SCANDAL will be representing Japan at the 「ABU TV Song Festival 2015」 in Istanbul, Turkey on October 28th! They will be performing "Sisters."

The ABU TV Song Festival is a celebration of popular music featuring high-profile musical talents, not a competition among amateurs.

Participating member organisations are invited to provide a solo artist or musical group who enjoy mass appeal in their home country to be featured in the song festival. The program will showcase musical acts representing ABU members, and will have a running time of one and half hours.

http://www.abu.org.my/ABU_TV_Song_Festival-@-ABU_TV_Song_Festival_2015.aspx

Wowow, lucky turkish fans

there are the only band and the only good thing that going to preform over there :D
Scandal beats everyone ^^

SCANDAL in turkey, I never would have imagined them going there. Hopefully they will have some time to check out Istanbul and eat some turkish food. Could not find any information regarding if and where this will be shown on TV, hope that will be cleared up soon.

The ABU is based in Malaysia and when I was much younger, I remember watching the Festival on TV. From the description in the link TGE provided above, it sounds like it's the same again - a music programme on television.

Although how they are going to fit everything in the stipulated "running time of one and a half hours" is beyond me. ^^

I just hope they will be safe and no incidents at the event, things have got rough in Turkey recently and Istanbul is a very big city

Eisuke and the management team should take good care of the girls! Hope he read this!

Found some more information:

"Footage of the event will be broadcasted live in Turkey, and each country’s participants will also get to be introduced on the programme. For Japan, it is scheduled to be broadcast on NHK BS Premium and NHK World sometime in Winter. NHK World is also scheduled for the broadcast of the English version."

So I am guessing one of the turkish TRT channels will broadcast it live that day? Luckily live streams of TRT are available here: http://www.trt.net.tr/Anasayfa/canli.aspx

I live in Turkey but unfortunately they won't allow ticketed audience and invite only the Turkish singer's fan club members. If it's possible i wanna see them on somewhere outside and become my dream to reality.

SCANDAL are in the phase of growing bigger, that they'll make the appearances for the International scale festival. Kakkoii!!!!!

ScandalousAngels wrote:there are the only band and the only good thing that going to preform over there :D
Scandal beats everyone ^^

We also have CNBLUE from South Korea as well.

It is going to air on TRT Müzik on the 28th:
http://trtmuzik.net.tr/yayinakisi/2015/10/28
http://www.trt.net.tr/televizyon/akis.aspx?kanal=trt-muzik&gun=2

19:00 - red carpet event
20:00 - start of festival
Turkey postponed changing back to winter time by two weeks so they are still at GMT+3.

The live stream can be found here: http://www.trt.net.tr/anasayfa/canli.aspx?y=tv&k=trtmuzik There is a clock at the top right if you get confused by timezones. (ignore the clock on trtmuzik.net.tr as that one seems to display your own timezone)

If the aspect ratio of the stream is too wide press "pause", wait a moment and then press "play" again. This makes it more narrow. If it was correct before and you made it too narrow because you clicked "pause" just refresh the page to reset it.

It was a great night, I had a lot of fun watching the festival. They said great things about SCANDAL. Haruna even learned a turkish word. Sadly the short timeframe did not allow for any talk with the artists on stage.

I will be checking out more from some of the artists, they were all very good.

it was good to hear a full performance of sisters, but it seemed to me that haruna wasn't having a great night vocally speaking. maybe it's the song or maybe she's tired, but she sounded not as good as always to me :\

it was so nice that she had learned a turkish word for the mc anyway, she was one of the only foreigner artist to do so XD all the others just cheered the audience using english. the efforts scandal make in order to learn new words in the local place is the cutest.

The ABU audience was pretty tame most of the time. When I saw the front rows had all guys in business suits I thought "oh crap.." But SCANDAL and CN Blue had some noisy fans (CN's were at least X2 really). They were also the only real bands. I wonder how they got set up so fast? There couldn't have been any sound checks. Gotta be proud they handled it so well. 
Unfortunately the transmission jangled up for part of their set. Did anyone else have that trouble?

etwee wrote:I wonder how they got set up so fast? There couldn't have been any sound checks.

Except for their vocals, SCANDAL didn't play the song live--as in none of their instruments were actually plugged in; the music was all playback. That's how they were able to get everything set up fast.

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Here's their performance:



If you're located in the US like myself, you won't be able to watch this without a proxy. Thanks, YouTube Red...

NHK World will Broadcast  from the the 4th ABU TV SONG FESTIVAL in 2 parts.
Part 1:
Friday, December 18 23:10
Saturday, December 19 5:10/ 10:10/ 17:10 (UTC)

Part 2:
Saturday, December 19 23:10
Sunday, December 20 5:10/ 10:10/ 17:10 (UTC)


That was a nice Show with some for me strange sounding songs.

But the best were the clips with SCANDAL during they visit the european and the asian side of  Istanbul .
They meet new food and new music instruments.