This has been one hell of an interested weekend all over Beijing with great performances, once in a lifetime events, reunions, festivals and what not. I was dead set on the Back to Basics concert at Workers Stadium for Friday night but I ended up at Yugong Yishan instead for Zippo Hot List with Chasing [...]
Tags: Bigger Bang, free the birds, The Face, Yugong Yi, Zippo Hot List, ZIYO, 追星族 Chasing Star
This week’s shows: Ok.. No real quickslants this week in music as all the good gigs seem to be happening on friday with one or two exceptions: Back to Basic at the worker’s stadium with the old guard that is uniting for the first time ever on the same bill with Cui Jian, Tang Dynasty, [...]
Tags: Cui Jian, free the birds, Hang on The Box, tang dynasty, wu & side effects, ZIYO, 追星族 Chasing Star
Flashback to 2006.. yes, that’s 2006! pre-Olympics Beijing when the area across from the North gate of Gongti was home to Nanjie, redbar and Yugong Yishan (map)! Seems like a long time ago? that’s because it is.. A friend of mine rang to say that this Bass player dude she knew was playing a gig [...]
Tags: live music, yugong yishan, 追星族 Chasing Star
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