert event (12.29-12.31) to celebrate New Years. There are two different venues: one in Tokyo and the other in Osaka. The Osaka event will feature over 50 musicians!

Yes, we had to enter and be selected simply to buy tickets. It makes sense though since this is such a huge mega-concert. Luckily we were selected.

I will attend the concert on December 30th. On that day 16 musicians will play. The artists that are booked are:

  • ACIDMAN
  • ULTRA BRAiN
  • OVERGROUND ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND
  • Captain-a-gogo (キャプテンストライダム)
  • KREVA
  • QURULI (くるり)
  • THE CROMAGNONS (ザ・クロマニヨンズ)
  • Salyu
  • Chatmonchy (チャットモンチー)
  • The Back Horn
  • Beat Crusaders
  • Fujifabric (フジファブリック)
  • Furukawa Miki (フルカワミキ)
  • BENNIE K
  • Maximum the Hormone (マキシマム ザ ホルモン)
  • Yoshii Kazuya (吉井和哉)

I’m so incredibly excited…especially to see ACIDMAN, QURULI, THE CROMAGNONS, The Back Horn, and Fujifabric! I can’t wait to see ‘em all though! Some of my other favorite artists (Art-School, Base Ball Bear, Remioromen will play on other days but I’ll take what I can get. 12.30 has the highest frequency of my favorite musicians

Before I knew about this concert, I could only dream about seeing some of these artists lives. It still sounds too good to be true, haha.

I’ll keep everyone (and myself) updated as trip time and showtime near. For now, all I can say is “AHHHHHHHHHHH, YAY!!!!”

COUNTDOWN JAPAN

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7 Responses »

  1. kevin on November 12th, 2006 at 5:03 am:

    man holy

  2. kevin on November 12th, 2006 at 5:05 am:

    does your blog don’t accept swearwords? lol

    that’s soooo coool. man you get to see the fucking back horn live FOR SHIZZLY @______@
    and acidman too. oh maaaaaaan what a great opportunity to celebrate this year’s end!!!!!

  3. Idolator (Craig) on November 12th, 2006 at 5:18 am:

    Kakkoii :woot: lucky lucky :)

  4. Ben on November 12th, 2006 at 9:29 am:

    What!? You’re so frickin lucky!

  5. Shay on November 12th, 2006 at 2:09 pm:

    kevin: Yeah, it’s pretty insane. When I had to decide on a day to go I was torn between Art-School and ACIDMAN. Then I saw The Back Horn were on the same day as ACIDMAN and I was sold. ^_^

    Craig: Thanks & double woot. ;)

    Ben: Yeah thanks…I’m usually not lucky like this (pretty bad luck it seems) so it makes it that much more special…haha.

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