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| HONNE Live in Manila 2026 |
HONNE celebrated 10 years of music in Manila with a stripped-back Day 2 show at PICC, featuring BEKA and fan favorites like Crying Over You.
Six times.
That's how many times I've now seen HONNE live in Manila, and somehow I still find myself coming back. From their mall shows with JOAN to Wanderland and their other Manila appearances, I've seen this duo in a few different settings over the years. But this one felt different.
HONNE's 10 Year Anniversary Tour brought them to the PICC Plenary Hall for three sold-out nights, with Day 2 falling on August 11, 2026. This time, the songs were stripped back, the venue was more intimate, and BEKA was back on tour with them. It felt less like a regular HONNE concert and more like a celebration of everything they've built over the past decade.
The Concert
| Artist | HONNE |
| Tour / Show | 10 Year Anniversary Tour – Day 2 |
| Venue | PICC Plenary Hall |
| Date | August 11, 2026 |
| Location | Pasay City, Philippines |
| Duration | Approximately 2 hours~ |
| Presented by | Karpos Multimedia |
About the show
HONNE returned to Manila in 2026 to celebrate 10 years of music, and apparently one night wasn't enough. The original August 10 show quickly sold out, followed by a second night on August 11 and eventually a third show on August 12.
I was there for Day 2, and this was probably one of the more special HONNE shows I've attended.
The concept of the anniversary tour was different from a typical HONNE concert. Instead of simply playing their songs the way we're used to hearing them, the duo revisited favorites from Warm on a Cold Night and Love Me / Love Me Not in stripped-back and re-recorded arrangements.
And the choice of venue made so much sense.
The PICC Plenary Hall isn't the kind of massive arena setting where you're watching an artist from several sections away. It felt more intimate, with the stage and audience much closer together. The hall itself can accommodate more than 3,500 people in a theater setup, but the atmosphere during this concert felt much more personal than that number suggests.
Then there was BEKA.
She opened the show with Green Lights, Forever, More Than Friends, and The Hour, before returning later as part of the HONNE era that includes Crying Over You (my fave!!! BTS RM also had a version of this song). Seeing her back on tour with the duo was another nice throwback to the songs that have become part of HONNE's story.
Getting to PICC Plenary Hall
The Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) is located at the PICC Complex in Pasay City, within the larger CCP Complex along Manila Bay.
For public transportation, PICC recommends taking the MRT to Pasay Station and transferring to the LRT, or taking the LRT to Vito Cruz and continuing by taxi. Buses heading toward Lawton/Taft can also get you to the Pablo Ocampo area, from where you can take a taxi to PICC.
If you're driving, there is parking inside PICC, as well as additional parking areas around the CCP Complex. PICC currently lists its parking rate at ₱60 for cars and ₱30 for motorcycles, although rates can change.
For concerts, I'd still recommend arriving early. The PICC complex is quite large, and it is much nicer to have time to find the correct hall and settle in before the lights go down.
The Setlist
The setlist was a mix of stripped-back versions of familiar HONNE songs, including tracks from their earlier albums, plus a few songs that have become fan favorites over the years.
Opening Act: BEKAGreen LightsForeverMore Than FriendsThe HourHONNE:The Night3 AM ◑Me & You ◑Feels So Good ◑306 ◑COMING HOMELocation Unknown ◑WomanI Just Wanna Go ◑Someone That Loves YouCrying Over You ◑no song without youfree lovela la laGood TogetherEncore:Warm On A Cold NightDay 1 ◑
Concert Highlights
The obvious highlight for me was simply being able to say I've now seen HONNE live six times.
I've seen them in a few different settings over the years, including their mall shows with JOAN, Wanderland, and their other Manila performances. So getting to see them again for their 10th anniversary felt like a little milestone of my own as a fan.
What made this particular show different was the stripped-back format.
HONNE's songs already have this warm, nostalgic quality to them, so hearing tracks like 3 AM, Location Unknown, Crying Over You, and Day 1 in more stripped-back arrangements gave them a different feel. They were still familiar, but not quite the same songs I'd heard performed at their previous shows.
And then there was BEKA.
Seeing her back on stage with HONNE was probably one of those moments longtime fans would appreciate. Crying Over You has always been one of those HONNE collaborations that immediately brings back a certain era of their music, so having BEKA as part of this anniversary tour felt very fitting.
The venue itself was another highlight.
PICC is such a different environment from the usual arena or festival setup. There's something about watching an electronic soul duo in a historic theater-style venue that just works. The production wasn't trying to overwhelm the audience with huge visuals; instead, the focus stayed on the music and the atmosphere.
And judging from the photos I took, the lighting really helped with that. There were purple and blue washes, warmer tones, and plenty of darker moments where the stage almost disappeared around the band. It gave the show a very different visual identity from the bigger HONNE concerts I've attended before.
Of course, the biggest moments were still the songs everyone knew.
Location Unknown, Someone That Loves You, Crying Over You, no song without you, Good Together, and eventually Warm On A Cold Night and Day 1 in the encore.
Ten years of HONNE, packed into one evening.
Concert Photos
I took quite a few photos during this show, but the ones I ended up liking most were the moments where the lighting and the stage atmosphere really came through.
There are a lot of purple and blue tones, some warmer shots, and a few wider frames that show the audience and the scale of the PICC stage.
I also like that the photos feel a little darker and more intimate than some of my usual concert shots. Which, honestly, fits this particular HONNE show.
A Few Notes...
It's funny how a band can become part of your life without you really noticing it.
I've now seen HONNE six times, and each show has its own little memory attached to it. The mall shows with JOAN, Wanderland, the other Manila appearances—and now this.
But this one felt particularly appropriate for where I am as a fan because it was their 10th anniversary.
There's something nice about being able to look back at how much an artist's music has stayed with you over the years. Songs that I first heard years ago are now songs I associate with different concerts, different trips, different phases of my life.
And this time, HONNE gave those songs a slightly different life through the stripped-back arrangements.
I also loved that they chose PICC for this run. It's an older, more historic Manila venue, and the intimacy of the space worked really well with the concept of the tour. It didn't feel like HONNE needed a massive production to celebrate ten years.
They just needed the songs.
And maybe that's the best way to celebrate a decade of music—going back to the songs that started everything, stripping them down a little, and letting longtime fans hear them in a way that feels new again.
Six HONNE concerts down.
Yet apparently, I still haven't had enough.
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