As I mentioned a few months ago, when I had the chance to conduct a first interview with Marie-Claude LeBel, the one and only Montreal Minx, she was the first musician mentioned on Beijing Daze when it was all started… It seems so long ago but then again, things haven’t changed much: Marie Claude is [...]
Tags: Beijing 人, li dong, mademoiselle, mademoiselle et les chinoix
One could argue that music/concerts have been one of the better publicized ways of draw attention or fundraising for a certain issue! Live Aid, Farm Aid etc… We’ve had concerts in Beijing held to raise money for the victims of various natural disasters so it nothing new. What’s new though is the approach one man [...]
Tags: AIDS benefit, David Musket, jianghu, Kamila Nasr, nakoma, Russian News Agency, The Discounts, World AIDS Day, Zhang Si An
You Mei You, Flying Mantas, Skip Lunch… there’s been a bit of confusion recently as to this musical entity that’s been roaming Beijing for a few years already. So, today, Beijingdaze is putting on a professor hat for an instructional session on the Brand that is The Flying Mantas: The band name is The Flying [...]
Tags: Chery Bomb, Flying Mantas, Skip Lunch
I love all kinds of music but my heart and soul belong to Hard Rock.. give me AC/DC, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Motley Crue any day of the week and I’ll be content. As of late, after too much time devoted to indie/punk/what not, there has been a bit of a hard rock revival in Beijing [...]
Tags: Jacky Danny, Kick Ass, Los Crashers, mess xiang
As The Amazing Insurance Salesmen prepare to embark for Hong Kong, I had an opportunity to catch up with funkmeister extraordinaire Maikel Liem and pick his brain on a few topics. I didn’t know what to expect and was extremely curious about him and his background.. the answers didn’t disappoint! Maikel has been around the [...]
Not all drummers are created equal and most of them are fairly anonymous, quite happy to stay back and keep the beat going. Mao Mao 毛毛is not one of those!!! I’ve been enjoying this character’s drumming through the years in Beijing and think he’s one of the better rock drummers in town, second only to [...]
Around a year ago BD & I headed out to Obiwan to see this little band our friend Peter had been raving about. According to him they were going to be the next big thing, and had just entered the Battle of the Bands. Well a few months later those 3 boys from Shijiazhuang won [...]
Tags: live music, rustic
What once started as my personal ramblings has morphed into the number one collective resource about underground live music in Beijing and China. All bands, all music, all Rock n Roll, all the time with a little side of eclectic topics.. best of all, it's still as BIASED as ever
