Casiopea/Cross Point Tour

Cross Point Tour

National tour by Casiopea
Concert
Location	Japan
Associated album	Cross Point
Start date	12 November 1981
End date	23 December 1981
Legs	1
No. of shows	13
Casiopea concert chronology

The Cross Point Tour was the 5th concert tour by Casiopea, supporting their recently released album Cross Point. The tour spanned from the 12th of November 1981, to the 23rd of December 1981.

Overview

The Cross Point Tour was considered to be Casiopea's first national tour. There is some confusion on the first date of the tour, as some sources list it as the 12th of November 1981, and others list it as the 30th of November 1981. However, every source consistently lists that there are 13 locations, which must include Tochigi. This tour served as the basis for Mint Jams, which resulted in nearly identical costumes, instrumentation, stage layout, and similar songs. This is also the first documented instance of Casiopea playing a medley, a future staple of their tours. The medley technically doesn't have a title, but while introducing it Mukaiya mentions going back to their roots, and so it's sometimes referred to as Roots Medley.

Peter Robinson from CBS Records saw the Osaka concert of this tour and requested an album to be made that had the dynamism of Casiopea's live performances.

This tour also marked a change in the image of Casiopea. Typically they were dressed in white pants and dress shirts, but this tour marked their first costumed appearance, a later staple.

This tour was the first known appearance of several iconic instruments including the Yamaha GS-1, the Moog Source, and the milk bass. Mukaiya introduced the milk bass by saying that Sakurai’s BB-2000 bass had frozen and turned white in Hokkaido.

At some point during the tour, notably at the Tokyo concert, the Roland VP-330 Vocoder broke, but was repaired by the end of the tour. It's unknown if this changed anything.

Setlists

Out of the 9 songs on Cross Point, 7 were played during the tour. The two songs not played, Span of a Dream and Endless Vision, have never been played live.

Average Setlist

The following setlist is representative of the majority of performances during the Cross Point Tour. However in the February 1982 issue of Young Guitar magazine, Space Road is listed as the last song of the encore of their Tokyo Postal Savings Hall performance.

No.	Title	Encore	Length
1.	"Galactic Funk"
2.	"Smile Again"
3.	"Sunnyside Feelin'"
4.	"Time Limit" (Roots Medley)
5.	"Mighty Mouse" (Roots Medley)
6.	"Swallow" (Roots Medley)
7.	"Take Me" (Roots Medley)
8.	"I Love New York" (Roots Medley)
9.	"Midnight Rendezvous" (Roots Medley)
10.	"Lakai"
11.	"Domino Line"
12.	"A Sparkling Day"
13.	"Any Moment (We'll Be One)"
14.	"Black Joke"
15.	"Swear"
16.	"Eyes Of The Mind"	Encore
17.	"Asayake"	Encore
18.	"Tears Of The Star/Space Road"	Encore

Tour Dates

A ticket for their Sendai Civic Center Large Hall performance on the 8th of December.

1981 Concerts

Date	City	Venue
12 November	Utsunomiya	Tochigi Small Hall
30 November	Sapporo	Sapporo Doshin Hall
1 December	Kushiro	Kushiro Citizens' Culture Center
3 December	Niigata	Niigata City Public Hall
7 December	Minato	Tokyo Postal Savings Hall
8 December	Sendai	Sendai Civic Center Large Hall
9 December	Morioka	Iwate Education Center
14 December	Osaka	Osaka Sankei Hall
15 December	Kyoto	Kyoto Prefectural Labor Hall
16 December	Nagoya	Nagoya City Assembly Hall
21 December	Machida	Hiroshima Mima Hall
22 December	Fukuoka	Fukuoka Electric Hall
23 December	Kumamoto	Kumamoto Tsuruya Hall