ah! Helen Feng… A favorite ‘daze crush and one of Beijing’s premier musical personalities winning multiple awards and accolades from the likes of Time Out and MIDI. I’ve been closely following her over the past year ( I swear it’s not stalking) and enjoying every opportunity to see her perform. Plenty of rumors have been [...]
Tags: free the birds, Helen Feng, Pet Conspiracy, ZIYO
It’s a sad day in ‘daze headquarters…
wow.. I still remember roughly about two years ago or so, hanging out at TUN on a tuesday night for open mic night with Beijing Rob and Johnny Boy, taking in the music coming from the stage but mostly having some sort of conversation when this angelic voice [...]
Tags: Daisy Sweetgrass, The Redbucks
I spend a lot of time out at shows trying to stay in touch with the music scene and writing about it as much as I can but really from a fan perspective. I do manage to get around the Gulou area, yugong yishan, 2 Kolegas etc… and have a good sense of the scene’s [...]
Tags: D-22, Pete DeMola
We roll tonight [We're on tonight]
To the guitar bite
Yeah, yeah, oh
Stand up and be counted
For what you are about to receive
We are the dealers
We’ll give you everything you need
Hail hail to the good times
‘Cause rock has got the right of way
We ain’t no legend, ain’t no cause
We’re just livin’ for today
For those about to rock, [...]
So, if you’ve notice, the name Ruby has been popping up in the blog quite often lately from gig reviews to album reviews… She’s a dear friend whose as addicted to music and Beijing as I am… Sharing the same addictions, we naturally kept running into each other all over the place.. there was thought [...]
It ain’t no secret folks, I love me an honest to goodness good time getting down and dirty with some roots music and bourbon.. I do have a hillbilly bone in there, maybe more than one.. and The Redbucks appeal to it.
I’ve been following those guys since the first time i spotted them at [...]
Tags: bluegrass, The Redbucks, yugong yishan
My first encounter with Checo “Il Roacho” Fernandez started with the sentence: “So you’re in the band that never showed up except the one night i left early” referring to my attempts at catching Wu & The Side Effects.
In his defense, Checo was injured and couldn’t play. He also had to go back to USAnia [...]
Tags: Checo Fernandez, wu & side effects
I find myself on average at about 3 or 4 live shows each week and one person I’m almost certain to come across is Jaime Welton of Bad Mamasan & Black Cat Bone. Whether it’s at 2 Kolegas, Jianghu Jiu Ba or Haidian Park for MIDI, the mas is there up front banging his head [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Chunqiu, The Redbucks
I first came across the name Zhang Si’an ( Jean-Sébastien Héry) on a city weekend article that peaked my interest. It was penned by regular contributor, Gary Temple, who knows a thing or two about music in Beijing and he went all out with the praise. Moreover, it all sounded like honest heartfelt opinion, not [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Jean Sebastian Heru, Zhang Si An
Moving away from music for a while into a reilm that i have recently neglected a bit: my inner geek!
This weekend marks the historic launch of Girls in Tech China, spearheaded by my good friend Jenny Bai who has also been involved in TEDx and the Geeks on a Plane initiatives. Jenny had kindly asked [...]
Tags: geek matters, geeks on a plane, Girls In Tech, Jenny Bai
Welcome to my little collections of ramblings and comments about Beijing Live Music Scene, Chinese Restaurants in Beijing as well as any weird and quirky cultural ditties that i might come across!
