[News] Distant Worlds - new Final Fantasy concert series

My friend showed me this just a moment ago, and at the first glance I literally shouted out "I MUST GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" It has been my dream to see a concert with the FF music and here it is (including the guy who made it)! I'm definately getting the Greet & Meet tickets too so that I can meet with him :P I'M SO DAMN EXCITED!

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Originally Posted by Kairi Li

I personally want a Kingdom Hearts or Chrono concert. But that's just me. Or at least one that focuses on Mitsuda or Shimomura's music... Uematsu isn't the only game composer in Square ya know.

Yeah that's true, I'd absolutely love a concert with music from the Chrono games, I haven't really played Kingdom Hearts (yet) so I don't know about the music from there but ah well I'd be good to get some other CD material than FF concerts. But I don't really mind when I get to go see it myself which I've always wanted to do once. And yeah, I wouldn't mind going to a concert with Masashi Hamauzus music neither.

Anyways, I've gotten tickets for both the concert and the Meet & Greet now so I'll just have to endure the excruciating wait for it It's gonna be soooooooooooooooooo fun

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The tickets for the Meet & Greet are sold out now, so if anyone of you had planned on meeting him but not gotten a ticket yet, tough luck :P I'm happy I've gotten one, so I can't wait to actually meet him. I wonder though how many tickets it was in the first place.

Less than a month left! Woo

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Originally Posted by Cogo

150 tickets. No wonder they sold out quickly!

Yeah, although they didn't sell out that quickly did they? Do you know an estimate of the time it took to sell them all (like how many days after release)?

Oh and does anyone know if Uematsu speak English or does he have a translator with him or something? I guess he has a bit of English knowledge, but will he be able to hold a conversation with us all in English or how will it work?

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Thought I'd pop in and tell what I thought of the concert.

First, I have to say, this was the best friggin musical event I've ever been to, and one of the best days in my life. The whole day had been fantastic, and when it came to the actual concert I was overwhelmed by it. The atmosphere before the concert was very nice, I talked with lots of people and I made sure I was one of the first buyers of the merchandise and CD (I was going to make the first CD sold mine, but I only managed to get the fifth ). I bought the CD and the hawt T-shirt, I didn't buy the poster because I don't like them anyways.

Sitting there in my seat, waiting for the orchestra to come out and the concert to begin I saw this little man with black hair a mustache and glasses coming in through the door, taking a seat 2 rows below me. "Hey, wait a minute... Isn't that... Uematsu?? ". Yes indeed, it was the one and only, Uematsu Nobou. So that meant I got to enjoy the concert literally with Uematsu himself Could you have more luck than that? (maybe if you sat on the same row as him I guess). BTW, I noticed in this youtube video that you can actually see me in the uppermost right corner on 0:08 taking pictures of him when he came back to his seat after the break in the middle of the concert. I never got any good shots though, because the camera was my friends and it was pure crap and only took like 1 shot every ten seconds so I didn't manage to get any good ones (he turned away his head every time), plus the quality was crap.

I can't find words for how great the concert was. Everything, simply everything was perfect. The symphony orchestra, the soloists, and the great conductor Arnie Roth couldn't have done it much better. I seriously had constant goosebumps through the first half of the concert, because it was so damn good. The video clips they had put together timed surprisingly well with the actual music and totally brought up the total experience with in game videos/CG videos and artwork. Like when they brought up an ingame video from FF VIII and they ran around till they got into a random encounter, and BAM, "Don't be Afraid" started up

All songs were superb, and it's hard to tell which were my favorites. The "Maria and Draco" opera was great, Love Grows was great, Fisherman's Horizon was great, Aerith's theme was great, Terra's theme was great, One Winged Angel was great, what the heck, everything was great.

And then I got to meet Uematsu and Arnie Roth after the concert! It felt so unreal meeting Uematsu so I didn't really know what to say, I had thought up a lot of things to say but when it came to it I didn't say that very much except thanking him for the great concert and asking him to sign my stuff. But I don't regret it that much, as I got to shake his hand and got to take a picture with me and him (I would show it to you, but it's on my friends camera so I'll show it to you guys later). I also spoke with Arnie Roth, and as he is fluent in English it was also easier to get through to him and bring up a discussion. Oh and yeah I got both of their autographs on the CD and the concert tickets.

The CD is the best of all orchestral versions of the Final Fantasy songs IMO, So I recommend you to get it if you're a die hard Final Fantasy fan/VGM fan.

After the concert I also met this real cute and hot gaming girl (didn't think they existed) that had played a lot of FF games, it was really fun discussing the games and concert with her. We actually shared a taxi to Uppsala because that's where we both were going. But I regret I didn't get her mail or something Ah well. Not that it has anything to do with the concert

If you weren't there, you really really missed something. I pity all you people who couldn't be there that magical evening.

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