The long awaited Sodagreen concert之陪我歌唱

我等这天就等了很久。
一张满是签名的入门票也不耐烦的等在我钱包里。
时不时，偷看。

2 August 2009
我就跟好友一起走进演唱会场地。
非常非常绿呀，哈哈。

So it began.


I love the way it began. With snap shots of the city, lyrics of 城市 flashing in qingfeng's handwritting across the screen, and his cold clammy voice, reading about the monotony and restlessness of a city life. Then, one huge splash of water drop filled the screen in sync with the piano solo of 无与伦比的美丽 introduction.

从头到尾只有一个字：美丽


A swift change of lights and a rocker disco mood drowned the entire place,as I stood up after my friend (who has more experience in such events) and rocked to the beat. Yeah~ I love the fast rock tunes. It didn't matter if we haven't been so high before cos the people behind us were more crazy. ROCKER!!

I am sincerely amazed at his voice. Simply.
And i cannot accurately grasp his personailty, one with alot of attitude and yet delicate sometimes. Beats me.

Then there was an short silence after the fast numbers, where all the lights went out and it leaves us puzzled, about the intermission. After a couple of minutes, a familiar voice came on, without any background music, just pure vocals, qingfeng came out again, and sang us a the full tune of 小情歌, slowly but surely, in all darkness and anticipation. It was the best rendition of 小情歌 I've heard. We're all afraid about him saying he wants to 封歌 for 小情歌 previously.



When he finished, his troupe of strings came in and the whole song was repeated after the strings transited into rock. 四季狂想 came on and it blended well into 左边, as much as i loved always, to listen these 2 songs in this particular order as in the CD tracks. And boy do the instrumetalists were in top notch! What's more impressive than to put difficult skills and well-thought out details into seemingly simple songs. [左边]让我再次的被感动!

In the later half of the concert, qingfeng started to show his true colours. He was sucha chatter.. something i never knew or believed. He spoke jokingly, and made fun of this troupe in a cheeky manner. And boy, 他是个邪星. 真的. Buay paiseh and very 三八. Trust him to confess about his 三八ness. All the more we enjoyed the friendly banter. Admist all the serious rocking and smooth-like-mercedes ballads. And remember I mentioned about the most impressive song I liked about sodagreen? 白日出没的月球. I told him at the autograph session i really liked this and 左边, and he told me to keep a watch out for it. Haha, it came true. The violinists prob gone mad playing the psychedelic tunes, but I felt on cloud 9.


I know qingfeng enjoys making those wierd soulful sounds, as evident in some of the songs, esp towards the end. But i didn't know he could do it so effortlessly. I loved the 2-mic technique: he sings into one at a distance and holds another mic at an angle very near his mouth and the first mic, and it is able to pick up ecos at almost the same or slightly lower volume depending on distance. Manz... shuai!

是我的海. A song that i found out that both my best friend and I liked as we shouted above the loud crowd. we didn't know it until just before the first beat. =)

游乐. And we just forget who we are. As the saying goes: play like a child plays.



And so, near the end of the concert, he joked about how we should protest after the next song, as that was going to be the fake last song, so that they would be ensured the encore cheering will be high enough. Ha! we are all so 'fake' people, right? (sarcastic) Anyway it was damn funny. We practised our cheering and whinning for a few times before it was high enough , and he shouted ' Yea, yea, that's it that's it!' haha... are we all so bu yao lian? After the fake end song, the crowds rushed forwards towards the stage and we voted on our fav songs for encore.. i think 6 of them. At last some 20 minutes conversation from stage to floor. Some kena scolded by qingfeng for voting twice after they confirmed it... hahaha and the scolding sounds real funny la. '这位同学，你老师没教你吗？你老师在哪里？我要请他把你当掉。’very sarcastic. And the encore songs were really a gift. Most songs, i havent paid attention to when i first knew them. songs like 蓝眼睛. I used to hate Angela zhang's voice in it, as her voice doesn't rock, lacks movement and plays down the attitude of the song. But i loved it immediately when qingfeng sang it, asked my friend what song was it. heh.


and songs that I love long time ago:

tanya's 记念

How can they remember so many lyrics and scores off-hand so easily?


我只在乎你 a song i used to sing as a child off my dad's cd stereo, at that time i couldn't understand what the words meant. it is nice to hear the song again, at a more relevant note, and much more closer to heart. I love love love the way his voice breaks at 自己.



close to you. =)



相信. My friend's type of song.手掌里要更多呼吸.



It ended too soon with the crowd craving for more.
Too high already. And they did a out-of-sync bow as always in all their concerts, re-enforcing again, their non-serious child-like attitude in their music.
And the crowd only dissisipated (what a word!) after much coaxing '回家吧，孩子们！'


When we walked out of max pavillion, it was 10 mintues to 12am. The MRT and buses have all left. =) And we eventually took a taxi home, after a one-station ride in a cabin full of sodagreen's fans, some prim-and-proper still in after-office wear, some cool yappies in heavily dyed and damaged hair and street wear, some devoted rock bands with guitars still strapped behind hair backs. It was a great feeling all together, which day do you get all sodagreen's fans 苏打粉 aka soda baking powder aka sodium bicardonate all packed into one cabin and high in spirits.

The spirits kept high for one whole week after the event... I felt happy today, exactly two weeks after the concert, having no regrets to what length i went to go for the concert. i shalln't mention. And i bought their first album, as a collector's piece =)

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人生是否要珍惜





During the taxi ride home, we discussed about the concert, and thought how we always get hoarse voice after a 3hour ktv session and how he is able to sing in full swing for 4 hours without any sign of tiredness. And i believed i enjoyed the concert to a great extend because it was true music played life.


The real collector's item is out on 11 August, a 4-DVD compilation of all their life concerts plus a sodazine. As qingfeng asked in the concert: are we really nicer when listened life than on cd? A resounding YES!. That's why.