I don’t think i have to expand too much on the fact that I really dig 2 Kolegas as a venue and a community. The places is chilled, crowd mostly down to earth, the owners and management some of the most fun people to hang out with in Beijing etc…. When Blake Stone-Banks penned his [...]
Tags: 2 Kolegas 6 year anniversary, buyi, liu miao, mushroom, SUBS, tofu, wu & side effects
last week at 2 Kolegas saw an interesting show take place where throughout the evening, things just kept going right and the stars all lined up for the bands. It was a pretty solid bill with The Ghost Spardac making a rare trip outside of Gulou, Amazing Insurance Salesmen coming out of post-GBoB hibernation as [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Ghost Spardac, Nucleus, wu & side effects
When I wrote last week that April was a relentless month music-wise, I wasn’t kidding folks! Hot on the heels of Jue Festival, Ephemeral kicks off. Other genres of music reappear after being MIA for a week or so. Let’s see what’s cooking: Friday April 8: Ephemeral day1 @ Yugong Yishan: A celebration of international [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, ephemeral, gangzi, Joyside, The Ghost Spardac, wu & side effects, xiao he
I might write about them less but that doesn’t mean the ‘daze crew has stopped going to shows.. far from it! It’s just been busy enough not to have time to address them all. Here is just a quick summary from the last week or so! Dude, Me Guan Me, Ghost Spardac and Christmas played [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, dongzi, Dude, Ghost Spardac, Lidong, made in ningxia, me guan me, Nucleus, Red Pirates, wu & side effects
While BD is away sipping cocktails on the beaches of Vietnam, the rest of us here are braving the icy Beijing winds looking for places to escape the cold. Things will soon be winding down for the annual Chunjie break with 2Kolegas being the first venue to stop advertising shows (although I hear through the [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, D22, Ember Swift, jianghu, The Dancers, wu & side effects, yugong yishan
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
Last Friday at 2 Kolegas, after most people that showed up for GBoB left, the usual suspects started turning up! Eventually, at some point, Stephano, new bass player for Wu & The Side Effects showed up armed with his bass. A few minutes later, Moritz was also in the house and rumors of a late [...]
Tags: wu & side effects
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