Nicholas Teo From Now On Concert 2008 blasted off with his new song ‘Xin Ge Shi Zhang’. A theme song for his debut paid concert. The dancers lead by Nan Pok (a famous dance instructor from Taiwan) started the show with gimmick of superstar going to appear soon. Though Nicholas has given his best on the dancing skill but he in fact needs to practice a lot. He’s really look like an amateur among all the male dancers. When he appeared on the stage, my first thought was ‘He’s so thin. Must be working hard & stress a lot for this concert’. The beginning of the show has few hiccups like the mic not functioning well and music is louder than Nic’s singing.
During his concert, he showed off his multilingual skill. He sang in English – Fly Me to the Moon & Greatest Love of All – a duet with Fish Leong (needs a lot of pronunciation practice. Some words were not properly pronounced). He also sang in Japanese, Korean and Malay. He has a few numbers of cover versions eg: Only One is a Japanese song from SMAP which he sang in Mandarin. When he sang the song, he blended nicely with Mandarin and Japanese.
The same went to the song Dream (a Korean song) – he sang half Mandarin & Japanese & finally Heart (a Malay song) – sang half in Mandarin & Malay. He also sang a cross over between his own song ‘Wang Zi Ai Guo’ and Eason Chen’s ‘Gu Duk Tam Go’. The crossover was nicely arranged. The duet with Fish Leong on In Love with You showed his weakness on weak vocal compare to Fish. Fish’s vocal is so amazing and the song carry well with her great voice. Then Fish had her solo and she sang ‘Zhung Bai’. Once again, I was truly amazed with her voice plus the music arrangement nicely blends in with her vocal.
He talked less in his concert and the only segment he talked a lot that when it’s time for him to thank all the people that has been working, leading and helping him along the way. First of all, he thanked to the media that built a platform for him to share his passion of singing. Still remember he was from the Astro Talent Quest? His winning song ‘Huang Hun’ made him popular and everyone loves the song because of him. So when he sang that song, there was video clip from the competition played on the screen. The video clip brought back a lot of memory to his fans & people that been working with him at that time. Later he sang the song ‘Fu Zhu’ – his first recording song for his EP. This song brought back my memory when I was with Music Street. Everyone in the company busy preparing for the album launch, from visiting media, getting a press conference venue and also making sure the EP was released on time. During the song, there were slides of his photos during that time. Those faces were so familiar to me. Then indefinitely he has to thank his family for being so supportive & bear with his lack of time being by their side. That’s when he sang the most touching song ‘Ba Ba Ma Ma’. The screen featured slide of his photos from kid days.
The most highlight moment when he said everyone has to sing this song with him & that will be the ending song for the night. As everyone in the stadium predicted, it was none other than ‘Dang Ni Gu Dan Ni Hui Xiang Chi Sui’. I’ve recorded the whole scenario & song for memory. Everyone in the stadium was so cooperative. I guess everyone sang the song except me coz I wanted to capture the moment (the full length live video can be viewed in this video segment).
I think this concert is a success. Credit to all the people that been working hard on this concert. People that turned up for the concert were definitely his family members, his friends (esp from Kuching), lyricists & musicians, his ex-colleagues from Music Street, bosses from oversea, sponsors – current sponsors & also past sponsors, friends from entertainment field and last but not least his fans. His fans were came from around the Asia region – Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Korea and also from United Kingdom (don’t know how true is this). Everyone just wanna be there to show their support. After all, Nicholas has been nice to everyone. He’s easy going & always giving his best to anything.
I like his concert costumes very much. His costumes were so nicely design & with a lot of bling bling to add in effect when lighting shines on it. The stage was simple but yet presentable. Nothing too complicated. Everything is just nice coz after all the fans were there to see his great live performance.
Songs list:
1) 新歌試唱
2) 遊戲
3) Super Idol
4) 寂寞邊界
5) 重傷
6) 錯了再錯
7) 痛徹心扉+日日夜夜
8) Fly Me To The Moon
9) 王子
10) 孤獨探戈+忘記愛過（Cross Over）
11) 分手快樂
12) In Love With You（duet with 梁靜茹）
13) 崇拜（梁靜茹）
14) 我真的以為
15) 這首歌+陌路
16) Only One+Dream+Heart
17) 黃昏
18) 付出
19) 爸爸媽媽
20) 晚安寶貝
21) 北極星的眼淚
22) 如果
23) 錯愛
24) 只因為你
Encore ：
25) 小烏龜（清唱）+就微笑了
26) 當你孤單你會想起誰
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