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HK MAGAZINE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016 3 02 TOC Jun 2.indd 3 8/6/2016 3:10 PM H Mr. Know-It-All’s Guide to Life Dear Mr. Know-It-All, M Perfec Why are there so many Filipino cover bands in Hong Kong? – Cover Kid The city might well fall apart without its cover bands. LKF’s The city’s music scene became more stratifi ed, and Insomnia and Wan Chai’s Dusk till Dawn, at the very least, Filipino cover bands became welcomed in some parts of the would grind to a halt. And while there’s something to be said city mostly because they didn’t cost as much as their western for both karaoke and hauling yourself out to AsiaWorld-Expo or Chinese counterparts. And, of course, they were willing to to see our next imported band, on some nights there’s just work, and to work HARD. You think it’s easy going on stage nothing better than going crazy to a blast of top 40 classics, six nights a week and blasting out yet another rendition of screamed into your face by a dude with a mic two feet from “Sweet Child o’ Mine”? You’re welcome to have a go. This week in My Perfect HK: your own face. The city’s most successful Filipino cover band artist? That A new addition to the city hits the Filipinos tend to be musical people, and the country would be Arnel Pineda. Pineda was a jobbing musician, who streets this week: smaller rubbish bins. has long exported its talent to the rest of the world. There once upon a time played six nights a week at the now-closed was a large community of Filipino musicians in decadent Cavern in Lan Kwai Fong. In 2007 some friends uploaded The Food and Environmental Hygiene jazz-age Shanghai, but after the establishment of the PRC a video of him singing his covers to YouTube—and that’s Department is deploying bins with many of these musicians came to Hong Kong, where they when Neal Schon of the set up shop. Fast-forward to the 60s, when the Beatles and American rock band smaller openings and larger warning the Stones were in ascendance: but Hong Kong saw more Journey, of “Don’t Stop notices, to encourage Hongkongers of the Downbeats and D’Hijacks, their Filipino brethren. Believin’” fame, came to throw away less and teach us not to These cover bands took the city by storm, particularly the across him. It just so handsome Downbeats with lead singer Pepe Smith, the happened that he was leave oversized trash on top of the bins. “Mick Jagger of the Philippines.” But it wasn’t just cover looking for a new lead Hong Kong throws away 15,000 tons bands: The city’s musical development was tied up with its vocalist. The band fl ew of solid waste a day and we’re facing Pinoy musicians, with bands such as D’Topnotes and Danny him to the States, where Diaz and the Checkmates defi ning Hong Kong’s music scene. he auditioned—and got an imminent landfi ll problem. It’s time In the 1970s and 1980s, Cantopop rose to prominence: the part. From singing to start thinking smarter about what In this new world, it was increasingly Cantonese ballads, not covers, to singing the we throw away—and where. English pop, that drew in the crowds—and English-language originals: You don’t ever Arnel Pineda performs music took a backseat. have to stop believin’. in Hong Kong, 1999 Photo: SCMP Photo: Letters #PrivateEyeHK “ Hello Kitty is an English character, should they cast a cat or Emma Watson?” Ghost in the Aw Hell No Hmm.. we have a comedy fi lm based on the We reported online about “Ghost in the Shell” manga “Thermae Romae” in Japan and it s which fi lms in Hong Kong this weekend (“‘Ghost about bath culture in the Roman Empire.