2008 Autumn F4 Japan Concert
(Sing Tao Daily reported) breaking the first Chinese concert to be held
in Japan record of F4, the night before last 7 games in Yokohama Gechang
tour will kick off the location of the 12,000 full house, 4-Shi all
means do it in different ways to do Japanese woman Fans!
Since March 2006 held in Hong Kong after the concert, F4 more than two
years have failed to concerts, then pull the night before last team to
Japan for "F4 Japan Tour 2008" in Yokohama, kicked off the concert. F4
in Japan 7 field tour tickets will be sold out long ago, outside the
more "cattle of the party", Fana for the sake of admission, even with
higher ticket prices doubled, to 24,000 yen to buy tickets. The F4
invited to the Queen's Music Director Ayumi Hamasaki, SMAP and has
served as director of the concert as a team behind the scenes.
When the opening concert, F4 four sub-incarnation of the ancient stone
for coming out on the screen, has become known as the "four soldiers" in
the name. They then a chorus of the first multi-classic songs, each of
which has on the individual aspects of performance. Do not mind always
as sexy performance of Vanness Wu (Vanness), a stage has been installed
to show open heart, his two teenage Fans do not give rise to screaming.
Vanness is the only F4 with their own Band to perform in Japan.
Zhu Xiaotian and will continue to be dominated music, playing guitar and
rattles, and so on, at the same time in tap dance on the stage play. Had
earlier disclosed that he will play the piano the Yancheng Xu (Jerry),
only the shell was a bit of a simple music. The Zai Zai (Zhou Yu Min)
will be big changes in the past "innocent" image, the Wild put on a big
sweater, presented a series of dance.
In addition to a large Anything Fans outside Japan, F4 more Japanese
to the whole answer. 4 people for a month of training in Japanese, with
the most fluent Jerry, Ken Hirai sing the song "Light eyes closed."
However, up to sing on the Ri Wenge is Zai Zai, perform their first Ri
Wenge "Wherever You Are" and "I Love You".
F4 enough to sing 3 hours in a row, "An Song" twice. In order to the
concert, F4 to Japan a month earlier rehearsals, rehearsal time per day
more than 10 hours or more. To see the success of this concert, 4
children are moved to say, "For this concert, we have suffered a lot,
you have (Fans), F4 will continue to go, we want to bring an
unforgettable memories ! "
Sing Tao Daily 2008-10-05
Credit thanks to Laiou @Vicpower.net
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F4 holds press conference in Japan;
reveals details about their concerts
F4s upcoming concert tours in Japan are taking place soon. Yesterday
the 4 took some time out to hold a press conference in Tokyo. They
announced that they will add 2 extra shows on Oct 3 and Oct 19,
totalling 7 concerts, with over 80,000 fans attending.
Yesterday, during the press conference, in front of over 100 reporters,
besides announcing the good news of 2 added shows, F4 also revealed
details about each of their own solo performances. ZaiZai (Vic Zhou)
said that to be different from their 2006 Hong Kong concert, this time
he will use 3D images in his performance. Ken Zhu shyly said that he had
taken up ZaiZais suggestion and will challenge tap-dancing. He said, I
am not good at dancing, so I am very nervous, but I will try hard to
perform to the best of my ability.
Talented Vanness Wu says that this time, besides planning even more
outrageous dancing, he will also bring on an exclusive orchestra to
accompany his performance. As for Jerry Yan, he says that this time, he
does not plan to sing and dance at the same time, but rather he will
focus on the music and feelings to touch the fans.
From the 3rd of October, F4 will hold 3 concerts at the Hokohama Arena,
Tokyo Budokan Hall and Osaka Hall. The 4 will also live in Tokyo for
some time, and when asked about what they want to do while they are
there, Jerry praised Japans fruit. He said, If I get the chance, I
want to eat as many speciality fruit as possible. ZaiZai smiled and
said, Because I dont like leaving the house, now, whenever I leave the
country, I like examining menus in different hotels, and then recommend
to others, maybe I can release a book in the future.
Ken said, If I have some spare time from work, I will want to go to
restaurant to eat, visit some bookstores and also go to a spa. Vanness
however, is the opposite and he says, To maintain a good figure, if I
have time, I will exercise. Lately, everyday in the morning, I will go
to restaurant and eat 10 boiled eggs.
Source: UDN
Date: September 19, 2008
Translated by:
[email protected]
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F4 JAPAN TOUR 2008 PRESS CON
Taiwan most popular idol F4,next month will be holding 7 concert at
Japan.Today 18th the group F4 has hold a press conference at Tokyo.
Jerry,Ken,Van Ness,Vic also named as 'Flower 4' boys originally from a
popular comic story at Japan,also based on a Taiwan TV drama series
called Meteor Garden featuring this four flower boys wake the whole
world with their first album sold over 4 million copies accross Asia to
set an impressive record sales in Asia.Martial to be known as a big
superstar.
All four members are getting into solo as singer and actor including
previous 3 concert held at HK Collesium in 2006.The stage plan with 360
degree ground to the floor,making a brilliant close up to the
dirrections of the audience with a 3 hours performance across with
variety performance by each of them.
In the conference,they mentioned that this concert is completely
different from the previous HK 2006 Concert as
Vic said "I'm not good and clumsy at dancing so this will be a major
challenging to me",Ken brought along his band and will sing,Jerry and
Van Ness expected to make a big changes this time.
Each of them made a comment on the conference and this is what Vic said:
ZZ said on the press conference I am very excited to hold the Concert
here(Japan).All the F3 brothers are here again together to and hope u
will enjoy our performance.All fans will expect a great performance from
us.
Thanks to wowo818 of kenforever
source http://www.iza.ne.jp/
thanks to slewleng one of the zai zai fan. and jessi of only f4
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F4 Japan Tour 2008 concert schedules
October 3, 2008 (Fri) Show at Yokohama Arena (Additional Concert) Open
18:00 /Start 19:00
October 4, 2008 (Sat) Show at Yokohama Arena (Additional Concert) Open
14:00 /Start 19:00
October 7, 2008 (Tue) Show at Budokan Open 17：30/Start 18:30
October 8, 2008 (Wed) Show at Budokan Open 17：30/Start 18:30
October 17, 2008 (Fri) Show at Osaka-Jo Hall Open 17:30 /Start 18:30
October 18, 2008 (Sat) Show at Osaka-Jo Hall (Additional Concert) Open
14:00 /Start 15:00
source: http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/gabe-lee/
posted by
[email protected]
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GEISA KEN CHU INTERVIEW
About Ken's interview video in Geisai TV Japan, he said he only got to
know about this GEISAI activity
not so long ago. He talked about his admiration for this person (not
sure who this is) and how much he admire his success and his works (sytwo:
Is this person an artist? Novelist? Not sure). So he felt that this is a
very meaningful event. He read his story/background before, that this
guy's success only came later in life. The fact that his person has this
idea to support and open doors/ give chances to other young artistes/
novelists is a very noble thig to do and so he felt privileged to be
invited to this event. Ken then said greetings to the audience. He is
very happy to participate in this GEISAI event. For this, he has put
together all his previous thoughts and writings that he has recorded
about his life (or details about his life) into one work and hope to
present it to everyone during this event. And hope that everyone will
get to know more about his life and from this learn about his views,
expectations and hopes towards life. Hopes everyone will like it.
http://www.geisai./ net/g11/info/ guest/kenchu.
php
WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk7U79bLk7E
News Tidbits:
(From Zhudavid)
CREDIT XTLOVER & ZHUDAVID OF AF
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Ken Chu Attracted 2000 Fans in Geisai
Ken Chu loves photography well-knownly. He was invited to participate in
the grand art exhibition that held by Takashi Muradami, the famous Japan
designer in Big-sight, Tokyo the day before yesterday. He exhibited more
than 30 pieces of photography works and attracted nearly 2,000 fans. He
sang 3 songs on the stage. His works were including the scenery in
Europe, Shanghai and other places as well as his cat's photo.
What interesting was, one shot was the paparazzo of Apple Daily who
took his photos. He said with a smile, ' everybody quite likes this
photo. All say my life really has this kind of thing being happened.
Takashi Muradami cooperated with Louis Vuitton of a popular series of
bag. He holds two art exhibitions every year which provides a platform
for young artists. Ken Chu knew Takashi Muradami when he went to Japan
for autograph sessions. Takashi Muradami invited him to participate in
the art exhibition in September instantly.
While Ken Chu was asked about which Muradamis work he likes the most.
He said, I like that girl figure with big breast. I remember that one
was sold with 100 million something yen or 200 million yen.
He displayed more than 30 pieces of black-and-white, colored photography
works in this exhibition. His works were not only the sceneries but also
the paparazzo. He said, 'The other party was not rude either, just want
to communicate. The photo was named Face of Desire.
He asked people to make the works into postcards and sell at the
exhibition. Asked him about how much the price was? He said, ' I have
not asked the price. Just tell the person in charge not to set the price
too high. He greeted fans in the exhibition area warmly and shared his
thoughts and inspiration with everybody. The Japanese coat he worn on
was very interesting because its printed ' Engaged in arts till death?
He looked thinner slightly than before. He explained that surfing made
his body firm. However, due to the muscle increased, weight raise up
instead. He also emphasized that he does not mind his weight. He said,
If I really care, I may use Botox or do liposuction.
posted by rach13Apple Daily News
Sept 16, 2008
Brief translation by: wowo of kenforever
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BATANES IN "THE 4TH ASIAN MARINE FILM
FESTIVAL"
BATANES will be featured IN "THE 4TH ASIAN MARINE FILM FESTIVAL'
Makuhari Japan 2008-9-5/6/7
award: Y1,000,000
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ENTRY
1.Asian films with the sea as themes or backgrounds,etc
2.Films whose producing countries belong to Asia
3.35mm or 16mm films over 60 minutes long
4.Films produced after January 2007 and not shown to the public in Japan
BATANES introduction:
BATANES 2007 philippines
director: adolf alix jr. (previous winning entry: donsol)
lead stars:
KEN CHU - handsome idol from 'meteor garden' , famous f4 member from
taiwan 154556.gif
iza calsado - philippine young actress
A love story set in the island of batanes.
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THE MOVIE 'BATANES'
A scene from the phil. Movie batanes
The 4th asian marine filmfest will be staged in makuhari japan from
september 5-7, 2008, which will feature movies from japan, Taiwan,
Thailand, Philippines 132056.gif , korea and Indonesia.
Special focus of the event is the movie batanes starring taiwans
popular idol group f4s KEN CHU, its the love story of a man and a
woman who met at batanes island near Taiwan. Inquiries for this film
surged in from f4 fans all over the country and tickets were sold-out in
a snap. clap.gif
Due to this demand, 1 more day was added to its originally
scheduled-screening dates, even the organizers were shocked by this warm
response which has never ever happened before. .
source: 2008-08--27 tokyo-np.co.jp// tianlai
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repost as is without adding any phrase/clause and make sure to CREDIT
ONLY melviken of KCIFC Philippines http://z8.invisionfree.com/kcifc_ph/index.php
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to Chinese sites. Thanks for your cooperation.
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Latest news F4 about Tourism Bureau
Star-chasing is a prominent phenomenon in East Asia, and the Tourism
Bureau is keen to take advantage of this, hiring pop idols like the boy
band F4 to endorse traveling to Taiwan. In the past two years, more than
150 thousand F4 fans, their friends and families have come to Taiwan,
spending more than 400 million NT dollars during their holiday here.
Encouraged by these results, the Tourism Bureau has decided to continue
this marketing policy
This Tourism Bureau advert stars boy band F4. As fans watch their
heartthrobs visit places like the National Palace Museum, many of them,
grabbing friends and family, have also packed their bags and traveled to
Taiwan.
Chasing after idols is an Asian phenomenon, said Wayne Liu, head of the
Tourism Bureau international division. We hope that F4 is our answer to
Korea's Bae Yong-joon.
According to Tourism Bureau research, F4 star allure has attracted more
than 150,000 visitors from Japan and Korea over the past two years, and
the tourists happily parted with more than NT$400 million during their
stay in TaiwanAnd targeting Southeast Asia, the Tourism Bureau hired
director Wu Nian-jen and pop star Jolin Tsai.
Hoping to generate more than NT$300 million in travel income this time
with the Wu and Tsai combination, the Tourism Bureau is convinced that
endorsements by pop figures is indeed the way to go.
Michella Jade Weng, Formosa TV, Taipei.
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F4 Japan concert - Big sell out
Another Additional show added
Ticket sales for F4's Japan concert in October was so sellable that
organisers have added a 7th show.
Japan organisers seems to have invited another idol grp Fahrenheit to
appear at the concert.
However, news released yesterday that F4's performance time have already
exceeded, Fahrenheits performance may have to be taken out.
Fahrenheit's record company expressed that they did not receive any
invitation and they also have a concert in Sept, schedule is very
packed.
Everytime F4 reunites for an event, there are always rumours that it
will be the last. Especially the 4 of them now belongs to different
management company, there are even rumours that Oct Japan concert is F4
farewell concert. F4 concert tics are selling extremely well, from
initial 3 shows, to 6 shows. Japan organisers gave in to pressure by
fans, and added another show, bringing it to a total of shows.
F4 has set a new record for chinese singers holding concerts in Japan.
In the past, for F4 concerts there are not much of the 4 of them singing
together, emphasizing more on individual performance. This time, there
will be more of the 4 of them singing together, and also performing in
pairs.
F4 concert rarely invite guests performers, but this time Japan
producers suggested some singers frm Hong Kong or Taiwan, including the
popular Fahrenheit. But Fahrenheit have their own concert in HK in Sept
and concert tour following, and they have not receive any invites from
Japan side.
Source: 14. 08.2008 http://udn.com/
thanks to michi of onlyf4
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F4 30,000 Tickets Sold Out in 30 Mins;
Adds 3 More Japan Concert Dates
Date: June 25, 2008
Confirmed: 3 Additional shows:
3 & 4 Oct @ Yokohama
18 Oct @ Osaka
as per Japan newspaper
3 Oct: Yokohama 18:00 entry/ 19:00 start
4 Oct: Yokohama 14:00 entry/ 15:00 start
18 Oct: Osaka 14:00 entry/ 15:00 start
7 Oct: Tokyo - Sold Out
8 Oct: Tokyo - Sold Out
8 Oct: Osaka - Sold Out
source: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/0...4/57/11u3j.html
Public sales for F4 Japan concert began on 21st and was sold out within
1/2 an hour. Bringing in estimated earning of NTD1 million. At online
auction sites, tickets have bid up to 4 times the orginal price.
F4 has dominated the title of Taiwan Heavenly Idol Group for years, to
date no other groups can match them in terms of overseas market. Many
fans were unable to get tickets from official fanclub preorder.
Therefore, when open for public sales on 21st, 30000 tickets were sold
out within 1/2 hr.
News June 25,2008
credits:michi@ onlyF4
source:
http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT5/4397262.shtml
Yesterday, rumour came from Japan that there may have 3 additional
shows.
To let fans see a very interesting concert, they plan to be in Japan for
practice and rehearsal 1 month before the concert, and invite
professional team behind SMAP, V6 concerts.
Jerry's management company expressed, organisers did enquire abt Jerry's
schedule. Jerry is trying his best to arrange his work schedule.
On the other hand, Fulong replied that many fans were sad not getting
concert tickets through official fanclub pre-order by computerised
allocation. However, they are still currently liasing with the venue.
Once confirmed, will announce officially through Japan website.
Credit: keeyshane@Asian Ent. News
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F4- to rehearse one month in advance
for Japan concert
To let fans see a very interesting concert, they plan to be in Japan for
practisre and rehearsal 1 month b4 the concert, and invite professional
team behind SMAP, V6 concerts.
Jerry's management company expressed, organisers did enquire abt Jerry's
schedule. Jerry is trying his best to arrange his work schedule.
On the other hand, Fulong replied that many fans were sad not getting
concert tickets through official fanclub pre-order by computerised
allocation. However, they are still currently liasing with the venue.
Once confirmed, will announce officially through Japan website.
Source: http://udn.com/ NEWS/ENTERTAINME
NT/ENT5/4397262. shtml
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Fahrenheit Replaces F4 ~ Spokesmen for
Taiwan Tourism Board
Popularity kings Fahrenheit, is officially kicking out F4, the Taiwan
Tourism Board spokesperson is changing people to see how it works! Last
year Taiwan Tourism Board funded $80 million NT to invite F4 to be their
tourism spokespersons, attracting the Japan/Korea markets, the results
were positive, this year's end of June, F4's contract is expiring, the
new spokespersons Fahrenheit is pretty much expected take over to be
attracting the younger groups!
Fahrenheit under comics management expressed, at the moment Aziotv has
submitted a proposal, but spokesperson promotion or dramas, they're not
confirmed; to understanding, Azio has gained a vote, but Azio says, at
the moment they're not at the stage of a contract procedure yet,
therefore its not appropriate to comment on any questions regarding
this, but in the future if this case is going through, they will use all
their efforts to complete it.
Source: Liberty Times
Translated by Cmiley
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Fahrenheit-...talk559833.html