Burning Flag: Live

## Burning Flag: Live (Tour)

The Australian tour poster, which was in sponsorship with Subaru Australia and Motorola

### Associated album

Dreams (Viper Hamato Album)Burning Flag (Viper Hamato Album)

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The Issues World Tour

**Burning Flag: Live** is the first headlining concert tour by Japanese-American recording artist Viper Hamato. It was done in part to help promote Dreams (2002), and the second studio album Burning Flag (2004). The tour began on May 27, 2004, a month before the launch of his album.

## Trivia

* It was revealed that in the documentary Till Death Do Us Part, backstage after the first show that Hamato done at the Etihad Stadium. Hamato had severe stage freight and was constantly stating that he could only handle a maximum of 20,000 people at the time due to the fact that he had somewhere to look out and focus on. During some of the stage footage during the July 23 show. Hamato can be seen dealing with his stage freight by closing his eyes while performing.
* Hamato also loved the crowd in Rod Laver Arena so much even though it was revealed that he had sleepless nights during his first tour. The energy was so high during the concert tour often Hamato would be so distracted by the crowds energy that it often reflected back upon Hamato and would usually come back with high energy performances
* During the July 5th show, Hamato let the crowd sing the songs for most of the concert. It's unknown if footage of this exists, but it's believed that they sung from "If Your Girl only Knew" through to "Celebration"

## Set list

This is the setlist obtained from the setlist done in Rod Laver Arena. It does not represent all shows throughout the tour.

### July 19, 2004 Set List:

#### Act 1: The Party Down The Street

1. Violet Stars
2. Ride
3. Dreams
4. I Know Where It's At
5. Songs of Life
6. If Your Girl Only Knew (Aaliyah Cover)

#### Act 2: Boogie Down

1. Koocachoo
2. Put Your Hand on Your Heart
3. Step Back In Time / Wouldn't Change A Thing / Turn it Into Love
4. Celebration
5. I Want You
6. So Pray (Unreleased Song)
7. Let's Groove

#### Act 3: The Party Pooper

1. Monkey Business
2. Cheater
3. We Can
4. Into The Dark
5. All Night

### May 13, 2005 Set List:

1. Violet Stars
2. Ride
3. Dreams
4. I Know Where It's At
5. Songs Of Life
6. All In Your Mind
7. Put Your Hand On Your Heart
8. Confide In Me
9. Step Back In Time
10. Celebration
11. I Want You
12. Let's Groove
13. Monkey Business
14. Cheater
15. We Can
16. Into The Dark
17. All Night

## Recording and media

See also: Burning Flag: Live (album)

In June 2004, Viper announced that both the Australian shows on the 21st and 23rd of June, 2004 would be both filmed for a tour DVD and Live CD. Nathan Jordan, at the time, one of Hamato's directors of cinematography for the concert, was enlisted in his knowledge in both camera work and Display resolutions that would later enable both Sony and Hamato to upscale any and all concert footage. In June of 2018, Hamato revealed that along side the 25th anniversary of Burning Flag. Concert Footage that had been done in Dolby Atmos and upscaled to 4K. It was stated that the concert footage and live album would be released alongside the 25th anniversary album.