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 media platforms available, it’s all become one free-for-all for self promotion. And it’s not only ugly as hell, it’s funny, it’s sad and it’s pointless. Once thought to be online [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hong Kong’
HONG KONG: TIME TO STOP IT FROM GOING TO THE PUPPY DOGS
Posted: 16th December 2016 by We-Enhance in Asia, Hong KongTags: Asia’s World City, Hong Kong, Mongkok, Occupy Central, One Country Two Systems, Singapore, Umbrella Movement
By Hans Ebert It’s getting harder and harder to understand the prolonged “winter of discontent” that some are going through about the present and future of Hong Kong. It’s almost as if they have way too much time on their hands with in-fighting to embrace misguided cause célèbres. Remember how Occupy Central suddenly morphed into [...]
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND ITS OWN HIDDEN AGENDAS
Posted: 4th September 2016 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, Beatles, China Entertainment Industry, China Music Market, CreateHK, Entertainment Industry, Entertainment industry in Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, Horse RacingTags: CreateHK, happy wednesday, Hendrix, Hidden Agenda, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Government, LED ZEPPELIN
By Hans Ebert As with anything it doesn’t understand, the Hong Kong government either ignores it, or else places various stumbling blocks to ensure that it’s silenced. And music should never ever be silenced. But unless it’s classical music or Canto Pop or one of those “nostalgia” concerts by someone from the Sixties singing the [...]
HONG KONG’S GENERATION AND CREATIVITY GAP
Posted: 20th July 2016 by We-Enhance in Asia, CREATIVITY, CreateHK, Entertainment industry in Asia, Hong Kng, Hong Kong Music Industry, Music, Music Industry, Music MarketingTags: Asia’s World City, Canto- Rock, CreateHK, CY Leung, g.o.d., GEM, Hong Kong, James Wong, Michael Chugani, Mike Chu, Sam Hui
By Hans Ebert There is a Chinese laundry list of things wrong with Hong Kong, but instead of regurgitating it all again, let’s just say that this city has been horribly mismanaged going back to its colonial days, and everything has only come to a head now. To blame everything on Chief Executive CY Leung [...]
WHO’S GOING TO GIVE HONG KONG A FUTURE?
Posted: 6th May 2016 by We-Enhance in Asia, Entertainment industry in Asia, Hong KngTags: Alan Zeman, Alibaba, Asia’s World City, Asia’s World Creative Hub, CY Leung, Disneyland, Duncan Pescod, Harbourfarce, Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s Can Do Spirit, Jim Thompson, Lan Kwai Fong, Ocean Park, South China Morning Post, West Kowloon Cultural District
By Hans Ebert What has happened to Hong Kong, arguably the greatest city on the planet? – SCMP Oh no, the city’s overnight do-gooders are suddenly everywhere and, as usual, in a hurry with vacuous ideas on how to to bring the Feel Good factor back to Hong Kong. But wait: It sure looks [...]
NO TIME FOR ANOTHER JOURNEY TO NOWHERE
Posted: 30th September 2015 by We-Enhance in LIFE, LoveTags: Hong Kong, Is that all there is?, marriage, Peggy Lee, Sinatra
By Hans Ebert Sinatra sang about how, through it all, he took the blows and did it his way. Before our marriage collapsed under the strain of monotony and reaching that point of no return, my saint of an ex wife would hum that key line from the wistful Peggy Lee song: Is that all [...]
WELCOME TO THE GENERATION OF FACEBOOK PROTESTERS
Posted: 24th September 2014 by We-Enhance in Facebook, Hong KngTags: Bob Dylan, DONALD TSANG, Dr Martin Luther King, Hong Kong, Occupy Central, protest movements, Rafael Hui
On Sunday in New York, hundreds of thousands of people led by celebrities fighting for the future of an ailing Mother Earth turned up for Climate Change. It was a huge event. Was it covered by any of the major television stations? No. On Monday in Hong Kong, thousands of university students boycotted classes to [...]
HONG KONG AND THE HKJC RECEIVE THE MUSICAL GIFT OF HOME
Posted: 30th May 2014 by We-Enhance in BEN SEMMENS, Hong Kng, iTunesTags: Ben Semmens, Hans Ebert, Happy Valley Happy Wednesday, HKJC, Home, Hong Kong, Right Of Abode
It’s a little strange to think that after all this time, Hong Kong doesn’t have a song it can call its own. Apart from the comical chop suey of a song made famous in the Sixties called “Kowloon Hong Kong” by a female group from the Philippines named The Reynettes, there have only been songs [...]
HONG KONG AND JUST DOING IT – BADLY
Posted: 10th December 2013 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, CREATIVITY, China Entertainment Industry, China Music Market, CreateHK, EMI, Entertainment Industry, Entertainment industry in Asia, Guy Hands, Hong Kng, Hong Kong Music Industry, India Music MarketTags: Anna@maRK, EMI, Eric Nicoli, Guy Hands, Hong Kong, Hong Kong indie music, Hong Kong Music, Hong Kong music scene, Lan Kwai Fong, maRK, Soho, Wyndham Street
Monkey-see, monkey-do. It’s what most of Hong Kong is afflicted with and if, somehow, someone, somewhere, either in Hong Kong or The Pied Piper of Hamlyn doesn’t find a way to shower this place with inspiration that will make originality live again, this city will be known as The City Of Lemmings. Forget the buffet [...]