Last weekend’s Kama Love Festival almost slipped by under the radar, popping up on this and other blogs only in the last few days before it happened. My Canadian buddies were possibly the only ones getting excited about seeing Cowboys Junkies! Well, I’m always up for a day in the sun listening to music, so [...]
Tags: Beijing 人, kama love, live music, music festival
On Friday night BD and I were enjoying WuFei’s performance at the Ephemerals show when he made the comment that he’s still getting his head around the guqin, still learning how it sounds and understanding to expect from it. I had to agree with him. I’ve seen WuFei perform 3 times now, by herself, with [...]
Tags: live music, Mao Livehouse, zhaoze
We love SUBS here at Daze Central, so when we heard Kang Mao has a new project in the works we were excited to hear what she was up to. I managed to pop into Beautiful Folk night at Mao on Sunday night for the debut of ‘So long and thanks for all the Fish‘ [...]
Tags: folk, kang mao, Lidong, live music, Mao Livehouse
It promised to be a great night, 17 awesome bands from around the world (Jindabaad from Nepal didn’t make it) including our own Amazing Insurance Salesmen, plus a special performance from last year’s winners Rustic. I had hoped to live blog the event, but the crappy local 3G service sucked my battery dry in around [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, GBOB, live music, rustic
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
I know I bitch about YGYS a lot, but when they have a big show, I still go, even if the price tag is a little on the high side of things. So when I saw the Buzzcocks were coming to town I bit the bullet, paid my Y150 and went along to see if [...]
Tags: live music, yugong yishan
BD and I seem to both be in the mood for something a little different from our normal dive bars recently. We may have missed out on tickets to the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s tribute to John Lennon, but in looking for tickets for that, I found out a Australian guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel was coming [...]
Tags: live music
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
The Food-related posts are stopping on 'daze! They have a new home over at The Noodle Diaries where you can find all the tales of my stomach's adventures through the universe of Chinese Food
