Saturday night in Beijing
Corbett | April 20, 2008 11:47 PM
It took over an hour to get out to Haidian in Beijing to see some live music at D-22. Bryce hadn't been out there in 21 years, when he was teaching English at one of the colleges. A-Jie and Paul were along for the ride after some good Italian at Annie's. I'm the one who squeezed everyone in the cab since I have to see live music at D-22 whenever I'm in town.
We wanted to stay to hear Carsick Cars, but the bands didn't start until 11:30, so we petered out after the third band.
13 Dogs played the best set. At least it was loud and interesting and fun. They played short fast songs, the shortest being one a half measure, "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, caonimadebi!" The other two bands, LABF and Fire Balloon were pretty hurting. LABF had a cute keyboard/accordianist, who was their real redeeming quality. Fire Balloon's lead singer had a killer afro but he couldn't sing, and between each song he kept reminding us "Wo ai guo" (I love my country), which means a lot if you've been keeping up with the anti-French, anti-Carrefour, anti-foreign news sentiment building up lately.
13 Dogs
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John Guise
April 21, 2008 12:35 PM
Too bad you didn't see Car Sick Cars they do an awesome live show (say them in Shanghai during the summer at 4Live).
Let me know when you're back from Beijing we should hang out sometime.
J.