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Akon in HK!
2008-07-29 2:00AM / 標準BLOG / Hong Kong / 會員可以看
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土曜日晩は空港隣のエクスポセンターでエイコンのコンサートへ行った。彼の音楽あまり知りませんけど、僕達の会社はスポンサーから、行った。始また時あまり面白くなかったけど、後半時楽しかったになった！写真とビデオを見てください．
Too be honest, I wasn't super psyched about this event in advance... I'm not a BIG hip-hop guy... actually I like hip-hop, but I don't like a lot of what passes for Hip-hop nowadays (Crunk, Souljah Boy, etc).

But since we were media sponsors for the Akon concert here in HK, I had the chance to go... Actually after I checked youtube, I realized I actually knew quite a few of Akon's songs... so why not?

The concert was held at Asiaworld Expo (big convention center near the HK airport)... most of the big Western acts play here... and of course Hamasaki's concert will be held here in September. Seated it can fit about 12k seats, including the upper decks... so standing-only should be something similar -- ~8-12k I'm guessing. But I wasn't so sure if someone like Akon has enough fame to fill up a show like this here in HK...

Well he got a pretty good turn out considering... about 3-4k people I'm guessing. I'm not sure if thats enough to pay for a place this big, but it wasn't empty by any means. The problem was, as with most of these types of 'standing only' shows - they put fences up to keep the different class tickets apart..... inherently they always apportion too much space to the expensive sections, which means you have some people forced to be further away then they need to be.

At the start of the show Akon was just on the spartan stage w/ his band and his weird DJ/MC guy (i'll call him 'Skinny Mr. T with the tall Mohawk').

The sound system had some problems and half the sound system blew out about half-way through. doh.

But Akon has some definite skills working the crowd. Sensing that people were not really enjoying the show (i was a bit bored after the first two songs or so), he climbed up onto the barracades and did almost the entire rest of the show from the midst of the crowd (with two or three bouncers making sure he didn't fall off and kill himself).

Akon is from Senegal... as he mentioned about 10 times during the course of the show. :-P

He later popped up in the middle of the crowd:

After a minute or two working the crowd from the fence he actually told the poor people stuck way in the back 'hey, why don't you guys come up here? open those gates and let them come up here.' and whether or not the security guards wanted them to, people did just that... -- I was a bit worried this would turn into a stampede, but it worked out ok... the energy level was definitely raised (and even though we were in the front 'VIP' section, I was happy to move towards the center and get a better view).

Here's a bit of video I took:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUmUBuIuryQ

Pretty fun at this point! 楽しそうね！

There was something weird at the end though. After the last song the DJ started playing some songs and i thought 'ok, they're going to do an encore, right?' but alas the music just cut off suddenly and the lights came up... I guess no encore. doh. :-P

Maybe they realized what a mess was on the floor and decided they needed to end the concert early to get started on their sweeping. ;-)

After Party - After the party is the after party! we relocated to the Central Ferry Pier where they had an after party... We got in no problem because we were relatively early, but a bit later it was impossible to get in, despite the fact that it wasn't that crowded inside... the people manning the door were completely unorganized and too many pushy people saying 'I'm on the list! I'm a friend of _____'... needless to say I regretted going outside to find a friend and wasting 20 minutes trying to get back in. :-P

Skinny Mr. T with the tall Mohawk' was there too.

On the way out we stopped to pose w/ the logo. gotta represent! ;-)

Mai is so stylish (...and hot).
Stephen... neither stylish nor hot....

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Etchy
留言於2008-07-31 3:09AM

no, i wanted to go to Alicia keys too, but i couldn't go... doh.
lazymardafcuka
留言於2008-07-31 2:54AM [举报]

u were there too ah, me too ah. didnt catch ya. i was over at alicia's concert too, did you catch that one? but the seats were a bit far from the stage, so it was more like listening to her sing rather than seeing her perform.
AsianChick100
留言於2008-07-31 1:10AM [举报]

wow, pretty close!
Etchy
留言於2008-07-29 5:47PM

joanne - unless you're one of the guys who paid to be up front... i heard at least one person grumbling...
JoanneSanderson
留言於2008-07-29 5:37PM [举报]

Aw that's pretty cool of Akon to get the back ticket holders up to the front, sounds a nice guy.
Ivy Lam
留言於2008-07-29 11:54AM [举报]

cool!
did he sing "i wanna love you" (or the uncensored version) at all?

stephen said you were going to alicia keys tonight with race and rosanne? i just decided at the last minute to go too, but our seats are way in the back. anyways, maybe see u tonite then.
Etchy
留言於2008-07-29 11:43AM

boon - yes... i forgot, he said you're always 'accidently' rubbing on his leg...
Boon
留言於2008-07-29 11:34AM [举报]

Haha, o contraire, I think swangs is hot hot hot!! I think i just lost my lunch.
AhKiKiKi
留言於2008-07-29 10:52AM [举报]

Wow real great , thank you for your photo So cool
janechu
留言於2008-07-29 8:11AM [举报]

wow... to be in the middle of the crowd? that's kinda cool... I can see from the video that people were really enjoying it... haaa... =D
Pemapema
留言於2008-07-29 7:30AM [举报]

Cool! Mai-chan is there ;)
shorty
留言於2008-07-29 4:07AM [举报]

Haha, apparently at one of the Auckland Westlife concerts, the security guys were really strict and kept making sure everyone stayed in their seats. Then Kian yelled "This is a concert! Get out of your seats and into the aisles!" Then the boys cracked up laughing cos the security guys couldn't keep everyone in their seats after that!

Ooooh! I see a box! -- it's for me! ----- it's from AnD!!!!!!
陳珊
留言於2008-07-29 2:33AM [举报]

Mai is hot