3Q2U - Posts from April 20, 2008

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Posts from April 20, 2008

April 20, 2008

Saturday night in Beijing

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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