Bức Tường

Bức Tường
Concert in 2011
Background information
Genres Rock, hard rock, rock metal
Years active 1995–2006, 2010–present (hiatus)
Labels Thang Long Audio & Visual
Website buctuong.com
Members
  • Trần Tuấn Hùng
  • Nguyễn Minh Đức
  • Vũ Văn Hà
  • Phạm Trung Hiếu
Past members
  • Trần Lập - lead singer
  • Nghiêm Mạnh Tuấn
  • Trần Quốc Khánh
  • Nguyễn Hoàng
  • Trần Nhất Hoàng
  • Nguyễn Duy Hùng
  • Nguyễn Đức Hiệp
  • Phan Thanh Bình
  • Trần Hồng Trường
  • Võ Anh Tuấn

Bức Tường ("The Wall") is one of the first professional Vietnamese glam metal band, formed in 1995 from Vietnam's National University of Civil Engineering in Hanoi. The band is considered to be the leader of Hanoi's rock scene.[1][2][3]

The band is now in hiatus due to their leader - Tran Lap's death in 2016.

History

In early 1996, Bức Tường had the opportunity to introduce themselves to the students and national audience with the song "We’re Bức Tường" or "We're the Wall" in the opening game of SV96 between three teams: Hanoi University of Technology, University National Economics, and the University of Architecture. Then, four years later, in the SV2000 finale, with upbeat tunes, vibrant of "Bình minh sinh viên 2000" and "Đường tới ngày vinh quang" or "Road to the glory", Bức Tường had impressed the audiences. This event was remarkable and a turning point in their musical career.

The band was chosen as the representative of Vietnamese contemporary music to attended the Festival "Vietnamese Faces – French Faces", which is organized in Cahors in the South of France from 26 September to 7 October 2003.[4]

On 25 April 2004, Bức Tường became the first band to perform a live concert in Music and friends of VTV3 .[5]

In November 2005, Bức Tường was the first band in Vietnam (and only till this point) has a tour across Vietnam. 4 concerts "9 +" was continuously held in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City.

After nearly 12 years, on 2 December 2006 farewell concert called "The last Saturday". It took place in front of 20,000 fans (it is consider as the largest concerts with the biggest number of fans in all of Bức Tường's concert) at the "Trung tâm Triển lãm Giảng Võ" or " Giang Vo Exhibition Center" in Hanoi.[6][7]

Members

Tran Lap - Lead Vocalist

Tran Tuan Hung

Nghiem Manh Tuan

Pham Trung Hieu

In July 2010, Bức Tường reunited with a new member, a bass player named Minh Duc (former member of the Marble Palace, Rosewood ).[8]

Tran Lap's cancer and death

In November 2015, the band's lead singer Trần Lập was diagnosed with rectal cancer. In January 2016, Bức Tường held their last live show with him, "Hand of Fire", in Hanoi, attracting 15,000 spectators. On 17 March 2016, five months after being diagnosed with cancer, Trần Lập passed away at his home in Hanoi.

Discography

Albums

  • The Soul of Rock - Tâm Hồn của Đá (2002)
  • Invisible - Vô Hình (2003)
  • Magnets - Nam Châm (2004)
  • Another Day - Ngày Khác (2010)
  • Viet Land - Đất Việt (2014)'

Singles

  • White Board (2012)
  • Road to Glory - Đường Tới Ngày Vinh Quang

References

  1. ↑ Dale Alan Olsen Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering 2008 "Bức Tường" pp100-104, 108–109, 127–128
  2. ↑ Barley Norton Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam - Page 51- 2009 "Following the karaoke craze in Vietnam in the mid-1990s, young popular musicians have found inspiration in diverse idioms including jazz, pop, rock, and rap: there is now a thriving rock scene in Hanoi led by the group Buc Tuong (The Wall);"
  3. ↑ Asian music journal of the Society for Asian Music: Volume 39 Society for Asian Music – 2008 "Love is a not a frequent subject for Vietnam's rock lyricists. Instead they engage, as one writer on an online bulletin board has said about Buc Tuong, with issues like "ideology" (tit tuong) and "education" (gido due), much as communist political ..."
  4. ↑ "The Wall dự Festival Cahors ở Pháp". vietbao. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Ban nhạc Bức tường "Nam tiến"". tuoitre. 2004-04-17. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Ban nhạc Bức Tường biểu diễn live show cuối cùng". vietbao. 29 November 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  7. ↑ Huyen, Pham Thanh (2006-11-28). "Ban nhạc Bức Tường và "Ngày thứ 7 cuối cùng"". qdnd. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Album4 đang đến!". buctuong. 13 July 2010. Archived from the original on 27 January 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
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