Chiaki Ishikawa

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石川智晶メルマガVol.8

皆様いかがお過ごしでしょうか。


台風だの、突風だの、なにやら日本列島は騒がしかったですね。
私はどうにか生きております(笑）
空の顔色も含め、いかに他から影響されぬよう生きられるか
それが毎日の私の課題でございます。


しかしながら、影響されなくては
気づきを得ませんので
ドアを開けたり閉めたりして
自分の世界に要るもの、要らないものか。
どこで開けるか閉めるかを
直感力でササッと最近はやれている気がします。


すべてはバランスなんでしょうけど、
この「バランス」が取れ過ぎているのも
あまり魅力がない気も。
自然体というのも「自然体」と意識したところで
もう「自然体」ではない気がします。
少しほころびがあるヒトの方が
私は魅力を感じます。


先月、大阪でアルバム購入者対象ライブイベントを
開催しました。私のアルバムを手にした方々は
どんな人なんだろう？と単純なことですが
お顔を拝見するのが楽しみでした。


あまりライブ活動をしないままに
長く活動してきて、いきなり「ライブイベント」？
しかもトークもかなりあり？で
多少なりとも、最初にレーベルから聞いた時は動揺しましたが
イベントをいざやってみると、これが結構、楽しい！ww
これも大阪に来て下さった方々のおかげです。



そして、これは紛れもなく自分のイベントな訳で
気を遣うこともなく、
完全、ホームな状態で集えるのは素敵なことでした。



東京公演は来週の7/8日になります。
2回公演でできるだけ皆様にお会いしたいと思います。
会場は当初の予定より多くのお客様が来場されます。
あくまでもイベント使用なので手狭になりますが、
皆様、譲り合いでお願いします。特に体の不自由な方と
思われる方や、背の小さい方（主に女性かな？）は
スルスルっと前に出してあげて下さいね。

また今回、お会いできなかった方々。
応募して頂いたのに当選できなかった方。
本当にすいません。

来年始めごろ、フツウではないライブ？
コラボ？まだお伝えできないのですが、
石川智晶のライブを開催する予定です。
あくまでも「予定」ですが。
そこで是非是非、お会いしたいと願っています。

夏の予定としては
広州、瀋陽と海外のイベントに出演予定です。
また8月の終わりには「アニメロサマーライブ2012」に
出演致します。

それではみなさま。
また来月のメルマガで。
なんとかやりましょうね。。

石川智晶
 
I don't know how much internet access I will have in Tokyo but I'll try to post some initial impressions of Chiaki-san's live from there and later a longer post on animeinstrumentality.net
 
OK, just back in the hotel room after attending Chiaki-san's live.

She was only on stage an hour, but she was relaxed, elegant, in excellent voice and humour. About 20 people filled the front row of people standing, making up about 200 people in all, although that is only a rough estimae.

All the material she sang was from the current album, but for Uninstall she sang a short version of the original version that was followed by the new version. She was accompanied by two guitarists, one playing electric and one playing acoustic, plus backing tracks.

I'll write more, but it was interesting to see the mix of people attending, about two-thirds male, young to middle-aged adult, and again, I was the only one who didn't speak Japanese.
 
Oh sound like it was fun :) Oh 200 people is kind of short number for a live :(

I love how you talk to yourself on the most of these pages :XD:
 
Chiaki-san tweeted that a total of about 1500 people attended the lives in Osaka and Tokyo altogether (e.g. about 350 per show):

大阪、東京のイベントで約1500人ぐらいの方々をお会いしたことになります。それぞれの生活や人生の中で出会えたことを日々の宝といたします。
 
Tracks that I remember being performed at the live:

TW
The Giving Tree
My book
不完全燃焼
Uninstall original version /アンインストール_～僕が最後のパイロットRemix～
夏の庭
 
Just tweeted:

‏@ishikawachiaki3広州に到着したんだけれど、着いたら、なぜかホテルが取れてなくて別のホテルに移動。。今やっと部屋へ。あたしすっかり体力消耗(ノ-_-)ノ~姉さん。お手上げ。誰かわたしを上げて。。

(in Guangzhou, and exhausted).
 
Re:

Kugayama said:
What is apparently a fan picture of Chiaki-san in the costume she wore at Animelo Summer Live 2011:

http://twitpic.com/a7uv3q
Click to expand...

I went to the Mini Live at Guang Zhou and got the honor of meeting her and getting her autograph. The live was not very long (thus called Mini live), only about 50 min with MC. The place was full of people, but I was in the front VIP area so I was able to see her very closely and clearly. She seemed pretty nervous, sometimes forgetting lyrics here and there, but overall she seemed very natural and was very surprised (in a good way) at the amount of people that showed up.

The songs were:
Gyakkou, Uninstall, Fukanzen Nensho, Prototype, Mou nani mo...., and lastly Annani Isho Datta no ni.

The whole time the crowds were very high and all sang the popular parts with Chiaki, but the climax was when she got to the last song, because that was the song that got many people into See-Saw, and ultimately into Chiaki.

Afterwards there was a small auction time where she donated 1 Nyan cat T-shirt, 1 TW towel and her red glasses (no lens) for auction. The people that bought the goods get to take a picture with her.

Then the autograph session came. The person who gave her the pictures was a boy that was sitting right beside me. I knew him from another forum related to Chiaki, and obv. he's a big fan. When it was my turn, I nervously spoke some Japanese to her and she seemed kinda surprised at it. It just all went by too quickly for her to sign it, I wished she took her time more~ xD

She also brought her "Not Enough" and her Nyan Cat cellphone strap for selling. I bought the book but not the strap since they were the same price and I thought the book is more valuable than the strap (plus my phone can't hold it anyways). Apparantly the next day she also came to the closing ceremony to turn over / donate the money from the auction to an anime school for disabled children. It's good that she's using this opportunity for a charitable cause. I didn't attend the closing ceremony since I thought it was enough to see the mini concert. :)
 
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