SINGAPORE – About 2,000 followers flocked to see Singapore famous person JJ Lin in live performance on Saturday (Nov 27) on the Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands (MBS), and they didn’t have to sit down 1m aside.
The sell-out live performance was Lin’s first in-person live performance in two years.
The present, titled JJ Lin “After The Rain” A Charity Dwell Particular, is among the many pilot occasions with new protocols in place.
The vaccination-differentiated protected administration measures enable for higher flexibility for actions involving those that are much less susceptible and totally vaccinated, topic to the extra requirement of pre-event testing.
One concertgoer, lawyer Samuel Kwek, 30, took his pre-event check (PET) at a Fast Take a look at Centre in Hougang, the place he lives, on Saturday morning.
The antigen fast check (ART) value him $15.
“The final in-person live performance I attended was JJ Lin’s Sanctuary World Tour 2.0 live performance on the Nationwide Stadium in December 2019.
“Because the pandemic started, I’ve solely watched on-line concert events. So I’m elated to lastly see an in-person live performance, and that I succeeded in balloting for the tickets.
“I booked the VIP tickets at $688 per pair.”
Underneath new protocols, all attendees have to be totally vaccinated and have a legitimate detrimental PET – both a polymerase chain response check or ART. The PET result’s legitimate for twenty-four hours, that means concertgoers for the JJ Lin occasion needed to take their check any time from 10pm on Friday.
The PET might be performed at any of the Ministry of Well being-approved Covid-19 check suppliers, and at MBS’ PET facility situated on the Sands Expo & Conference Centre.
Every PET at MBS value $40 for a ticket holder.
Among the many visitors on the live performance was Well being Minister Ong Ye Kung.
Lin took to the stage at 7.45pm wearing a black-and-white outfit, opening the present with the music Like You Do, from his 14th album Drifter • Like You Do (2020).
In a shout-out to the followers, the 40-year-old stated: “Wow… I am unable to consider that is actually occurring. Lastly we get to see one another nose to nose, in shut proximity… Not too shut, however shut sufficient.”
The singer-songwriter additionally carried out the numbers You N Me, These Have been The Days, If Solely, in addition to a jazz model of Observe Love.
One spotlight of the present was when Singaporean singer-songwriter Light Bones joined Lin on stage to carry out the music At Least I Had You, which was launched on Nov 19 this 12 months.
Followers needed to be totally masked always whereas observing prevailing protected administration measures. No meals and drinks had been allowed.
Tickets to the present had been priced from $288 for a pair, and proceeds will probably be donated to Group Chest, a key beneficiary of MBS’ company social accountability programme, Sands Cares. Lin will carry out one other present on Sunday, and his live performance may even be streamed over his official YouTube, Weibo and Douyin channels at 7.30pm on Sunday.
Earlier occasions with such protocols embrace the Milken Institute Asia Summit at MBS (Nov 15 to 16) and the Bloomberg New Economic system Discussion board at Sentosa’s Capella lodge (Nov 16 to 19).
An evaluation of those pilots will probably be made earlier than deciding the way to broaden the protocol to extra occasions and settings, as a part of broader plans to permit protected resumption of additional actions.
