Citizen Insane

 

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

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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 verticals...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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.

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...