Last weekend I headed out to see one of China's top "rock music festivals". I tried to stay as empty as possible so I could fill up my whole cup. As a concert is in so many ways a canary song; at least I knew it would be very China telling. Nuff Said.
From the Handbill:
"With the 10th anniversary of China’s exciting and authentic rock festival, this year’s Midi Festival will move to south Chinese town Zhenjiang (镇江), on invitation of the city council.
There will be 2 stages, the rock stage and the Yan electro stage, filled with live music each festival day from 2pm to midnight. The main theme of the festival of course will be the 10th anniversary of Midi Festival, 18 Chinese Bands, old and newer friends to Midi, such as Again, Miserable Faith, Thin Man, Yaska, Muma, Honey Gun, Spring & Autumn, Reflector, Subs, Cold Fairytales, LR etc, plus 12 oversea bands will be there to celebrate such a milestone event in China’s long way in modern music, even godfather of chinese rock, Mr. Cui Jian will attend the stage there, too!"
-This dude Cui Jian 老崔 was pretty cool. And he has a cool and interesting history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Jian
His band made me smile. I can see how he wanted to jam with the stones, and I could see how he & SCI would want to jam together too. His trad instrument guy was especially tuned in.
-The band Army Of Freshman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Freshmen
Made me want to die. I feel sorry for all the people around the world that are tricked* into shitty music; and how every Chinese person there thought they were A) Awesome & B) Dancing/Acting Cool
I definitely learned quite a bit from how the very large mostly Chinese crowd acted. Which was a weird wild sunny muddy mess to be stuck in, I saw some things I could have expected, many beautiful things, some ugly behavior. Overall it was just your normal under control drunks patriots sickos CALI bands and things for my dome piece to think about rock festival, developing in China. @(^_^)@
