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Hello everyone,

The following is the song list of Seiko Matsuda concert tour 2000 "20th Party"...

=== Opening ===
xx. Opening
01. 20th Party                      [#1, "20th Party"]
02. Kansha-shiteiru Yo!             [#2, "20th Party"]

=== Seiko & Shinji Harada(guitar, chorus) performance (part 1) ===
    (MC1)
03. Tsuyoi Mukaikaze no Naka de     [#4, "20th Party"]
04. Shanghai Love Song              [#3, "20th Party"]
05. Pretty Baby                     [#7, "20th Party"]

=== Seiko solo ballade ===
06. RAIN                            [#5, "20th Party"]
    (MC2)
07. Unseasonable Shore              [#8, "20th Party"]
08. Anata ni Aitakute -Missing You- [#4, "Vanity Fair"(1996)]
09. Ruriiro no Chikyu               [#10, "SUPREME"(1986)]

=== Seiko & Shinji Harada(piano, guitar) performance (part 2) ===
10. Pineapple Island                [#2, "Pineapple"(1982)]
    (MC3)
11. Natsu-monogatari                [#10, "20th Party"]

=== Hit medley ===
    (MC4)
12. 1980's single hit medley (20 long minutes version for the 20th anniversary)
    - Hadashi no Kisetsu            [1980]
    - Aoi Sangoshou                 [1980]
    - Kaze wa Akiiro                [1980]
    - Cherry Blossom                [1981]
    - Natsu no Tobira               [1981]
    - Shiroi Parasol                [1981]
    - Nagisa no Balcony             [1982]
    - Himitsu no Hanazono           [1983]
    - SWEET MEMORIES                [1983]
    - Hitomi wa Diamond             [1983]
    - Rock'n Rouge                  [1984]
    - Jikan no Kuni no Alice        [1984]
    - Heart no Earring              [1984]
    - Tenshi no Wink                [1985]
    - Akai Sweet Pea                [1982]

=== Finale ===
    (MC5)
13. Taisetsuna Anata                [#3, "Diamond Expression"(1993)]

=== Encore ===
14. Sutekini Once Again             [#6, "It's Style '95"(1995)]
15. Kagayaita Kisetsu e Tabidadou   [#3, "It's Style '95"(1995)]
xx. Ending


Additional information...

Opening:
Seiko's opening video clip is shown on a big display installed as a part of the stage set,
and her English and Japanese voice messages are heard...
(The same messages are also written on a page in her concert tour book.)

Your support, love and encouragement
have brought today, my 20th anniversary.
In appreciation of "Our 20 Years" together,
I present my gratitude to you on this stage through my songs.
To each and every one of you, wherever you are, thank you.
To have met you was truly my good fortune.
I am looking forward to your continued support.

Seiko Matsuda, Summer 2000.

MC1: "Minasan Konbanwa! Matsuda Seiko desu...
      Thank you very much for coming to my show...
      (After the opening talk, her short rest performance?...)
      May I change my (head-set) mike now?...
      (Two dancers who have a hand mike and a bottled drink with a straw
      come out and help her get ready for the next corner...) 
      I will take off part of my dress here...(handing the skirt to a dancer)
      Let me supply a little water...(drinking)... OK, thank you!
      The next song is 'Tsuyoi Mukaikaze no Naka de'...(music start) 
      Now let's welcome our special guest musician, Harada Shinji!!..."

MC2: "I feel strongly that this song 'RAIN' has beautiful melody lines...
      Such songs have been created by Ryo (Ogura, guitar) just standing over there,
      and we have worked together for more than ten years..."

MC3: "I would like to tell you(Shinji Harada) about me...I was always a big fan of you!...
      When I was in high school, I bought your 3 singles released every month in your debut year(1977)...
      Also I took an advance order to get your first album with your poster...
      I remember the design of that poster, too...You are smiling with open arms in face of a piano-form cake!...
      In those days, I always got up at six, but so sleepy in the early morning...
      So I pushed the play button of my cassette tape recorder and hearing your music,
      I put on my school uniform, lalala...(singing his debut song Teens' Blues)
      After that, finally I woke up!...And when I came back home from school,
      your poster in my room always received me as if you said hello!...
      Of course I still love your music...Welcome to my show, thank you!..."

MC4: "This concert video will be released later and shown on TV,
      the BS digital of TBS on December 23...(the video release date not mentioned)"

MC5: "In those days, I was not able to imagine myself here and now after 20 years..."

Seiko concert photos (at Yokohama on August 1):
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/kiji/2000/08/02/20000802024846.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/geino/g0008/image/2000080210seiko.jpg
http://www.zakzak.co.jp/geino/n-2000_08/image/g2000080203seiko_b.jpg
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/geinou/aug/0801seiko.jpg
http://www.chunichi.co.jp/geinou/2000/image/0802gn2.jpg

Yaji from F.B.Tokyo


P.S.

As a special guest singer, Seiko appeared on Shinji Harada's show
"the 1st Chinju no Mori charity concert" on August 26.
There she sang seven songs, which were all produced by him...

Seiko's songs (lead vocal, duet with Shinji Harada):
- Pink no Scooter         [#6, "Pineapple"(1982)]
- Hitoshizuku no Namida   [#6, "20th Party"]
- Chapel no Komichi       [#2, single "Shangai Love Song"]
- Shanghai Love Song      [#3, "20th Party"]
- Natsu-monogatari        [#10, "20th Party"]

Shinji Harada's songs (back vocal):
- Tsuyoi Mukaikaze no Naka de (Shinji Harada's original version, 1998)
- Teens' Blues (1977)

Seiko's photos:
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/kiji/2000/08/27/20000827014718.jpg
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/geinou/aug/0826seiko.jpg

And from the cover of this week's "Josei Seven" magazine...
http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/main/magazines/mag_gif/082034.gif