Last Friday, I had the chance to sit down with Hong Kong band Lucid Express during Wavelength Music Festival.
I’ll be uploading the full audio from the interview soon—just a heads up, you may catch bits of Pizza Bush’s soundcheck happening in the background.
Here is a edited version from the transcription via iPhone’s voice memos:
So, my first question is, uh, is this, like, your 1st time in Canada?
LE: Yes. You, your pronounce is good. And yes, I think it’s our 1st time traveling to Canada and also our 1st time to play here.
Yeah, so it’s excited. Yes, yeah. This is all of our first TV, though, right?
Yeah, it is our first time playing here. And, um, we just visit the Niagara falls this morning, and this is very beautiful, and, yeah.
The first time I heard the music, I was like, oh, wow so surprised that you are singing in English
How come you didn’t like try to sing in like Cantonese, or Mandarin for you?
LE: Because my Cantonese, no, my Chinese is as bad, too. Yeah, I’m too. Yeah. Baby, baby. English is more… I’ve expressed myself more in English. Okay. And my mandarin sucks.
So your 2nd album, Instant Comfort, where did that title Instant Comfort come from?
LE:The title is actually one of the song titled things from the tracks from the album. And it’s actually the last track of the album, and we hope that people after they listen to this album, they could have an instant sense of comfort. So that’s why the name.
Is it okay to talk about politics in Hong Kong or?
Oh, you really? Oh, okay. How’s like Hong Kong like at the moment?
LE: Hong Kong like a mess right now. Yeah, it’s pretty much, yes. Pretty much a mess. I think it’s decaying pretty quickly. So if you want to visit Hong Kong, you should do it quickly. Oh yeah alot of development, like, not seeing as previous, and, like, they changed the direction, like, quite a lot, and, but, yeah, like, for me, I think is my main feeling.
It is mess anymore, but it is kind of done. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is it hard to do shows in Hong Kong too?
LE: Yes, I think… Because, like, the show currently, maybe, if you want to just watch, like, a really local band, and usually it costs the ticket, maybe, like, 300 to 400 Hong Kong dollars, and if you want to watch something like foreigner, and each price is about 400, the main reason is just the rental cost is just too high.
Yeah. Like, radio stations, like, I guess okay?
Like, it’s a hard to play your song, your music to be played on those stations.
But you were RTHK’s YouTube and was surprised. But that’s different, is it?
LE: Oh, weird. We are over quite surprised too. Oh okay. Well, yeah, okay. But I guess because it’s, yeah, I mean, it’s Hong Kong. I don’t know.
Anyways, thank you so much, and I’m excited to see the show tonight.
