Christopher Leslie Evernden rapping in Macau.
Most people don’t know where or what the fuck Macau is. It’s an island; a former Portugese colony just off Hong Kong.
Most recently it’s become famous for being the largest gambling resort in the world. Yeah, larger than Los Vegas. A haven of drugs, whores and gambling.
Chris or “concept” as he now likes to be called, was booked in for a 2 month set at the Sands.
I know Chris looks mean, but I asked him and he said he was just posing.
Ayi looking really happy. I suppose you can’t tell but that’s a television screen behind her. It’s about 3 stories high with her picture on.
So Concept the rapper and his merry band set off to Macau. 6 people went in total:
- Eagle E – Manager
- Rachel – PR and Concepts girlfriend
- Ayi – A singer
- Christopher Leslie Evernden AKA CONCEPT – A Rapper
- A generic young blonde Spanish dancer
- Another generic young blonde Spanish dancer
I was pretty impressed when I got there. They’d been living in a 5 star hotel for 2 months. It’s actually a 4.5 star hotel, but still pretty fancy.
We took funny Asian pictures at the local mall and watched Ayi perform. Next on stage was a white guy from Liverpool singing Chinese. I’ll repeat that:
Liverpudlian in Macau singing Chinese? WTF.
And then it struck. He sounded good; really good, but then I had no clue what he was singing. In the same vein, Chris obviously sounded really good to an audience that couldn’t understand him. As much as I knock Chris down, he is actually pretty good.
They signed the Liverpudlian that sang in Chinese to their record label.
That night we got really drunk. Chris, Rachel and I went to Hong Kong. We got to the tourist area and ordered shot after shot. I introduced them to the continental way of drinking tequila. Orange and cinnamon instead of the Lemon and salt.
We drank so much so fast that the manager of that fine establishment bought us a round. An Irish car bomb. He grew up in London. We got his business card and then went to a fine club which he took us to.
Hong Kong is fun.
aside
Chris flew in on Oasis Hong Kong. He left on the midnight flight on the 9th. Oasis Hong Kong filed for bankruptcy on the 10th – Stranding thousands. Lucky fucker.
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