With countless #1s, record-setting tours, numerous awards and worldwide sales in excess of 130 million Backstreet Boys are perhaps the biggest ‘boyband’ in history.
And they return to Hong Kong on the 14-15 March at AsiaWorld Arena with their DNA World Tour.
Backstreet Boys – DNA World Tour
When: 8pm, 14-15 March, 2023
Where: AsiaWorld Arena
Tickets: $1,199, $899, $699, $599 from HK Ticketing
Canadian hardcore band Comeback Kid bring their latest tour to Hong Kong on the 15 March at MOM Livehouse.
Formed in 2001 in Winnipeg, the band currently consists of vocalist Andrew Neufeld, guitarists Jeremy Hiebert and Stu Ross, bassist Chase Brenneman and drummer Loren Legare.
Comeback Kid’s mould-breaking second album Wake the Dead (2005) attracted fans across the globe and influenced a new generation of melodic hardcore groups. Their seventh studio album, Heavy Steps, was released in January 2022.
Support is King Ly Chee 荔枝王, Fight Club
Comeback Kid Asia Tour 2023
Support: King Ly Chee 荔枝王, Fight Club
Date: 8pm, 15 March, 2023
Venue: MOM Livehouse
Tickets: $380, $320
All girl Kpop band Itzy bring their Checkmate World Tour to Hong Kong on the 11 March at AsiaWorld Expo Hall 5&7.
Tickets are $1,799 (VIP), $1,099 and $699 and go on sale 2 February 2023 at Cityline.
ITZY – Checkmate – Live in Hong Kong
Date: 6pm, 11 March, 2023
Venue: AsiaWorld-Expo, Hall 5&7
Tickets: $1,799, $1,099, $699 from Cityline
Hardcore band King Ly Chee reunion is bringing joy to band members and fans alike in these stressful and trying times.
New songs, mosh pits and sold-out concerts. Here them live in this new full concert video of their recent gig.
Set list:
0:00 Intro
2:37 企硬 Stand Strong
8:22 所見所聞 Sickened Eyes
12:45 力竭 Frail Hands
18:24 土炮 I Belong
21:38 浩氣長存 Spirit Remains
27:00 Your Heart of Gold
30:17 Refuse
34:12 地樂起哄 Chaos
Read bc magazine’s recent interview with Riz Farooqi about King Ly Chee’s resurrection here.
Filmed by Zoey Chan & Humphrey & Vic Shing.
Edited by Zoey Chan.
Live Audio Production by 細場
images: pinigaiphoto, Raven
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
Wildly-popular local boy band MIRROR has announced their first concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum. The 10 gig MIRROR.WE.ARE tour takes place 25-31 July 27 – 31 and 2-4 August 2-4 this year. Tickets are $1,280, $880, $480 and are on sale from 4 May 2022.
Mirror.We.Are Live 2022
Mirror
Date: 8:15pm, 25-31 July, 2-4 August 2022
Venue: HK Coliseum
Tickets: $1,280, $880, $480
A slew of local artists including AGA, Alfred Hui, Gin Lee, Jay Fung, Joyce Cheng, MIRROR, Edan Lui and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra created a distinctly Hong Kong style Countdown Concert in West Kowloon.
Live music has been one of the industries hardest hit by Covid and after a 2021 almost devoid of concerts, we can only hope that the Countdown Concert is the start of a year full of gigs and the uplifting feeling and happiness that sharing live music brings.
The concert was live-streamed on New Year’s Eve and is now available on the HKTB youtube channel.
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1.《＠princejoyce》鄭欣宜 (Joyce Cheng)
2.《Megahit》Anson Lo@MIRROR
3.《喘息空間》 Gin Lee
4.《金星女孩》Anson Kong@MIRROR
5.《Wonderful U》AGA
6.《So Called Love Song》AGA
7.《理性與任性之間》AGA
8.《開始倒數》AGA、 Jay Fung
9.《3am》AGA、 Jay Fung
10.《冬日寂寞考》Jay Fung
11.《思念即地獄》Jay Fung
12《另一個諾貝爾》陳卓賢@MIRROR
13.《狂人日記》Jer@MIRROR
14.《Tonight》AGA x 香港管弦樂團 (HK Philharmonic Orchestra)
15.《一步一悔過》Jay Fung x 香港管弦樂團 (HK Philharmonic Orchestra)
16.《女神》鄭欣宜 (Joyce Cheng) x 香港管弦樂團 (HK Philharmonic Orchestra)
17.《e先生連環不幸事件》Edan x 香港管弦樂團 (HK Philharmonic Orchestra)
18.《日出時讓街燈安睡》GinLee x 香港管弦樂團 (HK Philharmonic Orchestra)
19.《青春頌》許廷鏗 (Alfred Hui) x 香港管弦樂團 (HK Philharmonic Orchestra)
20.《IDK》Gin Lee
21.《幸福門》Gin Lee
22.《先哭為敬》Gin Lee、《很堅強》鄭欣宜 (Joyce Cheng)
23.《最難行的路》鄭欣宜 (Joyce Cheng)
24.《天下無雙》許廷鏗 x Jay Fung
25.《我的快樂時代》許廷鏗 (Alfred Hui) x Jay Fung
26.《修羅場》許廷鏗 (Alfred Hui)
27.《佛系人生》許廷鏗 (Alfred Hui)
28.《停半分鐘聽一闋歌》許廷鏗 (Alfred Hui)
29. 《鏡中鏡》姜濤
30. 《12》MIRROR
31.《BOSS》MIRROR
32《IGNITED》MIRROR
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photos: HKTB
