15
Mar/102

big music weekend

friday night: pinkberry, candy shop, sonnet, boys climbing ropes @ MAO Shanghai
Saturday night: boys climbing ropes, st. vincent @ YYT Shanghai

friday night reviewed here my thoughts: xiao yoi (lead singer of pinkberry) was ill, and the crowd was clearly there for sonnet so they had trouble getting the crowd into it. candy shop had to do this terrible promotion for jaeger which killed any momentum they had. sonnet had some great danceable franz ferdinand-esque tracks which i really dug . . . a lot of experimentation with loops and dubs and electronic sounds from a sampler, which i did not dig. boys climbing ropes continue to rock and continue put on a great show. i am a huge fan.

saturday night photographed here by jenn wong and here by me. boys climbing ropes continue to rock and continue to put on a great show. i am a huge fan. st. vincent was fantastic – lots of experimental insturmentalation sounds combined with a beautiful voice.

Band Weekend

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28
Feb/103

candy shop and forget and forgive at yuyintang

hard working shanghai bloggers andy and jake put together this show to support 81fur.com. personally, i’d have to question the efficacy of using underground bands to promote an anti-fur movement, when your target audience should be people who are actually in line to manufacture, promote and purchase fur. as much as i appreciate the effort in putting on a great show and the hard work involved, who are they actually reaching with this effort? a bunch of poor chinese college students, and a handful of expats who aren’t in the fur purchasing demographic anyways.

however i’m glad chinese bands are starting to think about advocacy and doing things beyond just producing music. on the whole, it’s a positive thing and a step in the right direction. on to the actual show

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31
Jan/100

boys climbing ropes/duck fight goose concert

so, as mentioned here and here and here last night was the boys climbing ropes record release party (support by duck fight goose). having missed the andrew byrd show to attend a birthday party, i absolutely wasn’t going to miss this show at yuyintang.

this absolutely awesome shot of xiao punk from the halloween show by gregory perez

photo by gregory perez

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