According to Mr. Le Van Thanh Hung, lecturer of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Science , “Rock is a type of music that almost anyone entering the Architecture industry is… passionate about”. That is probably the reason why the Hue Faculty of Architecture is the starting point of the first rock-loving “groups” in Hue.
Nguyen Thai Son (born 1992), a rock lover and pioneer in rock at this time, recalls: “People with the same passion for rock gathered together, passed around CDs and memorized every song on them.” To have a student “rock band”, they divided the work among themselves, some learned drums, some learned guitar, some learned bass… These first bands were small, formed to satisfy their passion. They played music among thousands of people, enjoying hearing their names shouted in a passionate and enthusiastic way.
After a period of “making waves”, Rock Storm ended, and Hue ’s rock culture gradually faded away. Old bands stopped to focus on their work after a period of passion, while new bands chose to play many different genres, no longer purely rock. Mr. Thanh Hung commented: “Nowadays, young people are more talented and have more conditions than before, but they do not have a solid foundation because of the mixture of too many music genres.”
As social networks develop, people can easily access their favorite music , the need to gather to listen to music or directly participate in music performances is reduced. This goes against rock culture, the music that "gathers" in the hustle and bustle. Mr. Thanh Hung shared that when listening to rock, you have to listen with a large group, and you have to attend live performances to feel the spirit of rock.
In a rock show, when the music is at its peak, the audience standing below, even if they don’t know each other, can still sing and dance together. The characteristics of this music are wild, free, and spontaneous, bringing explosions, enthusiasm, and spreading to everyone. On stage, the artist is like a conductor, and the audience becomes a band… This is the connection of rock.
In recent years, rock music has been gradually making a comeback. According to Mr. Thai Son, this is obvious, the law of “the movement subsides, the movement rises again” when rock lovers are still there. Some people, after achieving a certain level of success, return to invest in rock, to be able to relive the passion of their youth.
The rock show “Comeback to the Ancient Capital” was the first step marking the official return of rock to Hue. The two “hosts” Napalm and Cochinchine, the band Ca Hoi Hoang, the band Brainwave, runner-up of the Rock Viet program and the legend Buc Tuong made thousands of Hue audiences excited. After that, rock music nights began to appear more frequently. Occasionally, there were also performances with careful investment, such as Rock in Hue at Queen bar or the Rock show “Running from Flood” of the Faculty of Architecture, Hue University of Sciences. In all of those performances, the audience always burned with all their might.
To fully enter Hue, this music genre still has a long way to go. Stronger, more intense branches such as "metal rock", "hard rock" are loved by many people but performing in Hue is still very difficult. Most recently, the bands District 105, Bao, Taiyoken, ... representatives of the "heavy" music genre from Saigon, chose Hue as one of the stops on the road to conquer Vietnam. However, the "investors" in Hue are still hesitant. Mr. Huynh Hoang Huy (Founder of District 105) said: "I went to Hue once, the rock lovers here are very crowded, so I chose this place as the stop of the tour. However, they are still a bit hesitant, this uncertainty makes the brothers in the group a bit... discouraged".
Rock is returning to the ancient capital, something that rock enthusiasts all feel...
In May, in Hue there is a rock music event, “Rock de Hue”, the event is carefully prepared with famous bands of the ancient capital, such as: Napalm, Cochinchine, Free Birds.
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