Citizen Insane

Linkin Park

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:16:14 GMT

Went to Linkin Park again. Ok band. Lame fans - a pogoless moshpitless uninspiring audience. Not a rock crowd.

The Cure in China, Continued

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:03:10 GMT

More at lullacure.com.

For the first time ever in 30 years of The Cure, the group played live on stage in China, albeit not a Mainland location, in one of their most original forms. The show featured a massively powerful Jason Cooper, a reincarnated Porl Thompson, a 1982 Simon Gallup, a classically Curish Robert Smith, and a spectacular Curecrowd. For many of the audience, including myself, who came all the way from Mainland China, the 3 hours in Hong Kong with The Cure was a dream intimately come true.

The Cure in China

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:54:31 GMT

The verticals...

Live Trash Shanghai 777

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:09:40 GMT

SP goes to NYC. Red Hot goes to London. Linkin Park goes to Tokyo. Snoop Dogg goes to Hamberg. Sydney, Rio, Johannesburg at least have some heard names... And Shanghai proudly presents: 好男儿, 陈奕迅, 容祖儿, 许慧欣, 辛晓琪, 黄耀明, 黄晓明, 女子十二乐坊 (The 12 Girls Band what an accurately vivid translation!)...

Wordless.

THE CURE IN HONG KONG CHINA JULY 30. CONFIRMED.

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:12:45 GMT

Sonic Youth 4/24/2007 @Shanghai

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:16:23 GMT

A sonic revival of youth!

Sonic Youth.

Lee Ranaldo.

Thurston Moore.

Lee Ranaldo red-lipped by a pick.

The Moore couple.

Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon.

Jim O'Rourke.

One of Lee Ranaldo's guitars.

Kim Gordon with her Snoopy bass.

Lee Ranaldo's left pedal set.

Lee Ranaldo's right pedal set.

Thurston Moore's pedals.

Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo.

Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore.

Kim Gordon's pedals.

Steve Shelley.

The Shanghai Concert Hall (smashed by the Sonic Youth) crowd.

Thurston Moore on bass.

Sonic Youth, I was too close... When I was at late teens with Sonic Youth as my fav, I wouldn't be wild and ambitious enough to imagine, in 10 years, I could be so close, that I can touch their shoes... Inexperienced security and great crowd make the perfect gig. This is what happened at the decent upperclass state-of-the-art blablabla Shanghai Concert Hall, a wrong place blasphemously smashed into the right one (well I'd wish the Party Chief of the Hall wasn't there that night). A youth is sonically revived and burned, before fading back to the mainstream worklife. This, unequivocally, made my best concert experience to date on this continent.

Coldplay 7/13/2006 @HK

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:07:04 GMT

The superstars...

Coldplay was one of my top wishlisted before I saw them. However, they fell below my expectation as they grow super around the world. CM is too young as a rock star. I wish I could have seen them 4 years ago...

Re-TROS Rocks America

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:05:32 GMT

Re-TROS at SXSW 2007. Austin rocked with Hang the Police. 可惜才一分多钟的时候华东就把弦弹断了，琴音全跑掉了。。

V Festival Day One 8/19/2006 @Staffordshire

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:22:58 GMT

Weston Park in rain.

The mud lovers.

Paul Weller.

A lonely chicken.

Paul Weller.

Faithless.

Hands and flags in the sky.

The old playboy strips.

Morrissey.

The Morrissey band and Oscar Wilde.

Morrissey.

The trip to V is one of the crazier things I did so far, as well as one of the bigger things a Radiohead fan in China would do. Definitively, the rain, cold, mud, and English crowd make V the festival exactly what I had imagined and expected.

V Festival Day Two 8/20/2006 @Staffordshire

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:03:14 GMT

The definitive UK festival continues.

The campsite.

The rain stops on Day 2.

Weston Park at live.

Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack.

The Positive Tension crowd.

Bloc Party.

Keane.

Can't Stop Now.

Tom Chaplin.

A technician fixes the piano broken by Tim Rice-Oxley at Somewhere Only We Know.

Tim Rice-Oxley.

The Beck puppet band.

Beck.

Beck improvises on Creep and his guys have dinner.

The percussion at dinner table.

Beck's band back to stage.

Radiohead opens with Airbag.

Thom Yorke.

Radiohead.

So when shall I set out for my next UK trip... to Glastonbury?

Placebo 9/9/2006 @Beijing

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:12:36 GMT

The definitive festival with Chinese characteristics...

Du Juan Dracula, very nice band.

The crowd and field security.

Field security armed with chairs.

The ladies and gentlemen of Placebo.

The People's Liberation Army Armed Police Troops as VIP area security.

Placebo half-loaded only.

Re-TROS 2/9/2007 @Shanghai

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:53:30 GMT

重塑雕像的权利。

A friend. A fav. A fame for future.

Roger Waters 2/12/2007 @Shanghai

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:21:54 GMT

My best concert in Mainland China to date...

The Wishlisted

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:52 GMT

http://liveearth.msn.com/factsheetfeb

If this goes true, here is my wishlist for the Shanghai line-up...

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Foo Fighters

Bloc Party (again...)

Keane (again...)

AFI

Korn (!)

Fall Out Boy

Snow Patrol

Duran Duran

Al Gore is the man!

Muse 3/3/2007 @HK

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:07:12 GMT

SuperMATTive. Explosively superb. Best show I've seen so far in Greater China.

Major Venues to Date

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:51:29 GMT

The memorying with Google Earth continues...

7/30/2007: The Cure

3/3/2007: Muse

7/13/2006: Coldplay

@AsiaWorld Expo, Hong Kong, China

2/12/2007: Roger Waters

1/20/2007: Eric Clapton

@The Grand Stage, Shanghai, China

10/15/2006: Lacrimosa

@He Luting Concert Hall, Shanghai, China

9/9/2006: Placebo, Du Juan Dracula, ...

@Beijing Pop Festival, Chaoyang Park, Beijing, China

8/20/2006: Radiohead, Beck, Keane, Bloc Party, ...

8/19/2006: Morrissey, Faithless, Paul Weller, Hard Fi, ...

@V Festival, Weston Park, Staffordshire, England

10/17/2004: Metallica, Godsmack

@MCI Center, Washington, DC, USA

8/6/2004: The Cure, Muse, Interpol, Auf Der Maur, The Rapture, The Cooper Temple Clause, Mogwai

@Curiosa Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, USA

8/1/2004: The Cure, Muse, Interpol, Thursday, The Rapture, Auf Der Maur, Mogwai

@Curiosa Festival, Tweeter Center, Camden, New Jersey, USA

5/22/2004: The Cure, The Offspring, Jay-Z, P.O.D., New Found Glory, Violent Femmes, Cypress Hill, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ...

@HFStival, RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, USA

5/16/2004: David Bowie, Stereophonics

1/16/2004: Linkin Park, P.O.D., Hoobastank, Story of the Year

@Patriot Center, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

5/2/2004: The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Air, Belle & Sebastian, Thursday, Muse, ...

5/1/2004: Radiohead, Kraftwerk, The Pixies, Sparta, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Death Cab for Cutie, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, ...

@Coachella Festival, Indio, California, USA

4/3/2004: Bob Dylan

@American University, Washington, DC, USA

2/28/2004: Evanescence, Default, Atomship

@DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, USA

3/29/2003: Zwan, Queens of the Stone Age

@Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA

Custom List: The Picture Tour

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:39:34 GMT

The Picture Tour

07/13/2006 Hong Kong
Coldplay.
08/19/2006 V Day 1
Morrissey.
08/20/2006 V Day 2
Radiohead.
09/09/2006 Beijing
Placebo.
02/12/2007 Shanghai
Roger Waters.
03/03/2007 Hong Kong
Muse.
04/24/2007 Shanghai
Sonic Youth
07/30/2007 Hong Kong
The Cure
Major Venues
From Google Satellite.

Custom List: The Current Three

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:35:45 GMT

The Current Three

PDA
by Interpol
Sweet Troubled Soul
by stellastarr*
Reason Is Treason
by Kasabian

Custom List: The Oblivion

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:22:21 GMT

The Oblivion

M.I.K. Inactive
Off to the market.
YuzhongPlays
Everything will fade.
LullaCure
It used to be me.

Custom List: The Gig Shots

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:15:36 GMT

The Gig Shots

02/09/2007 Shanghai
Re-TROS.