According to Su Ennan, this kind of underground music week is modeled after Western music festivals and has become popular among underground bands in Hong Kong in the last two years, with performances lasting for a week.
During the music week, bands of all sizes from Hong Kong will be performing, and there's a good chance you'll see Beyond perform here.
Today is also the last day of this music week, so the probability of that happening is infinitely high.
In the most spacious area of the park's center, there is a metal stage that is about three meters high.
The audience below was packed with people, while on the stage, a chaotic scene unfolded.
The people below the stage waved their arms, shouted something, and jumped around.
The sound quality wasn't very good either; you could barely hear anything standing in the back.
Suennan's assistant and a follower led them to squeeze to the side of the stage.
Although you can only see the side of the stage from here, at least you're close enough to hear what's being sung on stage.
The bands currently performing on stage are generally mediocre; the lead singer's voice is unremarkable, the accompaniment is a mess, and the drummers and bassists are off-key.
It was around 9:30 p.m. at this time.
After one band left the stage, another band took the stage.
Liang Liang rubbed his eyes vigorously.
Indeed, he recognized the people performing on stage this time; it really was Beyond.
Tonight, Beyond will be performing as a four-member group, not a five-member group.
The guitarist/keyboardist named Liu Yuan just left the band.
These four people were the members of the world-famous band Beyond in their previous life.
Seeing Huang Jiajun, who was still quite young at the time, Liang Liang was filled with mixed emotions.
He never imagined that Huang Jiajun would still be standing alive in front of him in October 1993, still able to wave his dashing hand on stage.
Beyond still performs songs with a Middle Eastern flavor, and the response is neither particularly enthusiastic nor lukewarm.
They sang three songs in total: "Abraham's Dancing Girl", "Silent Farewell", and "A Lonely Kiss".
The applause wasn't very enthusiastic when they left the stage.
It can be seen that Beyond was not very popular at this time.
"Brother Nan! Are you familiar with Beyond?"
Su Ennan shook his head: "I was not familiar with them at all before. I only learned a little about them after you mentioned them last time."
"Can we speak?"
"I shouldn't count on it. I'll ask my assistant and entourage."
Su Ennan turned to ask his assistant, and one of his attendants whispered a few words to Su Ennan before squeezing out of the crowd.
"Let's go outside and wait. Ah Gui said he can give it a try."
As Liang Liang followed Su Ennan out of the crowd, she saw Su Ennan's assistant, A Gui, arrive with the bewildered members of the Beyond band.
Su Ennan currently holds the most influence here, so naturally he should be the one to contact the other party first.
"Hello Mr. Su, we've listened to your album, it's excellent! Its current popularity is well-deserved, and your album sales will definitely break a million." As the leading figures of the Beyond band, Huang Jiajun and Su Ennan began to greet him warmly.
"Hello Mr. Huang! Thank you for your praise. We just watched your performance, and your level is far superior to other bands. My friend said you will become very popular soon."
"I hope our friend's words will be well-received and that we can become popular!"
Beyond also wants to become popular, but they are currently in a lukewarm stage. Although they have only released two official albums, they have released quite a few random versions, but they just haven't become popular.
"With your talent, you're sure to become famous. Let me introduce you. This is my friend from the mainland, the Blue Shark Band. This is Mr. Liang Liang, the lead singer of the Blue Shark Band. He's the one who said your band would definitely become famous."
Liang Liang extended her hand to Huang Jiajun: "Hello, Mr. Huang!"
Huang Jiajun also reached out to shake hands with Liang Liang, but it was mostly just polite perfunctory.
Thank you for your blessings.
“That’s not a blessing. You guys are really going to become famous, in no more than a year,” Liang Liang said earnestly.
"Let's hope so! It'll be difficult for our style to become popular." Huang Jiajun clearly didn't take Liang Liang's words seriously.
"Then why not change your style? There's a saying in mainland China: 'A tree dies when transplanted, but a person thrives.' Maybe if you change your style, you'll become popular."
"Easy for you to say. Do you think you can just change things like that? What do you, a mainland Chinese, know?" a member of the Beyond band interjected.
Liang Liang turned his head and glanced at him, recognizing him immediately: Huang Guanzhong.
This guy was a bad person at heart, and more than a decade later he was even getting involved with those protesters. It's a pity that the goddess in A Chinese Odyssey married such a bastard.
Liang Liang simply ignored him and didn't bother with him at all.
“I’ve listened to your songs, and they’re too politically charged. If you had switched to singing love songs, you might have become famous long ago.”
"Who do you think you are! What right do you have to point fingers at us?" Huang Guanzhong said sarcastically when Liang Liang ignored him.
The other two members of the band Beyond, Huang Jiaqiang and Ye Shirong, did not say anything.
Huang Jiajun didn't say anything, but instead seemed to be deep in thought.
Liang Liang ignored Huang Guanzhong's words, too lazy to pay attention.
“My friend, as you said, if we were to switch to singing love songs, how would we do that?” Huang Jiajun asked after thinking for a while.
"I have a love song, would you like to listen to it?"
"Who do you think you are? What good tunes do you have?" Huang Guanzhong continued, never stopping.
"You're really annoying. You talk like a busybody, like you're from Hong Kong. Did I even speak to you?" Liang Liang said coldly to Huang Guanzhong.
This Huang Guanzhong is really asking for it. I ignored him twice. Why didn't you just pretend to be mute?
If Huang Jiajun defends Liang Liang, Liang Liang will turn around and leave, and the future of the band will have nothing to do with him.
"Guan Zhong! You've gone too far! That's incredibly rude. You should apologize to this young man."
"Apologize to a mainland Chinese? Impossible!" Huang Guanzhong refused to compromise.
"Don't mind him, bro. That's just how he is sometimes. Is your song in Cantonese?"
"It's a Cantonese song!"
"Did you bring any or any samples?"
"There's nothing besides live performances."
Huang Jiajun thought for a moment and said, "Perfect! The music week isn't over yet. How about I talk to the organizers and ask if you can perform on stage since you're a band?"
Liang Liang never expected Huang Jiajun to come up with such an idea.
"We didn't bring any musical instruments."
"Use ours."
Liang Liang turned to look at the band members: "What do you mean?"
"You decide! Whatever you say, we'll do it."
The Blue Shark band reveres Liang Liang, so naturally he can do whatever he wants.
"Since none of our band members have any objections, it wouldn't hurt to exchange ideas with our colleagues in Xianggang and strengthen our friendship."
"I'll contact them right away."
Huang Jiajun dashed off backstage like lightning.
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