MAX Presents Live Contact 2009 "New Edition"

MAX presents Live Contact 2009 "New Edition" is Japanese dance unit, MAX's sixth concert tour and their first in eight years. The show was organized to help commemorate the return of original member, Mina. The tour was originally a one night show performed on January 31, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan at Shibuya C.C. Lemon Hall. During the initial concert, six additional tour dates were announced including a show set on May 10, the group's 14th anniversary. The second leg of the tour began on April 25 at Osaka Kousein Nenkin Kaikan Dai Hall in Osaka, Japan and will come to an end on May 30 in Kanagawa, Japan. A live recording of the concert will be released on DVD on August 5, 2009.

MAX presents Live Contact 2009
"New Edition"
Reunion tour by MAX
Associated albumNew Edition: Maximum Hits
Start dateJanuary 31, 2009
End dateMay 30, 2009
Legs2
No. of shows7
MAX concert chronology
MAX presents Live Contact 2009
"New Edition"
Video by
MAX
ReleasedAugust 5, 2009
RecordedMay 30, 2009
GenreLive
Length127 min
LabelSonic Groove
MAX chronology
MAX Live Contact 2001 ~Bitter 4 Sweet~
(2001)		 MAX presents Live Contact 2009
"New Edition"
(2009)

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue
Initial date
31 January 2009TokyoJapanShibuya C.C. Lemon Hall
Encore dates
25 April 2009OsakaJapanOsaka Kousein Nenkin Kaikan Dai Hall
3 May 2009NagoyaAichiken Kinrou Kaikan
5 May 2009FukuokaFukuokashi Tami Kaikan
10 May 2009TokyoShibuya C.C. Lemon Hall
17 May 2009SendaiTokyo Electron Hall Miyagi
30 May 2009KanagawaKanagawa Kenmin Hall

Set list

The set list for the tour has varied from show to show. The initial set list for the first concert of the tour consisted entirely of songs decided by a poll voted upon by members of MAX's fan club, J-MAX. All the shows have opened with "Give Me a Shake," followed by "Shinin'on-Shinin'love" and "Ginga no Chikai." A medley of Eurobeat songs from their debut album, Maximum (1996) was performed afterwards. The medley for the first concert included 5 songs: "Get My Love!, "Extasy," "Because I Need You," "Reality," and "Stranger in the Night." For the remainder of the tour, "Extasy" has been omitted and the order of the remaining songs has been slightly rearranged with "Stranger in the Night" following "Get My Love!." Songs performed only at the first concert included, "Love Impact" and "Powder Shadow." They were replaced with "Always Love" and "Magic."

At their show in Fukuoka, the group performed a new song titled, "The Power of Love." For their second show in Tokyo on May 10, the group performed their debut single, "Koi Suru Velfarre Dance ~Saturday night~ as a double encore. In a rare performance of the song, the group was joined by band members and their dancers as they performed the signature choreography of the song. At the tour finale on May 30 in Kanagawa, the group performed their new single, "Rough Cut Diamond" for the first time. They ended the concert with a double encore of "Natsu yo Saite." They performed the same song as a double encore in 2001 during their Bitter 4 Sweet tour.

Set lists
Reunion show (January 31, 2009)

Main show

  • Give me a Shake
  • Shinin'on-Shinin'love
  • Ginga no Chikai
  • Eurobeat Medley-1
    • Get My Love!
    • Extasy
    • Stranger in the Night
    • Because I Need You
    • Reality
  • Love impact
  • Barairo no Hibi
  • Video Intermission - Hikari no Veil
  • Are You Ready?
  • Love is Dreaming (Takashi Ikezawa Mix)
  • Grace of my heart (Ryosuke Nakanishi aka Studio-R Mix)
  • Powder Shadow
  • Spring rain
  • Ride on time (Eighteen Degrees. Mix)
  • So Real
  • Perfect Love
  • Isshoni...

Encore

  • Eurobeat Medley-2
    • Tora Tora Tora
    • Seventies
    • Don't You Love Me
    • Love Love Fire
  • I Will

Double Encore

  • Ride on time (Original Version)
Anniversary show (May 10, 2009)

Main show

  • Give Me A Shake
  • Shinin'on-Shinin'love
  • Ginga no Chikai
  • Eurobeat Medley-1
    • Get My Love!
    • Stranger in the Night
    • Because I Need You
    • Reality
  • Always Love
  • Barairo no Hibi
  • Video Intermission: Hikari no Veil
  • Are You Ready?
  • Love is Dreaming (Takashi Ikezawa Mix)
  • Grace of my heart (Ryosuke Nakanishi aka Studio-R Mix)
  • Isshoni...
  • Spring rain
  • Ride on Time (Eighteen Degrees. Mix)
  • Perfect Love
  • The Power Of Love
  • So Real
  • Magic
  • I Will

Encore

  • Eurobeat Medley-2
    • Tora Tora Tora
    • Seventies
    • Don't You Love Me
    • Love Love Fire
  • Ride on time (Original Version)

Double Encore

  • Koi Suru Velfarre Dance ~Saturday Night~
MAX presents Live Contact 2009 "New Edition" DVD (Final show - May 30, 2009)

Main show

  • Give me a Shake
  • Shinin'on-Shinin'love
  • Ginga no Chikai
  • Eurobeat Medley-1
    • Get My Love!
    • Stranger in the Night
    • Because I Need You
    • Reality
  • Always Love
  • Barairo no Hibi
  • Video Intermission: Hikari no Veil
  • Are You Ready?
  • Love is Dreaming (Takashi Ikezawa Mix)
  • Grace of my heart (Ryosuke Nakanishi aka Studio-R Mix)
  • Isshoni...
  • Spring rain
  • Ride on Time (Eighteen Degrees. Mix)
  • Perfect Love
  • The Power Of Love
  • So Real
  • Magic
  • I Will

Encore

  • Eurobeat Medley-2
    • Tora Tora Tora
    • Seventies
    • Don't You Love Me
    • Love Love Fire
  • Rough Cut Diamond
  • Ride on time (Original Version)

Double Encore

  • Natsu yo Saite

Concert recording and DVD release

The show at Shibuya C.C. Lemon Hall on January 31, 2009 was filmed and photographed for print and television media. Footage of the concert including clips of the group performing, "Give me a Shake," "Get My Love!," "Are You Ready?", "Ride on time," and "Seventies" was televised on several major entertainment news shows on February 2, 2009. Their management company, Vision Factory also posted clips of the group performing, "Isshoni..." at the same concert on their official website.

At the show on April 25 in Osaka, the group announced that a DVD of the tour would be filmed for commercial release. Reina announced on her blog that the group would be filming the final concert in Kanagawa for the DVD release.[1] A tour report by Barks Japan confirmed August 5, 2009 as the release date for the DVD.[2]

Personnel
  • Producer: Kazuyuki Honda
  • General Producer: Takashi Kasuga
  • Stage producer: Akira Shimizu, Kunihiro Hattori
  • Stage manager: Tomohiko Mitani, Hikaru Saotome
  • Sound producer: Tetsuya Miyake
  • Public relations: Yukio Takemura, Akira Kobayashi, Masahiro Tashiro, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Makoto Kato, Michiharu Satou, Seiji Fukagawa, Hirokazu Satou, Shigeru Takagi, Kouji Yoshizawa
  • Ad management: Masaru Kaneda
  • Artist management: Shintaro Nishida

Band
  • Guitar: Jun Yamazaki, Yasuo Kijima
  • Bass: Yasushi Sasamoto
  • Drums: Yutaka Watanabe
  • Keyboards: Masafumi Hayashi
  • Manipulator: Nobuhito "UNA" Tanahashi
  • Dancers: Fuyuko, Non, Yoyo, Chino, Katsu

Crew

Staging
  • Stage set designer: Atsushi Satou, Kazutoshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Noguchi, Tarou Takashi
  • Mechanic: Michihiro Hirata
  • Win-V: Jun Yokoyama, Chiemi Hosokawa
  • Lighting designer: Tishiaki Moriyasu
  • Lighting operator: Hiroaki Kawana
  • Pin spot lighting: Emiko Ogawa
  • Moving light operator: Chikara Abe, Tsuyoshi Yoshikawa
  • Sound designer: Kouji Sonoda
  • Monitor Operator: Masayuki Ohashi, Gaku Matsuyama
  • Stage: Yusuke Kubo
  • Illumination: Hideo Kawabe
  • Instrumental technician: Yasushi Hatanaka, Ei Sawai
  • Special Effects: Yoshimi Miyata

Costuming
  • Wardrobe: Masumi Shibata
  • Hair & make-up:Kyouichi Azuma, Yoshihiko Tabe
  • Stylist: Akemi Mutoh

References
  1. "今日も".
  2. "MAX、全国ツアーが終了、7年半ぶりの新曲も".
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