MARS CONCERT 2017
- Time: October 13rd - 14th
- Location: Beijing LeSports Center
1. Achievements
Free online live streaming of two consecutive days of concerts had more than 200 million online views.
The concert venue was still a stadium that can accommodate more than 10,000 people, and the stage was a center stage.
2. Anecdote
In Chinese, the pronunciation of the date 13-14 is similar to “a whole lifetime”.
Wearing a white shirt and a silver cloak, Hua played “Always With Me (Spirited Away)” on the flute and was nicknamed “Mr. Prince Hua” by fans.
The day after the concert, Hua suffered from severe tinnitus due to overwork, and even worried that “I might never be able to make music again in the future.”
When Hua Chenyu created the song “Candle”, he sat in a pitch-black room with the only furniture as a piano, lit many candles around him, imagined the candlelight as glow sticks at a live concert, and completed the song all at once. Hua explained, “Even though I played some parts wrong on DEMO, the emotion contained within is perfect for this song.” and after writing this song, he could no longer find the feeling he had when he wrote it. He didn’t want to sing a song to the fans in such an imperfect way, so at the “Mars Concert 2017”, he played the DEMO directly at the concert, surrounding by glow sticks, and finished listening to this DEMO quietly with his fans.
On the second day of the concert, the big screen randomly captured a couple kissing in the audience. Hua Chenyu expressed his confusion about this for several years: “Obviously what I sang was not a love song, why would they do such a thing at the concert?” However, what Hua Chenyu didn’t know was that the couple photographed at the time was a lesbian couple.
3. Videos
Day 1 Full Version (FanCam)
Day 2 Full Version
“Candle” DEMO
4. SetList
| Day 1 | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Qi Tian |
| 2 | Ashes from Fireworks |
| 3 | I’m Boring |
| 4 | To Be Free |
| 5 | Bomb Squad |
| 6 | Carrying You (Spirited Away) |
| 7 | Quasimodo’s Gift |
| 8 | Always With Me (Spirited Away) Flute |
| 9 | King and Beggar |
| 10 | Glimmer |
| 11 | Mayfly |
| 12 | Giant Deer |
| 13 | Seek |
| 14 | The Mask |
| 15 | IQ250 |
| 16 | Escape from Utopia |
| 17 | Let You Go |
| 18 | Salt of the Earth |
| 19 | Here We Are |
| 20 | My Skateboard Shoes 2016 |
| 21 | I Don’t Care |
| 22 | Why Nobody Fights |
| 23 | Candle DEMO |
| 24 | We Are Young |
| 25 | Aliens |
| 26 | Great Sage Equal To Heaven |
| 27 | For Forever |
| 28 | I am What I am Original Singer: Leslie Cheung |