As part of the Live Earth concerts, YMO will be performing in Kyoto, 7/7/07. These are a series of worldwide concerts designed to raise awareness of global warming.
Exclusive online media partner MSN is helping Live Earth reach
people in every corner of the globe. Live Earth Tokyo will be
streamed live on 7/7/07 at LiveEarth.jp.msn.com. MSN's 39 localized
web portals worldwide attract 465 million monthly users.
Live Earth Japan will be broadcast on NHK and Fuji Television
Broadcast Company, and to more than 100 countries worldwide as part
of the global television feed.
Tokyo Concert and Kyoto Event Part of the 24-Hour, 7-Continent
Concert Series to Combat Global Warming Expected to Reach Over 2
Billion People on 7/7/07
Tickets Go On Sale Saturday, June 9
Makuhari Messe in Tokyo will host a daylong official Live Earth
concert. A special music event will be held at the To-Ji Buddhist
Temple in Kyoto later in the day.
Live Earth will begin in Sydney, Australia on July 7, 2007 and
continue across all 7 continents with official concerts in Tokyo,
Japan; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; London, United
Kingdom; Hamburg, Germany; Istanbul, Turkey; and Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, before concluding in New York, United States.
The special Kyoto music event will feature live on stage:
Michael Nyman
Rip Slyme
Yellow Magic Orchestra
And others TBA
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Tickets for Live Earth Tokyo at Makuhari Messe go on sale June 9.
Additional information is available at TELEDOME, a 24-hour telephone
information service that provides information on the event and how
to purchase tickets - 0180-993-717. Live Earth Tokyo tickets are
JY10,000 and can be purchased in the following ways:
* PIA - order via mobile at 0570-02-9535
* Lawson - order via mobile 0570-08-9922
* Ticket Navi - order via www.ticket-navi.ne.jp and pickup at any
convenience store (Lawson, FamilyMart, 7-11, Sunkus, etc.)
* eplus - order via eee.eplus.co.jp
Ticket prices for the special music event in Kyoto is: SS/JPY15,
000, S/JPY9, 000, A (standing) /JPY7, 000. Kyoto tickets are
available exclusively via eplus internet access -- eee.eplus.co.jp.
The information service of the Kyoto event is: 0570-06-9985 (from
30th May).