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It was taken by Brad Ferguson and I wanted to give him the proper accreditation. The Live Bar owner has a similar name and when writing it in a romanized form on Facebook it became exactly the same. Shanghai's experimental act Boojii were up in Beijing last week recording for Modern Sky. Boojii had to go to Beijing to be signed, although they are still based here. Who is going to promote these two acts and their material? We have Miniless Records who are doing ok. But really, someone should be building a scene around these guys.
A scene, that is, not a market. Miniless are the right kind of people but they don't have money like a Maybe Mars. Tiantian of said the Muscle Snog CD was already available, but he didn't have it.
There hasn't been a show to launch it. Add me Chinese language only.
The show also features Lin Di and Seppo of Cold Fairyland in a side project called Bad Himo where they'll be singing entirely about their cat and how it pees everywhere. Following on from March's silk stockings party , The Mushrooms organised another discount ladies night type of thing - a school uniform party. And make no mistake So to get all the curiosity out of the way here is a link to the full gallery on Douban, the first half is the costume shots and the second half the gig action. New bands Weedlaw and Lock opened and the punters were streaming in all the time.
I met Lezi from Sonnet, who posted the reply to the Soma thread on the blog Little Punk showed briefly, kicked me and Matt Yeh in the shins, stole Matt's beer, then disappeared again. Good luck on the Changsha show if you made it, LP. By the time Sonnet came on the place was packed. But, and no disrespect to Sonnet, I was there to rock out to The Mushrooms, my favourite Shanghai band and a long term feature of the blog. It happily went nuts and Pupu rocked out with his usual high energy performance. A night of madness was capped at the end when Pupu himself surfed the crowd and then dropped in to join the dancing and jumping.
What can I say, great night, fun crowd, packed room with crowd action. Hanging Gardens are great guys and they love music. However, at the return to your dream's start party they were the highlight, playing to a packed house. It was so surprising that guitarist Ryan drops a note in shock at the beginning of an otherwise flawless version of Lullaby. This is a band who fully deserve to do well. In the first of two holiday shows at Yuyintang, Rock put on a special show where seven of their bands played a set of covers featuring the band that first inspired them to play.
Here was the line up: I arrived on time and was surprised to see the place rammed already. With five minutes of me entering, scenester and indie folk artist Fanqie Chaodan , who was taking the tickets, held up three fingers to organiser Tiantian to signal the mark. And it didn't stop. I broke into a grin as I entered on account of that thread and Fanqie just said "don't laugh". And yes, his net handle does in fact mean 'Tomato and Egg' like the famous dish.
During Radiohead, the first band to sound professional for the night, me, three local lads and one more foreign legion member tried to get a pogo going. Also, Radiohead songs are generally shot through with emo wailing and mosh unfriendly sections. I was there to see Hanging Gardens do The Cure.
It was great to see Hanging Gardens do anything in front of a packed house. They were great but only played four tracks the average for the night was six. While the other bands just played the style that they pretty much sound exactly like anyway, Hanging Gardens made a cool choice and pulled it off well. As you read this post, please open up the link to Neocha and listen to a song by the Fuck'ndrolls.
The Fuck'ndrolls were a short lived but legendary three piece fronted by singer Ba Fang pictured. Having disappeared for a while, Ba Fang will return with a new band that will also feature Lu Chen. More info as it becomes available. This is an interesting turn of events. Then the YYT schedule filled up with established bands and got squeezed out a bit. Now the schedule has been organised but the prolific have already opened their own performance space and held shows at Live Bar too.
The line up features: It's called 8mg are the most ignorant band I've met. Unfortunately, the poster was completely unaware that everyone knows each other and that all the commenters are taking the piss. Finally, it's a holiday on Thursday, Dragon Boat Festival. Before reading on, be sure to go their Douban page and listen to their songs. I recommend Wa Ha Ha. Read about that here. It was a good show, and I was won over by the band. Now they return to Shanghai for a 'debut album release party'.
Well, yes, let's get to that before we go into the show itself. There was not a CD in sight all night long. Also, the show seemed to be badly organised. The band had an indifferent sound and there was no support act on the bill. The Snot Rockets did their usual rent-a-support emergency service. When we talked to the band after the gig, they said they had a manager and they called him to see when he was bringing the CDs over.
The show itself was solid but not sparkling. Casino Demon are good enough, and have enough presence and song quality that they will never be bad. We bobbed about to the punchy Libertines style rock and tried to spot people who might be there for the Free The Robots after party later on. That is, people who look out of place in a rock venue.
I dunno, they were probably all, mercifully, at Free The Robots at that point. The band didn't come back out for an encore and Jake Newby grabbed the set list and confirmed that we were thus robbed of hearing the best track, Wa Ha Ha. Before this show I quite liked Carsick Cars but wouldn't get very excited about their live show.
I had the CD but didn't find time to really get into the long repetitive fuzzy tracks. However, they are one of the it bands at the moment in China and this show was going to be packed. But an unexpected turn was to let me into the action later on. First on was fellow Beijing band The Gar, who are also getting a lot of hype lately. You could tell they were an original band but the material didn't come across that well on the night. Carsick Cars were the opposite.
The music style is borderline shoegaze where people are more likely to watch and applaud than jump around but tonight the packed room went off at the start. This is what allowed me to get into the mix. Mogu was a highlight of the set as was, of course, the anthem Zhong Nan Hai. I found myself listening to those tracks in work today and really appreciating them for the first time.
Carsick Cars are living up to their massive reputation and the next stops on the tour include Barcelona. Only one regret from the show That should be your song.
There are some hard copies of this floating around on nice coloured paper someplace or another. It's not promoting anything or for anything. They have an amazing stable of bands these days that ranges from polished 'finished products' like Fading Horizon, through cult bands like Self Party to newcomers like Acoelomate Goat. Go here and listen to FH's Twice. Go here and listen to AG's The pretty shortcut to my nervous wonderland. While you're at it, check out Miniless Records' site here.
So, next month on the 27th, they are back in town with a kick-ass showcase that is a dream for experimental fans. There's only one drawback in that it's being promoted by STD who are 'party people'. Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive. Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over other languages. Updated 1 year 2 days ago.
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