Beijing is blessed with a great variety of musical offerings, you can get your fix of metal, folk, experimental, punk, reggae; anything you fancy. But it’s been awhile since I saw a show I could call ‘World Music’, so when BD mentioned Temple of Nomad in the Quickslants this week I was keen to check [...]
Tags: Gulou 121, live music, temple of nomad, world music
There’s been a lot of talk about the over abundance of festivals in China this year. Jon Campbell and China Daily, both have interesting posts on this. I agree 4 festivals competing in one weekend in Beijing is just stupid, but this my year of seeing more of China, and taking advantage of festivals and [...]
Tags: cuijian, live music, music festival, Nanwu, Steely Heart, tricky, XTX
In a city of over 22 million people, I’m constantly surprised how small this city is. Or maybe that’s just the expat community, or maybe it’s even just the circles I move in? Anyway, I thought I’d head out and see something different on Sunday, a band whose name I’d heard a couple of times [...]
Tags: jurat, live music, Mamer, va bar
Not many laowai can claim to have become ‘Big in China’, the only person I can think of would be DaShan maybe? Well, Alan Paul can also claim that title, or at least he does in making that the name of his book about life in Beijing as a trailing spouse and ‘rock star’. I’ve [...]
Tags: Beijing 人, bookworm, jianghu, live music
BD and I both took the chance to get out of the city last weekend, but early morning flights didn’t stop us heading out to Friday night shows! While he was checking out AIS, Ghost Spardac & Candy Monster at the drive-in, I popped into the newly re-opened Yugong Yishan to see Daze Central favourites [...]
Tags: album launch, live music, rustic, yugong yishan
Beijing has seen an influx of French and Canadian indie acts touring over the last year or so, now it’s the time for bands from downunder to get a chance to bring their music to China! S.A.M.E. (Sino Australian Music Exchange) made up of tenzenmen records and Chalk Horse Gallery both from Sydney have teamed [...]
Tags: D22, live music, maybe mars, tours
I was a little surprised when BD described last weekend as “underwhelming” in the Quickslants! From what I could see it was shaping up to be a great weekend with many shows I wanted to get to. Maybe he needed a weekend off, but I was making the most of what was on offer and [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, Beijing 人, D22, hot cat, live music
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