To celebrate his birthday TAKA originally planned a live performance for February 24, 2021. Unfortunately this performance had to be rescheduled to another date due to Japan declaring the state of emergency once again.
After a lot of planning a new date for the live has been decided: April 7.
The performance isn’t just interesting for people in Japan though, since aside from regular tickets to attend the live in person, TAKA has also made arrangements for the entire performance to be available through TwitCasting. The idea behind this choice is that everyone will have an opportunity to attend the show, even if they can’t physically be there. Whether it is because of the virus or because of distance in general, through this route TAKA hopes to make the distance between all of us a little smaller.
Live & ticket information
“Birth EraS 2021” will be held at 青山RiZM (Aoyama RiZM), and like I said there are both physical and digital tickets available for the event. A physical ticket costs ¥5,000 (or ¥5,500 at the door on the day of the event) and a livestream ticket costs ¥3,500 (€27).
Doors will open at 6:30PM JST (11:30 CET) and the show itself will start at 7PM JST (12:00 CET) (there are still shorter business hours in Japan, so the performance will be taking place earlier than usual).
You can get a ticket through the following links:
Physical ticket | Livestream ticket
Additionally, the livestream will be archived until April 12, and you can watch or rewatch the performance as many times as you like during this period.
999’z member
As you might know Alpha999 is TAKA’s solo project, but of course he cannot stand on the stage by himself for a live like this. So he called in the help of the support members, or “999’z member”.
masato (ex.SuG) and Any will be playing the guitar, seiya (GTB/ギガマウス(Gigamous)) will be the bassist, and the drums will be played by none other than SYU. (Who I think needs no introduction at this point, but in case you want one anyway: G.L.A.M.S/The Betrayed/David…)
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