Venue: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall. Song: Boat On The River (Styx). Spectacles' first appearance in open contest and won 1st Place. 2nd Runner-up: Delta (Samantha Lam林志美) - Angels Rejoiced (Nicolette Larson). 3rd Runner-up: J Fans - Angels Rejoiced (yes same song!). Winnie Yu 俞琤, Anders Nelson, Willie Fung 威利 were among the judges. Other competing groups in the final include Stringers - contest song Power (John Hall) and Ordinarian - Lullaby (Dan Seals). Note: Michael Wong was a member of Stringers and we must have exchanged telephone number during the contest, paving the path for Spectacles Phase II. And you know what - Kenneth Fong was also a member of Stringers. Worth mentioning also that J Fans comprised May Chin, June Ip, Alex Leung & Kenny Wong who were from HKU Folk Group.

Venue: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall. A major folk concert in HK. The winners of the 第一Pop Folk 歌唱大賽 (D'Spectacles, Delta, J Fans) had been invited to perform. The line up of the performers was彭健新, 陳迪匡, 盧業瑂,關西蒙,鄧惠欣,蔡美璞, 夏妙然, 黃氏姊妹. 鄭丹瑞, 鄧慧詩 were MC. D'Spectacles played Battles (Axe), The Logical Song (Supertramp)

Venue: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall. A second major folk concert in HK in a row. D'Spectacles, Delta 陳慧妍 had been invited again to perform. The line up of the other performers include 陳迪匡, 盧業瑂, 陳健義, Sunny Wong, 鄧惠欣, 黃氏姊妹. 黃守發, 小美. 鄭丹瑞, 鄧慧詩 were MC. D'Spectacles played Boat On The River (Styx) and The Logical Song (Supertramp) amongst other songs.

Venue: Concert Hall, Macau. Fund-raising concert organized by 澳門綠邨電台. Songs: Standing at the End of the Line (Lobo), Arms of Mary (Sutherland Brothers and Quiver), Boat On The River (Styx), Cheyenne (Meisberg & Walters) and Cotton Fields (CCR) and Mexican Girl (Smokie). Trinity, Michael Wong & Stephen Chan, Delta (Samantha & Stephen), 紀文龍 & Kenneth Fong and May Chin were among the performers. The tune Cavatina (Stanley Myers) played by Stephan Chan and Michael Wong was mesmerizing. May Chin captivated the audience with her Janis Ian songs and got encored 3 times. Group singing: Take It Easy (Eagles). Later that night Kenny Wong and Stephan Chan jammed guitar - till dawn....

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Stadium Wan Chai. Song: Helplessly Hoping (CSN). Spectacles' first attempt with 3-part harmony and won 1st Place. 2nd Runner-up: Rozza Band - Got To Go (original). 3rd Runner-up: Psalm - The Painter (Paul Anker). Worth mentioning - Michael Wong solo segment finalist and placed 2nd (The Road - Jackson Browne). Did you notice our Spectacles T Shirt?

Venue: Wah Yan College, Kowloon. A fund-raising concert organized by Joint School Philatelic Association. The event has gathered rather high profile performers including 阮兆祥, 鍾文康,關西蒙, 蔡國權, Perry Martin. MC was 鄧英敏.

Venue: A.C. Hall (Baptist College). Song we played: You Can Do Magic - among others. It was a major music concert in town that year. Performers included 紀文龍, Delta, 黃守發, Trinity, Brenda, and Perry Martin. Brenda Lo was kind enough to help us adjust and balance our vocal during rehearsal. Perry Martin's performance was so memorable - he played Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) featuring live saxophone. It was also the time that we were exposed to and immediately captivated by his original song It's Over. Brendo Lo's Jambalaya was much spiced up by Joe Tang's breathtaking guitar solo and accompaniment. The event was live broadcast through Commercial Radio 2.

Venue: Yoke Yew Hall HKU. Songs: Leader of The Band (featuring Johnny Fong's melodion). The show was organized by Social Science 80'-83 Class Association
Performers was a mix from external guest (Seenlum, Ken Choi 蔡楓華, William Chan & Sunny Wong 辛尼哥哥, 區桂芬 and HKU students (Raymond Young 楊立門, May & June and 梁兆斌 - Guitarist)

Venue: Caritas Social Centre Kowloon. Songs: we would have played The Girl With April In Her Eyes (Chris De Burgh). Fund-raising concert organized by Joint School Philatelic Association. Richard Carpio, 鍾文康, Trinity, 阮兆祥,蔡國權 were among the performers. 梁安琪 was the MC.

Venue: Tsuen Wan Town Hall. Songs: It's Over (Perry Martin), Boat On The River (Styx). D'Spectacles won 2nd Place. 1st Place winner was a well-deserved duet playing Human Highway (Neil Young). Other finalist songs: Power (John Hall), Ebony & Ivory (Stevie Wonder & Paul McCartney), I know A Heartache when I See One (Jennifer Warnes).

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Stadium Wan Chai. Song: Desperate For Time (Original). The event was broadcast live on TV as culmination of months of behind-the-scene knock-out contests and a semi-final where Mercury played the One of These Days (Emmylou Harris). In the final The Flintstones played In Twenty Five Words or Less (Michael Johnson). Worth mentioning that 張學友 won the 1st Place in Solo segment with 大地恩情

Venue: Kwun Tong. Organized by Kwun Tong District Council and ICAC. The concert was supplemented with a slide show project a positive perspective on life. D'Spectacles played 跳躍太陽下 (林子祥), 香港 香港 (盧冠廷) , Desperate For Time (original). Other performers included 張學友 and 柳啟強. MC: Ho Pik Ha

Venue: A.C. Hall. A fund-raising concert organized by Joint School Photographic Society pulling such performing artists: 盧業瑂,張學友,露雲娜, 呂方
楊振耀 & 露比 were MC.

Venue: Happy Valley 跑馬地球場. Song: We Are The World (USA for Africa). This was the highlight event of the 1985 International Youth Festival comprising 50 performing units on cultural and arts activities lasting for 4 hours. When the then HK Governor Sir Edward Youde arrived at the scene , the MC鄧惠欣 invited him  together with senior government officials to come up to the stage to participate in the group singing - We Are The World

Venue: Tsim Sha Tsui East Open Air. Song: We Are The World (USA for Africa). 浮世繪, 小島, 太極 were among the other performers

Venue: RTHK and Tsim Sha Tsui outside location.  In the Police Report program (警訉) there was a scene where the heroine Mary sneaked out from home to hang around in a night club where there was a live band - playing Love Potion No. 9 (The Searchers). D'Spectacles played that role. Recording and mixing had been done in Mark One Music, we just needed to act on stage! Since then we never played that song again...

Venue: 德福商場露天休憩地方. Organized by 德福商場 during Easter Holidays. Songs: 分享快樂 (original) ,愛的昇華 (original Lyrics), 明天會更好. 小島, Beyond were among other performers.

A fund-raising concert organized by 樹仁新聞系Fundamental, 小島, 太極, 達明一派 were among the other performers

Venue: ATV. Fizz Bizz, an English channel program of ATV, provided us an opportunity to perform. We were given an interview and played two songs: Desperate for Time and Daylight Again / Find The Cost Of Freedom.

Venue: Sir Run Run Hall CUHK. Fund-raising concert organized by United Hall of CUHK. Raidas, 凡風, 達明一派,太極 were among the other performers. How I wish I could go back in time and be an audience sitting there to watch the show!

D'Spectacles participated in this project covering Folk Classics in the two volumes. Song covered included I'll Have to Say I Love You In A Song (Jim Croce), Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce), Carry On Till Tomorrow (Badfinger), The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel), Crying In the Rain (Everly Brothers), Unicorn Song (Peter, Paul & Mary), Jamaica Farewell as well as 昨夜的渡輪上 (李炳文). Kenneth Fong was associate producer and there was added opportunity for us to act as " session guitarist". The audio link at this event box is Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel) we covered. Someone uploaded our version and that triggered much debate about who were the performers. Anyway, they seemed to like what they heard.

Venue: A.C. Hall. Organized by Joint Schools & Universities chaired by St. Louis School - sought to bring back guitar as a prominent part of teenagers' life as opposed to CD Walkman and snooker cue! Alvin Kwok 郭小霖, Danny Summer, Albert Au were among the performers

Terry 龍影霞 initiated project on a folk song album and D'Spectacles took part in it and contributed three original songs: Desperate For Time and 與您此刻度過 和咖啡心曲. Terry was a passionate singer and we appreciate the opportunity to collaborate. Kenneth Fong was the arranger and producer of the album. The album included new songs of 玻璃都市, 走過, and the hit song of 南Ｙ島的故事. In the production of the album we had to take various album photos and had to be "appropriately dressed". We appreciate the help of Paul Wat as our image and style adviser.

Venue: 香港會議展覽中心. D'Spectacles was 1 of 33 on the list of 最有前途新人獎候選名單. The list included 王傑, 關淑怡,蘇永康 (the three winners), 譚耀文, ECHO, 風之Group (yes Kenneth Fong), 趙傳 and 王靖雯 (王斐). Looking back, wanted to thank again 韋然 our manager for affording us the opportunity. During the show, the artists each had to perform a song segment on stage on after the other and D'Spectacles was assigned the song 無心睡眠 (張國榮) - great! We had the opportunity to meet with a number of celebrities and the most rewarding experience was that we had a reunion with 張學友 5 years after the 十八區歌唱大賽.

Venue: 理工大學賽馬會綜藝館. Organized by 銀星制作 and 音樂農莊. We played Helplessly Hoping. Other performers included Sunny Wong, William Chan, 鄧惠欣,李炳文,區桂芬, Trinity of course Albert Au 區瑞強 - 麥潤壽 & Friends was special guest.

Venue: 大埔文娛中心演奏廰. Organized by 康樂及文化事務署主辦. This is a serial folk concerts held in various Government concert halls. This particular one has performers: Capo, Sunny Wong 黃汝燊 & Do Re Me Fa So, 鄭瑞芬, 蔡美璞

Venue: 元朗劇院演藝廰 (9/11) 及 北區大會堂演奏廰 (10/11). Organized by 康樂及文化事務署主辦. This is a serial folk concert held in various Government concert halls. Capital, Fillys, Trinity II, Sunny &Do Re Me, 鄧惠欣, 李龍基 were among the other performers. We played Desperado (Eagles), My Fair Share (Seals & Croft), Nowhere Man (Beatles) and 普通朋友 (David Tao)

Venue: 大埔小白鷺餐廳. It was a music gig that I cannot recall much except that I clearly remember we played More Than Words (Extreme) with Boris 哥哥 joining D'Spectacles for the show (note his black lens spectacles!)

Venue: 香港文化中心音樂廰. A fund-raising concert organized by Christian Action. We played to " new songs". I Believe was Korea tune with English lyrics that we wrote. 普通朋友 was a great choice for the night. The others performers include 李炳文, 袁鳳英, 楊天經, 潘健康. 黎耀祥及李盈姿. If I remember correctly, right after the concert we went to Micheal 叔叔 及 Boris 哥哥主持的Web Radio 做訪問並再唱普通朋友.

Venue: Amelia Island, Florida. The Guitar Workshop was sponsored by Takamine Guitars with Brad Davis and was hosted by Bill Kaman (previous owner of Kaman Music Corporation which owned the brands of Ovation, Adamas & Takamine guitars). Brad Davis taught his innovative flat picking technique - "double-down-up". Brad Davis staged a guitar solo show in the evening and D'Spectacles did the opening act for Brad Davis - the show was followed by a jam session. We played Helplessly Hoping (CSN), Angels Rejoiced (Nicolette Larson), Teach Your Children (CSNY), Just A Song Before I Go (CSN). One remark made by Mrs. Kaman that amused us: "You do not need to bring guitars to Bill's event, just like you don't bring sand to the beach!" Note: during that time both Michael Wong and Kenny Wong were living in the US.

Venue: 沙田公園露天劇場. This an annual event organized by 香港友Folk chaired by Uncle Micheal Tsui. This was the first time that D'Spectacles participated the key event in the Hong Kong scene as D'Spectacles became active again after a long hiatus. Meeting all the old music friends and renewing our acquaintance were most rewarding. We played Wasted On The Way (CSN), Find The Cost Of Freedom/Daylight Again (CSN), Too Much Heaven (Bee Gees) and 智慧 (original)

Venue: KITEC Kowloon Bay. 「真心不變聖芳濟」聯校匯演 joint show by SFX Kowloon and Tsuen Wan. D'Spectacles with all members being SFX Alumni was invited to perform singing. Harry Ng 伍仲衡 and Kenneth Fong 方樹樑, well-known song writers and music producers in HK music industry, are both SFX alumni. 林超榮 (超人) 傳媒人 and 李燦榮博士 are well-known media figures and aptly played the role of MC. Last but not least, the event reminisced about the school life of Bruce Lee 李小龍 and Michael Hui 許冠文.

Venue: 柴灣青年廣場Y綜藝館. Manifested from the continued effort by 香港友Folk and 青韻民歌組 in promoting Folk song culture in Hong Kong, this concert gathered the Folk Groups who have been active since the 80' to revisit some folk classics and share their originals. The performing group included D'Spectacles, Mercury, Young Strings, Fillys, Capital, Capo and Ching Wan. It was exciting to meet and interact with fellow folk groups. The MC were Uncle Michael and Boris 哥哥 who brought us back to the web radio video footage and did a on-stage live chat which was a thoughtful arrangement. The songs we played were Helplessly Hoping (CSN), Teach Your Children (CSN), No That We're Older (original), 多少 (original), How Deep Is Your Love (Take That - cover).

Venue: Cotton Club Causeway Bay. With invitation by Uncle Michael who organized a mini-concert staged by a few folk and pop groups. The venue was cosy and close to audience. We played a session covering some Bee Gees song (Run To Me, New York Mining Disaster, To Love Somebody), Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac). Other performers of the event included B&B, Razones, Cherry & Friends, Acoustic Harmony, HK Country Road Band.

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. D'Spectacles was pleased to be joining the annual event of  香港友Folk 馬拉松民歌音樂會. We had the full team with Kenneth Joining. We played Nowhere Man (Beatles), How Deep Is Your Love (Take That cover), Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel), We Are The World (USA for Africa). We did some modification in the arrangement of Nowhere Man and added a prologue to the introduction Scarborough Fair.

Venue: 荃灣大會堂.  The concert was organized by 荃湾民政事務處 as part of 25th 荃灣藝術節. The performing units included 鄧惠欣, Tri's Hi's, Mercury, Fillys, Capo, D'Spectacles, Andy Tai 戴志偉 and Capital. Songs that we played were teach Your Children (CSNY), And I Love Her (Beatles), How Deep Is Your Love (Take That - cover), Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel), You've Got A Friend (Carole King). The ending song by all groups was Blowing In The Wind (Bob Dylan)

Venue: Headquarters of DBC at Cyberport.  A music program at DBC was hosted by 張崇德,張崇基 and the episode was aimed at promoting the Soundbeat 60s & 70s charity concert with 大Al and Uncle Micheal introducing and pitching for the show. 戴志偉 and D'Spectacles as performing units were present to deliver a few tunes. D'Spectacles played My Fair Share (Seals & Croft) and I Was Only Joking (Rod Stewart). 戴志偉 played Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce) and Kenny helped played the second guitar.

Venue: 理工大學賽馬會綜藝館.  The event was organized by Chi Heng Foundation amassing musicians from quite a few popular bands who were active in the 60s and 70s'. Uncle Michael was instrumental on the line up. Among the performing units were Lotus, The Playboys, The Jade, Mystics, D'Celtics, Fantastics, D'Spectacles and 戴志偉. Joe Junior was Guest Performer. The event was attended by the then Secretary for Food and Health, the HKSAR 高永文醫生 as Guest of Honour. The songs we played were And I Love Her (Beatles), You've Got A Friend (Carole King) and Take It Easy (Eagles).

Venue: 荃灣愉景新城 - This Folk Songs Marathon was part of the 26th Arts Festival Tsuen Wan. Tri's Hi's and D'Spectacles were among the performers of the day. The line up of D'Spectacles added has our "guest" keyboardist - King Fong to spice up the arrangement of our song 多少 (original) .

Venue: Hog Kong Science Park Amphitheatre - beautiful surround near the promenade.  The event was organized by Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks. The performing units were Capo, D'Spectacles, M.A.D and 戴志偉. The poster was designed by HK famous illustrator Adam Chow (i.e. M.A.D.結他手 ) showcasing creativity based on Albert Einstein famous equation: E=Music 2 which would be highly relevant when you play music in the Science Park creating energy at the audience! We played: The World Is Getting Smaller (Mark Dinning), 愛我別走 (張震嶽) among other songs.

Venue: TVB. 香港友Folk has regularly promoted the Folk Marathon event at TVB's 文化廣場 program through an interview followed by a studio live folk singing performance. For the Folk Marathon 2013, D'Spectacles had the pleasure of participating in that program to help promote the event and folk song culture in HK.

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. D'Spectacles was pleased to be joining the annual event of  香港友Folk 馬拉松民歌音樂會. We played Now That We're Older (original), Crazy Love (Poco), The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) and If You Leave Me Now (Chicago).

Venue: 匯知中學. This was an event organized by  匯知中學 and 香港學界民歌協會 and other units. Tim Cho has long been the lead organizing member. Think about it, we have to develop new blood in order to sustain the folk song group singing culture in Hong Kong. That was admirable effort. D'Spectacles was glad to be playing a part in this mission as a guest performer. Kenneth Fong was the chief judge of the event. If I remember correctly the group coached by DD Chan won the champion. Well done! The songs we played on that day were Teach Your Children (CSNY), You've Got A Friend (James Taylor) and Dream Dream Dream (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band),

Venue: 香港堅道2號明愛大厦公眾禮堂. This concert was specially initiated by 香港友Folk as part of the year of 10th anniversary of HK Folk marathon. It aimed to bring memories to audience that the venue Caritas Centre 堅道明愛中心 was a very popular venue for folk concert in those golden days. The performers included 張麗瑾 (Lisa Cheung) who made her appearance specially for this event, Uncle Michael & Friends, D'Spectacles, Mercury, Simon & Ming and Capo. It was particularly a pleasure meeting with Lisa Cheung again after so many years. The event had drawn much attention to the local folk community with packed audience. In the final group singing we played Country Road (John Denver) and Dominic Chow 周啟生 joined us - with his magnificent keyboard jam. Everyone enjoyed the evening thoroughly!
[Songs D'Spectacles played: Desperate for Time (original), Black Bird (CSN cover version), Desperado (Eagles), 多少 (original), You've Got A Friend (Carole King)]

Venue: Tom Lee Academy Hall, Megabox, Kowloon Bay. D'Spectacles conceived the idea of staging a small concert with 3 folk groups and the result was this You've Got A Friend Folk Concert by D'Spectacles, Tri's Hi's and Young Strings and we call ourselves Love - The Sounds of Folk. The format was such that we would collaborate on a song between the performing groups transition - it was a real good experience playing Seven Bridges Road (Eagles cover) with Tri's Hi's leveraging all the vocals we had. D'Spectacles played Daylight Again/ Find The Cost Of Freedom (CSN), In My Life (CSN cover), Jim Croce Medley, Longer (Dan Fogelberg), The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) and Desperate For Time (original). THe final group song was Country Road (John Denver).

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. Congratulations 香港友Folk and well done to the organizing committee for reaching this significant milestone. This effort, to say the least, is maintaining a momentum of folk singing in HK! to D'Spectacles was pleased to be joining this 10th year anniversary event of  香港友Folk 馬拉松民歌音樂會. We played Dream Dream Dream (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band cover), Jim Croce Medley (Time in a bottle, New York's Not My Home, Alabama Rain, Age), Desperado (Eagles), Longer (Dan Fogelberg), 多少 (original), Take It Easy (Eagles)

Venue: Science Promenade. Organized by AM730. Tri's Hi's and D'Spectacles had been invited to performing folk songs in the carnival with wine. [D'Spectacles played Teach Your Children (CSNY), Dream, Dream Dream (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), You've Got A Friend (Carole King). Imagine (John Lennon)

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. It's Folk Marathon time again. D'Spectacles was pleased to be part of it. We played Boat On The River (Styx), More Than Words (Extreme), Salt Water (Julian Lennon), Leaving On A Jet Plane (John Denver), Imagine (John Lennon). Would like to still mention the song Salt Water - first heard it from Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins album playing fingerpicking duet and was captivated by its melody and we did incorporate TE's riff into our version.

Venue: RTHK. Together with Albert Au, D'Spectacles and Young Strings played for 3 hours of folk songs.

Venue: 香港社會福利機構 organized singing contest and D'Spectacles was invited as performing guest in the final event. Songs we played: Too Much Love (Bread), My Fair Share (Seals & Crofts), While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles). K K Lau, a vocal coach, was the lead in the event as well as a judge.

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. Let's Folk Together! 一起走過有Folk的日子... On that day D'Spectacles once again left behind their footprints in 香港友Folk annual event. We played While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles), Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel) and a Beatles medley .

Venue: In Hong Kong there are music lovers who own their own mini concert venue and one of our music friends Francis Wong had kindly invited us to join one of his Tuesday music nights. At the scene, there were other musicians and singers who played at professional level. Francis himself is a drummer. There was also a nice kitchen and delicious food was part of the program. We played My Fair Share (Seals & Crofts), Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel), The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel), Beatles medley. You can also see we collaborated with Francis on Puff The Magic Dragon!

Venue: Independent Studio. HK Folk participated in the CIBS program organized by RTHK and had won enough support to be granted to materialize their proposal - which was to selected and interview the key Folk Groups in Hong Kong and have them share their experience and stories n their Folk singing journey. D'Spectacles was one of the 13 groups. With Uncle Michael (Chairman of HK Folk) and Frankie Cheong (Vice Chairman) as the interviewers. D'Spectacles was more than pleased to support this initiatives and passion for Folk singing promotion in HK. It was a indeed a very good experience for D'Spectacles as a group to reminisce and reflect the the past and project the future - though after all group folk singing remains a main source of joy. D'Spectacles played Helplessly Hoping (CSN), Find The Cost Of Freedom/Daylight Again (CSN), Desperate for Time (original), 咖啡心曲 (original) and Now That We're Older (original),

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. Let's Folk Forever ! 一起[弦]續有Folk的日子... Sure, D'Spectacles supported the slogan and to deliver that we must collaborate to continue to renew ourselves. We had the idea to play some Seals & Croft tunes and invited our long-standing friend Sumboy to play the Mandolin. To make a fuller arrangement, Sumboy helped us connect with Hanrik on bass and with Ammes on Cajon. It was a unique team effort that had gone down in record. The songs the team played were Windflowers, The Boy Down The Road, Diamond Girls (all Seals & Croft) and Delilah (Tom Jones). Special thanks to Sumboy, Hanrik and Ammes again.

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. Michael Wong was visiting HK from the US and there was no better treat than to bring him to the HK Folk Marathon. Song we played were Teach Your Children (CSNY), Leader Of The Band (Dan Fogelberg), Cheyenne (Meisberg & Walter) and Eagles medley (Take It Easy, Lying Eyes, Peaceful Easy Feeling)

Venue: 柴灣柴門西餐廳CmOn. Luke Sir 曾智華 has engaged a group of individuals who have hearts for charity and music and he organized on regular basis gathering of dinner-followed-by music. Tri's Hi's, D'Spectacles and Sampson Chan were invited to the event and we would play folk classics. Luke Sir has strong respect for music and he would arrange an intermission to re-arrange all the dinner tables to concert seating setting so the group can thoroughly enjoy the music.

Venue: 柴灣柴門西餐廳CmOn. Luke Sir 曾智華 has engaged a group of individuals who have hearts for charity and music and he organized on regular basis gathering of dinner-followed-by music. Tri's Hi's, D'Spectacles and Sampson Chan were invited to the event and we would play folk classics.

Venue: Club One, Tsim Sha Tsui. Luke Sir 曾智華 organized a charity dinner gathering for his 同學會 and D'Spectacles was invited to perform . The song themes were Bees Gees and 林子祥. Johnny & Kenny played Grease, Words, Emotion, 似夢迷離, 抉擇, 這一個夜, 邁步向前 and 海市蜃樓. We finally found the opportunity to play Grease and Emotion as they are both composed by the Bee Gees! Tri's Hi's, Felix & Alex, 楊振耀, Lanno & Friends Band. Many thanks again for the professional "Lanno band" for their help in our music backing.

Venue: Online. Due to COVID-19, many music concerts have been cancelled - but not this one! The organizer HK Folk managed to pull off its annual event Folk Music Marathon with live streaming technology reaching out to audience throughout HK and worldwide. D’Spectacles was one of 26 music groups performing online with pre-corded performance. D’Spectacles played Nowhere Man (Beatles), If (Bread), Temple of the King (Rainbow) and Just A Song Before I Go (CSN). Given that we were not able to meet each other, audio and video production had been done individually and files transfer! All in all, it was an enjoyable and unique experience.  D’Spectacles had taken the opportunity of its forthcoming 40th anniversary to premiere a special review of the journey of the Group since its formation in 1981.

Boat On The River (Styx) cover
With continued COVID-19 restriction, delivering singing performance online has become the new normal. In conjunction with the launch of D’Spectacles Facebook page, we made a studio version of Boat On The River (Styx) which was our Pop Folk contest winning song on 22nd January 1981 when D’Spectacles made its first official public appearance. This studio version was delivered together with a self-made video which combined the video clip of a stage performance in the 80’ with the latest audio track. It was worth the effort to make the music video. It brought us back some good memories as we embarked on the 40th anniversary of the formation of D'Spectacles.

Battles (Axe) cover
Exactly 40 years ago on 28th February 1981 we performed this song in a folk concert called 大型民歌二二八. Don’t think that we ever played this song again on stage. The 40th anniversary of the band is a great opportunity to revisit the good songs that we have overlooked and is worth the efforts for a studio production with full music arrangement. Battles is necessarily one of those. Though the introduction is 1”18” long, music video with coherent images – in this case a windy desert in the middle of the night – has helped build up the song’s atmosphere.

The Logical Song (Supertramp) cover
The Logical Song, released by an English rockband Supertramp in 1979. D’Spectacles performed the song back in 1981 in aconcert named 大型民歌三二四 on 24 March 1981 with two vocals and two acoustic guitars.The song has a beautiful melody and magical lyrics that connected instantly toaudience, addressing the evolving stages of life from innocent childhood,through confused adolescence to disillusioned adulthood. Again The Logical Songis another great song we have not played even one more time since then. Torevisit our journey, we decided to cover the song again in a studio versionfollowing mostly the original arrangement – though we had to deliver theinterlude instrumental solo with guitar (we’ll incorporate saxophone in futureopportunity) and we added our own version of vocal harmony.  

愛的昇華 (music: 白い夏バレンシア by The Alfee | Lyrics: Kenny Wong )
This song “愛的昇華”is a piece of work by D'Spectacles in the 1980s, which would be classified as “new lyrics, old melody”. At that time, Hong Kong was in the midst of a boom of local band and local music work; and The Alfee Japanese folk rock and multi-parts vocal harmony styles attracted D’Spectacles. We wrote Chinese lyrics on The Alfee's "白い夏バレンシア"melody and took it to the stage as our "own song". D'Spectacles' last public performance of “愛的昇華 was at the Telford Pop Concert in 1986. 35 years later in 2021, we took the opportunity to record it in our home studio and activated this long-buried old song. It not only triggered our members’ past memories, but also left behind another new "footprint" for the band journey! We hope this song “愛的昇華” that is brought over literally from the last century will find its followers.

D’Spectacles has embarked on its journey to roll out original songs that have been composed by the Group over the years. 唱盡人心意 is a piece of music worked collaborate by the Group; Kenny composed the music (while in the US) and Johnny wrote the lyrics in HK during the period of 2000’.  The song has a folk style with a swing feel rhythm, featuring acoustic guitar and progressive vocal harmony arrangement and conveying positive energy through the high-impact lyrics.  The song arrangement is one that has been mostly conceived during the melody writing phase – including that of the swing feel and walking bass. While the guitar solo part was a complete new development, the song embedded the influence of Jerry Reed in some of the guitar fill-in as developed in the original arrangement ideas. The vocal harmony arrangement was carefully crafted note-by-note to enhance the flavor of the chord progression.

D'Spectacles releases a new song <回味> to pay tribute to the 80s Cantopop songs of Hong Kong. There is no better way to produce a new song of the 80s by doing it with raw ingredients of the 80s! The new song just released by D'Spectacles has its melody composed and lyrics written back in1989. Special thanks to Mr. Chan Siu Kei who had written the song for us in just a day back in 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWjLO0sBOm0&t=2s
and it has taken us D'Spectacles 32 years to bring this song to life! The song is officially released today and we hope that it is worth the wait! The song's arrangement, including a long guitar solo outro, together with the crafted MV, attempted to create the images of the lyrics written.

D’Spectacles made its 10th appearance at the 香港友FOLK 2021 音樂會 Folk Music Marathon. Under continued impact by the COVID-19, HK Folk once again delivered a great show for the folk lovers worldwide with its creativity and professionalism as evidenced by the high quality production. D’Spectacles performed live in real time four songs: Survival (America), Love’s An Easy Song (Meisburg and Walter), You World and My World (Albert Hammond) and Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel). Love’s An Easy Song is D’Spectacles long-cherished song in its repertoire and we took the opportunity to play the song in this unique stage ambience.

Kenny Wong had been invited as guest guitarist and harmony vocal singer at the online singing program of WSM Music (環星音樂) hosted by Raymond Young (楊立門) which lasted for 16 Episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGdAtqsEZ5nt7ZVE0luDcNIBvUPcAxTPa
‍In Episodes 13 &14, Johnny Fong has been invited as guest performer and together with Raymond Young, the three of us performed a quite a few favorites songs of D’Spectacles including:
Episode 13: Nowhere Man, Helplessly Hoping, Scarborough Fair, Now That We're Older (original), You've Got A Friend
Episode 14: And I Love Her, What A Wonderful World, Crazy Love, Desperate For Time (original), Teach Your Children

Against the background that D’Spectacles had participated in a number of Folk Singing Contest and its band leader Kenny Wong had a passion to bring back the memories of the Folk Contest Songs of the ‘70s/‘80s, and together with the commitment of the active Folk organizations in Hong Kong, namely Hong Kong Folk Club and Ching Wan Folk Group, in promoting folk music to general public in Hong Kong, the Project “ “Hong Kong ‘70s/‘80s Folk Contest Songs - Legacy Series ” was launched which aims to leave behind a legacy to the Hong Kong folk scene. Kenny Wong would pick 20 folk contest songs and roll it out one song after another in three batches. In each song roll-out, there is introduction of the song composer and lyricist, original artist, released year and the contest in which each song was performed; in addition there are also technical analysis of the guitar accompaniment, song arrangement, lead vocal and harmony. The first batch of contest songs consisted of: 1. Ventura Highway, 2. The Bird Man, 3. Leaves That Are Green, 4. Eagle Feather (video 1), 5. Rocky Road (video 2), and 6. Mexican Divorce.

Venue: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall. Song: Boat On The River (Styx). Spectacles' first appearance in open contest and won 1st Place. 2nd Runner-up: Delta (Samantha Lam林志美) - Angels Rejoiced (Nicolette Larson). 3rd Runner-up: J Fans - Angels Rejoiced (yes same song!). Winnie Yu 俞琤, Anders Nelson, Willie Fung 威利 were among the judges. Other competing groups in the final include Stringers - contest song Power (John Hall) and Ordinarian - Lullaby (Dan Seals). Note: Michael Wong was a member of Stringers and we must have exchanged telephone number during the contest, paving the path for Spectacles Phase II. And you know what - Kenneth Fong was also a member of Stringers. Worth mentioning also that J Fans comprised May Chin, June Ip, Alex Leung & Kenny Wong who were from HKU Folk Group.

Venue: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall. A major folk concert in HK. The winners of the 第一Pop Folk 歌唱大賽 (D'Spectacles, Delta, J Fans) had been invited to perform. The line up of the performers was彭健新, 陳迪匡, 盧業瑂,關西蒙,鄧惠欣,蔡美璞, 夏妙然, 黃氏姊妹. 鄭丹瑞, 鄧慧詩 were MC. D'Spectacles played Battles (Axe), The Logical Song (Supertramp)

Venue: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall. A second major folk concert in HK in a row. D'Spectacles, Delta 陳慧妍 had been invited again to perform. The line up of the other performers include 陳迪匡, 盧業瑂, 陳健義, Sunny Wong, 鄧惠欣, 黃氏姊妹. 黃守發, 小美. 鄭丹瑞, 鄧慧詩 were MC. D'Spectacles played Boat On The River (Styx) and The Logical Song (Supertramp) amongst other songs.

Venue: Concert Hall, Macau. Fund-raising concert organized by 澳門綠邨電台. Songs: Standing at the End of the Line (Lobo), Arms of Mary (Sutherland Brothers and Quiver), Boat On The River (Styx), Cheyenne (Meisberg & Walters) and Cotton Fields (CCR) and Mexican Girl (Smokie). Trinity, Michael Wong & Stephen Chan, Delta (Samantha & Stephen), 紀文龍 & Kenneth Fong and May Chin were among the performers. The tune Cavatina (Stanley Myers) played by Stephan Chan and Michael Wong was mesmerizing. May Chin captivated the audience with her Janis Ian songs and got encored 3 times. Group singing: Take It Easy (Eagles). Later that night Kenny Wong and Stephan Chan jammed guitar - till dawn....

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Stadium Wan Chai. Song: Helplessly Hoping (CSN). Spectacles' first attempt with 3-part harmony and won 1st Place. 2nd Runner-up: Rozza Band - Got To Go (original). 3rd Runner-up: Psalm - The Painter (Paul Anker). Worth mentioning - Michael Wong solo segment finalist and placed 2nd (The Road - Jackson Browne). Did you notice our Spectacles T Shirt?

Venue: Wah Yan College, Kowloon. A fund-raising concert organized by Joint School Philatelic Association. The event has gathered rather high profile performers including 阮兆祥, 鍾文康,關西蒙, 蔡國權, Perry Martin. MC was 鄧英敏.

Venue: A.C. Hall (Baptist College). Song we played: You Can Do Magic - among others. It was a major music concert in town that year. Performers included 紀文龍, Delta, 黃守發, Trinity, Brenda, and Perry Martin. Brenda Lo was kind enough to help us adjust and balance our vocal during rehearsal. Perry Martin's performance was so memorable - he played Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) featuring live saxophone. It was also the time that we were exposed to and immediately captivated by his original song It's Over. Brendo Lo's Jambalaya was much spiced up by Joe Tang's breathtaking guitar solo and accompaniment. The event was live broadcast through Commercial Radio 2.

Venue: Yoke Yew Hall HKU. Songs: Leader of The Band (featuring Johnny Fong's melodion). The show was organized by Social Science 80'-83 Class Association
Performers was a mix from external guest (Seenlum, Ken Choi 蔡楓華, William Chan & Sunny Wong 辛尼哥哥, 區桂芬 and HKU students (Raymond Young 楊立門, May & June and 梁兆斌 - Guitarist)

Venue: Caritas Social Centre Kowloon. Songs: we would have played The Girl With April In Her Eyes (Chris De Burgh). Fund-raising concert organized by Joint School Philatelic Association. Richard Carpio, 鍾文康, Trinity, 阮兆祥,蔡國權 were among the performers. 梁安琪 was the MC.

Venue: Tsuen Wan Town Hall. Songs: It's Over (Perry Martin), Boat On The River (Styx). D'Spectacles won 2nd Place. 1st Place winner was a well-deserved duet playing Human Highway (Neil Young). Other finalist songs: Power (John Hall), Ebony & Ivory (Stevie Wonder & Paul McCartney), I know A Heartache when I See One (Jennifer Warnes).

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Stadium Wan Chai. Song: Desperate For Time (Original). The event was broadcast live on TV as culmination of months of behind-the-scene knock-out contests and a semi-final where Mercury played the One of These Days (Emmylou Harris). In the final The Flintstones played In Twenty Five Words or Less (Michael Johnson). Worth mentioning that 張學友 won the 1st Place in Solo segment with 大地恩情

Venue: Kwun Tong. Organized by Kwun Tong District Council and ICAC. The concert was supplemented with a slide show project a positive perspective on life. D'Spectacles played 跳躍太陽下 (林子祥), 香港 香港 (盧冠廷) , Desperate For Time (original). Other performers included 張學友 and 柳啟強. MC: Ho Pik Ha

Venue: A.C. Hall. A fund-raising concert organized by Joint School Photographic Society pulling such performing artists: 盧業瑂,張學友,露雲娜, 呂方
楊振耀 & 露比 were MC.

Venue: Happy Valley 跑馬地球場. Song: We Are The World (USA for Africa). This was the highlight event of the 1985 International Youth Festival comprising 50 performing units on cultural and arts activities lasting for 4 hours. When the then HK Governor Sir Edward Youde arrived at the scene , the MC鄧惠欣 invited him  together with senior government officials to come up to the stage to participate in the group singing - We Are The World

Venue: Tsim Sha Tsui East Open Air. Song: We Are The World (USA for Africa). 浮世繪, 小島, 太極 were among the other performers

Venue: RTHK and Tsim Sha Tsui outside location.  In the Police Report program (警訉) there was a scene where the heroine Mary sneaked out from home to hang around in a night club where there was a live band - playing Love Potion No. 9 (The Searchers). D'Spectacles played that role. Recording and mixing had been done in Mark One Music, we just needed to act on stage! Since then we never played that song again...

Venue: 德福商場露天休憩地方. Organized by 德福商場 during Easter Holidays. Songs: 分享快樂 (original) ,愛的昇華 (original Lyrics), 明天會更好. 小島, Beyond were among other performers.

A fund-raising concert organized by 樹仁新聞系Fundamental, 小島, 太極, 達明一派 were among the other performers

Venue: ATV. Fizz Bizz, an English channel program of ATV, provided us an opportunity to perform. We were given an interview and played two songs: Desperate for Time and Daylight Again / Find The Cost Of Freedom.

Venue: Sir Run Run Hall CUHK. Fund-raising concert organized by United Hall of CUHK. Raidas, 凡風, 達明一派,太極 were among the other performers. How I wish I could go back in time and be an audience sitting there to watch the show!

D'Spectacles participated in this project covering Folk Classics in the two volumes. Song covered included I'll Have to Say I Love You In A Song (Jim Croce), Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce), Carry On Till Tomorrow (Badfinger), The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel), Crying In the Rain (Everly Brothers), Unicorn Song (Peter, Paul & Mary), Jamaica Farewell as well as 昨夜的渡輪上 (李炳文). Kenneth Fong was associate producer and there was added opportunity for us to act as " session guitarist". The audio link at this event box is Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel) we covered. Someone uploaded our version and that triggered much debate about who were the performers. Anyway, they seemed to like what they heard.

Venue: A.C. Hall. Organized by Joint Schools & Universities chaired by St. Louis School - sought to bring back guitar as a prominent part of teenagers' life as opposed to CD Walkman and snooker cue! Alvin Kwok 郭小霖, Danny Summer, Albert Au were among the performers

Terry 龍影霞 initiated project on a folk song album and D'Spectacles took part in it and contributed three original songs: Desperate For Time and 與您此刻度過 和咖啡心曲. Terry was a passionate singer and we appreciate the opportunity to collaborate. Kenneth Fong was the arranger and producer of the album. The album included new songs of 玻璃都市, 走過, and the hit song of 南Ｙ島的故事. In the production of the album we had to take various album photos and had to be "appropriately dressed". We appreciate the help of Paul Wat as our image and style adviser.

Venue: 香港會議展覽中心. D'Spectacles was 1 of 33 on the list of 最有前途新人獎候選名單. The list included 王傑, 關淑怡,蘇永康 (the three winners), 譚耀文, ECHO, 風之Group (yes Kenneth Fong), 趙傳 and 王靖雯 (王斐). Looking back, wanted to thank again 韋然 our manager for affording us the opportunity. During the show, the artists each had to perform a song segment on stage on after the other and D'Spectacles was assigned the song 無心睡眠 (張國榮) - great! We had the opportunity to meet with a number of celebrities and the most rewarding experience was that we had a reunion with 張學友 5 years after the 十八區歌唱大賽.

Venue: 理工大學賽馬會綜藝館. Organized by 銀星制作 and 音樂農莊. We played Helplessly Hoping. Other performers included Sunny Wong, William Chan, 鄧惠欣,李炳文,區桂芬, Trinity of course Albert Au 區瑞強 - 麥潤壽 & Friends was special guest.

Venue: 大埔文娛中心演奏廰. Organized by 康樂及文化事務署主辦. This is a serial folk concerts held in various Government concert halls. This particular one has performers: Capo, Sunny Wong 黃汝燊 & Do Re Me Fa So, 鄭瑞芬, 蔡美璞

Venue: 元朗劇院演藝廰 (9/11) 及 北區大會堂演奏廰 (10/11). Organized by 康樂及文化事務署主辦. This is a serial folk concert held in various Government concert halls. Capital, Fillys, Trinity II, Sunny &Do Re Me, 鄧惠欣, 李龍基 were among the other performers. We played Desperado (Eagles), My Fair Share (Seals & Croft), Nowhere Man (Beatles) and 普通朋友 (David Tao)

Venue: 大埔小白鷺餐廳. It was a music gig that I cannot recall much except that I clearly remember we played More Than Words (Extreme) with Boris 哥哥 joining D'Spectacles for the show (note his black lens spectacles!)

Venue: 香港文化中心音樂廰. A fund-raising concert organized by Christian Action. We played to " new songs". I Believe was Korea tune with English lyrics that we wrote. 普通朋友 was a great choice for the night. The others performers include 李炳文, 袁鳳英, 楊天經, 潘健康. 黎耀祥及李盈姿. If I remember correctly, right after the concert we went to Micheal 叔叔 及 Boris 哥哥主持的Web Radio 做訪問並再唱普通朋友.

Venue: Amelia Island, Florida. The Guitar Workshop was sponsored by Takamine Guitars with Brad Davis and was hosted by Bill Kaman (previous owner of Kaman Music Corporation which owned the brands of Ovation, Adamas & Takamine guitars). Brad Davis taught his innovative flat picking technique - "double-down-up". Brad Davis staged a guitar solo show in the evening and D'Spectacles did the opening act for Brad Davis - the show was followed by a jam session. We played Helplessly Hoping (CSN), Angels Rejoiced (Nicolette Larson), Teach Your Children (CSNY), Just A Song Before I Go (CSN). One remark made by Mrs. Kaman that amused us: "You do not need to bring guitars to Bill's event, just like you don't bring sand to the beach!" Note: during that time both Michael Wong and Kenny Wong were living in the US.

Venue: 沙田公園露天劇場. This an annual event organized by 香港友Folk chaired by Uncle Micheal Tsui. This was the first time that D'Spectacles participated the key event in the Hong Kong scene as D'Spectacles became active again after a long hiatus. Meeting all the old music friends and renewing our acquaintance were most rewarding. We played Wasted On The Way (CSN), Find The Cost Of Freedom/Daylight Again (CSN), Too Much Heaven (Bee Gees) and 智慧 (original)

Venue: KITEC Kowloon Bay. 「真心不變聖芳濟」聯校匯演 joint show by SFX Kowloon and Tsuen Wan. D'Spectacles with all members being SFX Alumni was invited to perform singing. Harry Ng 伍仲衡 and Kenneth Fong 方樹樑, well-known song writers and music producers in HK music industry, are both SFX alumni. 林超榮 (超人) 傳媒人 and 李燦榮博士 are well-known media figures and aptly played the role of MC. Last but not least, the event reminisced about the school life of Bruce Lee 李小龍 and Michael Hui 許冠文.

Venue: 柴灣青年廣場Y綜藝館. Manifested from the continued effort by 香港友Folk and 青韻民歌組 in promoting Folk song culture in Hong Kong, this concert gathered the Folk Groups who have been active since the 80' to revisit some folk classics and share their originals. The performing group included D'Spectacles, Mercury, Young Strings, Fillys, Capital, Capo and Ching Wan. It was exciting to meet and interact with fellow folk groups. The MC were Uncle Michael and Boris 哥哥 who brought us back to the web radio video footage and did a on-stage live chat which was a thoughtful arrangement. The songs we played were Helplessly Hoping (CSN), Teach Your Children (CSN), No That We're Older (original), 多少 (original), How Deep Is Your Love (Take That - cover).

Venue: Cotton Club Causeway Bay. With invitation by Uncle Michael who organized a mini-concert staged by a few folk and pop groups. The venue was cosy and close to audience. We played a session covering some Bee Gees song (Run To Me, New York Mining Disaster, To Love Somebody), Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac). Other performers of the event included B&B, Razones, Cherry & Friends, Acoustic Harmony, HK Country Road Band.

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. D'Spectacles was pleased to be joining the annual event of  香港友Folk 馬拉松民歌音樂會. We had the full team with Kenneth Joining. We played Nowhere Man (Beatles), How Deep Is Your Love (Take That cover), Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel), We Are The World (USA for Africa). We did some modification in the arrangement of Nowhere Man and added a prologue to the introduction Scarborough Fair.

Venue: 荃灣大會堂.  The concert was organized by 荃湾民政事務處 as part of 25th 荃灣藝術節. The performing units included 鄧惠欣, Tri's Hi's, Mercury, Fillys, Capo, D'Spectacles, Andy Tai 戴志偉 and Capital. Songs that we played were teach Your Children (CSNY), And I Love Her (Beatles), How Deep Is Your Love (Take That - cover), Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel), You've Got A Friend (Carole King). The ending song by all groups was Blowing In The Wind (Bob Dylan)

Venue: Headquarters of DBC at Cyberport.  A music program at DBC was hosted by 張崇德,張崇基 and the episode was aimed at promoting the Soundbeat 60s & 70s charity concert with 大Al and Uncle Micheal introducing and pitching for the show. 戴志偉 and D'Spectacles as performing units were present to deliver a few tunes. D'Spectacles played My Fair Share (Seals & Croft) and I Was Only Joking (Rod Stewart). 戴志偉 played Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce) and Kenny helped played the second guitar.

Venue: 理工大學賽馬會綜藝館.  The event was organized by Chi Heng Foundation amassing musicians from quite a few popular bands who were active in the 60s and 70s'. Uncle Michael was instrumental on the line up. Among the performing units were Lotus, The Playboys, The Jade, Mystics, D'Celtics, Fantastics, D'Spectacles and 戴志偉. Joe Junior was Guest Performer. The event was attended by the then Secretary for Food and Health, the HKSAR 高永文醫生 as Guest of Honour. The songs we played were And I Love Her (Beatles), You've Got A Friend (Carole King) and Take It Easy (Eagles).

Venue: 荃灣愉景新城 - This Folk Songs Marathon was part of the 26th Arts Festival Tsuen Wan. Tri's Hi's and D'Spectacles were among the performers of the day. The line up of D'Spectacles added has our "guest" keyboardist - King Fong to spice up the arrangement of our song 多少 (original) .

Venue: Hog Kong Science Park Amphitheatre - beautiful surround near the promenade.  The event was organized by Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks. The performing units were Capo, D'Spectacles, M.A.D and 戴志偉. The poster was designed by HK famous illustrator Adam Chow (i.e. M.A.D.結他手 ) showcasing creativity based on Albert Einstein famous equation: E=Music 2 which would be highly relevant when you play music in the Science Park creating energy at the audience! We played: The World Is Getting Smaller (Mark Dinning), 愛我別走 (張震嶽) among other songs.

Venue: TVB. 香港友Folk has regularly promoted the Folk Marathon event at TVB's 文化廣場 program through an interview followed by a studio live folk singing performance. For the Folk Marathon 2013, D'Spectacles had the pleasure of participating in that program to help promote the event and folk song culture in HK.

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. D'Spectacles was pleased to be joining the annual event of  香港友Folk 馬拉松民歌音樂會. We played Now That We're Older (original), Crazy Love (Poco), The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) and If You Leave Me Now (Chicago).

Venue: 匯知中學. This was an event organized by  匯知中學 and 香港學界民歌協會 and other units. Tim Cho has long been the lead organizing member. Think about it, we have to develop new blood in order to sustain the folk song group singing culture in Hong Kong. That was admirable effort. D'Spectacles was glad to be playing a part in this mission as a guest performer. Kenneth Fong was the chief judge of the event. If I remember correctly the group coached by DD Chan won the champion. Well done! The songs we played on that day were Teach Your Children (CSNY), You've Got A Friend (James Taylor) and Dream Dream Dream (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band),

Venue: 香港堅道2號明愛大厦公眾禮堂. This concert was specially initiated by 香港友Folk as part of the year of 10th anniversary of HK Folk marathon. It aimed to bring memories to audience that the venue Caritas Centre 堅道明愛中心 was a very popular venue for folk concert in those golden days. The performers included 張麗瑾 (Lisa Cheung) who made her appearance specially for this event, Uncle Michael & Friends, D'Spectacles, Mercury, Simon & Ming and Capo. It was particularly a pleasure meeting with Lisa Cheung again after so many years. The event had drawn much attention to the local folk community with packed audience. In the final group singing we played Country Road (John Denver) and Dominic Chow 周啟生 joined us - with his magnificent keyboard jam. Everyone enjoyed the evening thoroughly!
[Songs D'Spectacles played: Desperate for Time (original), Black Bird (CSN cover version), Desperado (Eagles), 多少 (original), You've Got A Friend (Carole King)]

Venue: Tom Lee Academy Hall, Megabox, Kowloon Bay. D'Spectacles conceived the idea of staging a small concert with 3 folk groups and the result was this You've Got A Friend Folk Concert by D'Spectacles, Tri's Hi's and Young Strings and we call ourselves Love - The Sounds of Folk. The format was such that we would collaborate on a song between the performing groups transition - it was a real good experience playing Seven Bridges Road (Eagles cover) with Tri's Hi's leveraging all the vocals we had. D'Spectacles played Daylight Again/ Find The Cost Of Freedom (CSN), In My Life (CSN cover), Jim Croce Medley, Longer (Dan Fogelberg), The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) and Desperate For Time (original). THe final group song was Country Road (John Denver).

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. Congratulations 香港友Folk and well done to the organizing committee for reaching this significant milestone. This effort, to say the least, is maintaining a momentum of folk singing in HK! to D'Spectacles was pleased to be joining this 10th year anniversary event of  香港友Folk 馬拉松民歌音樂會. We played Dream Dream Dream (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band cover), Jim Croce Medley (Time in a bottle, New York's Not My Home, Alabama Rain, Age), Desperado (Eagles), Longer (Dan Fogelberg), 多少 (original), Take It Easy (Eagles)

Venue: Science Promenade. Organized by AM730. Tri's Hi's and D'Spectacles had been invited to performing folk songs in the carnival with wine. [D'Spectacles played Teach Your Children (CSNY), Dream, Dream Dream (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), You've Got A Friend (Carole King). Imagine (John Lennon)

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. It's Folk Marathon time again. D'Spectacles was pleased to be part of it. We played Boat On The River (Styx), More Than Words (Extreme), Salt Water (Julian Lennon), Leaving On A Jet Plane (John Denver), Imagine (John Lennon). Would like to still mention the song Salt Water - first heard it from Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins album playing fingerpicking duet and was captivated by its melody and we did incorporate TE's riff into our version.

Venue: RTHK. Together with Albert Au, D'Spectacles and Young Strings played for 3 hours of folk songs.

Venue: 香港社會福利機構 organized singing contest and D'Spectacles was invited as performing guest in the final event. Songs we played: Too Much Love (Bread), My Fair Share (Seals & Crofts), While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles). K K Lau, a vocal coach, was the lead in the event as well as a judge.

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. Let's Folk Together! 一起走過有Folk的日子... On that day D'Spectacles once again left behind their footprints in 香港友Folk annual event. We played While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles), Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel) and a Beatles medley .

Venue: In Hong Kong there are music lovers who own their own mini concert venue and one of our music friends Francis Wong had kindly invited us to join one of his Tuesday music nights. At the scene, there were other musicians and singers who played at professional level. Francis himself is a drummer. There was also a nice kitchen and delicious food was part of the program. We played My Fair Share (Seals & Crofts), Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel), The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel), Beatles medley. You can also see we collaborated with Francis on Puff The Magic Dragon!

Venue: Independent Studio. HK Folk participated in the CIBS program organized by RTHK and had won enough support to be granted to materialize their proposal - which was to selected and interview the key Folk Groups in Hong Kong and have them share their experience and stories n their Folk singing journey. D'Spectacles was one of the 13 groups. With Uncle Michael (Chairman of HK Folk) and Frankie Cheong (Vice Chairman) as the interviewers. D'Spectacles was more than pleased to support this initiatives and passion for Folk singing promotion in HK. It was a indeed a very good experience for D'Spectacles as a group to reminisce and reflect the the past and project the future - though after all group folk singing remains a main source of joy. D'Spectacles played Helplessly Hoping (CSN), Find The Cost Of Freedom/Daylight Again (CSN), Desperate for Time (original), 咖啡心曲 (original) and Now That We're Older (original),

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. Let's Folk Forever ! 一起[弦]續有Folk的日子... Sure, D'Spectacles supported the slogan and to deliver that we must collaborate to continue to renew ourselves. We had the idea to play some Seals & Croft tunes and invited our long-standing friend Sumboy to play the Mandolin. To make a fuller arrangement, Sumboy helped us connect with Hanrik on bass and with Ammes on Cajon. It was a unique team effort that had gone down in record. The songs the team played were Windflowers, The Boy Down The Road, Diamond Girls (all Seals & Croft) and Delilah (Tom Jones). Special thanks to Sumboy, Hanrik and Ammes again.

Venue: 赤柱廣場露天劇場. Michael Wong was visiting HK from the US and there was no better treat than to bring him to the HK Folk Marathon. Song we played were Teach Your Children (CSNY), Leader Of The Band (Dan Fogelberg), Cheyenne (Meisberg & Walter) and Eagles medley (Take It Easy, Lying Eyes, Peaceful Easy Feeling)

Venue: 柴灣柴門西餐廳CmOn. Luke Sir 曾智華 has engaged a group of individuals who have hearts for charity and music and he organized on regular basis gathering of dinner-followed-by music. Tri's Hi's, D'Spectacles and Sampson Chan were invited to the event and we would play folk classics. Luke Sir has strong respect for music and he would arrange an intermission to re-arrange all the dinner tables to concert seating setting so the group can thoroughly enjoy the music.

Venue: 柴灣柴門西餐廳CmOn. Luke Sir 曾智華 has engaged a group of individuals who have hearts for charity and music and he organized on regular basis gathering of dinner-followed-by music. Tri's Hi's, D'Spectacles and Sampson Chan were invited to the event and we would play folk classics.

Venue: Club One, Tsim Sha Tsui. Luke Sir 曾智華 organized a charity dinner gathering for his 同學會 and D'Spectacles was invited to perform . The song themes were Bees Gees and 林子祥. Johnny & Kenny played Grease, Words, Emotion, 似夢迷離, 抉擇, 這一個夜, 邁步向前 and 海市蜃樓. We finally found the opportunity to play Grease and Emotion as they are both composed by the Bee Gees! Tri's Hi's, Felix & Alex, 楊振耀, Lanno & Friends Band. Many thanks again for the professional "Lanno band" for their help in our music backing.

Venue: Online. Due to COVID-19, many music concerts have been cancelled - but not this one! The organizer HK Folk managed to pull off its annual event Folk Music Marathon with live streaming technology reaching out to audience throughout HK and worldwide. D’Spectacles was one of 26 music groups performing online with pre-corded performance. D’Spectacles played Nowhere Man (Beatles), If (Bread), Temple of the King (Rainbow) and Just A Song Before I Go (CSN). Given that we were not able to meet each other, audio and video production had been done individually and files transfer! All in all, it was an enjoyable and unique experience.  D’Spectacles had taken the opportunity of its forthcoming 40th anniversary to premiere a special review of the journey of the Group since its formation in 1981.

Boat On The River (Styx) cover
With continued COVID-19 restriction, delivering singing performance online has become the new normal. In conjunction with the launch of D’Spectacles Facebook page, we made a studio version of Boat On The River (Styx) which was our Pop Folk contest winning song on 22nd January 1981 when D’Spectacles made its first official public appearance. This studio version was delivered together with a self-made video which combined the video clip of a stage performance in the 80’ with the latest audio track. It was worth the effort to make the music video. It brought us back some good memories as we embarked on the 40th anniversary of the formation of D'Spectacles.

Battles (Axe) cover
Exactly 40 years ago on 28th February 1981 we performed this song in a folk concert called 大型民歌二二八. Don’t think that we ever played this song again on stage. The 40th anniversary of the band is a great opportunity to revisit the good songs that we have overlooked and is worth the efforts for a studio production with full music arrangement. Battles is necessarily one of those. Though the introduction is 1”18” long, music video with coherent images – in this case a windy desert in the middle of the night – has helped build up the song’s atmosphere.

The Logical Song (Supertramp) cover
The Logical Song, released by an English rockband Supertramp in 1979. D’Spectacles performed the song back in 1981 in aconcert named 大型民歌三二四 on 24 March 1981 with two vocals and two acoustic guitars.The song has a beautiful melody and magical lyrics that connected instantly toaudience, addressing the evolving stages of life from innocent childhood,through confused adolescence to disillusioned adulthood. Again The Logical Songis another great song we have not played even one more time since then. Torevisit our journey, we decided to cover the song again in a studio versionfollowing mostly the original arrangement – though we had to deliver theinterlude instrumental solo with guitar (we’ll incorporate saxophone in futureopportunity) and we added our own version of vocal harmony.  

愛的昇華 (music: 白い夏バレンシア by The Alfee | Lyrics: Kenny Wong )
This song “愛的昇華”is a piece of work by D'Spectacles in the 1980s, which would be classified as “new lyrics, old melody”. At that time, Hong Kong was in the midst of a boom of local band and local music work; and The Alfee Japanese folk rock and multi-parts vocal harmony styles attracted D’Spectacles. We wrote Chinese lyrics on The Alfee's "白い夏バレンシア"melody and took it to the stage as our "own song". D'Spectacles' last public performance of “愛的昇華 was at the Telford Pop Concert in 1986. 35 years later in 2021, we took the opportunity to record it in our home studio and activated this long-buried old song. It not only triggered our members’ past memories, but also left behind another new "footprint" for the band journey! We hope this song “愛的昇華” that is brought over literally from the last century will find its followers.

D’Spectacles has embarked on its journey to roll out original songs that have been composed by the Group over the years. 唱盡人心意 is a piece of music worked collaborate by the Group; Kenny composed the music (while in the US) and Johnny wrote the lyrics in HK during the period of 2000’.  The song has a folk style with a swing feel rhythm, featuring acoustic guitar and progressive vocal harmony arrangement and conveying positive energy through the high-impact lyrics.  The song arrangement is one that has been mostly conceived during the melody writing phase – including that of the swing feel and walking bass. While the guitar solo part was a complete new development, the song embedded the influence of Jerry Reed in some of the guitar fill-in as developed in the original arrangement ideas. The vocal harmony arrangement was carefully crafted note-by-note to enhance the flavor of the chord progression.

D'Spectacles releases a new song <回味> to pay tribute to the 80s Cantopop songs of Hong Kong. There is no better way to produce a new song of the 80s by doing it with raw ingredients of the 80s! The new song just released by D'Spectacles has its melody composed and lyrics written back in1989. Special thanks to Mr. Chan Siu Kei who had written the song for us in just a day back in 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWjLO0sBOm0&t=2s
and it has taken us D'Spectacles 32 years to bring this song to life! The song is officially released today and we hope that it is worth the wait! The song's arrangement, including a long guitar solo outro, together with the crafted MV, attempted to create the images of the lyrics written.

D’Spectacles made its 10th appearance at the 香港友FOLK 2021 音樂會 Folk Music Marathon. Under continued impact by the COVID-19, HK Folk once again delivered a great show for the folk lovers worldwide with its creativity and professionalism as evidenced by the high quality production. D’Spectacles performed live in real time four songs: Survival (America), Love’s An Easy Song (Meisburg and Walter), You World and My World (Albert Hammond) and Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel). Love’s An Easy Song is D’Spectacles long-cherished song in its repertoire and we took the opportunity to play the song in this unique stage ambience.

Kenny Wong had been invited as guest guitarist and harmony vocal singer at the online singing program of WSM Music (環星音樂) hosted by Raymond Young (楊立門) which lasted for 16 Episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGdAtqsEZ5nt7ZVE0luDcNIBvUPcAxTPa
‍In Episodes 13 &14, Johnny Fong has been invited as guest performer and together with Raymond Young, the three of us performed a quite a few favorites songs of D’Spectacles including:
Episode 13: Nowhere Man, Helplessly Hoping, Scarborough Fair, Now That We're Older (original), You've Got A Friend
Episode 14: And I Love Her, What A Wonderful World, Crazy Love, Desperate For Time (original), Teach Your Children

Against the background that D’Spectacles had participated in a number of Folk Singing Contest and its band leader Kenny Wong had a passion to bring back the memories of the Folk Contest Songs of the ‘70s/‘80s, and together with the commitment of the active Folk organizations in Hong Kong, namely Hong Kong Folk Club and Ching Wan Folk Group, in promoting folk music to general public in Hong Kong, the Project “ “Hong Kong ‘70s/‘80s Folk Contest Songs - Legacy Series ” was launched which aims to leave behind a legacy to the Hong Kong folk scene. Kenny Wong would pick 20 folk contest songs and roll it out one song after another in three batches. In each song roll-out, there is introduction of the song composer and lyricist, original artist, released year and the contest in which each song was performed; in addition there are also technical analysis of the guitar accompaniment, song arrangement, lead vocal and harmony. The first batch of contest songs consisted of: 1. Ventura Highway, 2. The Bird Man, 3. Leaves That Are Green, 4. Eagle Feather (video 1), 5. Rocky Road (video 2), and 6. Mexican Divorce.

The Hong Kong ‘70s/‘80s Folk Contest Songs Project was completed with 21 favorite folk/folk rock songs rolled out, highlighting the name of contest, the contestant, and the final placement. In addition to the full lyric-chord flow displayed through YouTube video of the original / contest version, each song was given a technical analysis on its arrangement, guitar chord progression and vocal harmony. HK Folk Contest Song YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FrRSJ-75bzeVn3pAlB9aQ
Attaching links to video above for two contest songs: 1. Desperate For Time. 2. Within You'll Remain
With view to capturing the musical content of the contest songs, three compilations of the eSongbook were produced alongside for future legacy.
Compilation 1: https://designrr.page/?id=249559&token=2196734320&type=FP&h=9588
‍Compilation 2: https://designrr.page/?id=266233&token=552978428&type=FP&h=2248
‍Compilation 3: https://designrr.page/?id=281164&token=1331745309&type=FP&h=3360
D’Spectacles took pride in being part of this golden peiord of folk contest in Hong Kong and left behind footprints in its music journey and the contest songs became our fingerprints, our signature songs.
Special thanks to HK Folk https://hkfolk.org/ and Ching Wan Folk Group http://cwfolknet.com/html/ for their ardent support in the project.

D’Spectacles has been participating in this major annual folk marathon event by HK Folk Club almost every year since 2011. Each and every year’s participation was a unique experience for us and this year 2023 is no exception. Of the 5 songs we performed, two were original. The run-down was as follows:1. Ventura Highway 2. Her Town Too 3. Now That We’re Older 4. We’ll Be Okay 5. Watching The River. Ventura Highway and Watching The River Run are two songs that we have longed for playing and for the first time D’Spectacles delivered them on stage.