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Oct 30, 20183 min read
OPENING THAT FRONT DOOR AND MINING THOSE BACK CATALOGUES
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It’s not always about finding new talent. It’s often about going back in time and revisiting that...
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Oct 26, 20183 min read
IV OF SPADES. A WINNING HAND. FRESH FROM THE PHILIPPINES.
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It’s a little reminiscent of Hansen and when “MMMbop” first hit the public consciousness. Young was...
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Oct 20, 20185 min read
IT’S TIME FOR SOME FUNTING
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It was exactly what was needed. Fun. Infectious fun. So infectious that the dancing magically morphed...
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Oct 11, 20182 min read
JENNIFER PALOR AND THAT ADRENALINE RUSH
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com One can’t categorise Jennifer Palor. She sings songs. All types of songs. But what makes her special...
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Oct 4, 20184 min read
SIMON FULLER AND THE SAME OLD STORY OF NOW UNITED
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com My daughter Taryn was fortunate enough to work for Simon Fuller. It was for what was then his...
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Sep 7, 20183 min read
WHY HONG KONG NEEDS A HAPPY WEDNESDAY
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It’s always good to prove the sceptics wrong. It happened in a small way in Hong Kong on Wednesday....
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Aug 30, 20185 min read
LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN…
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It’s stating the obvious to say that the Beatles were special. But to someone who decided to drop a...
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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 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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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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May 11, 20172 min read
Hong Kong Gig Guide May 11 – 14
Wondering what to do with yourself this weekend? Here are some of the musical happenings around Hong Kong! 1. First off, tonight at...
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Sep 11, 20144 min read
WALKER BROTHERS, WALK ON BY AND REALITY BITES
“Loneliness is a cloak you wear/A deep shade of blue is always there”. And then there was a break before one of those Phil Spector-like...
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Sep 5, 20144 min read
THE NEED FOR MENTORS- AND HONG KONG MUSIC’S LACK OF THEM
Peel Fresco is recognised as Hong Kong’s only Jazz club though it stopped being a “jazz club” over three years ago. Frankly, who really...
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Sep 1, 20143 min read
IT’S THE SONG, MAN
Last week a group of us ended up in one of the most surreal karaoke lounges anywhere in the world where one expects to see midgets and...
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