A couple of weeks ago, while every venue in Beijing decided to close up for spring break, the folks at 2 Kolegas decided to turn on the lights for one evening to welcome Kunming’s Quebec Redneck Bluegrass Project. This had been booked for a while with Beijing’s Redbucks originally on the bill. However, due to [...]
So, you lose your guitar player and one of your lead vocalists/songwriters who happens to be one of the most charismatic persons/entertainers in Beijing and maybe more.. what do you do? If you’re the Redbucks, you shuffle a few things around, drop the mandolin and keep the stompin’ good times going. While Ruby was having [...]
Tags: jiangjinjiu ba, The Redbucks
cool little weekend ahead folks with just enough musical diversity and offering to keep the dazemeister happy and not over-booked. An interesting thing is a few bands playing their “first official” appearance with new lineups when they’ve been seen around town for a little while now.. think Wu & The Side Effects along with Hang [...]
Tags: buzzcocks, Hang on The Box, Stegosaurus, The Redbucks, wu & side effects
I guess all good things must come to an end, or so goes the proverbial saying! In this case, here’s hoping ( and is sure) that The Redbucks are gonna be around for a bit… Miss Daisy’s journey with them is coming to an end though as I wrote last week. I managed to make [...]
Tags: Daisy Sweetgrass, The Redbucks
A bit of a delayed quickslants this week along with sporadic posting but yours truly was supposed to head out of town and things got complicated. Expect a couple of posts on last weeekend’s Redbucks show soon as well as a trip to the shaanxi provincial restaurant. In the meantime, here is some of what’s [...]
Tags: Chunqiu, GBOB, Kick Ass, rustic, The Redbucks
It’s a sad day in ‘daze headquarters… wow.. I still remember roughly about two years ago or so, hanging out at TUN on a tuesday night for open mic night with Beijing Rob and Johnny Boy, taking in the music coming from the stage but mostly having some sort of conversation when this angelic voice [...]
Tags: Daisy Sweetgrass, The Redbucks
a bit of an early quickslants edition this week folks.. it’s mostly got to do with a good gig at 2 Kolegas on Tuesday night that might prove to be quite the rock show this week so let’s get down to business for what is one of the busiest quickslants in a while. The week [...]
Tags: Pet Conspiracy, Sand, The Redbucks
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