It’s
almost that time again!!! My idol Jacky Cheung had announced earlier
in the year that he will for sure be starting a concert tour this year
(2016), however the details have yet to be announced. A few months ago,
an entertainment
magazine claimed that Jacky’s concert was originally set to start in
October 2016, however due to legal disputes with Jacky’s former concert
manager Florence Chan, Jacky and his current concert organizer Universal
will be delaying the concert indefinitely.
Universal responded by denying the report and confirming that Jacky’s
concert will launch in October 2016 in Mainland China as originally
planned. They did not reveal any other information in their statement
though and said that further details will be forthcoming
at a later date. Jacky did confirm in a subsequent interview (during
promo efforts for his new movie) that his concert will indeed launch in
October and the previous reports of the concert being delayed are false,
however he also declined to reveal too much
detail and asked that everyone wait for Universal’s official
announcement (reporters did ask him about the HK leg of the concert, to
which he replied that the ‘earliest’ he would be able to do HK is
December due to availability of the HK Coliseum, which is
notoriously difficult to book).
As
of right now, neither Universal nor Jacky have made any official
announcements concerning his concert. With the rise in fraudulent news
and scams in the entertainment circle the past few years, especially
with the prevalence of social
media and ordinary netizens becoming easy targets, I would like to take
this opportunity to warn all Jacky fans (and non-fans alike) to be wary
of any information you hear / see / read on the Internet pertaining to
Jacky’s concert. Unless the information
comes from Universal, Jacky himself, or his official fan club,
otherwise, please take whatever you hear with a grain of salt!
A
few days ago, there was a supposedly ‘leaked’ document from the
Mainland company collaborating with Universal for the China leg of
Jacky’s concert claiming that the necessary approvals have been received
from the Mainland government agencies
for the concert to be held in Beijing. The document claimed to be for
the Beijing leg of the tour and listed concert dates, venue, performer,
as well as 60 songs that would supposedly be performed (the dates are
listed as 10/21 to 10/23 at the LeSports Center
in Beijing). While I’m pretty sure the venue and dates are likely
correct, the song list for sure is NOT, for the following reasons:
1)
Jacky traditionally sings around 30 to 35 songs at his concerts, which
is enough to fill a 2 to 3 hour timeslot – even the shows that go
overtime with multiple encore segments have only been around 40 songs
max, so for someone to claim
that he will song 60 songs in a 3 hour timeframe is ludicrous.
2)
A few songs from Jacky’s newest album Wake Up Dreaming were not on the
list, which is already a huge red flag, since Jacky himself had already
said that he will for sure be performing all 10 songs from his new album
at his next concert
(which is in-line with how Jacky has done it in the past whenever he
holds a concert after an album release)
3)
Some of the song names in the ‘60-song list’ were actually spelled
wrong (there were extra Chinese characters in some of the songs that
didn’t belong there while some songs had characters missing, which
essentially turns the song into
a completely different song altogether). Obviously this is another
huge red flag, as we all know that the official organizers and Jacky
himself would never spell the song names wrong – this is not only
unprofessional but also hugely erodes credibility.
I
checked with a few friends in Beijing who are familiar with how the
process works there and they told me that the document released was
merely a form that the company arranging the concert had to fill out and
submit to the Mainland government
entities to get permission to use the listed venue. It is purely a
‘best guesstimate’ procedural document used to secure the facility and
by no means should it be treated as any type of ‘official’ announcement
regarding the concert. My friends said that
the song choices were most likely the personal preferences of whoever
put the form together and therefore should not be treated as ‘the
official rundown’ for the concert (one of my friends also told me that
the ‘content’ field on the form can’t be left blank
otherwise the application will get rejected, which is probably why the
person wrote down a list of 60 songs in the hopes that maybe half of
them will be on the mark when the official announcement comes out).
As I’ve done in past years, I will
definitely be posting up concert information in the sidebar section of
my blog, however I will only do so once the ‘official’ announcements
come out and I am able to validate the information as being correct
and accurate. In the meantime, I encourage those who are highly
anticipating Jacky’s concert to be vigilant and carefully filter through
any information you receive concerning his upcoming concert tour.
Hi thanks for the above information.
ReplyDeleteI am a great fans of Jacky Cheung too.
I can't find any information to buy his tickets in singapore.
If you have any idea, probably could share :)
@Seow: Welcome fellow Jacky fan! :-)
DeleteSingapore ticketing information has not been announced yet. The dates that were announced were tentative and have yet to be confirmed. We should probably hear more about the overseas shows (meaning the shows outside Mainland China and Hong Kong) in the coming months and I will be sure to post what I am able to confirm in the sidebar on my blog. Stay tuned!
@Seow: Singapore shows officially announced! I updated ticket information in the sidebar, so please check there. Make sure you mark down 10/20, as that's the date tickets go on sale for Jacky's 3 Singapore shows.
DeleteHI,
ReplyDeleteThe concert ticket for HK all has been sold out via URBTIX site.
May I know if is safe and secure to get from http://www.viagogo.com/??
Thanks.
@Wai How Chun: Hello! I actually am not familiar with www.viagogo.com so I wouldnt' be able to vouch for whether it's safe or not. For the HK shows, I only know that URBTIX is the official site.
DeleteI would caution you to be careful though, as there are ALOT of scalpers out there trying to get double, triple, sometimes even 10x the price out of people. Basically, if you pay anything more than the listed prices (HKD980, HKD680, HKD380), then most likely you bought from a scalper or illegitimate source.
Hi,Just checked on URBTIX site and found tat tickets have all been sold out for HK dates.
ReplyDeleteMay I know if is safe and secure to get from http://www.viagogo.com/. The price is double from this site!!
Do you know if there is any difference in the program when Jacky stages in Sg and HK? Does he sing more Cantonese songs in HK?
ReplyDeleteI feel he will sing more Cantonese Songs in HK.. also the price of concert ticket in SGD is usually so much higher than in HK. I think SGD will only have 2-3 shows only.
Delete@Anonymous: Unlike most HK singers, Jacky is actually known for sticking very closely to the rundown for his concert and very rarely changes it, mostly because changing the rundown affects his flow. There may be a few song changes here and there, but pretty much 95% of it will be the same. The difference will usually be during those moments when Jacky chats with the audiences in between performances -- for the HK concerts, he speaks exclusively in Cantonese while the overseas ones (i.e. Malaysia, Singapore, U.S., Canada, etc.), he speaks in both Cantonese and Mandarin.
DeleteCoincidentally, one of the HK reporters actually asked Jacky a few weeks ago whether his HK shows will differ from his Mainland China and Taiwan shows (meaning will he sing more Cantonese songs in HK versus more Mandarin songs in China and Taiwan), to which Jacky replied that the shows will be essentially the same -- he does not add more Mandarin songs just because he is performing in a Mandarin-speaking city/town/country.
Any idea if he will be performing in Malaysia after his Singapore gig???
ReplyDelete@xscal: Probably. The latest from news reports yesterday is that the shows for the rest of Asia (outside of HK, China, and Taiwan) as well as U.S. and Canada are being planned out right now (words from the mouth of Universal’s CEO via phone interview), so most likely we will hear something soon. If I hear anything in the meantime, I’ll either post it in this thread or put it in the sidebar area.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, im based in Singapore but im more than happy to travel home to catch him in Malaysia, cause of the home crowd and the Cantonese genre in KL! Plus it's always nice to go with groups of friends as mainly they're all back home...
ReplyDeleteShall keep a close look out, thanks!
Any word on if he's coming to the US!? Or even Canada?! I'm dying to go! I found out too late or else I would try to go to his concert in HK =( I went to his last one in HK. Haha, flew all the way from NYC just to see him. Where are you getting your news reports from?
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: No specifics on U.S. and Canada yet (I’m actually waiting for the U.S. one too, since I live in the U.S.), but we should hear something soon. Haha…I actually considered doing something crazy like flying back to HK to watch Jacky’s concert in the past, but since I’m able to watch the U.S. concert, the practical side of me prevailed, lol! I’m assuming that for his U.S. show, Jacky will probably perform at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas like he has done on each prior tour – only thing I’m not sure of is whether he will do East Coast shows (i.e. in Atlantic City) this time around or not. I can’t remember off the top of my head but I think he had cut out the Atlantic City leg from his tour last time (his 2012 ½ Century Tour) and only came to the U.S. once versus multiple times like he did in the past (I remember for the 2007 tour, he came to Las Vegas twice). I will definitely be posting the U.S./Canada info up once I hear more.
DeleteI’ve been getting my information from various sources, including mainstream (as well as not so mainstream) news/media outlets, Jacky’s official fan club, a few Universal Music (UMG)-related sources, Weibo, Instagram, Facebook, and UMG’s official Jacky Cheung “A Classic Tour” concert page, which has all the tour cities and dates on it (though whoever is responsible for that page hasn’t really been keeping it up to date, as the additional HK dates weren’t on there yet when I checked the page the day after the additional dates were announced).
I just enjoyed the concert last night, basically knew all of the songs but one. Do you know anywhere I can find the set list of the concert?
ReplyDeletedo you have the song list from hk?
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