leehom first!
so, on saturday(last saturday obviously), 02.05.09, 8pm, leehom brought his hotness and talent and held his Music Man Live concert in Bukit Jalil Stadium, Malaysia.
Went there with Juin, her bro, her dad, and quinnie.
went Juin's house first(xiao wen was so upset, I'd say). Then we went Secret Recipe before picking Quinnie up from her house. Parked outside quin's area and we walked to the stadium. - - - *concert*- then, walked back to the car, dropped quinnie home, had mamak near my place. then Juin's dad dropped me home. End of the day. (:
Actually, the concert only started around 8.20 or 8.30 with the opening acts by local artists. Daniel Lee and this girl, Kay(i think. in chinese it was something like xiao wei)
After that, we all got what we all came for as the famed USD25,700 G-clef dragon guitar(by world-reknowned Alistair) descended and then it went back up and came back down with Leehom(who was holding another guitar instead). OH YEAH, the thing he came down on, was like, a "flying saucer".
so yeah, fans got high as he belted out "what's wrong with rock". i never really liked that song and the only other time i heard it was at the park at Rae's place where NyeeKen and all were singing that song. yeah.
BUT, after the concert, i fell in love with that song.
ANYWAY, after a few more songs, he sang "Hua Tian Cuo" and in somewhere in the middle of that song he went like "friends in Malaysia, let me introduce to you, all the way Ireland, a Bahamut... it's first roar" and then he played a little tune on the guitar. and it was awesome.
Throughout the whole concert, there was never a dull moment.
He played the violin, drums, 2 electric guitars, the piano and he had this dance solo too!
OH YEAH, the dance crew was really good. especially when they had this individual dance thing when different superhero characters were shown on the LCD screens. There was this black guy who was dancing when it was The Hulk. he was good. really good. slick.
I later found out most(if not the whole) of the dance crew were from the States, so it kind of explains why most of them were so good.
One of the memorable performance was when he sang "sense of security". (that was the first time i heard that song and i fell in love with it the moment he sang the chorus) When he fnished singing that song, he just turned around and walk a few steps back before falling backwards into this trapdoor. and immediately the LCD screens showed a short animated clip thing.
It showed the Music Man falling deep into the water with his armour and all coming off. and then towards the end of the video, the words ‘当Music-Man卸下他英雄外衣时，它也是一个需要爱情的普通男人。' came out. and there was a loud "awwww" from the crowd that could be heard. haha.
OH YEAH. when those words came out, Quinnie who was sitting between Juin and I, went like "okay, incase you guy can't read it, i'll read it for you"(that time when around the second part of the sentence) she quickly said what appeared earlier on, and started reading the second part.
However, before she even finished reading, Juin and I already finished and we were like "awwwww"(yes, we were one of the touched). and Quinnie just went "OKAY. you guys can read it. GOOD."
There was a few "magic acts" here and there throughout the show. He performed quite a number of his songs, including a few from his newest album. Alistair was at the concert too!
That's about that i can recall for now. about 25,000 people showed up for the concert. That's a big crowd. really really big.
Overall, it was a brilliant show. after close to 3 hours, leehom found himself a new sworn fan -- me (:
at times like these, I'm just so glad I went to a chinese primary school.
