Double Take on Rustic’s City of Heartbreak and Horror: A Fitting Debut!
It’s a long way to the top, if you wanna rock n roll…. that’s what Bon Scott sang. For Rustic, it might not have been a long way but it has been an interesting...
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Rock n Roll Livewire: 10 Questions with Rustic’s Ricky Sixx
Bleached out-of-control hair, crotchless pants, wild antics and an obsession for all things Motley Crue amongst others. Those are just some of the descriptive that can be used when referring to Rustic‘s bass player,...
The Final Countdown: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from GBoB Finals in KL
It promised to be a great night, 17 awesome bands from around the world (Jindabaad from Nepal didn’t make it) including our own Amazing Insurance Salesmen, plus a special performance from last year’s winners...
Made in Madness: Nucleus confirms, Salesmen shaky and Rustic
This show was penciled down a while back for many reasons: last AIS gig in Beijing before the GBoB finals, great lineup coming off spring festival, Nucleus playing Yugong Yishan for the firs time,...
1/1/11 at 2 Kolegas: Aces all around as Buyi, Nucleus, Rustic and SUBS Start the New Year with a Bang
2010 was closed out in Beijing with a number of concerts that were pretty darn good by all accounts. Your truly managed to miss them all but I was determined to make up for...
Punk, Pizza and Pogues: Lucky 8 questions with Lucifer from Rustic
Around a year ago BD & I headed out to Obiwan to see this little band our friend Peter had been raving about. According to him they were going to be the next big...
Beijing Music Quickslants: Shanghai Invasion, Rock in Sanlitun and more
interesting weekend ahead y’all with tons of happenings all around Beijing. TEDx is sure to mobilize the masses, Bookswap and board games rocking things along and finally a slew of Shanghai bands coming up...
Halloween Shindig at 2 Kolegas: Rusty Birds & Rustic, Amazing DH, interesting 24h and welcome The K
Alex over at Beijing Gig Guide labelled it his gig of the week and I agree on principle. A lineup of this quality is worth checking out for surprises are bound to happen… and...
Rock n Roll hits Sanlitun at Club Le? is it for real?
ah.. Sanlitun.. love it or hate it, it’s there to stay! there is no shortage of restaurants, bars, massage places and cafes or fancy shops.. one thing that’s been lacking is a live music...
Beijing Weekend Quickslants: more Bucks, bookswap, Great Battles, Kick Ass and more!
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...
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