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Please collect your tickets at the venue, half an hour before showtime and bring along your credit card for verification upon collection.

Subsequently, more crowds started to filter in and as the lights dim, the place was about 90% filled. I was pretty relieved. Kelly Chen and Daniel Chan enter the stage from the North enterance and I was just unlucky to be near the same enterance that Daniel Chan emerged from.

Kelly Chen was given the opportunity to start the Concert off. (I believe that Daniel Chan wanted more time for his makeup as well for Kelly Chen to electrify the crowd first, that cunning guy.) Kelly performed some songs like Lover's Concerto, wind,flower & snow,  as well as three minute from her latest album. Later inbetween her songs she went off stage to get closer to the fans, but was deter by some of the fans. (rowdy ones) Her hand was almost bruised by one of the fans. Too bad my seat is pretty far out from the stage.

In between the concert, there was some games. (deem game, which I think not) The respectively singers has to sign a song with the word love in them. Kelly Chen did pretty well I think. The effort to strike a rapport with the crowd was not very successful.

The guest star of the show Anthony Wong sang too much. (Hog too much time!) Kelly Chen managed one encore together with Daniel Chan before the concert ends. What a day for me. Unforgettable experience. Her voice was definitely good but not much interaction with the crowd though. Definitely worth the ticket price. (Better if I can get some photos and managed to shake her hand!) Too bad, I did not have any photos to share my experience. Any fans who managed to have her pictures can kindly contact me to share the experience.

Click on the image on the left for concert pictures and write-up by 8 days on Kelly and Daniel friendship concert. The image is quite huge by the way, 130k. (So be patience, I got a better quality file at 900K, interested?) Thanks to Steve for scanning the pic for me. >:O)

The New Paper Report on the concert

Disappointing show

They were there for a Friendship Concert. But it wasn't all warm and fuzzy. HAZEL TAN reports on the stars and the show

Dec 15, 1998

IT was meant to be a joint concert by friends Kelly Chen and Daniel Chan (left).

Yet many fans at Saturday's concert were obviously there for the Hongkong heart-throb.

Daniel did not disappoint, though the same can't be said of the two-hour concert.

Kelly and special guest Anthony Wong read the lyrics from pieces of paper as they sang other singers' hits.

Said student Teresa Chia, 18: "They should have put in more effort than that."

Daniel was the only one who came prepared.

He did an a capella piece and a range of songs, including Alan Tam's Cantonese hit Love Trap, Michael Learns To Rock's That's Why (You Go Away), and his own Mandarin hits, Close to the Heart and The Heart Already Knows.

And he knew all the lyrics.

Angry woman

Kelly Chen (right) saw red at the Friendship Concert at the Indoor Stadium on Saturday.

Something went wrong with the sound system while the Hongkong pop princess was into her second song.

While she was singing I Don't Think So, a voice which sounded like a tape played at fast speed did a duet in the background.

And she looked irritated.

After the song, she said: "This is a remixed version. Even I myself have not heard it before.

"I never knew my voice can sound so comical.

"Do you like it?" she asked the crowd. "This (version) is only available in Singapore."

NOT AT HER BEST

The Lin Ching-hsia lookalike, who people say sings like Faye Wong, reminds one of the pop diva, too, in her mannerisms.

At a press conference here on Friday, she looked cool, aloof even.

It was clear we hadn't caught the star at her best. She said she had flown in at 2.30 that morning.

Her answers were brief.

Kelly, 26, broke into showbiz in 1995 after being in commercials and a Jacky Cheung music video. She'll soon start work on her first TV serial in Japan, playing an illegal immigrant in the 11-episode drama.

She would speak Japanese, which she said she picked up years ago but still wasn't fluent in. Like her Mandarin, it seems.

She was speaking fluently in Mandarin until she decided she wasn't good at it and switched to Cantonese.

When asked to stick to Mandarin, she replied in Cantonese: "It's not fluent enough. I'm slow with it."

She continued to speak in Cantonese for the next few questions, but switched back to Mandarin towards the end.

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