Set List: Of The Girl, Immortality, Insignificance, 1/2 Full, Cropduster, Nothing As It Seems, Even Flow, Save You, You Are, Love Boat Captain, I Am Mine, Better Man, Lukin, Brain of J, Grievance, Blood, Do The Evolution;
1st encore: Bushleaguer, Thumbing My Way, Black, U, Last Kiss, Rearviewmirror;
2nd encore: Soon Forget, Corduroy, Crazy Mary, Porch

My first Pearl Jam show!! "The waiting drove me mad!" It was absolutely brilliant and worth the wait!!!!!!!!!!!! Getting to the show for me meant getting up at 3.45 am to milk my cows then travel across Hokkaido by train to catch a plane for Sendai. We arrived at Izumity early and there was already a feeling of anticipation, and excitement from the early arrivals. Our seats were --I could hardly believe it, in the fourth row in the centre!!!! The show was a bit late starting, but that was okay. When the band thundered out and broke straight into "Of the Girl" it was amazing we were all up on our feet rocking really hard from even before the first moment! That song is one of the best starters and so amazing live! We never used our seats for the whole show we just went wild and it was amazing!

I've never had such a good time. When you go to a Pearl Jam show you feel you are actually one with them. They embrace and include you, they are not above you, but with you, are you. They look at you - you can catch their eye and attention and they respond. Being a small venue made it so personal - the best !!!!!!! Eddie and Mike were in great rocking form, looking sun drenched from Australia!! They started the show a bit late but they gave us well over two hours -- of their music and hearts. I understand so well now, how people want to travel to all their shows, I so wish I could!!!!!!! Then it was all over, I wish the band could have seen the crowd afterwards everybody was so happy we just couldn't take the grins off our faces!!! Even on the train back into Sendai City!!! They gave so many people so much happiness and pleasure -- This is what life is about energy and happiness not awful war and killing people.

THANK YOU Eddie, Mike, Stone, Jeff, Matt, Boom and everyone else who helped to make the concert at Izumity21 in Sendai such an unforgettable experience for me.
I can hardly wait for the next time you come.
From Shirley Nashinoki