The Wailers – Legend 40th Anniversary
Date: 7:30pm, 5 April, 2024
Venue: Hong Kong Observation Wheel
Tickets: $560
Tag: live music
Bagdad Cafe The Trench Town
Hong Kong International Reggae Ska Festival
Bagdad Cafe The Trench Town, MouseFX, The Red Stripes
Date: 8pm, 20 January, 2024
Venue: Grappa’s Cellar Causeway Bay
Tickets: $280 from Ticketflap
Tom Jones
Tom Jones – Ages and Stages Tour
Date: 8pm, 16 March 2024
Venue: AsiaWorld Expo
Tickets: $1,999, $1,399, $999, $799 from Cityline
Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy
Support: Gotsu Totsu Kotsu
Date: 8pm 5 December, 2023
Venue: KITEC, Music Zone@E-max
Tickets: $580, $480
Brent Faiyaz
Brent Faiyaz: It’s A Wasteland Tour
Date: 8pm, 30 January 2024
Venue: KITEC, Rotunda 2
Tickets: $850
ITZY – Checkmate Live in Hong Kong
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.
Click on any image for the full concert image gallery.
ITZY – Checkmate Live in Hong Kong – Set List
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
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…
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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.
There’s also an audio bootleg of the whole concert.
image: screenshot