One Direction “On the Road Again Tour 2015” @ AsiaWorld Expo – 18 March, 2015

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One Direction are Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan. The band came together at the boot camp stage of The X Factor 2010 and made it all the way to the final before finishing 3rd. For the last five years the band the been a marketing dream selling millions of banal bland records across the world and making their management company extremely rich. To call the show a concert when the ‘band’ only lip-syncs along to their studio produced tracks should amount to false advertising.

One Direction On the Road AgainTour 2015
When: 8pm, 18 March, 2015
Where: AsiaWorld Expo
Tickets: $3488, $2288, $1888, $1488, $988
More info: buy the DVD it’s alot cheaper

Jung Yong Hwa Live〈One Fine Day〉@ AsiaWorld Expo – 19 March, 2015

Jung Yong Hwa Live〈One Fine Day〉@ AsiaWorld Expo - 19 March, 2015

CNBlue’s lead singer Jung Yong Hwa embarks on his first solo concert tour to promote his debut solo album One Fine Day released in January 2015.

Yong Hwa composed many of CNBlue’s songs for cnblue, this 10 track solo debut features all new songs and includes collaborations with other Korean and international artists.

Jung Yong Hwa – One Fine Day
When: 8pm, 19 March, 2015
Where: AsiaWorld Expo
Tickets: $1680, $1280, $880, $680, $480 from HK Ticketing

One Direction On the Road Again Tour 2015 @ AsiaWorld Expo – 18 March, 2015

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One Direction are Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan. The band came together at the boot camp stage of The X Factor 2010 and made it all the way to the final before finishing 3rd. For the last five years the band the been a marketing dream selling millions of banal bland records across the world and making their management company extremely rich. To call the show a concert when the ‘band’ only lip-syncs along to their studio produced tracks should amount to false advertising.

One Direction On the Road AgainTour 2015
When: 8pm, 18 March, 2015
Where: AsiaWorld Expo
Tickets: $3488, $2288, $1888, $1488, $988
More info: buy the DVD it’s alot cheaper

Russell Peters Almost Famous World Tour 2015

Russell Peters Almost Famous World Tour 2015

The Russell Peters Almost Famous World Tour” features ‘all new material’, plus Peters’ improv with the audience. “I like to interact with the front rows,” says Peters of his signature back and forth with the audience. “I use the interaction to take me from bit to bit. Some guys go on-stage with a script and don’t deviate from it. That’s not my style. I have my set and know what I want to cover; I just use the audience to move me in certain directions. It’s very collaborative and each show is unique.”

Russell Peters Almost Famous World Tour 2015
When: 8pm 31 March, 2015
Where: AsiaWorld Expo
Tickets: $1,288, $1,088, $888, $688, $588, $488
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Belle and Sebastian Concert Review

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Belle and Sebastian’s concert at Asia-Expo was so much better than my previous experience at this dreadful venue. For starters, there were real musicians on stage. Lots of them! The six band members were joined by what I assume were locally-hired musicians. I counted 13 people on stage at one time. This was no simple promotional exercise. The band was out to have fun. From the off, they engaged with the enthusiastic audience, an eclectic mix of young and old, local and expat.

The band started with Nobody’s Empire, quickly followed by I’m a Cuckoo and Expectations. The sound was good and the visuals were fun, light-hearted and entertaining. The Boy with the Arab Strap and Legal Man were my personal highlights of the evening. During these songs, members of the audience were invited up on stage to dance along with Stuart Murdoch and co. Being Hong Kong; plenty of selfies were taken by the dancers on stage.

During Piazza, New York Catcher a yellow umbrella appeared much to the enthusiastic cheers of the crowd. The tents maybe mostly gone, but the world remembers and continues it’s support.

For the well-deserved encore, Belle and Sebastian played a truncated version of There’s Too Much Love in response to an audience member’s request and ended the evening with a superb rendition of Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying, which left the crowd wanting more.

I went to this concert with low expectations simply because it was being held at Asia-Expo. I left on a high, ready to dust off and play my old Belle and Sebastian CDs. A great night’s entertainment.

Belle and Sebastian
When: 8pm, 10 February, 2015
Where: AsiaWorld Expo
How much: $760 from HKTicketing