Eason Chan held the second stop of his Europe Tour 2010 in Manchester at The Apollo on May 6, 2010. Eason becomes the first Chinese artist to perform at The Manchester Apollo.
Eason Chan held the first stop of his Europe Tour 2010 in London at the Royal Albert Hall on May 3, 2010. Mr. was the band and Eason performed a variety of songs including Radiohead's Creep, the Japanese song Mr. Lonely, and being he was at Royal Albert Hall, he performed an opera song. Eason becomes the second Chinese artist to perform at the Royal Albert Hall since Roman Tam graced the stage in 1979.
Rumors have it that Eason Chan will release another 2 brand new EPs within this year and there are talks for a DUO Part II.
It is said that during a radio interview Eason mentioned that they are thinking about a DUO Part II. However, knowing Eason, he's probably just saying because they were talking amongst themselves about this topic. Also, it appears that Eason's schedule is full so there is no room for a part II and because they need to "register" with Hong Kong Coliseum first, it does not appear that there will be room.
It is circulating around the net that Eason will release another 2 brand new EPs this year, one to be produced by veteran Joseph Ip (葉廣權) and the other by Schumann Lee (舒文).
It was also rumored (earlier in the year) that Eason will release another Cantonese album this year which Kubert Leung will take part in.
After the cancellation of shows last year, Eason Chan will head back to Beijing for two unnamed shows (though it appears to be part of the 90 Minutes of Happiness Tour with Mr.) on April 29th and 30th, 2010.
Eason Chan back to rock Beijing April 16 2010 By Xing Daiqi
Following the success of Eason Chan's 18-gig residency at the Hong Kong Coliseum running from March 20 to April 6, the Cantopop idol looks to keep up the momentum with two solo concerts on April 29 and 30 at Beijing Workers' Gymnasium.
After what turned out to be a wild performance in Hong Kong, a hoarse-voiced Chan greeted fans in Beijing at the studio of concert promoters Enlight Media on Monday.
"I shouted until I lost my voice at that show. It was more mind-blowing than listening to a CD," Chan explained.
Part of the Meet in Beijing Arts Festival, the concert, 10 Years of Eason Chan, marks the decade since Chan's smash hit album King of Karaoke (K Ge Zhi Wang), a title Chan well deserves.
Although he is one of China's top selling recording artists since 2000, Chan admits his biggest passion has never been producing albums, but rather live performance is his ultimate goal.
"The sound and feeling of performing live is fresher and more interactive," Chan said. "For instance, if I rearrange the music and replace piano with organ in a song, the feeling is very different. This is the reason why I enjoy giving concerts so often."
Known for his provocative and eccentric stage shows, Chan has donned tiger costumes, over-the-top wigs and even 7-centimeter-high-heel shoes. "But this time I'm giving up all that and letting the music speak for itself," the singer added.
During the 90-minute concert Chan will perform some of his all time classics in Putonghua, Cantonese and English, including "10 Years" (Shi Nian), "Your Backpack "(Ni De Bei Bao) and "Love's Transference" (Ai Qing Zhuan Yi).
"I will continue to collaborate with the new Hong Kong band Mr. which will give the show more of a pop-rock flavor," he explained. "For example, 'Your Backpack' (Ni De Bei Bao) will be in a U2 style, and many of my old songs will be done in different arrangements."
As Chan's landmark album King of Karaoke has inspired many KTV dreamers over the years, an online karaoke competition is being conducted among Chan's fans, the winner getting a chance to perform with their idol at the upcoming concerts. Touted as one of the most prominent Hong Kong singers since Jackie Cheung, Eason Chan is looking to shed his boyish image and usher in the next generation of Cantopop.
Chan created a stir in the 90s with his debut album, Drifter (You Li Fen Zi), singing about one-night stands, which at the time was subject matter rarely found in mainstream Chinese pop. In another song, "The Fifth Modernization" (Di Wu Ge Xian Dai Hua), the singer questioned the effect of modern science and technology on human life.
"I think it's a good thing if I can provoke attention to social issues through music," Chan stated. "In creating music, I would describe myself as rebellious; When everyone is doing the same thing, I find a new direction and a new door to open."
Besides a talented vocalist, Chan is also a versatile musician who plays a wide variety of musical instruments, such as piano, drums, guitar, violin, harmonica, saxophone and trumpet. Songs written by Chan, "Anticlimax" (Fan Gao Chao) and "Song of the Times" (Shi Dai Qu), have garnered both commercial and critical acclaim.
After his Beijing concert, Chan will set out for his first European tour, playing London, Manchester and Rotterdam in May. According to Chan's promoter, tickets for the London and Manchester dates sold out within hours of release.
As pictured above, a limited edition concert tee for Eason Chan's upcoming Europe Tour is now available for sale. In addition, the first 20 orders will receive a free autographed Time Flies album.
To order:
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Why? Why am I creating another blog when I don't even have time for this blog? Find out over there.
I will not neglect this blog. If anything, I will be keeping up because I feel I need to be fair. If I post here, I need to post there to be fair, and vice versa.
If you like Eason for more than his huge hits, you should definitely give Yoga a try. He just might have more passion for music than Eason does.
Lastly, thanks to those who have been keeping up with this blog even though I have not. A special thanks to ellie because you keep me up to date with Eason's Singapore functions and I just haven't had the time to properly thank you or post any of it.
The release date for the upcoming film Dream Home has been set.
Expected release date: May 13, 2010 Starring: Josie Ho, Eason Chan, Derek Tsang, Lawrence Chou, Juno Mak, etc. Producer: Pang-Ho Cheung Director: Pang-Ho Cheung Writers: Pang-Ho Cheung, Derek Tsang and Jimmy Wan Synopsis and Trailer: can be found at the official site (link below)
Apologies. As you may have noticed, the updates have been short and simple and there is an abundant lack of news. Not that there hasn't been news, but the schedule of this blog owner has been packed and therefore, the lack of time to translate any sort of mid-length to long article. Maybe a transformation is needed; quick summaries instead of actual word-for-word translations? In the mean time, as requested, here's the up to date news on Eason's DUO.
1. Eason suffered a throat infection prior to DUO and it is reported Eason is taking steroid injections (類固醇) to open up his voice. Katie Chan insists Eason recovered from the infection before the first show and he is not taking injections, he took steroid pills and has since stopped taking them.
2. There has been a lot of criticism regarding Eason's inability to perform due to his voice sounding hoarse and raspy and being unable to reach notes.
3. Denise Ho issues a statement to support Eason: "[I am] worried about Eason's condition. This happened to me before, losing your voice before concerts is painful, taking steroids can only help at the moment. A regular individual can take a sick day if they are not feeling well, but singers cannot, we can only do all we can to pull through and Eason has 10+ nights to pull through. I cannot imagine the side effects he will have to go through (because of the steroids). As a friend, I am extremely worried. I want to ask ticket holders who will feel disappointed or worried about his performance during the night you will attend, to switch sides for a moment and understand his position, please? Singers are only people."
4. Jan Lamb praises Eason during a "round-table" discussion on the radio program 在清朗的一天出發. The topic was: "Knowing you are going to lose, but you end up winning," otherwise known as, "Losing pretty". Jan Lamb chose Eason and his DUO concerts as an example to illustrate his point. With one newspaper headline saying, "Eason affected by the air quality, causing his voice to become raspy and affected his performance. Will force himself to do 14 additional shows." Jan explains he was present night 2 and he did hear Eason's voice being affected and the news wasn't made up because Eason admits it himself when you saw him shaking his head whenever he couldn't reach a note. Jan explains, "Eason gave me this highly impacting feeling because even though he had a raspy voice, he sang with everything. He really gave it everything he had and that was impressive. It gives the audience a feeling of 'Wow, you are really something Eason Chan!' Other singers who might experience a raspy voice or forgetting lyrics or going off key, you can tell their [performance] attitude changes." (A lady from the round-table discussion chimes in), "They start holding back." Jan agrees, "Yes, for example, back in the day when artists held 20+ shows, they will "save" their voices and hold back during the first half of the scheduled shows (for example, singing lightly during the intro of a song and relying on the heavy sounds and the background singers during the chorus to create atmosphere) and the audience understood the need for that because of the 20+ days of shows. That doesn't happen anywhere around the world. Eason really risks it all, even though he knows his voice is raspy he doesn't care and he gives every single performance everything he has inside of him." (Another man from the round-table discussion chimes in) "Power." Jan continues, "Yes, it feels like Eason is giving you all his power and giving you (sacrificing) his throat. IF (touch wood) Eason needs to cancel a couple of shows to rest (because this has happened to other singers in the past) and he didn't give his performances everything he had, ticket holders would probably blame him and say, 'He held back during his performances and now he's stopping entirely! Give me back my money!' But right now, even IF (touch wood) Eason has to cancel a couple of shows, the ticket holders will accept it because Eason gave it everything he had despite his leg cramping up (figuratively speaking, as an example). This is an example of, 'Knowing you will lose, but you end up winning.'"
5. Nicholas Tse makes a surprise appearance during Night 5 (March 24th)'s encore. Apparently, Carl Wong (band leader) asked Eason, "We're going to start playing a song at random, just sing to the song you hear, okay?" Eason answered, "Okay." Once the band started playing, Nicholas started singing 改造人, a song Eason wrote for Nicholas 10 years ago. The rest of the story:
6. Miriam Yeung makes an appearance Night 6 (March 25th). Apparently, Miriam was there to present Eason with flowers and was about to leave, but seeing Miriam with earplugs, Eason asked her to sing a song. She sang 少女的祈禱:
7. Edmond Leung makes an appearance Night 7 and performs PG家長指引 together, a song Eason wrote for Edmond:
8. Outfits designed by Johanna Ho (何志恩). Upon Eason's request for less exaggeration, Johanna toned it down while maintaining the DUO theme for his wardrobe.
9. Unfortunately, Jan Lamb isn't 100% correct. Despite Eason giving it his all, not all ticket holders are satisfied as they continue to criticize due to expectations not met. Fortunately, Jan isn't 100% incorrect, as fans and ticket holders continue to support Eason through this ordeal and understand that while his vocal isn't 100%, this performance and emotions are.
10. His performances of 囍帖街 and 無人之境 causes media frenzy. The media continues to report on 囍帖街 because the song's original performer is Kay Tse, the person who Eason has been accused of having an affair with. During his performances of 無人之境, he kisses a Japanese dancer as the song speaks of a unattainable relationship, the media continues to report on this particular performance as Hilary was present during several of those performances.
Star sightings through the first 7 shows:
Niki Chow (Night 1) Denise Ho (Night 1, 5) Josie Ho (Night 1, 5) Wilfred Lau (Night 1, 5) Edmond Leung (Night 1, 7) Wyman Wong (Night 1) Shawn Yue (Night 1) Joey Yung (Night 1)
Matthew Ko (Night 2) Jan Lamb (Night 2) Cass Phang (Night 2) Nancy Wu (Night 2) Myolie Wu (Night 2) Rainie Yang (Night 2) Candice Yu (Night 2) Zhou Xun (Night 2)
Calvin Choy (Night 3) Pong Nan (Night 3) HotCha (Night 3)
Tony Leung Ka Fai (Night 4) Liza Wang (Night 4) Ursule Wong (Night 4)
Nicholas Tse (Night 5, 6) Terence Yin (Night 5)
Fen Nei 薰妮 (Night 6) Eric Kwok (Night 6) Grace Ip (Night 6) Lowell Lo 盧冠廷 (Night 6) Eric Suen (Night 6) Miriam Yeung (Night 6)
William So (Night 7) Gigi Leung (Night 7) Simon Yam (Night 7)
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DUO - Eason Live in Concert 2010 @ Hong Kong Coliseum
Night 1...Saturday...3/20
Night 2...Sunday...3/21
Night 3...Monday...3/22
Night 4...Tuesday...3/23
Night 5...Wednesday...3/24
Night 6...Thursday...3/25
Night 7...Friday...3/26
Night 8...Saturday...3/27
Night 9...Sunday...3/28
Night 10...Monday...3/29
Night 11...Tuesday...3/30
Night 12...Wednesday...3/31
Night 13...Thursday...4/1
Night 14...Friday...4/2
Night 15...Saturday...4/3
Night 16...Sunday...4/4
Night 17...Monday...4/5
Night 18...Tuesday...4/6
90 Minutes of Happiness... 2009-10 Mainland China Tour 20 Shows in 8 Cities with Mr.
* Canceled due to contract disagreements between the agency representing Eason (Gungi Limited) and the organizers of the concerts (Bellson Development Limited).
Eason's 2009 Happenings
MOOV Live 2009...Live Concert...3/9
H3M - 好好好賣...CD...3/23
Dream Home...Filming Begins...3/27
By Your Side...Song...March^
Perfect Day...Song...4/17*
H3M (Version 2)...CD + DVD...4/20
I Corrupt All Cops...Theaters...4/30
You Are The Legend...Song...June~
Same Wrong Sin...Concert...6/11
Chinese Blues...Song...9/9`
Fifth Floor's Happiness...CD...9/25
New Song...Song...9/30'
903 Live Joey x Eason...Concert...11/16
^ Theme song for the Shanghai Volunteer Expo 2010, later released in the album Fifth Floor's Happiness on 9/25.
* Perfect Day is an English-language remake (into a duet by Faith Yang & Eason Chan) released under the album Self-Selected by Faith Yang on 4/17.
~ Collaboration theme song (with Chae Yeon from Korea, Kousuke Atari from Japan, Dadawa from China & Richie Ren from Chinese Taipei) for the 2009 East Asian Games.
` First recorded by Rebecca Pan in 1962, Chinese Blues was recorded again by Eason & Rebecca for Rebecca's album My Dream My Way My Indie Music, released 9/9.
' New Song (新歌) is Ekin Cheng's latest single, a song in which Eason produced with Chan Kwong Wing.
* Out of date sync due to rescheduling (because of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and security concerns following the 5.12 Sichuan Quake & 2008 Kunming Bus Bombings)
Source: Easyjoint
Eason's Moving On Stage 1 2007 @ Hong Kong Coliseum
Night 1...Friday...10/24
Night 2...Saturday...10/25
Night 3...Sunday...10/26
Night 4...Monday...10/27
Night 5...Tuesday...10/28
Night 6...Wednesday...10/29
Night 7...Thursday...10/30
Night 8...Friday...10/31
Night 9...Saturday...11/01
Night 10...Sunday...11/02
Night 11...Monday...11/03
Night 12...Tuesday...11/04
Night 13...Wednesday...11/05
Night 14...Thursday...11/06
Night 15*...Sunday...11/09
Night 16*...Monday...11/10
THE END
*Proceeds went towards benefiting the 2009 East Asian Games
