Category: music

King Ly Chee Live Concert Video

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.

https://youtu.be/AApa3N9DZb4

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

荔枝王 king ly chee 2022

Read bc magazine’s recent interview with Riz Farooqi about King Ly Chee’s resurrection here.

荔枝王 king ly chee 2022

Filmed by Zoey Chan & Humphrey & Vic Shing.
Edited by Zoey Chan.
Live Audio Production by 細場

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images: pinigaiphoto, Raven

This is my Home – John Laudon

https://youtu.be/xettFl87smw

This is my Home

Music and lyrics by John Laudon
Backing vocals by Michael Luk and Renee Chan
Video edited by [email protected]

People mountain, people sea
soaring towers and crowded streets
from the harbour to the mountain peaks
This is a city truly unique

I have lived here since eighty-five
through the sunshine, and through hard times
but it holds me, like a love that’s torn
that will stand strong through every storm

Chorus:
I’ve climbed the mountains
I’ve walked these streets
this town this village that never sleeps
So many faces both young and old
This fragrant harbour
this is my home

This is a city that’s a sea of lights
it still shines on through the darkest night
just like a candle an eternal flame
I know this city has called my name

Chorus:
I’ve climbed the mountains
I’ve walked these streets
this town this village that never sleeps
So many faces both young and old
This fragrant harbour
this is my home

Bridge: We’re filled with hopes and dreams
to live our lives in joy and peace
I will stay here I will not go
Because I’m proud to call this place my home
This is my home

Chorus:
I’ve climbed the mountains
I’ve walked these streets
this town this village that never sleeps
So many faces both young and old
This fragrant harbour
this is my home

through the good times, and through the pain,
through the sunshine and through the rain
this is the home where we belong
And I have faith we will stand strong
Yes I have faith in my Hong Kong

The Wanch Reopens…

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…

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2010/Bc-unpluggedthe-wanch-19/i-NWLRXSz

The Wanch
1/F, Henan Building, 90 Jaffe Road
Wanchai,
Hong Kong

image: The Wanch, bc magazine

David Bowie – Imagine, Live in Hong Kong 1983

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.

https://youtu.be/yo5W9ByBbrQ

There’s also an audio bootleg of the whole concert.

https://youtu.be/mKf2T1chytQ

image: screenshot

Mirror Live in Concert Summer 2022

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.

https://youtu.be/1iaaxf76GZ8

Mirror.We.Are Live 2022
Mirror
Date: 8:15pm, 25-31 July, 2-4 August 2022
Venue: HK Coliseum
Tickets: $1,280, $880, $480

關勁松的Astrology Release New Single 關你屁事

Indie band 關勁松的Astrology have released a new track 關你屁事, inspired by the covid created emptiness of Hong Kong’s usually dynamic streets.

Amidst the fuzzy guitars, 關你屁事 also reflects on how the mandatory facemasks have impacted people’s love life…

關你屁事 is available on iTunes, KKbox, JOOX etc from 14 February.

https://youtu.be/-FOpWEhdYMw

Smoke in Half Note Release Live Session Video

Local band Smoke in Half Note has released a video, produced by 2Hz Resonance, of their recent live session at Cult Key.

Formed in 2014 @smokeinhalfnote are known for their reverb-swamped sometimes twangy experimental sound that paints sonic ‘pictures’ for the audience to enjoy.

If you enjoy the video, the bands first album One to Be Whole is on Apple music and physical copies can be bought at Infree Records.

https://youtu.be/gFhjzPrjchE

Hong Kong New Year Countdown Concert 2021-22

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.

https://youtu.be/5o_SCHF5Ak0

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2022/Hong-Kong-Countdown-Concert-West-Kowloon-31-December-2021/i-T2X9s6B

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2022/Hong-Kong-Countdown-Concert-West-Kowloon-31-December-2021/i-rsFHkjQ

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Hong Kong New Year Countdown Concert – Set list

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

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2022/Hong-Kong-Countdown-Concert-West-Kowloon-31-December-2021/i-F3NbqsH

photos: HKTB