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Aug 27, 20187 min read
THE BIG MONEY IN TELEVISION SINGING COMPETITIONS IN MAINLAND CHINA AND HOW JESSIE J SUCCEEDED WHERE
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It’s been mentioned enough, especially over the last couple of years: In music, the really big money...
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Aug 25, 20183 min read
REMEMBERING ROCK RECORDS IN HONG KONG, ROBERT FREEMAN AND BEATLES BOOTLEGS
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It was a hole in the wall in the basement of a shopping arcade in Johnson Road down Wanchai. It’s...
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Aug 20, 20186 min read
HIGH TIME MISS VANDETTA TAKES HER BROKEN WINGS AND FLY
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com My longtime friend Munir (Alsagoff) in Singapore shared some music videos with me last week of...
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Aug 19, 20186 min read
BACK IN THE DAY THERE WAS A JEW AND TWO TURKS WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF MUSIC FOREVER…
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It seems to have all happened back in the day. It probably did. And because “back in the day” was a...
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Aug 18, 20183 min read
Respecting the music and where it all came from
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com The song “Respect” is such an amazing history lesson. Written in 1965 by Otis Redding for Speedo...
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Aug 14, 20183 min read
THERE’S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Many more will leave us. Friends, some more famous than others, musical heroes, music icons,...
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Aug 13, 20183 min read
THE TIMES THEY ARE-A-CHANGING. THIS TIME, FOR REAL.
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It’s signalling the end of an era. It’s heralding something new about to happen. Some of us are...
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Aug 7, 20188 min read
Where and when the Hong Kong music scene lost its way…
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Hong Kong has been Canto Popped and Jazzified. When it comes to music and something remotely...
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Aug 3, 20183 min read
LETTING GO
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com For some strange reason, McCartney singing the line, “And I feel like letting go” has been playing in...
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Jul 27, 20184 min read
STILL WAITING FOR ROLLING STONE TO GATHER NEW MOSS
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com One didn’t know them, but their writing drew us into the world they inhabited. They were teachers,...
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Jul 25, 20185 min read
THE RUNAWAY TRAIN THAT IS MUSIC…
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com One friend was wondering if we’d ever hear what he termed “real songs by real songwriters”-...
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Jul 23, 20185 min read
SPOT A FLY AND SPOTIFY: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com When the majors talk about the money they’re making from the streaming of music, they’re not lying....
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Jul 22, 20187 min read
WHY THE HONG KONG MUSIC SCENE REMAINS STUNTED
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com “We’re not pushing the envelope. We’re licking the envelope.” I said that to a musician friend of...
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Feb 26, 20181 min read
MISSIONARY SHOES AND BIBLE BLUES (A SONG CYCLE)
It might have not gone according to plan and with no Happy Ever After, but the time spent together when the bells rang out and the music...
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Dec 1, 20173 min read
LARKIN POE UNCOVERED
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk Someone I know recently did a survey about how much time the average person spends on what is termed “social...
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Sep 15, 20172 min read
Kel and a song about keeping things positive…
For immediate release Hong Kong September 15, 2017 “Hans (Ebert) has written songs before but Keep On Moving On is something special as...
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Jun 4, 20173 min read
Get Busy Living!
“Get Busy Living” I have always liked Causeway Bay. Central holds my heart, but there is something so appealing about Causeway. The...
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Jun 2, 20174 min read
Staying sane in the thick of the insane!
The great horse whisperer Monty Roberts said it best, “Nobody has the right to say do this or I’ll hurt you.” I think nobody has the...
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May 30, 20174 min read
AND THEN WHAT? MORE OF THE SAME
By Hans Ebert The Big Fish In The Small Pond Syndrome. It’s been the death of many musicians, and, these days, with all these social...
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