…Living on Chinese ROCK! [pt 4 on "Skip Lunch on/in China"]
So to further convince y’all that the PRC is way happening, I’d like to tell more about the local music scene here in Beijing, China. Besides shamelessly plugging my own punk band, Y0u MeI Y0u, and my Surf group The CLAMPS!,.. today’s offering include ALL the links you need to get a taste of this New Music Mecca. [second only to Berlin] Here goes:
http://www.myspace.com/chinamusicnetwork
Industrial music pioneer Martin Atkins of PIL, PIGFACE etc.. came a ’scouting and snapped up SNAPLINE, who play darkish electro-punk. See him making a new PIGFACE record in Beijing, and also see these Chinese kids recording with him in Chicago.
http://www.myspace.com/beijinghangonthebox
The cutest girl punk band ever! They were on the cover of Newsweek magazine [the one with Chairman Mao], unfortunately their use of swear words got their Visas revoked and they were unable to tour….just when they were gonna break. However, NPR just played them yesterday. Podcast @ http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/
Be sure to check out the US tour video..at the singers myspace. http://www.myspace.com/giagia
http://www.myspace.com/rebuildingtherightsofstatues
One of my post-punk favorites ever. I first saw them at a Joy Division tribute show, and their set was truly Sp00ky. They nailed it. The Chinese JD, for sure.
http://www.myspace.com/carsickcars
This 19 year old kid started a Beijing NO WAVE movement, emulating the late 70’s NY avant-garde scene and ENO produced record “No New York”. Soon after this, he was flown to NYC to play with Glenn Branca and Elliot Sharp. They just got back from touring with Sonic Youth. I mean how cool is that? His pure noise side project [Produced by Blixa of Einsturzende Neubauten] is here:
http://www.myspace.com/whitebeijing
D-22 Club is the CBGB’s of Beijing , really. Lots of bands play 5 nights a week, the music is incredibly diverse, and the place just drips with the BUZZ.
Here are some good articles about the D-22 scene from the soundman at the
club: http://www.myspace.com/lveus
My Band The CLAMPS! played there once, and we cant wait to do it again. Check us out :
October 13th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Keep on rockin’ in the Red world! I’ve always dug the stuff you’ve sent me over the world. Now you are in a new part of China and don’t need to look under rocks to find the cool bands since they are everywhere in Beijing. Now I’d concentrate on finding a bassist. Your “Spinal Tap bassist-of-the-week” was never really fulfilling for your bands. Yes I know how difficult it is to find one out in Fujian or Fukuigan or wherever the hell it was you were living. Now in Beijing you should really be able to find one that actually knows how to play it. Get the cool one. A chick one would be even better. Moving to Beijing really was the best thing you could have done and I really admire your devotion to music to make it happen. Yeah, you had another job calling you there but it is the music scene that clinched the deal. I think now that you are there you will rule the joint in no time. Pretty soon you will be having cover bands covering you. Punk rock the house!!!
October 13th, 2007 at 4:23 am
YUP. well take the time to click around on the Youtube links on those pages.
theres some stuff happening that is what you might call..
FRESH!
October 13th, 2007 at 5:56 am
Wu dao kou, a wanna be in wu dao kou, shang hai is too damn bao shou, don’t wanna go back to fuzhou, chaoyang is too expensive though, so i’m moving to wu dao kou wu dao kou wu dao kou. cha cha cha.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
I’m stuck in Fuzhou. Look carefully at this posting and you’ll see a tumbleweed blowing (silently) past……………………..
October 14th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
links for china and other australasian DIY contacts, bands, venues etc…
http://www.tenzenmen.com/phpBB2/index.php
October 16th, 2007 at 12:35 am
Dear Stinkfight —
Mr.Boris says your legendary New yorkpunk correspondent “almost alway has positive things to say about China” (Why you should Move #2, archival The world is a SEXY and beautiful place). he makes sound prescription. White area personnel can to seek remunerative relations enjoy himself in china no problem (my own company have got 3 before, they are frequently seldom sneaky, diligent elfs). Constructive-heart criticism must born smiling, so is this no problem. Just but in impositive moment don’t let’s offend to the uppermost, OK? name site “happy blog” can not to constitute your funny function like stink-famous unsinkable aircraft carrier.
To fresh example, I can not tell why Mr.Skip would first say former party chair Mao to be “ancient history” in his other posts (Why you #1), then for adorn present post emplace one same chair icon to be “Buzz” relevant.
why world-historical giant’s final deadness with decisive arrest of Gang of Four and come-uppance of who’em to be “almost 50 years ago”, then is not you vaunted punkyear Zero every bit as anti-recently?
Nor why “in fact the ‘party’ is losing members left and right. it completely irrelevant today” (#1, Sept 3rd, 7:14, point 5). The party has got membership increase from 2002 (XVI congress’s time) of 642 x tenthousand, don’t you know? Total now: 7340 x tenthousand. That’s two Californias! Attending applying process: 2000 x tenthousand (25% increase from XVI). Card-carrying Pie chart is: tenders of field and herd 31.5%, SOE managerials and technik 29.1%, labourers 10.8, etc. New category of entrepreneurial .2%. Gender Pie chart is: 14.6 million female, 58.8 million regular. To be“Irrelevant”? “today” there is one current congress, if you in fact in Beijing, Mr.Skip!
Factual disregard makes one leaf-house /Inconsistency stands to no wind!!
Oh, Stinkfight! so does mr.Cheetah makes sound prescription (Why you #3). To constitute funny happy blog can try your best on “life style” exactly, e.g. gear, self-promotion, BDDSSM (this kind of club china have also, in sanghai. some inetresting). No need you and i denisson’s dirty Black stories, what besmirch whole world’s XXIX Olympiad!
October 16th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Stephens incessant agenda deserves most honorable mention!
Deng Sifu, you got the straight dope!
….[why..emplace one same chair icon to be “Buzz” relevant...]
HA! why did I place a MAO pic on a 7 inch rock record up there?
Irony, all the way. Note the Red Vinyl Rock Record!
For some reason, the West is still very attracted by the propaganda graphic art that we all grew up seeing. I think its stupid and irrelevant, and so does Zheng Qi.
Even s0, A Frisco band called “Lucid Nation” is putting out “The hundred song march” ..100 socially conscious songs. That kind of China imaging is so, far and away out of time and place that its not Even funny. However if you friend them on myspace, the bulletins mainly critical of the US are great reads.
….[Factual disregard]
Touche’! ” China correspondent” sounds like I should be rather like Dan Rather. I need a fact-checker! For real News, please check Yah00!
Let my disclaimer forever read :
SkiP Lunch in China reports from a very very small world that barely extends beyond his own eyeballz. Last he checked though, he was still there…
Yours in BEijing,
Skip LUNch
ps: I accept your motorcycle race challenge (*:
October 16th, 2007 at 3:24 am
[...] is a response to “…Living on Chinese ROCK! [pt 4 on “Skip Lunch on/in China”]”), but I thought I’d start a new stink, as I’m sort of splitting this into a different [...]
October 16th, 2007 at 3:37 am
[...] In response to Stephen Deng, a guy in China, who went on a cool rant here: “…Living on Chinese ROCK! [pt 4 on “Skip Lunch on/in China”]”), [...]
October 18th, 2007 at 1:50 am
two things, stephen -1 . your comment gave me a headache. you may want to consider givin that thesaurus software a break. and2 . i really don’t like it when people call me mr.cheetah.
the “some inetresting” city you’re talkin about is shanghai, i reckon. either way it’s not the sole pony in the chinese bondage club sweepstakes. beijing’s got several. grotty tongzhou where i am posted has got one, part of a chain. i must say it was an eye opener - i was expectin scenes out of that antonio b movie “Attacha me” - yikes! shijingshan has another, acording to the brochure i nicked before they showed me the door, with franchises in fengtai and fangshan “soon to eventuate”. these are all suburban districts, which makes me wonder what kind of pull this chain has.
skip is quite right about the market for mao memoribilia, esp. the stuff from’ 66 on - aka cultural revolution. the older folks may not want to talk about that period, and the rest definitely not be interested in it, but they’ll sell you itz artefacts in a new york minute. i don’t know zheng qi but zheng jun said “we eat our consciences and we shit ideology”. so have another shovelful, european son!
the backstreet markets have heaps of personality cult badges, little red books, anti this and that posters. whiteys gobble it up. some of skipz readers may remember a time when even their unemployed friends were hangin chic prints of that painterz 12yearold polynesian galpal in deep pout. it’s like that now in the foreign heavy hoods - borin!
but genuine 2ndhand?! please. give that vintage stain a wee scratch sometime - it may well smell of starbuckz.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:42 am
oh and skip as to the great bass hunt, let me second boris kafkaz motion [above] - “a chick one would be even better”. yeh!
i gather the challenge you’ve accepted [above] is mine - a chick& chicken race on our yangtse bikes. i’m a fair grease monkey but my info tech level is low. retarded, actually. i don’t get that emoticon - does it mean to blush? looks like the little chap’s been in a food fight. or woodstock’ 09.
it’s right white of you not to block me but we should let stinkfighters know that# 6 is the farthest out of the metropolitan orbital tracks. a remote and chilly saturn it is, with no uranus for consolation.
skip& i must meet there and dodge itz vroooomin traffic if we are to see who’s the man. we could also try# 5 - tho obviously you get more vroooom and less room as you drop inward. and i was seriously advised not to take my yangtse anywhere near the# 4 circle - with itz new thai style sidecar, it’s a total jing& cha magnet. no way are those fuckers gonno leave us to duke it out - esp. if you bring your bandmates.
http://www.cjsidecar.com/pro4.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Ring_Road
October 18th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Dear Mr. Cheetah,
Here at the Dean Institute, we could not understand your last post. So while on three-way Skype call with Mr. Skip (in China), Mr. Boris (currently in Nuremberg, Germany), and me (near Los Angeles), we decided to translate with Alta Vista.
I do not have Chinese character set installed, so I translated into Spanish, then back to English. Then into Greek, then back into English.
Your words now make sense to us. Here they are:
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October 18th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Re: cheetah jacobson:
FYI, “we eat our consciences and we shit ideology” is a line from He Yong, not Zheng Jun.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Ring_Road
Wikipedia is still BloCked here where I sitz. got proxy?
Hm.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Dear Jacobson —
Mr.Zheng says
…[FYI, “we eat our consciences and we shit ideology” is a line from He Yong...]
is so true! The you said Zheng Jun has got some other line, such as “Go back to Lhasa” and that “My love is Bare arse”. You want to “Buzz”relevant rock &’n roll of capital history but your this knowledge is thin on the ground!
hoo baby, you on isle of ineptitude!!
October 19th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Yes, I mean city is Shanghai.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Warning for Mr.Lunch (and any other stinkfighters light in the loafers) : THE INTERVIEW LINKED HEREUNDER CONTAINS THE H-WORD!! http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/history/story/0,,2201838,00.html
October 31st, 2007 at 12:14 am
“H word”?
I see the word “her”.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Holocaust. Lunch thinks this is strong language (Why you #1).
December 16th, 2007 at 4:37 am
Mr.Zheng says …[FYI, “we eat our consciences and we shit ideology”
is a line from He Yong…] is so true! The you said Zheng Jun has got
some other line, such as “Go back to Lhasa”
NOT TO RAIN ON ZHENG AND DENG´S POP PARADE BUT THE LHASA SONG IS ACTUALLY BY ONE ANDREW LAU. HE IS CLEARLY VISIBLE STRUTTING IN FRONT OF POTALA PALACE IN THAT ACCOMPANYING
VIDEO. WHICH LOOKS PERHAPS REAL AS IF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
PONIED UP TO FLY HIM THERE AND KEEP HIM UPRIGHT. FOR WE DO
CAN BE SURE THAT TWEE BASTARD HAD THE PLUSH OXYGEN TENT
STANDING BY.
WE ARE CHINESE / WE ARE CHINESE / TELL THE WHOLE WORLD WE
ARE CHINESE. IT S NOT EVEN A GOOD MELODY, YOU COLONIALIST
CUNT. THERE IS NO NEED TO DISCUSS FURTHER SUCH A FEEBLE INDUSTRY OFFERING. MAY YOUR THIS KNOWLEDGE EVER BE THIN
ON THE GROUND MY DEAR INEPT BABYS