June 13, 2009 10:00 pm

Dropkicks live !
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Joris Solo - Acoustic punk and folk set
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DJ Mau Mau & HeatWolfes ( Baijiu Robots !!! )
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warm up by Julie Pure
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After party :
DJ Ouyang (Bj)
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Ben Huang !!

Joris is moving for good to Beijing on july the 2nd for another journalism adventure. So Dropkickd decided to finish the story of the band. Toshi and Ben are already rocking with the amazing Snots. And Joris will try his rock’n'roll luck in Beijing.

The Dropkicks were born in july 2006 and it’s been a fantastic experience all along. Not only for us but for the other musicians of The Dropkicks : Chen Song, Takayama and Yusuke.

Special thanks to 4 Live and Zooma who was the first to organize a gig for us, Logo and Maxime and Taibei, Yuyintang and Zhang Haisheng, Sam, Lu and Sophia, Anar and John, Live Bar crew, STD and Reggie, Antidote and Michael, Chan Debin in Hangzhou.

Many thanks also to every other Shanghainese bands who played with us or invited us for a support gig : Hotter than Teppanyaki, The Rogue Transmission, Boys Climbing Rope, Mortal Fools, Dovetail Joint, The Snots, Banana Monkey, etc…

But above all we would have been nothing without you. Either supporting us in China or abroad, you’ve always been there in your own way. Thank you so much ! After all, we’re just amateurs trying to make fun in Shanghai. And we had a lot of rock’n'roll fun for sure !!
Cheers to everyone and keep on rocking !
Starts at 9 pm.  30 RMB cover

September 4, 2008 10:00 pm

when teachers are djs for a night…

DJ Pistoleira

http://www.myspace.com/djpistoleira

mix of electro, techno, minimal, IDM, some electro-rock…

DJ Spacelord (The Intergalactic Hufdisko | Magnet Club/Rio/Picknick/Bar 23/… Berlin)
Electrorock/Indietronics/Discotrash/Mashups/80s

myspace.com/hufdisko

Mr Richards was DJing in Singapore
He is a “question mark”, as his vinyls are still at the customs

no cover

December 15, 2007 10:00 pm

Hedgehog(刺猬), like many of the best bands in Beijing, was founded in the miracle years of 2004-2005, in January 2005, specifically. For some inexplicable reason they didn’t seem to make much of an impact early on, but we first met them when they played a series of concerts at D22 in late 2006, during which time they very quickly became one of the favorite bands. In late April 2007 they performed a concert that smashed the sound barriers and created such an uproar that within a month they had catapulted into position as one of the most talked about underground bands in China. Hugely popular with both musical hipsters, for the brilliance of their compositions and performances, and with rock and roll party animals, for their wild, out of control pop frenzy, Hedgehog’s music is totally approachable and totally unique. Percussionist and vocalist Atom(阿童木) is a tiny girl who just barely peeps over the top of her drum kit but who bangs out explosive rhythms like a monster possessed. Bassist Box(博宣), the person responsible for keeping the band in line, punches out the tight bass lines that hold the songs together while seeming lost in oblivion. Guitarist and vocalist ZO(子健) slashes out huge waves of chords that seemed to fit perfectly within the songs yet at the same time tear them apart — while jumping, twirling, staggering and even falling over several times during his performances without letting up for the slightest pause. Hedgehog is a classic power trio with three of the best performers in Beijing on their respective instruments, but it is their song-writing skills that make this band more than just a great performance band and one of the most important in China.

December 1, 2007 10:00 pm

October 20, 2007 10:00 pm

October 6, 2007 10:00 pm