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
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
yeah, I barely even made an effort this October to catch the music festivals but the organizers can only blame themselves for taking away any interest and excitement we used to have about those. Still, Catching day 2 of Pilot Records’ Inter City Music Festival at Chaoyang Park on sunday was one of the overall [...]
Tags: CMCB, Honey Gun, MEN, Miserable Faith, music festival, Out of Control, Pilot Records, The Reason
So, Star Max kicks off today in Beijing’s Ditan Park, close to the Lama temple. I wish I could be more excited about it today but I’m victim of festival overload. The organizers are basically recycling the same lineups/acts every couple of months and just throwing it out again. This one though is in Beijing, [...]
Tags: ditan park, Max Star Festival, music festival, XTX
I never thought I’d write these words but here we go with another music festival in/around Beijing and I’m sincerely hoping that the promoters are not counting on the city’s residents to travel to another town, 3 hours away, so that they can attend this little event! I mean come on.. Beijingers have a hard [...]
Tags: Chunqiu, hebei, music festival, pinkberry, yaksa
I think we can safely say that the May 1-4 period is one of the most exciting, musically rich ones in Beijing: 3 festivals, tons of stages and bands as well as lots of good music. Yesterday was the last day of it with MIDI day 4 and it was a truly magical end. I [...]
Tags: MIDI, Miserable Faith, music festival
I think I made no secrets of my feelings for Strawberry Festival this year and I must admit that on Sunday morning, i was extremely hesitant to head up to Haidian for day 2 of MIDI… I strongly considered not going but the draw was too good and i had faith in MIDI’s experience. I [...]
Tags: Dude, mao live, MIDI, music festival, voodoo kungfu
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