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King Ly Chee was put together in May
of 1999 and the full story and details of the
inception can be read in the various interviews
we've put up on our site. One in particular would be
the Fracture interview we did a few years ago...If
anyone is familiar with modern-day Asian culture -
you will know just how complex the circumstances are
in our cities around Asia. Its hard to make sense of
introducing an entire music-culture to a population
whose main language is not English and therefore
things need to be translated, written or sung in the
most accessible language. For Korea - things need to
be in Korean, in Taiwan - things need to be in
Mandarin, for Hong Kong - things need to be in
Cantonese. In general we focus on creating music
heavily centered on social issues that may or may
not be unique to our city (depending, of course, on
the topic of the song). We have always been fans of
message-oriented hardcore and less interested in the
make-up, hair dye, mascara, rocking out to poetic
gibberish "hardcore".
November 2000, we released our first album named "We Are Who We Are". In August 2002, we signed with a brand new local Hong Kong independent label called Polar Bear Production and released our second record "Stand Strong" in December of 2003. In January 2006, King Ly Chee independently released a split CD entitled Under One Flag with a European political punk band called Good Reason and followed the release up with a tour of Eastern Europe. In June of 2006 King Ly Chee got together with a bunch of other local Hong Kong bands and started a brand new record label called Start From Scratch Records! To find out more about this exciting new endeavor check out: www.startfromscratchrecords.com and www.myspace.com/startfromscratchrecords In the last 10 years we have played throughout Hong Kong and have traveled to other countries including several times in Taiwan, Korea, China (including Beijing, Wuhan, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou), and have completed two Southeast Asian Tours taking on the sights, sounds, culture of our bretheren in hardcore scenes of Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. It means a lot to us when people outside of Hong Kong are into checking us out...especially fellow hardcore bands - it proves to us that hardcore is TRULY a global community, and not just based on USA. |
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