The Year of Jacky Cheung World Tour 07

Finally got to go for the Jacky Cheung concert (学友光年世界巡回演唱会) on Saturday; I wanted to go for his previous concert when he was here few years back, but somehow I miss it for some reason.

The indoor stadium was fully packed, with fans raising illuminating sticks and his names.

He started with 3 fast dance hits (爱火花 and 2 other songs that I wasn't familiar with) and I concluded that Aaron Kwok is indeed the better dancer :p.

In between songs, he spoke in both Cantonese and Mandarin, chat about his daughters, wife and sang his own song composition 摇摇 that he did for his first daughter and 讲你知 for his wife.

He also injected broadway style singing into the concert, with songs from Snow.Wolf.Lake (雪狼湖-爱是永恒) and another production which name I didn't catch (Updated: its call 如果·爱, adapted from 陈可辛's movie of the same title.). His band was fantastic, with the standard drummer, keyboard, guitarist and foreign talent assisting on trumpet and sax, and 4 Chinese ladies playing the violin, viola and cello (弦樂四重奏), playing to the tunes of 一千个伤心的理由,一路上有你,只想一生跟你走.

His encore was exceptionally long (an hour at least)! Audience were extremely high when he sang more of his classic love songs (吻别,每天爱你多一些, 情书, 我等到花儿也谢了etc). The night concluded with the song 祝福 (Blessing), where the entire stadium was filled with audience's echo/humming along...very nice atmosphere.

Considering that he entertained for more than 3 hours without break (except for occasional costume changes), and sang most of his classic hits, it was still value for money.