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Shanghai and Music Stuff

 

So an editing project at my job has sent me to Shanghai again. It was meant to be one week but now it will be two. Which is cool. But while it is a beautiful city, all the work has kept me from seeing anything new that I hadn’t see on previous trips here. Hopefully that changes this week. Though one cool place I got to check out was area called Tianzifang. It’s pretty much a maze of lit alleys filled with cafes, pubs and craft shops. Unfortunately, being the non-camera crazy guy I am, I once again forgot to bring my camera for photos. So to give you an idea of what it looks like, this will have to do. I shall definitely be retuning to this place while I am here..

On the night before I arrived in Shanghai last weekend, Beijing band Hedgehog returned to Hong Kong almost exactly one from their last visit. With them being one of the first bands I had ever seen in Asia, I had to go see them again. And I LOVED IT.

Though I won’t be in Beijing until later this month, I’ve still have been blasting their tunes in my iPod for the past couple days. They are GREATNESS. And did I mention I am in love with the drummer, Atom?

 

 


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rainy days & music gigs.

This weekend was three days of non-stop wonderful rain. It gave me the perfect opportunity to finally do nothing except for watching movies and eating pizza for three straight days, an uneventful event that was MUCH needed. Okay maybe that was for two days – I went to a pretty good show on Friday night that left me sweating like heck from moshing.

Speaking of shows, I actually never posted pictures of the first show I attended in Hong Kong at this awesome venue called Hidden Agenda (which, by the way, is now my favorite hangout in the city). The place reminded me a lot of the venues back home and the bands were simply terrific. This was a night totally worth blogging about but I’ve been sooooo behind in updates that it was just sliding farther and farther into the past. I mean, this was an April event yet I’m not writing about it at the end of May.

But on to it: the main band that night was this fantastic band from Beijing called Hedgehog. Their songs were ear-gasmic and their performance combined with the insanely excited crowd that night made it a show I won’t soon forget.

 

Other music thingy worth mentioning: one of my favorite bands from 2008, Nightmare of You released their first new song in almost three years. I love their first self-titled album and their Bang EP from 2007 and am glad to say that their newest song is a return to form (and away from their disappointing 2009 sound from their Infomaniac album). The song is called Out Of My Mind and IT IS GOOD.

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