''Night Fishing Is Good' Tour 2008 in Sapporo'' (stylized as ''「NIGHT FISHING IS GOOD」TOUR 2008 in SAPPORO'') is a live

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Sakanaction are a Japanese rock band from Sapporo, Hokkaido. Their music is a fusion of alternative rock, electronic, pop, and new wave styles. The band consists of five members: Ichiro Yamaguchi, Motoharu Iwadera, Ami Kusakari, Emi Okazaki, and Keiichi ...

. It was released on August 5, 2008 through

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sublabel BabeStar exclusively as a

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Background and production

Sakanaction was first formed in the summer of 2005 in

Sapporo is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in Hokkaido, Japan. Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River. Sapporo is the capital ...

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, and released their debut album ''

Go to the Future ''Go to the Future'' () is the debut studio album by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released on May 9, 2007 through Victor Entertainment sub-label BabeStar. Recorded and produced in the band's native Hokkaido in a month, the album compiled t ...

'' in May 2007. In the same month, the band performed a national tour to promote the album, including a solo-billed performance at Bessie Hall in Sapporo as the final performance, on May 27, 2007. For the rest of the year, the band worked on the production of their second album '' Night Fishing'', which was released only half a year after their debut work, in January 2008. The concert was recorded on March 8, 2008, at Penny Lane 24 in

. It was one of the either concerts held by Sakanaction in their ''Night Fishing Is Good'' tour, but only one of two dates that were a full-length, solo concert. The extended play compiles live takes of both of the promoted tracks on ''Go to the Future'', "

Mikazuki Sunset () is a song written by Japanese musician Ichiro Yamaguchi. Originally released as a concert-exclusive single in 2003 by his high school band Dutchman, it was the leading promotional song from Yamaguchi's major label band Sakanaction's debut stu ...

" and "Shiranami Top Water", as well as two of the three promotional tracks from ''Night Fishing'', " Sample" and "

Night Fishing Is Good () is a song by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released as a digital single on December 26, 2007, as the third of three pre-release songs from the band's second album ''Night Fishing (album), Night Fishing'' (2008), released a month later. Th ...

Release and reception

The extended play was first announced on July 24, 2008 at Sakanaction's official website. At the band's official MySpace page, footage of "Mikazuki Sunset" from the concert was uploaded. After its release on August 6, the extended play managed to top iTunes Japan's rock chart, surpassing

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's ''

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''. In December, Sakanaction released their first physical single release, " Sen to Rei". On the limited edition version of the release, a recording of "Yoru no Higashigawa" from the same concert was added as a bonus track.

Track listing

Release history

References

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