Roh Tae Hyun hosted a fan meeting at KITEC on 5 November, and Hong Kong fans got to meet, talk and hear their idols in person.
Honestly, we’d have preferred a full concert – but a fan meet is better than nothing…
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Roh Tae Hyun – Hong Kong Fan Meeting
Date: 7pm, 5 November, 2023
Venue: Kitec, Music Zone @E-Max
Tickets: $1,399, $1,299, $799 from HK Ticketing
Images courtesy of Freez
After a COVID-induced gap the Shi Fu Miz Festival returned to Cheng Chau’s Sai Yuen Adventure Playground for its eighth edition!
Qoniatus Sholikhah was there to capture the atmosphere and dance the day and night away.
An eclectic line-up featured:
25 Years Of Rush Hour: Antal, Esa, Gigi Testa, Soichi Terada Live
Abyss Takeover, Ani Phoebe, Arthur Yeti, Arun R, Bagvs, Bongomann, Busyboi B2b Jfüng, Camion Bazar, Casey Anderson & Misty Penguin, Chaotic Pavilion Takeover, Cyk, Di Linh, Elaheh, Emel & Katsu, Ganjaman Vibrations, Gero, Gia Fu, Guido Balboa & Yadin Moha, Greg-Greg & Mlch, Heavy Hk Takeover, Identified Patient, Jamie Tiller, Just Bee & Mengzy & Subez, La Mamie’s, Licaxxx, Midland, Club Takeover, Mogwaa, Mr. Ho, Muto, Octave One Live, Red Greg, Re:Flex, Sai Street Sessions, Sarayu, S.O.N.S, Sticky Fried Vibes Takeover, Tri Takeover, Toppings, Xiaolin, Y2k Takeover, Yu Su, Yunus.
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Yang Yoseop, lead vocalist of the KPOP boy group Highlight하이라이트, had his debut Hong Kong solo concert last night at Kitec.
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South Korean girl group ITZY played two sell-out concerts at Asia Expo on 11 and 12 March, as live music continued to return to Hong Kong.
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S#1. INTRO + 마.피.아. In the morning
S#2. Sorry Not Sorry
S#3. SHOOT!
S#4. WHAT I WANT
S#5. 365
S#6. [留真] Boss B*tch
S#7. CHERRY
S#8. ICY
S#9. Free Fall
S#10. #Twenty
S#11. [有娜] Maniac
S#12. [LIA] Red
S#13. INTRO + WANNABE
S#14. DALLADALLA
S#15. SNEAKERS
S#16. [彩領] bloodline
S#17. [禮志] Hotter Than Hell
S#18. CHESHIRE
S#19. LOCO
S#20. Not Shy
S#21. DOMINO
S#22. 믿지 (MIDZY)
S#23. Boys like you
S#24. Nobody like you
ITZY – Checkmate – Live in Hong Kong
Date: 6pm, 11-12 March, 2023
Venue: AsiaWorld-Expo, Hall 5&7
Tickets: $1,799, $1,099, $699 from Cityline
After a sold-out weekend, Clockenflap have announced a second festival in 2023 on 1-3 December. No bands have been confirmed.
Clockenflap
Date: 1-3 December, 2023
Venue: Central Harbourfront
Tickets: tbc
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The Wanch Reopens… Or rather a new incarnation of The Wanch, which sadly due to current covid restrictions is without live music – just food and drinks.
The new larger location is the old Uptown 90, on the corner opposite Joe Bananas and the entrance is next to Amazonia with their popular cover bands.
When live music eventually returns will the ‘new’ Wanch be able to step beyond the legacies and memories of the old location and boldly go where no large-sized original live music venue has gone before…
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The Wanch
1/F, Henan Building, 90 Jaffe Road
Wanchai,
Hong Kong
image: The Wanch, bc magazine
The final concert of David Bowie‘s Serious Moonlight Tour was in Hong Kong at the HK Coliseum on 8 December 1983. It was also, sadly, the third anniversary of John Lennon’s murder and after performing Fame Bowie and spoke to the audience about Lennon.
“I co-wrote that song with John Lennon.And I asked him one day ‘How do you write your songs’, and he said ‘lt’s easy, you just say what you mean, and you put a back-beat to it’.
I said ‘What do you think of my kind of rock & roll’. He said ‘It’s great, but it’s just rock & roll with lipstick on’”.
Bowie pauses for a moment, as the audience cry out, “Last time I saw John Lennon was in Hong Kong, we went to a Hong Kong market and there was a stall that sold old clothes, and there was a Beatles jacket on the stall, and I did something that is not usually in my character – I asked him to put it on so that I could take a photograph, I took a photograph, and I’ve still got the photograph. The jacket doesn’t fit properly, it looks like John had outgrown it”.
Bowie then performs a beautiful version of Imagine in honour of his late friend. An upgraded 4K version of this iconic performance has been uploaded to Youtube – enjoy.
There’s also an audio bootleg of the whole concert.
image: screenshot
Virgin Vacation, an instrumental quartet that blend math rock, improvisation jazz, krautrock and electronic beats, have released their eponymous debut EP on cassette, vinyl and digital formats – available from Bandcamp
The EP kicks off with a sound collage of a woman’s voice dispassionately recounting events related to the Hong Kong protests—before being crowded out by multiple copies of itself and a rising drone, reflecting the overwhelming news cycle in the city.
Independent comic book artist Lai Tat Tat Wing illustrates provides the EP’s cover art.
Track listing
Side A
1. Acid Rain
2. 5 Step
All Songs Written & Arranged by 假日貞操 Virgin Vacation
Bandcamp: virginvacation.bandcamp.com
