{"id":798,"date":"2025-02-27T14:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2025-03-03T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:24:49","slug":"new-order-at-ariake-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/27\/new-order-at-ariake-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"New Order at Ariake Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my birthday, my lovely wife got us tickets to see New Order when they played in Tokyo 2025-02-27. We had a few months to prepare, so the kids stayed with Grandma and Grandpa, while we met up at Ariake Arena after work. The walk was about 20 minutes from Shinonome station; if I go there again I’ll walk from Kokusai Tenjijo since it is about the same distance, but a much nicer walk. From Shinonome you are walking along large roads in a largely industrial area. Ariake Area looked very nice though as I approached:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Ariake<\/a>\n<\/div>
To be fair, this is Lisa’s photo since she got in a bit before me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"New<\/a>\n<\/div>
The area around Ariake Arena is nice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had nice seats towards the back of the floor. The upper level seating – the first row anyway – would have been nice too, but I thought out seats were fine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"New<\/a>\n<\/div>
We were back a bit, but that’s not a problem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The opening act was Denki Groove<\/a>, who I know of, but don’t know well. They play pretty house \/ club \/ EDM type stuff. It was nice. I liked their graphics that accompanied the show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was there for New Order though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"New<\/a>\n<\/div>
This is what I came for<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I should note that before we sat down we checked the merchandise, but the T-shirts were sold out, and while they had some nice stuff (leather jackets! ties! dress shoes!) they were pretty expensive, so we passed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"New<\/a>\n<\/div>
Nice graphics during the show – this segment was Japan themed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The music was great – there were a few songs I didn’t know, but for the most part it really brought me back to a high school headspace. I was worried that there wouldn’t be an encore, since they ended on True Faith, Blue Monday, and Temptation. What is left? Of course, I forgot about Joy Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"New<\/a>\n<\/div>
The final two songs were Joy Division<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They came back and played Atmosphere, and Love Will Tear Us Apart. Very fun set! After the show we went to Ariake Garden and got in at 10:00pm, fifteen minutes before last order. We had a dinner, and got out by 11pm when they close, and home by 11:30pm. It was a fun night!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The setlist (based on my notes and something I found online<\/a>) was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Transmission<\/a> <\/small>(Joy Division<\/a> cover)<\/small><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Crystal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Ceremony<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Age of Consent<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Isolation<\/a> <\/small>(Joy Division<\/a> cover)<\/small><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Krafty<\/a> <\/small>(Japanese version)<\/small><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Your Silent Face<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. State of the Nation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Be a Rebel<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Sub-Culture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Bizarre Love Triangle<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Vanishing Point<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Plastic<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. True Faith<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Blue Monday<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Temptation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. (Encore) Atmosphere<\/a> <\/small>(Joy Division<\/a> cover)<\/small><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Love Will Tear Us Apart<\/a> <\/small>(Joy Division<\/a> cover)<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For my birthday, my lovely wife got us tickets to see New Order when they played in Tokyo 2025-02-27. We had a few months to prepare, so the kids stayed with Grandma and Grandpa, while we met up at Ariake Arena after work. The walk was about 20 minutes from Shinonome station; if I go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}