Persona Music Live 2008

Persona Music Live 2008 -Velvet Room- ~in Akasaka Blitz was a concert held on August 22, 2008. It featured songs from Persona 3, FES, Persona -trinity soul- and Persona 4.

Profile
The concert was held in Akasaka Blitz, Minato city and tickets were sold for 4,500 yen. Performing on stage were:

Vocals= Band= Dance=
 * Yumi Kawamura (Persona 3, FES, Persona -trinity soul-)
 * Shuhei Kita (Persona -trinity soul-)
 * Nana Kitade (Persona -trinity soul-)
 * Shihoko Hirata (Persona 4)
 * Lotus Juice (Persona 3, FES, Persona -trinity soul-)
 * Shoji Meguro (Lead Guitar)
 * DJ Waka
 * Takatomo Hamaguchi (Guitar)
 * Motohiro Kuroda (Bass)
 * Takeshi Endoh (Drums)
 * Tetsuya Kobayashi (Keyboard)
 * Tomonari Harada (Saxophone & Flute)
 * Takamichi Tsugei (Manipulation)
 * Tsuyoshi
 * Nobu
 * Keiko
 * Mayuki

Merchandise
Various merchandise could be bought at the venue:


 * Persona Music Live 2008 Limited Poster
 * Persona Music Live 2008 Standard Poster
 * Persona Music Live 2008 Penlight
 * Persona Music Live 2008 T-shirt (Blue), has a print of the key art in front
 * T-Shirt (White), says "I'm Living in a Television"
 * CD filled with piano renditions of Persona songs

The concert is available in DVD format in both standard and limited editions produced by Aniplex. The limited edition includes a bonus CD with 4 tracks from the concert, "Battle Hymn of the Soul," "Pursuing My True Self," "Burn My Dread" and "Mass Destruction." There is also the retailer bonus CD which contains the tracks "Unavoidable Battle" and "The Almighty" from the concert. A Persona Music Live Band recording CD was also released; it included 10 songs from both -Velvet Room- 2008 and 2009 Music Live.

Broadcast
The "Burn My Dread" performance was broadcasted on a program called PPV on the TV Kanegawa channel. Broadcasts were set on the following dates and times:


 * 9/16 (Wednesday) 10:55pm
 * 9/21 (Monday) 7:25am and 10:55pm
 * 9/22 (Tuesday) 7:25am
 * 9/23 (Wed) 10:55pm
 * 9/24 (Thu) 7:25am
 * 9/25 (Fri) 10:55pm
 * 9/28 (Mon) 7:25am and 10:55pm
 * 9/30 (Wed) 7:25am and 10:55pm

Trivia

 * The start and ending VTRs are presented by Igor, Elizabeth and Margaret in the elevator Velvet Room, done in the style of Persona 3 dialogue.
 * At the start of the concert, a cloaked figure stands in the middle of the stage while the band plays "Battle Hymn of the Soul," a song with no vocals. Once the next song starts, the cloaked figure is revealed to be Shihoko Hirata, main vocalist of Persona 4. This became the start of a trend in Persona concerts where a cloaked figure stands in the middle of a stage and is revealed to be a main vocalist from the latest released game at the time.
 * Three performances were included in one of the brand new bonus channels in Persona 4 Golden, Song Battle 2012. The songs in question are "Pursuing My True Self," "Mass Destruction" and "Reach Out to the Truth."