Impressive! Neonice, you can read Chinese? Cool!
You are doing a very good job here I must say and have presented most of the content. Apologize for just posting the Chinese report without an even rough translation as I am always conscious about my poor English writing.
I don’t have any big correction want to made, just some notes that’s all.
october 18 got up late after a number of sleepless nights ,because of the fact
that sylvian was, 10 days sick and cancelled 3 of his concerts in eastern europe. im worried every day. that it will be 5 or 25 dates. do i need this stress.
Because of the cancellation of 3 gigs in Europe, Michael’s so worried that the HK gig would be the next one. He sighed his hard work of getting the gig happened would all probably be gone to nothing and afraid that he & fans in HK might have to wait for another 5 or 25 years.
october 22 in the morning sylvians manager e mailed me that sylvian is prepared to continue his tour in hong kong a stone fell from my heart.
but i still have my missconceptions.
only half of the crew where on the 26th of october plane.
He had flu at that time so he couldn’t meet the guys at the best of his shape.
in fact on the 26 october i had to travel 2 times to the airport. because of the potential costs and saftey reasons we arranged 4 flights 7 people arrived to give us a warm up.
I can understand for security reason, they had to take more than 1 flight, but 4? Anyway, I remember another blogger said David’s mood was a bit ruined as they lost some equipments…
the first impression of david sylvian and steve janson is reserved and collective the silent English gentlemen sylvian no longer the women like handsome man. but a mature man with charm.
”Reserved, humorous English gentlemen” Michael should be a fan of them for many years and may have contacts with them in person before, so he made such comments.
3 older fans are waiting to see david and steve.
He actually described the fans as “mature” in terms of age. In HK, we usually not use that description for ladies, regardless their age.
P.S. I have contacts with one of the 3 fans and she’s still young to me.
suddenly david has a panic attack is frightened and extremly startled .
the fans are clever and give david his confidence back and tell david that there are loads of fans waiting for him at the hotel. david then runs hurriedly over the car park and suddenly looks happy that he knows that there are many fans at the hotel and he can avoid them.
What Michael meant is, David was more likely surprised with joy for seeing the fans rather than feeling panic, you can see from the photos taking in the airport (neonice, you have posted those photos as well!), he and Steve were so relaxed and graceful.
According to the lucky lady’s blog, she was the only one who was there at the hotel and when she just arrived, she saw a few foreigners standing there (the guys were about to leave for Mongkok to shop, you know, the photos of David and Steve in front of a top shop and crews in the restaurant) and she recognised he’s David by his signature white shoes! She approached and said David’s name politely and David said to a crew with smile: Picture time! And then to her: "How do you know I am here?"
Arrr, that is so sweet, I wonder how she could still remain conscious and knew the way back home.
the live performance from sylvian was welcomed by the hongkong audience but after that the next two gigs were not completed till the end.
His voice was so perfect that night if I wasn’t sitting at the forth row, seeing him kept wiping his nose and turning his head away to clear throat (or cough?), I was totally convinced he’s fully recovered. I was so broken hearted and actually wouldn’t have any complaints if he stopped in the middle of it. It’s a mixed feelings that he so insisted in the HK gig but got sick again in Japan.
his manger said he was totally satisfied with the results from the concert and that hongkong holded something special for him.
Yes, let David experience again the excitement he had in those Japan band years.
the next half of this conversation is coming with davids love for sipping tomate soup and steves phobia for elevators
It’s something very interesting to read.
Thanks again neonice for your translation!