Johnny’s Jr. TV music festival on New Year’s Eve
More than 250 Johnny’s Jr. boys, NYC, Tomohisa Yamashita (NEWS), and Kazuya Kamenashi (KAT-TUN) took part in the first “New Year’s Young 東西歌合戦 (Tozai Uta Gassen)!” on November 27 in Tokyo’s NHK Hall, reports Sponichi Annex,
The music special saw teams of Yuma Nakayama (16) & Kansai Jr. and A.B.C-Z & Johnny’s Jr., with talents aged between 10 and 27 years-old, compete in a singing fight off as they performed 22 songs released by their Johnny’s seniors. The show is scheduled to be aired on TV on New Year’s Eve.
NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen competitors NYC (Ryosuke Yamada, Yuri Chinen, Nakayama) also made an appearance at the show, which was held at the same venue as where they will be in a month’s time.
“Last year I was so nervous I don’t remember anything. I hope I can relax this year,” Yamada said.
The group performed their single “よく遊びよく学べ (Yoku Asobi Yoku Manabe)”.
Other guest appearances included seniors Yamashita (25) and Kamenashi (24).
The show also announced a new Jr. group “ジャPAニーズ HI（ハイ）! (JaPAnese HI!)”.
Johnny’s & Associates president Johnny Kitagawa has been reported to have said he hopes the show would evolve into an annual show, acting like the supporting act to Kohaku Uta Gassen.
“Tozai Uta Gassen” will be shown on Japanese TV on New Year’s Eve from 3pm on TV Asahi.
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Source: http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/news/20101128-OHT1T00064.htm
http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/101128/gng1011280546000-n1.htm
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2010/11/28/05.html
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How can a person get tickets for the new year’s event?? I’m going to Tokyo for New Year’s and I would love the opportunity to go.
@Angela Montoya:
Thanks for stopping by 😀
Unfortunately, you have to be a member of the Johnny’s Fan Club to get tickets to their concerts.
In general, the fan club forbids tickets to be re-sold in street ticket offices, but you will find some there, and if you surf the net wide enough you will find a few fans wanting to sell their extra tickets.
The bad thing about that is that the prices can be a lot higher than what the original tickets cost.
Still, better than nothing I guess?
My other suggestion (difficult, but great if you can pull it off) is to find someone who lives in Japan who is willing to help you out.
That’s all I can think of right now, but if anything else pops into mind I’ll let you know!
You can email me about questions if you don’t want to keep posting comments ok 🙂
Hope this helps a bit!
Momo xoxo