Sunday, September 21, 2008

Yoshiki of X-Japan in Bangkok

Yoshiki Hayashi of X Japan, a popular legendary Japanese band arrived in Bangkok on 18th September 2008 as part of his promotional tour across Asia. He arrived on his private Boeing 737 jet at Don Muang Airport, Bangkok at 14:30.



More than 1,000 members of his fan club turned up at the press conference, as they have been waiting since 10 years for X Japan.



A press conference was held at Siam Paragon regarding their concert dates in Thailand, and to formally launch the band's official Thailand website at www.xjapan.in.th. The Thai concert will take place within the beginning of 2009.



Yoshiki is well again and he has been traveling across Asia, having been to
Taiwan (September 15th - 16th)
Hong Kong (September 17th)
Bangkok (September 18th)
Korea (September 19th)





As for the X Japan World Tour Yoshiki has announced that it is going to kick off in France on Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 at Palais Omnisports Paris Bercy, Paris, France. It will be the first time a Japanese band plays in such a large venue. The sale of the tickets for the Paris concert will start in the beginning of October.

There will be a X Japan December 31st count down concert in Tokyo, with the venue yet to be announced.

The video game "Rock Band 2" will contain music from X Japan, which will be sold in America and Europe.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey any idea when and where tickets are for sale?

Sunny said...

Hi Lynn,
The X Japan Live in Bangkok concert date is set to be on Saturday, 31 January 2009. The venue is Suphachalasai Stadium, Rama 1 Road.

The public sale of tickets will be announced soon.

Anonymous said...

i've been searching around. wasn't sure when the sale of tickets are on and whether i've missed it. thanks a lot!

Unknown said...

Please tell me when is NEW DATE for X Japan ?? is BKK still included in X-Japan World Tour schedule ???

Sunny said...

Hi Lucy, the X-Japan concert in Bangkok has been postponed with no additional details so far.

I personally believe that Bangkok might have been dropped from their World Tour schedule.