Macross One-Night Stand
Macross One-Night Stand
Macross One-Night Stand
Release
Japanese
Macross One Night Stand (マクロス One Night Stand,Makurosu Wan' Naito Sutando), officially known as15th Anniversary Macross One Night Stand orMacross 15(マクロス１５), was a commemorative concert for theMacross 15th Anniversary event that was held on August 17, 1997 at Shibuya Public Hall, Tokyo. Ticket prices were 5,000 yen.
Overview[]
Macross One Night Stand is a 15th anniversary crossover concert event organized byVictor Entertainment forMacross 15th Anniversary, and featured artists from variousMacross series over the decades.Mari Iijima was noted as a special guest, having flown from Los Angeles, and tickets sold out quickly. The key visuals are byHaruhiko Mikimoto. It is a highly commercialized event, and merchandise tie-ins were available for fans who attended.
The concert began with a long video showing the opening and endings to every Macross-related media at the time, includingSuper Dimension Fortress Macross,Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again,Macross Plus,Macross 7,Macross Digital Mission VF-X andThe Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Game).
Shortly afterwards, Mari appears on-stage and exclaims, "Today, call me Minmay-chan, it is good." She then played the piano and sang classicLynn Minmay songs such as "Sunset Beach" and "Do You Remember Love?" Like many Mari concerts, she sang an original song, 1996's "A Crescent Moon Canoe" (also the ending theme to TV Tokyo'sNerawareta Gakuen). TheMacross Plus segment began, withYoko Kanno andAkino Arai performing "Voices", thenHiroko Kasahara sang two songs fromSuper Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again. The final performance was byFire Bomber, who sang the pivotal "My Soul For You", "Power To The Dream” and “Try Again".Yoshiki Fukuyama even sang the theme to the (then) upcomingMacross Dynamite 7 theme "Light the Light". The concert ended as all the singers appeared once more on-stage.[1]
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