|
H.U.B. Setlist
Read More
|
South Korea’s H.U.B. (“Hope U Bounce”) is currently on their very first American promotional tour, stopping by the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis on Thursday night.
The show started with a local DJ (show poster lists FZ Flexzone) playing various K-Pop songs to a group of highly energetic young music fans. They all formed a circle around one or two dancers, who were eager to strut their stuff. The crowd was a young diverse group, everyone from Asian boys & girls to Asian-Indians with headscarf to American fans. Of course, they were all filming everything on their cellphone, and they loved every bit of it. This tells me the K-Pop community in Minneapolis is strong... especially after the show at the “Meet & Greet”, where nearly 90% of everyone at the show had upgraded V.I.P. passes.
JRE & Kenny (aka KeNNyBoy) were the master of ceremonies and announcers. They also served as a sort of hypemen, and sometime would help vamp up time while the girls are backstage busy with costume changes. JRE & Kenny said that Minneapolis was the best show they’ve been to so far (“Miami and Atlanta’s got nothing on Minneapolis!”)
MKDC (“Minnesota Kpop Dance Crew”) started the actual show. This was the girl dance team, they’ve been dancing together for about four years, and many of them are U of M students. They only prepared dance routines for two songs, the first was to Salt ‘N Pepa’ ‘Whatta Man’ and the second was to pop song I didn’t recognize. It was very brief (about 10 mins), but really a nice, but unexpected, way of starting the show.
Korean-American hip-hop duo JC Park & Salv was the main opener, with a 40-min set. JC Park & Salv mentioned that they’re from Minneapolis.
They started with songs like ‘Ah Yeah’ (“I’m on fire, baby”) for two or three songs before being joined on stage by rapper Dio C. After some intense dancing, both Dio C and JC took off their shirts. Salv, unwilling to join in on the topless show, joked, “I’m not gonna take off my shirt, y’all. I don’t look like that!”
By the time JRE and Kenny joined on stage to help sing a song, everybody was going wild, spraying bottled water and just really enjoying themselves.
They ended their set with ‘U Mad Boo’, with production beats by menohbeats.
H.U.B. is a brand new K-Pop idol group. Originally with only four members in 2016 (Gracie, Rui, Yuem, and Keina), they recently added Hyosun to the group. It should be noted that all the band members have side solo projects, especially band leader Gracie (who sang an original solo song on their set) and Japanese singer Rui, formerly of N-Bulance.
Since the band is brand new, with only three singles released, the band filled up their set with mostly cover songs. The two leads, Gracie and Yuem, both had their solo moments, but they mostly are seen on stage together with choreographed dance routines.
The main problem with these type of shows is that they require costume changes. We’ve seen Madonna, Lily Allen, and Selena Gomez, and how they handle costumes is that they have 5-min intermissions. For example, Allen had dancers and DJs while she’s backstage changing. Madonna and Selena had music videos (custom-made for the show). H.U.B. didn’t have these things - they had JRE & Kenny - but they sometime weren’t waiting in the wing! So that sometime left Gracie on stage alone, trying to keep us entertained. At least we found out that she lived in Chicago for six years before moving back to South Korea.
The coolest thing I’ve seen is that H.U.B. would take a fan’s phone and take selfies for Instagram ... it wasn’t just one person, it was for all the fans trying to give them their phone. I’ve never seen anything quite like that.
NOTE: Setlist may be incorrect, they are based on my notes and not off an official setlist.
The show started with a local DJ (show poster lists FZ Flexzone) playing various K-Pop songs to a group of highly energetic young music fans. They all formed a circle around one or two dancers, who were eager to strut their stuff. The crowd was a young diverse group, everyone from Asian boys & girls to Asian-Indians with headscarf to American fans. Of course, they were all filming everything on their cellphone, and they loved every bit of it. This tells me the K-Pop community in Minneapolis is strong... especially after the show at the “Meet & Greet”, where nearly 90% of everyone at the show had upgraded V.I.P. passes.
JRE & Kenny (aka KeNNyBoy) were the master of ceremonies and announcers. They also served as a sort of hypemen, and sometime would help vamp up time while the girls are backstage busy with costume changes. JRE & Kenny said that Minneapolis was the best show they’ve been to so far (“Miami and Atlanta’s got nothing on Minneapolis!”)
MKDC (“Minnesota Kpop Dance Crew”) started the actual show. This was the girl dance team, they’ve been dancing together for about four years, and many of them are U of M students. They only prepared dance routines for two songs, the first was to Salt ‘N Pepa’ ‘Whatta Man’ and the second was to pop song I didn’t recognize. It was very brief (about 10 mins), but really a nice, but unexpected, way of starting the show.
Korean-American hip-hop duo JC Park & Salv was the main opener, with a 40-min set. JC Park & Salv mentioned that they’re from Minneapolis.
They started with songs like ‘Ah Yeah’ (“I’m on fire, baby”) for two or three songs before being joined on stage by rapper Dio C. After some intense dancing, both Dio C and JC took off their shirts. Salv, unwilling to join in on the topless show, joked, “I’m not gonna take off my shirt, y’all. I don’t look like that!”
By the time JRE and Kenny joined on stage to help sing a song, everybody was going wild, spraying bottled water and just really enjoying themselves.
They ended their set with ‘U Mad Boo’, with production beats by menohbeats.
H.U.B. is a brand new K-Pop idol group. Originally with only four members in 2016 (Gracie, Rui, Yuem, and Keina), they recently added Hyosun to the group. It should be noted that all the band members have side solo projects, especially band leader Gracie (who sang an original solo song on their set) and Japanese singer Rui, formerly of N-Bulance.
Since the band is brand new, with only three singles released, the band filled up their set with mostly cover songs. The two leads, Gracie and Yuem, both had their solo moments, but they mostly are seen on stage together with choreographed dance routines.
The main problem with these type of shows is that they require costume changes. We’ve seen Madonna, Lily Allen, and Selena Gomez, and how they handle costumes is that they have 5-min intermissions. For example, Allen had dancers and DJs while she’s backstage changing. Madonna and Selena had music videos (custom-made for the show). H.U.B. didn’t have these things - they had JRE & Kenny - but they sometime weren’t waiting in the wing! So that sometime left Gracie on stage alone, trying to keep us entertained. At least we found out that she lived in Chicago for six years before moving back to South Korea.
The coolest thing I’ve seen is that H.U.B. would take a fan’s phone and take selfies for Instagram ... it wasn’t just one person, it was for all the fans trying to give them their phone. I’ve never seen anything quite like that.
NOTE: Setlist may be incorrect, they are based on my notes and not off an official setlist.
|
H.U.B. at Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (06 July 2017) |
|
MKDC |
MKDC |
JC Park & Salv (with Dio C, JRE, and Kenny) |
Gracie Solo |
H.U.B. |
|
H.U.B. at Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (06 July 2017) |
Recent Comments