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I am producing this show, which SOLD OUT last year. Click on the poster to go to the booking page.

The very next day you can find this show at the Wild Meadows, which is part of the Secret Garden Party.

 

I sadly do not update this site a great deal! This is not to say that there is nothing happening! Far from it in fact! I blame the pandemic. And being part of the economically inactive. Well, maybe not economically but certainly when it comes to doing internet-based admin, I am selectively procrastinatingly mostly inactive!

This lack of online activity has meant that others who are pretending to be me, have ascended the ranks. There are many other new and old Chinese Elvii, but not a single one of them has done anything like the vast body of work that I have. If you are looking for the guy from Ruislip, he is not me! The guy from Bexleyheath? Not me! Stockport? Not me! These guys are great, I am sure, but they are not me: about.me/chineseelvis.

ChineseElvis recently turned 57, which means he is 15 years older than Elvis ever was. As a result, ChineseElvis has kind of given up trying to look like Elvis and is now more or less being the kind of Elvis that Elvis would have been had he made to to age 57 (and were Chinese). This means a bit of a Fu-Manchu moustache sometimes and a Genghis Khan goatee! It actually complements the sideburns! It mostly means I have given up trying.

One cool thing to have happened recently is to have been hand drawn by reknowned portrait artist Stuart Pearson Wright. I was one of 20 Elvis acts to be exhibited and the only one whose interview was transcribed and also exhibited. You can see the other portraits on Stuart's site here (where you can read the transcript of my interview), but this is mine drawn with pencil, colouring pencil, charcoal, gold, glitter, gouache, ink, shellac, silver and collage on paper.

In January 2023, ChineseElvis turned the camera around and filmed the crowd at the Eagle Ale House on his VERY FIRST SONG of a two set 90 minute gig, celebrating the pub's 28th year of management by Dave Law and his beautiful real (and professional) family as well as Chinese New Year of the Rabbit/my 23rd year as a reluctant but popular Chinese Elvis back at the very place which first hired me (in the year 2000) and have done so regularly ever since. It sound like bullshit, but ask anyone there, it only got MORE packed and MORE loud and the atmosphere MORE incredible as the evening progressed.

In other news Chineseelvis performed not once but twice in 2022 for the Kent Hell's Angels, who booked firstly for Valentines night then for their annual summer party, at which event the bikers solemnly presented me with two supporter badges, which honour I was informed was unprecedented. I gratefully and proudly accepted the badges, shown here, and thanked them for being so hospitable and for possibly one of the most memorable gigs of my career.

I am building a brand. ChineseElvis Presents! Click here for details. I am in other words producing my own shows. I am even putting a band together like the Blues Brothers for bigger gigs in the future. So far I have a guitarrist!

2024 sees a new show designed for corporate fun and games. It is a bingo show that will next be seen in August at the Secret Garden Party festival. It is hard to describe but it is clean, wholesome and chaotic. If you want a funny show with educational aspects, prizes for your office Xmas party, and songs please do get in touch. Here is the poster from earlier in the year where I teamed up with Fanny Cradock. I can team up with anybody as it goes. I like glamour, though!

 

My first self-produced Chinese Elvis Presents show featured my Elvis mates Martyn Dias (aka Elvis Shmelvis) and Colbert Hamilton (aka Black Elvis) in a show called "The Diverse Elvis Spectrum".

This was an amazing success at the briliant Colchester Arts Centre. Thanks to Anthony, Stafford, Emma, Katy, George and Lewis and the whole team there for being so supportive and we really had a great, sold out spectacular show.

ChineseElvis performed at Annabelles NightClub for the birthday of the owner, Richard Caring (by whom he has been employed a number of times).
ChineseElvis was one of the three Elvises singing at the opening of the Ivy restuarant in Manchester and at the Ivy in St Pauls. He also was very happy to perform at an event known as JonesFest in the Brecon Beacons.
ChineseElvis was also interviewed by Sideburns Magazine, an online resource about ETAs. Click here for the interview.
ChineseElvis recently has been thinking a lot about retirement and doing a few selected gigs: in Cannes at the Grande Hotel for a great company called TCB. Très chic! Duckie's Posh Club, a Casino in Milton Keynes, and a few select weddings. Winding down, a great showbiz trick used by Mick Jagger, means doing less gigs and charging more for them.

Chineseelvis was pleased to be invited to sing on Chinese New Year at the Hippodrome in London's Chinatown just before the pandemic.

ChineseElvis appeared at Twycross Zoo with (non-Chinese) Tom Jones! And some monkeys!

ChineseElvis sold out the famous Rivoli Ballroom on a disco night - something that has yet to be replicated!

Michael McIntyre, who I have been saying looks like me for some years has recently realised this for himself. To be fair, he does not know I am ChineseElvis, but he recently started his new chat show and his opening monologue used a picture of me he found on the Skype website (who hired me to wave, in dressing gown, at a child I had never met). This is a still from his show. I hope he can't sing very well, or I am literally finished...

ChineseElvis appeared at 2012 Latitude Festival. The first Elvis to ever play this (or any) UK rock festival, he played to a packed tent at 1am on on Monday morning. In his head it looked like this:

And from ChineseElvis' perspective, it looked like this, which is not so bad.

It was at this gig that a selection of young people were converted to ChineseElvis fans, and together they created then chanted his new nickname, "Chelvis". This in turn spawned a little trend on Facebook and Twitter and some even created tributes, such as the one below.

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"..smells very fragrant..." Mel and Sue "...classically trained..marvellous!!.." Andrew Castle "...Unbelievable!!...Brilliant!!..." Rowland Rivron "I enjoyed it. Thank you." Piers Morgan "I am only a warm-up act for ChineseElvis..." Rt Hon Tony Blair "Yes, I can honestly say I enjoyed it." Piers Morgan "He's brilliant!" The Bishop of Croydon "No. I didn't enjoy it." Piers Morgan "I think you're just brilliant" Craig Revel Horwood "He's a bit better than he should be in my opinion", Maureen Lipman CBE "Dont you do anyone else?" Piers Morgan "Elvis is still in the building" DJ Mike Read "ChineseElvis, you are the strongest link" Anne Robinson "Absolutely sensational" Mark Nicholas "I knew him before he was even Chinese" June Brown MBE "I was blown away" Roger Lloyd Pack "Happy ChineseElvis day!" David Yip "I'm very busy, call my agent" Burt Kwouk "ChineseElvis is Chinese enough for 95% of the theatre-going public" Jeremy Bowen "Looking great-if a little sun-tanned" Rowland Rivron "Who better than ChineseElvis"? Tim Vine "How about Chinese Tom Jones, for example?" Piers Morgan "I'm a fan of Marilyn Monroe" Anna Friel "Cricket's loss turned out to be the Elvis-loving masses' gain" South China Morning Post "I love you, ChineseElvis, I absolutely love you! " Joanne Good "It was excellent and everyone enjoyed the performance" Zac Goldsmith "What you do is great. I love it" Mat Baker "I hear you're an Elvis impersonator?" Peter Capaldi

"One of Britain's top Elvis mimics" Daily Star "One of the top three impersonators in the UK" Daily Mail "...legendary cult hero..." Time Out "The best of the best so far" The Guardian "The UK's most renowned Chinese Elvis" The Independent "Local Hero" Whats On in London Magazine "Uses the persona of Elvis to skewer stereotypes of Asian men", Elvis Impersonation Kit: A Step-by-step Guide to Becoming the King (is anybody else thinking Satay Chicken or is it just me?) "Chinese Elvis is the reason you're most impressed" BBC Online "Has a very impressive pelvis action" Daily Info "Most memorable" Oxford Times "...astonishingly talented" Malvern Gazette "There's only one Paul Hyu", Sky News "He makes a living" CNN "One of Britain's top Elvis acts" The Independent "Britain's top Elvis tribute act" The Sun "One of Britain's top Elvis tribute acts is the Chinese Elvis, Paul Hyu from South London." Daily Telegraph "One of Britain's top Elvis impersonators, who can command up to £2,000 for a show" Daily Express "He's bright" Glasgow Herald "Sheer surreal experience" Three Weeks "Paul HUGE" STV "..definitive political creed with the required irony, about identity" Confluence "What encapsulates Xmas more than a Chinese guy in a jumpsuit belting out Elvis songs?" TNT "The King is Back!" Southwark News "The most popular Chinese Elvis in the country" i newspaper

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• As an actor I am to be seen on BBC's iPlayer in an episode of Shakespeare and Hathaway, which was on telly in 2022. Click here to be taken to the episode directly. I am also to be seen in another BBC daytime thing, Doctors. This can be found by clicking here.
  

• ChineseElvis is in Keith Lemon - The Film, alongside a host of celebrities. Although his appearance in said cinematic feast made no sense whatsoever, he is such a great fan of Keith's, it was just a pleasure to be part of it. Keith ensured ChineseElvis had a great time on the set and at the Leicester Square premiere, ChineseElvis sat between Craig off Big Brother and David Hasslehoff. There is a deleted scene featuring Chelvis with a good gag on the DVD.

• A young ChineseElvis in training. Check out the sidies
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• David Yip! The Chinese Detective! What a geezer! This picture taken from the set of The Missing Ch*nk.

• ChineseElvis is proud to have teamed up with his favourite comedian and fellow Elvis fan, award-winning punslinger Tim Vine (who happens to be exactly 2 days younger than ChineseElvis) for Tim's Elvis debut. Appearing as "Blonde Elvis", Tim's set was received to thunderous applause and went on to evolve into the Plastic Elvis about whom you may have heard.

BLONDE ELVIS, aka TIM VINE made his ELVIS DEBUT in 2011 in London with CHINESEELVIS
The pictures below are taken from a 2nd appearance at the Lantern Arts Centre, shortly afterwards.

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ChineseElvis has done coming up to approx 1000 gigs in a variety of places, from a London Bus to a boat moored off the west coast of Barbados. He has appeared and sung live on a multitude of television and radio shows including BBC Breakfast News, BBC World News, CNN, BBC News 24, GMTV, Sky News, Canal Plus, BBC2's Heaven & Earth, Richard & Judy, Foxy Bingo TV Show, Central TV, RAJ TV, London Tonight, BBC London Live, Radio 5 Live - Matthew Bannister show; Julian Worricker Show; Anita Anand show, Radio 4's The Message with Jeni Murray, BBC World Service, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Coventry, BBC West Midlands, BBC Oxford, TalkSport, Heart FM, LBC, XFM, some Polish radio station, as well as featuring in The Independent, The Guardian, the Daily Express, Daily Mail (voted among top three best Elvises in UK), Daily Star, Daily Mirror, Mail on Sunday, The Sun, BBC Online, What's On In London, Eastern Eye, The London Evening Standard, London Metro, Birmingham Metro (and many more). Not to mention the Harrogate Advertiser....