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ROCK’N’ROLL CANNIBAL
Dec. 28th, 2011 09:32 amWhenever I write about the Hong Kong music scene, I typically point out that Hong Kong, as a rule, does not rock.
This isn’t always true. Rock music does come and go. And lately, rock has made a comeback with the rise of local bands like Mr and RubberBand. Granted, we’re talking safe Corporate Rock played by pretty boys, but anything that encourages kids to learn to play a guitar is okay by me.
Anyway, you know that rock music is big in Hong Kong when they make a TV drama about a rock band.
It’s playing on local station TVB right now. It’s called When Heaven Burns (not to be confused with the Deicide song). And it’s generating not a little controversy because people are inevitably comparing it to Hong Kong's most famous rock band: Beyond.
Beyond is – or rather, was – the biggest and most successful rock band to come out of Hong Kong, and a novelty at a time when most Cantopop stars didn’t write their own songs or play their own instruments. The band came to a rock’n’roll end in 1993 when lead singer Wong Ka Kui died. (Granted, Wong died by accident while filming a Japanese TV show rather than ODing on heroin or drowning in his own vomit. Still, dying young is dying young.)
Anyway, When Heaven Burns definitely uses Beyond as a template, telling the story of three members of a successful HK rock band – all of which are at least superficially modeled after the surviving members of Beyond – getting on with their lives 18 years after the death of their lead singer, Ka Ming.
Only – unlike Wong Ka Kui – Ka Ming didn’t die due to a filming accident. He died when the band went on a mountain trip and were trapped in a blizzard. Ka Ming, they reported, was lost in the snow, never to be seen again.
The twist: Ka Ming was not in fact lost in the snow. His band members killed and ate him.
THEY ATE HIM.
How rock’n’roll is that?
Well, all right, not very. Cannibalism isn’t a very common rock’n’roll theme. Outside of the black metal genre, I mean. And the occasional 80s one-hit wonder. Or a Ke$ha album (which is in no way rock’n’roll anyway, so it doesn't count).
Still. Damn.
Makes you wonder what REALLY happened to Jim Morrison, doesn’t it?
No? Please yrself, then.
Hungry for you,
This is dF
This isn’t always true. Rock music does come and go. And lately, rock has made a comeback with the rise of local bands like Mr and RubberBand. Granted, we’re talking safe Corporate Rock played by pretty boys, but anything that encourages kids to learn to play a guitar is okay by me.
Anyway, you know that rock music is big in Hong Kong when they make a TV drama about a rock band.
It’s playing on local station TVB right now. It’s called When Heaven Burns (not to be confused with the Deicide song). And it’s generating not a little controversy because people are inevitably comparing it to Hong Kong's most famous rock band: Beyond.
Beyond is – or rather, was – the biggest and most successful rock band to come out of Hong Kong, and a novelty at a time when most Cantopop stars didn’t write their own songs or play their own instruments. The band came to a rock’n’roll end in 1993 when lead singer Wong Ka Kui died. (Granted, Wong died by accident while filming a Japanese TV show rather than ODing on heroin or drowning in his own vomit. Still, dying young is dying young.)
Anyway, When Heaven Burns definitely uses Beyond as a template, telling the story of three members of a successful HK rock band – all of which are at least superficially modeled after the surviving members of Beyond – getting on with their lives 18 years after the death of their lead singer, Ka Ming.
Only – unlike Wong Ka Kui – Ka Ming didn’t die due to a filming accident. He died when the band went on a mountain trip and were trapped in a blizzard. Ka Ming, they reported, was lost in the snow, never to be seen again.
The twist: Ka Ming was not in fact lost in the snow. His band members killed and ate him.
THEY ATE HIM.
How rock’n’roll is that?
Well, all right, not very. Cannibalism isn’t a very common rock’n’roll theme. Outside of the black metal genre, I mean. And the occasional 80s one-hit wonder. Or a Ke$ha album (which is in no way rock’n’roll anyway, so it doesn't count).
Still. Damn.
Makes you wonder what REALLY happened to Jim Morrison, doesn’t it?
No? Please yrself, then.
Hungry for you,
This is dF
