News to Ooze: Moma does live, Free Pairs, Ningxia Rising and more

a lot of things happening this beginning of the year folks… here are a few drops:

Moma, as in the residential complex, has a decent theatre and they’v thrown their eight behind live music somehow putting together an incredible lineup over a few weeks. They hosted a reunited Wild Children this past saturday that had people pissing themselves with excitement and there is more goodness coming up: This weekend brings Top Floor Circus (shanghai) and Wu Tiao Ren (guangzhou). THey’ve also got a reunited underbaby, He Yong and more coming up. Check it out here http://site.douban.com/192672/

Pairs were up in Beijing last month and pulled off one hell of a show at XP.. I don’t think I got around to reviewing it but still, take my word for it,.. it was fun. Somehow, they recorded the performance and it’s up on Bandcamp so go get it.
http://pairs.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-xp-beijing

The Ningxia connection keeps on giving and most of my favourite bands are getting together to record the master of all Ningxia Compilations: Lao Da, Buyi, Lidong, Miao and Skarving just to name a few. The project is hosted at MusicKid.com in the hope of crowdsourcing it. As of this writing, they’ve raised almost 3000 rmb and the contributions get you cool stuff from a copy of the CD to purses, signed posters and the like. If you speak/write Chinese or have a friend that can help, go and contribute… this will be one hell of a record.
http://www.musikid.com/project/245

Finally, mark your calendars for February 24th! ReTROS are set to play Yugong Yishan! this is their first show on the mainland in a long time following their european tour with Pet Conspiracy and time spent recording new material.