Wang Leehom – The Free Show 2014 Live Concert Album

On Presale in Taiwan Starting 5/28, with Worldwide Distribution to Follow

Up Close and Personal at the 2014 Free Show

Each year, Leehom performs his first show on the evening of New Year’s Day, an intimate free show in front of a small audience instead of the usual 30,000-seat stadium. No theatrics, choreography, or big stage performance — just him, the fans, a small band, and the music.

After hitting Taipei in 2012 and Shanghai in 2013, the 2014 Free Show arrived in Singapore. 250 fans from various countries assembled to enjoy an evening of rousing melodies and tight beats. The musicians were all familiar faces, good friends with whom Leehom has worked for many years, and the set list was a mixture of popular singles and old favorites, all newly arranged to allow the musicians to take full advantage of the intimate setting, improvising freely and interacting closely with each other and with the fans.

For this album, we’ve left Leehom’s speaking sections in, so that listeners can best understand his own thoughts and perspective on each song and feel the closeness that the audience felt live that evening.

After three years without Leehom releasing new music, the Free Show 2014 whets audiences’ appetite for his upcoming album! The 10 live CD tracks and 7 live DVD videos are all sure to be instant classic recordings.

1) Love Rival Beethoven

The title track from Leehom’s very first album, released in 1995.

2) Dirty Love

From the album Heart Beat. Named the most exciting new arrangement by the fans, from straightforward rock to a playful new rendition.

3) You Can Tell Me (Who Else You Love)

From the album Forever’s First Day. A sweet soliloquy about loneliness and loss.

4) Forever’s First Day

From the album Forever’s First Day. Two long-distance lovers are finally reunited – if time changes anything, isn’t it that a long wait makes us better appreciate our every moment together?

5) Forgetting Time, Forgetting Myself (All I Think About is You)

The original English demo of a song from the album Forever’s First Day, for the first time performed in public.

6) Lullabye

Leehom commemorates the recent passing of a loved one with this cover of a song by Billy Joel.

7) Lean On Me

A cover of a song by Bill Withers. Leehom tells his fans that one thing he’s learned more than anything else how important it is to spend time with the people that matter to you.

8) Heart Beat

From the album Heart Beat. Finding someone to love is a wonderful thing. Jamie Wilson’s versatile guitar picking fuses classical and modern sounds.

9) Crying Palms

From the album Impossible to Miss You. This song about the pain of love is one of the classic ballads from Leehom’s early career.

10) I Feel Good (I Got You)

A cover of a song by James Brown. Leehom opens the song with a colorful mixture of singing and beatboxing. This song features wild solos from each of the band members including Leehom – much to their own and also the audience’s satisfaction!

DVD song list

1) Love Rival Beethoven

2) Dirty Love

3) You Can Tell Me (Who Else You Love)

4) Forever’s First Day

5) Forgetting Time, Forgetting Myself (All I Think About is You)

6) Lullabye

7) Lean On Me