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SCANDAL; “SCANDAL Wows The Audience in SCANDAL’s "Kumamoto Special”, on the First Day in their 47 Prefecture Tour"

SCANDAL started their first-ever 47-prefecture tour,「SCANDAL TOUR 2017『SCANDAL’s 47-Prefecture Tour』」, with their performance at Kumamoto’s Kumamoto B.9 V1, on 11th March today.

This tour is in relation to the band’s best album,「SCANDAL」, that was released in February, as a commemoration to the band’s 10th year anniversary since forming. It has been about 2 years, since they were in Kumamoto for the year 2015 hall tour. SCANDAL had generously performed popular songs, as chosen by fans and recorded within their best album.

HARUNA (Vo, G) said,「For this round’s tour, we definitely all thought of wanting to welcome its first day in Kumamoto」. She also shed light on the day’s setlist, saying that it was a「Kumamoto Special」that is limited to the day only. During the MC in the middle of the live, they not only wowed the audience with a call-and-response performance segment, using a CM song that’s aired in Kumamoto, but also enveloped the venue in heated energy from start to finish.

SCANDAL will be performing a total of 53 shows on this tour. The tour final will take place on 17th July, at Tokyo’s Toyosu PIT.

Selected post-concert tweets by SCANDAL →

• HARUNA: “First day of「SCANDAL’s 47-Prefecture Tour」, thank you very much, Kumamotoー! Cut my fringe short in accordance to the tour”
• TOMOMI: “First day of the 47-prefecture tour finished! To be able to carve out its start at Kumamoto on 3.11, I’m really thankful. We’ll be going all out for it till July!” / “Somehow, today’s MAMI-chan kept calling herself ‘Candy Candy’. I’m scared”
• MAMI: “Thank you very much, everyone in Kumamoto⤴︎ To be able to enjoy the 47-prefecture tour that started today… Really, honestly, my mood was candy☆candy☆( ᷇࿀ ᷆ ) Kyarabukiー⤴︎”
• RINA: “I’m really glad that the tour started at Kumamoto today! Thanks for coming! Since being here, my love for Kumamoto has just been getting deeper. I love it here (´-`).｡oO (High sense…”

For today’s setlist, the band performed older tunes, such as S.L. Magic, Awanai Tsumori no Genki Dene, and Koe, to new songs such as FREEDOM FIGHTERS.

The band are on their way to Miyazaki, and will perform a one-man live there for the first time tomorrow!

Original article by natalie HERE, translated by fyscandalband. Additional photos from SCANDAL’s various SNS.