SCANDAL Finishes First-Ever 47-prefecture Tour, Confirms Joint Tour This AutumnSCANDAL, who held the
SCANDAL Finishes First-Ever 47-prefecture Tour, Confirms Joint Tour This AutumnSCANDAL, who held their first-ever 47-prefecture tour,「SCANDAL TOUR 2017『SCANDAL’s 47-prefecture Tour』」, and whom went about for around 4 months since March this year, welcomed their tour final at Tokyo’s Toyosu PIT.This round’s tour was tied to their February best album release,『SCANDAL』, an album commemorating the band’s 10th year anniversary since formation. Thus, the band generously revealed both new and old tunes that were recorded within the best album. Additionally, on this round’s tour, the band also tried changing up the setlist each time for all of their 53 performances, bringing special content to each and every show.On this day’s show for the tour final, the moment the members hit the staeg, loud cheers could be heard from the audience and the atmosphere reached a high instantly. They opened with the fan-voted No.1 song,『SCANDAL BABY』, then continued with their hit singles,『Shunkan Sentimental』,『Shoujo S』and『DOLL』. They also performed brand new songs that were recorded within their best album,『FREEDOM FIGHTERS』and『HELLO』.As they welcome the final day of this round’s tour, the longest one yet in their career, HARUNA (Vo & Gt) commented,「We’re really happy that through this 47-prefecture tour, many fans from the entire nation could come watch us live. There are times where I thought this tour was both long and too exhausting, but to have the time to be able to meet all of you like this, it’s the best. Since we love the moments like these, we want to continue on as a band. The 47-prefecture tour may end today, but our journey will still continue on. So please, continue following us for a long time.」Loud claps and huge cheers then enveloped the entire venue.Additionally, when (the band) announced that they’ll be holding a first-ever 3-city joint band tour this October, in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, the entire venue was once again filled with heat. The joint band artiste line-up sees 3 bands’ participation: UNISON SQUARE GARDEN in Tokyo, 04 Limited Sazabys in Nagoya, and BLUE ENCOUNT in Osaka. The band spoke about their thoughts towards their first-ever joint band tour,「Since we’ve had many one-man lives up till now, we’ll like the get in the groove with everyone, and show ourselves to the other band’s fans, and also hope (our fans) can watch these other bands’ lives as well.」This summer, SCANDAL will also be participating in multiple rock festivals and events. After experiencing their 47-prefecture tour, please continue to witness an even tougher rock band that is SCANDAL.Original article by dwango HERE, translated by fyscandalband. For all tour final tweets and the full joint band schedule, please click HERE. -- source link
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