TERU (GLAY) sells out Morioka show

GLAY singer TERU said on May 14 that the band's Morioka concert had sold out, according to social media posts referenced in the card materials. GLAY's official website lists a May 14 performance at TOSAI Classic Hall Iwate, also known as Iwate Prefectural Hall, in Morioka. The concert is part of the band's "HIGHCOMMUNICATIONS TOUR 2026 'GLAY-complete BEST,'" a national hall run that resumed this week in northern Japan. (glay.co.jp) The available public record confirms the date, venue and tour name, but not every social-media claim circulating around the show. (glay.co.jp) Reuters could verify from GLAY's official site that Morioka was on the band's May 14 schedule and that Aomori and Takasaki are the next stops on May 16 and May 18. The card materials also point to online posts saying the show was TERU's first headline performance in Morioka in 14 years and that fan-shot clips drew thousands of likes, though those engagement figures could not be independently confirmed through official sources. (glay.co.jp) ### Which Morioka concert was this? May 14 was the date of GLAY's scheduled performance at TOSAI Classic Hall Iwate in Morioka, according to the band's official live listing. The venue is identified on the site as Iwate Prefectural Hall's main hall. The official monthly schedule also places the Morioka show between earlier spring hall-tour dates and the next run of performances in Aomori, Takasaki and Tokyo later in May. That places the concert within GLAY's broader 2026 domestic touring cycle rather than as a one-off local appearance. (glay.co.jp) ### What did TERU say about the show? The card materials state that TERU celebrated the sellout on social media on May 14 and described it as his first headline performance in Morioka in 14 years. (glay.co.jp) Those statements match the storyline circulating among fans online, but the underlying social posts were not retrievable through official web sources during this reporting. Because the claim rests on social media rather than an archived statement on GLAY's website, it should be read as attributed to TERU's online post rather than as an independently documented entry in the band's official chronology. (glay.co.jp) GLAY's site does not, in the pages reviewed, state the 14-year interval. ### How was the 2026 tour being sold? GLAY's tour microsite says "HIGHCOMMUNICATIONS TOUR 2026 'GLAY-complete BEST'" was a CD-purchaser-limited live series, with entry instructions tied to a flyer enclosed with the Dec. 3 single "Dead Or Alive." (glay.co.jp) The site also says upgrade lotteries were offered to fan-club and mobile members who had already won and paid for reserved seats. A Feb. 16 update on the official site said there would be no general first-come sale if advance allotments were exhausted. (glay.co.jp) The same notice outlined resale windows and same-day equipment-release seats for May performances, showing that ticket access was being tightly managed through advance channels. ### What evidence is public from the night itself? Fan-shot footage and reaction posts were referenced in the card materials as evidence of strong audience response, including loud applause and encore calls. (glay.co.jp) Those clips and like counts were not independently verifiable from official GLAY pages reviewed for this article. Setlist.fm, a user-edited concert database, created a page for GLAY's May 14 Morioka show on Thursday, indicating that attendees had begun logging the performance. (glay.co.jp) Because the page is crowd-sourced, it serves as a secondary indicator that the concert took place rather than as an official account of attendance or reception. ### Where does GLAY go next? GLAY's official schedule lists Link Station Hall Aomori on May 16 as the next stop after Morioka. (glay.co.jp) The same calendar then shows Takasaki Arts Theater on May 18 and Tokyo Garden Theater on May 25 and May 26. A Jan. 20 announcement on GLAY's website also lists fan-club 30th-anniversary special shows in Venice on June 13 and June 14, followed by Makuhari Messe dates on July 31 and Aug. 1. Those are the next named milestones on the band's published 2026 live calendar after the spring hall run. (setlist.fm) (glay.co.jp 1) (glay.co.jp 2)