iamcrazymike wrote:Somehow I  have the odd feeling that the part of the US I'm in will be skipped . . .

Shhh! Don't say that D:

I'm counting on them coming to the west coast. I'm close and that's really the only place I can go see them if they don't come directly to Vegas ; u;

Have hope!

Ono Sasazaki wrote:

iamcrazymike wrote:Somehow I  have the odd feeling that the part of the US I'm in will be skipped . . .

Shhh! Don't say that D:

Seriously D:

They NEED to come to LA, or at least to the West Coast! We showed them how awesome we are here the last time they came to SoCal in 2011, which is when they first learned about SCANDAL HEAVEN, and HARU seems to really like LA (she's said that she'd like to live here), and I directly told them when I met them in Hawaii to please come back here haha, so I'd be super surprised and heartbroken if they truly do not end up coming here. I really do believe and hope that they will play at least one live on the West Coast.

Usually artists will appear in LA which I have no access to, very few will actually show up in SF or somewhere in the Bay Area . . . I mean Perfume's World Tour only had dates in LA and NY for the sake of comparison. Although Kyaru Pamyu Pamyu, an AKB48 graduate, Dempagumi.Inc, May'n, Tokyo Girl's Style, Kylee, FLOW,  and Stereopony have show up here in the past. So maybe it could happen . . .

Omglooob, they've added more countries...
Still ERROR 404: My Country not Found!
-.- Would it be possible for them to add more places? D:
2014 would definitely be their BIG year.

I'm really glad to read some comments here and how some fans over the world are happy because SCANDAL comes in their country I mean I try to imagine this for Mexico for example, the odds of them going there were REALLY small but SCANDAL will be playing in Mexico, think about how the fans must be happy there!

About the US, honestly I can't see why they wouldn't go to at least one West concert. They added countries now ! Why would their company/management be stupid and only go to the East Coast ? Also it seems that now the girls are more involved than in the past and maybe have more "power"/better contracts, they probably love LA and loved coming to Las Vegas, I'm sure they want at least one show in the West.

iamcrazymike wrote:Somehow I  have the odd feeling that the part of the US I'm in will be skipped . . .

It's a safe bet that your California location will be a far sight closer to a performance venue that my Georgia location.....

Already steeling myself for the expense of a plane ticket, hotel room, and rental car.

No my problem is I'm not allowed outside of a 1-2 hour distance. LA is 6-8 hours and my former attempts to going down there have been rejected. So unless they pop up in the Bay Area, there's no hope for me . . .

So...SCANDAL in Mexico.
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT OMG! 2015 CAN'T WAIT!
.toj.
On a more serious note, I think Philippines needs to be part of the tour, same as US West Coast and at least one concert in either Argentina or Brazil for the South America fellas. Oh!, I almost forgot about Australia!
I still need to recover, what a huge surprise!

maharizm wrote:The London venue is about the size of *SCAPE.

Dude, was there a gift box for the band at *SCAPE or did the VIP tix holders give the gifts during the hi-touch (I remembered someone saying they gave the girls little gifts during the hi-touch)? If I am not mistaken, the Bugis event was only a signing/superminichat thingy right?

Ahh I see... Ok maybe I shouldn't judge based on other locations. Indonesia played in a bigger arena last year before performing at SCAPE, so I might still have some hope of hearing them in a proper arena. If Perfume and Nana Mizuki can perform at RWS and KPP at the Star Theatre (which is at least not a livehouse), I don't see why SCANDAL can't do the same, as I think they have a fanbase considerable (if not greater) to these artistes.

As far as I remember I don't think anyone gave them gifts at SCAPE, let alone during the hi-touch, especially since they were ushering us out so fast. I do remember a lot of people giving them gifts during the autograph session at Bugis, which the staff conveniently "threw" into a huge plastic bag at the back of the stage.

Speaking of that autograph session, if they conduct another autograph session like that one at Bugis again I really hope people don't buy multiple copies of the CD, because it is just depriving other fans of a chance of getting an autograph which is just plain selfish IMO, and I'm speaking as one of those who failed to get one. Even the MC that day and even the girls recognised people who went up multiple times, so I was pretty pissed that day. I know that will still happen though so it's pretty pointless ranting

Abaris wrote:So...SCANDAL in Mexico.
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT OMG! 2015 CAN'T WAIT!
.toj.
On a more serious note, I think Philippines needs to be part of the tour, same as US West Coast and at least one concert in either Argentina or Brazil for the South America fellas. Oh!, I almost forgot about Australia!
I still need to recover, what a huge surprise!

No I'd like to think LA would be a given for the West Coast. They did do AM2 in LA a few years back. I am mostly not convinced they'll show up in the northern part of California as well. Also this paranoia mostly stems from this one time an Asian idol group was supposed to come to San Francisco and have a concert and I even won tickets to it, but a few days before the concert it ended up getting canceled and they never came. Since then it's made me skeptical to believe a foreign artist I like will even bother to visit this part of California. Although on the reverse side of the coin, there have been a number of times recently that I doubted something and it ended up happening. So hopefully I'm wrong again . . .

Oh yeah~! Singapore!!! So glad they are coming again!! CAN'T WAIT!!

I'm checking on updates for US tour dates so often that the auto-fill function goes from "scandal..." to "scandal hello world tour 2015."

In RINA's latest blog entry, she mentioned that the tour will consist of 39 performances. So, that would be 31 performances in Japan + 8 performances abroad. They are going to 8 international countries (France, London, Germany, Singapore, Taiwan, US, Mexico, Hong Kong), so could this possibly mean that they might only be doing one performance in the US? Hmm... Well, I certainly hope not, but I guess we'll just have to wait for the official announcement of the dates to see.

^^ Maybe it could possibly just be about what they know as of now? I mean, it doesn't make sense to not include Germany, Mexico and Singapore from the get-go; if it was announced earlier fans would've been more prepared to travel or not travel, book flights, take leave off work etc.

Imo I just think that the details haven't all been worked out! For example, I don't think they said they were going to 39 places even when the three new recent countries weren't announced yet. Plus when you're in the U.S how do you not have a show in L.A *and* N.Y?! West east difference yeah yeah, but having one show and not in the other is unlikely. Have hope U.S fans and fans of different countries — there's still a chance!

Boah, Kanagawa and Tokyo Risuru Hall sold out after two minutes at ticket pia  .whiteflag.

I am sorry. I lied.


I literally got back from LAWSON and snagged Tamashin RISURU Hall tix in the general sale after 15 mins online seeing every server going down even at 9:58AM JST!



Got the L-code, went to the nearest LAWSON which is 2 mins away. And nary a soul lining up at the LOPPI machine.

I used this FAQ from Tokyo Gig Guide [How to use Loppi machines - http://www.tokyogigguide.com/en/tickets] but still got stuck. Got the clerk who helped out and ja-jangg!

I don't care where we are sitting. We are seeing SCA-chan in their home country!!!

iamcrazymike wrote:Usually artists will appear in LA which I have no access to, very few will actually show up in SF or somewhere in the Bay Area . . . I mean Perfume's World Tour only had dates in LA and NY for the sake of comparison. Although Kyaru Pamyu Pamyu, an AKB48 graduate, Dempagumi.Inc, May'n, Tokyo Girl's Style, Kylee, FLOW,  and Stereopony have show up here in the past. So maybe it could happen . . .

Unfortunately, it is true that many artists, even American ones, would choose L.A and skip over the Bay Area entirely. I'm still kind of hoping SCANDAL will come to S.F even though I know how unlikely that is haha. xP There might be only a slim chance for the world tour but there are other chances. ^.^ Kyary, TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE, Kylee, May'n and Tomomi Itano were all part of S.F's J-pop Summit. May'n wasn't exactly part of the Summit per say but she did use it to promote her stand alone live lol. x) My point is that there's chances for SCANDAL to come back to S.F in the future because of at least the J-pop Summit. The staff for the Summit does take suggestions (if you buy a VIP ticket at least haha) and I suggested SCANDAL this year for next year, although I doubt that'll happen now. But I intend to keep suggesting SCANDAL as an artist as long as the staff keeps taking suggestions. x)

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I do hope that there will be more than one U.S live. It does make sense to go to both coasts since they both have major cities that would be good for SCANDAL's exposure. It does sound a bit odd to pass those chances up but you never know. There's still time for hopefulness lol. If they do end up with only one show in the U.S, I'll probably try to swing going to the Mexico show as well since going to Mexico isn't much more expensive than travelling somewhere in the U.S is. I'll probably trying to Mexico even if they have more than one U.S show though. ^.^ I've thought about going to Hong Kong as well which is, surprisingly, pretty cheap considering how far away it is.

I don't know. That's all wishful thinking right now. x)

In SF(aside from them just deciding to tour here), the only events I can think of that could potentially bring in a known Japanese artist such as Scandal would be either J-Pop Summit, Fanime, or Japan Expo. If only I had any clout to suggest artists for these events . . .

saldiven wrote:I'm checking on updates for US tour dates so often that the auto-fill function goes from "scandal..." to "scandal hello world tour 2015."

I thought that I was to only one. 

Normally I don't like starting rumors and speculation, but this is a pretty good hint, and I've been itching to hear anything about the US tour locations: TOMOMI tweeted that they're going to Los Angeles and Chicago. https://twitter.com/scandal_tomomi/status/541098811909632001

maharizm wrote:I am sorry. I lied.


I literally got back from LAWSON and snagged Tamashin RISURU Hall tix in the general sale after 15 mins online seeing every server going down even at 9:58AM JST!



Got the L-code, went to the nearest LAWSON which is 2 mins away. And nary a soul lining up at the LOPPI machine.

I used this FAQ from Tokyo Gig Guide [How to use Loppi machines - http://www.tokyogigguide.com/en/tickets] but still got stuck. Got the clerk who helped out and ja-jangg!

I don't care where we are sitting. We are seeing SCA-chan in their home country!!!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?! You're so lucky! If I'd known that. I thought, if it's already sold out at the internet, there would be no use going to a convinient store! *cries*

But probably I shouldn't complain. I already got Tickets for Saitama and Tokyo from the pre-sale...

Chicago and LA confirmed by TIMO??

Well that huge sound you are hearing are all the fans in LA screaming "Thank You" ^^

Pretty sure they will do NY too... big cities, I mean it's not your average "small/medium" city, SCANDAL isn't messing around with this world tour it seems. Well except maybe in Germany, Essen seems to only be the 9th biggest city (thx wikipedia), playing in Berlin would have been "better" I guess but still great!

Hasenfu wrote:But probably I shouldn't complain. I already got Tickets for Saitama and Tokyo from the pre-sale...

Which Tokyo show are you attending?

I hope there is no snow and trains will run fine come Jan 29! ^^

haha yeah, I saw those tweets. Thanks for the possible heads up, TOMO; I knew you guys couldn't skip out on LA

And TOMO pretty much confirmed with those tweets that they are not going to New York. The friend she was tweeting to when she let slip that they're going to LA and Chicago lives in New York. The friend asked her if they are going to NY, and TOMO said that they are not.