Thursday, November 10, 2005
Taiwanese boy band F4 aims to reunite for album, concert next year
HONG KONG -- The popular Taiwanese boy band F4 hopes to reunite for an album and a concert in Hong Kong next year, one of its members, Vanness Wu, said Monday.
Wu said arrangements are ongoing.
F4 has not formally disbanded, but the four band members have been pursuing individual careers.
Wu said he misses his days with F4.
"When we first went abroad for promotion, when we first came across fans, when things were crazy, it was the four of us together," Wu said at an event promoting his new action movie, "Dragon Squad."
"The four of us got where we are now together. We started out together. ... We have that friendship," he said.
F4 is famous for the TV show "Meteor Garden." The band was so popular in Southeast Asia that another member, Jerry Yan, was received by Philippine President Gloria Macapal Arroyo when he visited the country in November 2003.
The other F4 members are Ken Chu and Vic Chou.
"Dragon Squad" is the story of a group of young Interpol officers who pursue a fugitive taken by mercenaries in Hong Kong. Wu plays an Interpol officer from the U.S.
Wu also previously played a fighter in the action movie "Star Runner." (AP)
November 9, 2005
Mainichi News
=======
The F4 tour performs to sing again & enters the stage for a standard 4 million
Source : http://ent.tom.com/1306/1500/2005117-159793.html
November 2005
Translated by CRAZY4WU@onlyvanness
F4 has started prepating the next year nationwide round concert tour. One member has been reported to leave the group. Worried that the concert tour might not push through, the management concerned gave their piece. Jerry Yan is still a member of F4 since the time it started and up to now. F4's performances caused amusement frenzy in areas where they appeared together. But after finishing the round performance the time in many cities, F4 still kept on developing themselves with each solo-flight projects. To tell the truth, F4 has not separated concerning the concert tour next year, they just keep on developing each one in for awhile independently.
Media news in Hongkong and Singapore established news concerning Jerry Yan establishing his "STAR JERRY" company and it conveyed in the news that it pointed out that he himself becomes the president/owner. And because of this, Jerry might be absent in any F4 activities, but Zhi (PR Spokesperson for F4)denies the rumour, and said Jerry will soon become old and yet still a member of F4. With regards to his performances in the future with F4 as discussed before concerning detailed production cost it is not 6000000 because it is too high.
F4 is still very popular, and to tell the truth, it is very difficult for them to be together in a round performance because of for them, they are developing their own careers and they are being involved with lots of dramas, movies alone, each one of them are performing splendid and very busy with their own work. Because of that, plans for next year must be decided this year because they have yet to make necessary adjustments with their schedules.
Having an F4 album also next year is under negotiation and planning.
As for mainland performance in 2002 because production expense is high , ticket unit costs become even excessively high, and for the students, it will be impossible for them to buy, ticket sales might be affected with this. And now, the ticket prices have dropped for future appearances of F4 from $600,000 to between $300,000 and $400,000. Zhi expressed that F4 is still popular, they are just setting everything in order and confirmed that it will not be as high as the 2002 concert, but it doesn't mean F4 is no longer popular.
credit crazyforwu,onlyvanness
1:01 AM
