How The Flame fires up Hong Kong fans with Cantopop hits in popular busking gigs
The 2003 Cantopop song, about a girl anxiously waiting for her crush to reciprocate her feelings, is a favourite among Hongkongers who grew up in the 1990s.
Throughout the night, the band known as The Flame kept fans on their feet, clapping and singing their lungs out to renditions of chart-toppers by Nicholas Tse Ting-fung and Twins and Cantonese versions of cartoon theme songs.
Since last October, the band has been holding monthly Cantopop busking performances attracting hundreds of Hongkongers to sing and dance along for hours at a time.
The group, whose current members include vocalist Kit Cheung Kit-ying, drummer Chan Sze-chai, guitarist Ken Chow Ka-leung and bassist Li Ho-yan, has been busking almost weekly since forming in 2012.
All that drew to a halt in 2019 due to the social unrest and subsequent pandemic restrictions on gatherings.
'I feel that post-pandemic, the social atmosphere felt very down,' Cheung, 34, said.
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