【Entertainer】When Tony Leung watched My Little Airport
1. October 23rd was the last show of My Little Airport’s six consecutive nine-show concerts, and Tony Leung Chiu Wai appeared in the audience. Sitting next to Tony Leung is Hong Kong’s top beauty finger Zhang Shuping. Sitting on the other side are Huang Danyi and Chen Huihong. In front are Zhang Jicong and Xie Anqi. Behind them is the beauty and director Wen Nianzhong. Not far away is Yu. Cheng and Huang Yaoming.
2. Just looking at this lineup, one would think they were in the audience at the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, but what they were watching was actually My Little Airport, the number one group in the indie industry in Hong Kong. What I want to say is that Zhang Shuping has not attended the Hong Kong Film Awards for many years. In the past, even if he won an award, he would never show up to win the award.
3. Tony Leung Chiu-wai was once a ticket-playing singer and also released records, but he was a rare visitor to concerts. He watched Jacky Cheung’s Taipei concert in 2018 and also watched Chung Zhentao’s Hong Kong Coliseum concert in 2018. Both Jacky Cheung and Chung Zhentao were close friends of Tony Leung. When Tony Leung went to the theater alone, he had to buy six tickets and make sure there was no one around him to prevent harassment. It was really surprising that he went to the My Little Airport concert.
4. In 2016, Carina Lau spent 500,000 to buy a box to watch Madonna’s Macau concert and invited more than 20 friends to go, but Tony Leung was not interested. Carina Lau said at the time: “I don’t know if he likes Madonna!” Carina Lau once said that she was at home. When playing mahjong with friends, Wai Tsai would hide in his room and listen to music. The songs he listened to were noisy heavy metal. It is known that Wai Tsai loved heavy metal bands Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.
Tony Leung appeared at the My Little Airport concert.
5. My Little Airport is a Hong Kong indie duo that has been in the independent music industry for many years. The members include Ah P and Nicole. The group was founded in 2003. The two are classmates of the Journalism Department of Shue Yan College. Their style is completely different from the mainstream Hong Kong music scene. So far, 11 albums have been released, with lyrics written by Ah P. Starting from the year before last, he has held concerts at the Kowloon Bay Trade Show for three consecutive years. There were 6 concerts last year and this year, and tickets were sold out as soon as they went on sale. For an independent group, it is not easy to hold six sold-out concerts, and even some so-called popular singers may not be able to do it for three consecutive years.
6. My Little Airport is regarded as a literary and youth group, but the themes of their songs are not strictly literary. There are “Romantic Kowloon Tong” that talks about breaking the house, and “Storm Your West” with a lot of swear words. The song that most people are familiar with should be “Bian Yi Invented Rework”.
7. You won’t see My Little Airport news in general entertainment pages. The exception is probably when they wrote a song in 2009, the lyrics of which mentioned Donald Tsang. Face magazine interviewed Ah P because of this, and also alarmed his then-employed staff. Chen Zhiyun, a top executive of TVB, ended up writing a song “To Face Magazine reporter Ivy” in response. In fact, when Tony Leung attended the end of the My Little Airport concert, there were no entertainment reporters at the scene to interview him. First, someone posted a photo of Tony Leung attending the concert in the forum of Gordon and Lien, and we only found out that Tony Leung attended the concert.
My Little Airport is a Hong Kong indie duo that has been in the independent music industry for many years. Its members include Ah P and Nicole. The group was established in 2003.
8. The closest relationship between My Little Airport and the Hong Kong film industry was at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards. “Beautiful New Hong Kong”, composed and written by Ah P for the movie “Golden Rooster SSS”, was nominated for the best film song. But in the end it lost to “Destination” with Huang Yaoming as the lead singer. Artists will also appear in the song titles of My Little Airport, such as “Faye Wong, About Your Eyebrows” and “I Love Guan Enna, Not as Much as Your Whistle Teeth”.
9. Angel Tse has twice asked My Little Airport’s Ah P to compose and write lyrics for “I Can Be Eliminated by the World, But I Can’t Be Defeated by the World” nine years ago and this year’s new song “Good Night”, so Angel Tse went to watch their concert , is a matter of course. Yu Cheng has also always admired My Little Airport. Ah P once publicly thanked Yu Cheng on stage at their concert the year before last for filming their concert. He said at the time: “I want to thank Yu Cheng very much because he arranged to film me two years ago. Our concert has made many people know our songs.”
10. Miraculously, My Little Airport fans are not only in Hong Kong, they also have many fans in the mainland. My Little Airport had a show in the Mainland more than ten years ago. Their Hong Kong concerts have always been supported by a group of mainland fans. The concerts the year before last and the year before last were missing due to the epidemic. As of this year’s concert, as far as the naked eye can see, There were many mainland fans present.
11. My Little Airport has a fresh and dreamy style, but it also has noise guitar arrangements. They don’t pay much attention to playing skills and put their feelings first. Ah P’s lyrics are excellent, and combined with the sweet and murmuring singing voice of lead singer Nicole, the style is unique. The song that particularly expresses the unique style of My Little Airport is “Romantic Kowloon Tong”, which has a childlike musical form and lyrics about housing explosions in Kowloon Tong. It is sung by Nicole’s soft singing voice. It has a contradictory and harmonious taste. In my mind I will exclaim: “Ha! I got it all!” The lyrics of another song “One Night on Nathan Road” are about loving the first line on the upper deck of the bus when I was a child. In fact, it is about the disappearance of ideals, like “The Afternoon of Pregnancy Test” “, “I’m a Resigned Man”, “Sad Prostitute”, “Let My Relatives Saw Me Eating Yoshinoya Alone”, but looking at the song titles, you can tell that they are not the subjects that most mainstream music songs would write about.
12. So if one day, Tony Leung’s name appears in the title of My Little Airport song, we should not be surprised. On the contrary, we will be looking forward to whether this song will appear and what the content will say.
Guo Jingyan
I have worked in a record company, a movie company, a newspaper and a magazine, and now I focus on entertainment full time and write about entertainment seriously.
