
UPDATE 1/14: This is more than likely my final update to this post. Whew! As always, feel free to let me know if there are any show reports out there that I've somehow missed (or that haven't been written yet), but I'm no longer going to be actively searching for more. I think you've got plenty to get through here as it is. This last update has one new show report from Osaka as a parting gift.
I will do this same thing for future PUFFY shows and tours, so don't think this was just a one-time deal. PUFFY's next scheduled show is at Green Power Live 2008 on February 19, so I'll be posting whatever I find on that as well (in a new post). And of course, any future tours will get another post like this one.
Don't forget to take a look at PUFFY's own official Honeysweeper blog (in either English or Japanese) for their own running report from the road. Ami has also now posted her thoughts about the overall tour (again, in English and Japanese).
Continue on for the the full show report extravaganza and the North America set list.
If you've got a tip on a show report you've found around the net, or you want your own linked here, you can also leave a comment or send me an email.
Since I couldn't attend any of the North American shows myself this year (I'm an East Coaster), I thought the next best thing would be to compile all the Honeysweeper tour show reports I can find into one post. The Japan reports are obviously mostly in Japanese - if you're an English-only speaker, you can try running them through an automatic translation service like Google Language Tools. Reports from the US shows are mostly English.
And if you haven't already, feel free to read my own past show reports from Irving Plaza in NYC 2005, and the River to River Festival in NYC 2006.
I'll put this post back at the top of the homepage as each show concludes and new reports get added.
Without further ado:
10/19/07 Tokyo/Shibuya C.C. Lemon Hall (渋谷C.C.Lemonホール):
- Spike's report at the puffyamiyumiworld.com forums (English)
- 劇団天野屋 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- 『思い立ったが吉日』 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Umania blog (short, but in English and kinda cute)
- Umania again (in Japanese, much longer and with some pics) (日本語)
- Sternschnuppe blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Hide's blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Drop Across blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Sumairu Puffy (post #1636) (Japanese) (日本語)
- Shigeo Naka's blog (PUFFY's tour guitarist) (Japanese) (日本語)
- Shigeo Naka's blog (PUFFY's tour guitarist) (Japanese) (日本語)
- Minamin's blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Josh Timmerman's report at PopMatters (English)
- Cerahbes' report at the puffyamiyumiworld.com forum archive - includes set list and photos (English)
- Mister Osaru dives for the stage! (Technically English, but the photos tell the story)
- Bento Box blog - includes photos (English)
- Ochawan's blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Genman's blog (English - he was there with Ochawan above)
- TechGuy's post right here in the comments! (English)
- The Seattle forum thread archive at puffyamiyumiworld.com (English)
- Matto's Livejournal (English)
- Miyagawa's blog (English, with a pic from Seattle)
- Experimental Life: Wondercast blog (English)
- Kewlmuzik blog (English, with another Seattle pic)
- Yakihito blog (English)
- Eddie On... blog (English)
- SOG's report on Your Opinion Doesn't Count blog (English)
- T's blog at Vox (English)
- The San Francisco forum thread archive at puffyamiyumiworld.com (English)
- Puffy: American and Japanese Conquest Blog (English)
- LAist (English, with many many photos)
- Crookback's Flickr photos (some more great shots from Ami's side)
- Tokyographer's blog (English)
- CampusCircle.net (English)
- The LA show forum thread archive at puffyamiyumiworld.com (English) - including a report from Alkulp indirectly involving yours truly :)
- Boykun's post at Nandake blog (English)
- Puffy: American and Japanese Conquest Blog (English)
- The Anaheim show forum thread archive at puffyamiyumiworld.com (English)
- Tokyo Mirrorball Street blog - includes set list (Japanese) (日本語)
- The same blog as above, now in English!
- Yorokobinotane blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- 新・何気に独り言 blog (Japanese, obviously) (日本語)
- どっか行ったら上げる blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- 竜巻野郎@管理人 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- @Woman blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Brand New Happy Day blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- None found! Let me know if I've missed any...
- Ami's comments on her blog (in English or Japanese)
- 記憶の記録 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- つぼみチョッパー blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Modern Pirates blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- s weeti e blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Rimone's ROOM blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- TAWAGOTO blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- 女の子市民ブログ blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- 音楽とユーモアの旅 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- 天知る 地知る 君知る 我知る blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- Swing-by blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- 劇団天野屋 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- あんずっこ日記 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- おむぅの日記 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- god speed you blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- 夢見る頃を過ぎても blog (Japanese) (日本語)
- ayazアワー☆友達の輪 blog (Japanese) (日本語)
By the way, the Zepp Doubleheader is not technically part of the Honeysweeper tour, but as it falls right in the middle of it and has generated its own share of show reports, I may as well include it.
Here's the North America set list. Figured I'd post it as it differs a bit from the Japanese list. (From Cerahbes and others)
Boom Boom Beat
Nagisa ni Matsuwaru etc.
Kimi to Ootobai
Kichiburu Motion
Tokyo I'm On My Way
Youkai Puffy
Radio Tokyo
Closet Full of Love
Jet Keisatsu
Joining a Fan Club
Teen Titans
Oriental Diamond
Circuit no Musume
Red Swing
Mogura-like
Basket Case
Hi Hi
Encore(s):
(Rock 'n' Roll Radio)
Asia no Junshin
The first encore was not played at all dates. It also sounds like Asia no Junshin closed one or two shows, with Circuit no Musume being the encore.
I waited to post that until the NA tour was over - they didn't want the Japanese set list posted (I guess just for the sake of surprise), so I figured the same might be true here.
Check back soon after each show for updates. I can't promise I'll be glued to my computer screen immediately following each date, but I'll post new links as soon as I can!
Photo taken Seattle 11/13/07 by Kevin/rise888 - used with permission