I’ve been talking up The Dancers, arguably China’s first supergroup, quite a bit since the first time I saw them live opening for Maggie Who. Since then, I’ve seen them 3 or 4 times and they keep getting better which each performance. These guys are all professionals that have been around the music business for [...]
Tags: China Supergroup, Mao Livehouse, The Dancers
Last Friday, the SUBS came back to Beijing after a few weeks on the road supporting their new album: Queen of Fuc-ing Everything. The gig was pretty darn good and fans showed up in big numbers at Mao Live house which was refreshing to see considering the last few gigs i’ve been to in Beijing [...]
Tags: great show, Mao Livehouse, Omnipotent youth society, SUBS, The Dancers
Things are moving along nicely in Beijing with musical choices starting to improve again.. not that they’ve been bad to begin with! The “Don’t call us laowai” shindig at Mao that didn’t even make it to my radar until one day before is good proof that people oughta get out there and take chances on [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, Dancers, hummingbird, Mao Livehouse, SUBS
To say that Mao Livehouse has been flying below the radar since it reopened a month or so ago would be an understatement: They’ve been keeping a low profile and not really advertising any of their gigs much as of late! So much that events that I would usually recommend have been neglected. Whatever their [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Concrete Nothing, GAWTMY, Mao Livehouse, X doctor, You Mei You
After weeks of musical overabundance, we were due to go through a small slowdown and sure enough, it’s taking place this weekend. Sure, there are gigs everywhere but not much that I’d actually go really out of my way to catch except maybe the Rustic gig on Friday: Wednesday May 19th: Czechomor @ Yugong Yishan: [...]
Tags: Maggie Who, Mao Livehouse, Nanwu, rustic
This little blurb was posted on Mao Livehouse’s website yesterday: MAO LIVEHOUSE MOVES TO 2010 MIDI FESTIVAL！ MAO LIVEHOUSE入驻2010年迷笛音乐节，届时将分为现场演出及娱乐休闲两个区域。现场演出区主要以乐队演出为主，稍后乐队阵容将会公布！娱乐休闲区将提供好喝的特调鸡尾酒及咖啡。 虽然天有不测风云，但我们也不想闲着，所以大家迷笛见吧！ It looks like the good folks at Mao are not ready to give in yet and fully intend on rocking away sooner than later! Their Douban page lists gigs as early as May 9th which [...]
Tags: Mao Livehouse, MIDI
Late on Friday, the news hit the webosphere that Mao Livehouse was shut down effective immediately and the PURESSENCE gig scheduled for Saturday night was moved to Frank’s Place. It was obvious enough that something was wrong otherwise you wouldn’t move an established band that travelled halfway around the world and have them play in [...]
Tags: live music, Mao Livehouse, yugong yishan
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