Like I warned yesterday, you’re not done reading the name “Jon Campbell” on this blog, at least not for this week. I believe I’ve already interviewed Jon before before, albeit more for gigs he was playing in. This time around, it’s different! He’s in Beijing as part of Jue Festival and the Bookworm Literary Festival [...]
Tags: black cat bone, jon campbell, jue festival, Red Rock, SUBS
Of all the good people that have left their imprint on Chinese rock n roll, or Yaogun, as he likes to refer to it, none deserves more kudos than Jon Campbell as far as I’m concerned. He’s been a true trooper, participant, supporter of Yaogun and we do miss having him in Beijing. ( Jon, [...]
Tags: black cat bone, Bookworm Literary Festival, jon campbell, jue festival, Red Rock
Yaogun 搖滾 is the Chinese term for Rock n Roll. It’s made up of 搖 Yao ( To Shake) and 滾 Gun (to Roll) so the term does make perfect sense! For the longest time, that’s the only way I understood the term and thought of it…. A little over a year ago, I was [...]
Tags: China Rock, jon campbell, Red Rock
It’s been a weird year in music for Beijing with a lot of knowledgeable folks leaving, disappearing etc… Peter Baird is gone, Pete de Mola is MIA, Tofu not a 2 Kolegas and finally, Jon Campbell, one of the more instrumental behind the scene figures trying to bridge the rock n roll gap between east [...]
Tags: black cat bone, jon campbell, randomk(e)
Someone forgot to close the tap up there last friday night because it rained and rained and rained… then it rained some more! In Beijing, that is basically recipe for the city slowing down to a crawl with crappy traffic and no one going anywhere… and that’s what happened last week when Abigail Washburn came [...]
Tags: abigail washburn, Hanggai, jon campbell, the one
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