Hi, Nancy. Welcome to the board.

:) hi

oh, hi Nancy. welcome aboard!

How long have you been a Sonic Youth fan, Nancy? And who else do you like?

Not too long...for about two years
I also love cat power,PJ Harvey,explosions in the sky,dresden dolls,the stooges~and ~and ~haha ~so many...

Hang On The Box is the only one that i know apart from some ultra obscure chinese punk bands that i've found on the internet.Can you reccomend some more in that vein?

Ah, you've defnitely come to the right place then. I hope you enjoy all our company.

(That's intended for Nancy, not Porkmarras)

thx i will:)
I'm going sleeping.It's late at night now in Shanghai.

If you like Hang On The Box, try the SUBS. They're like HOTB -- and also from Beijing -- but with ten times the energy. They have a weblog, maybe you can some mp3s on it. Shanghai's best punk band is probably Loudspeaker (扩音器), but I don't know if they've put out a CD or not.

My favorite Chinese band is Shanghainese band Cold Fairyland 冷酷仙境. The play world fusion music: drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, cello and a Chinese string-instrument called the pipa. I think they're in Europe on tour right now. They have a website too, http://miyadudu.com.

hah,you maths teacher really knows a lot about the bands in china...
well,i've got to say there are loads of underground bands here which are good...anyway im not pretty into them.however, i think 冷酷仙境 is special.琵琶~~~

lol,i l love the dolls,too.and maybe the early chan marshall.

woooo~~~~~~~~~~~~i am back to Beijing and find the offical news!!!

Which magazine?

so pity that the concert hall for the sy's show gets only 1,122 seat, so everybody pay attention and save money for the expensive ticket!

why fact check BECK?

A free newspaper in Shanghai. I asked my brother to send me the article cause I'm curious about what they say...

ya we're pretty pumped over here! i work at an international school here w/ a lot of americans, canadians and others and there's as big of a group of our teachers going to this show as we had for the rolling stones last year!

when i first heard they were coming to shanghai i thought it was a joke, but when i realized it was true i didn't care how illogical it seemed, i just got the word out! i never thought i'd see a band like sonic youth in china. i saw them this past summer in the states and it was great but twice in less than a year, too nice! i can't figure out why they're coming, it'll be good for them if they get to have fun while there here, but i've never seen an official copy of a SY album here. i've seen a bunch of pirate copies though; nurse, leaves, washing machine, murray st. and a couple others. (it's pretty hard to find an official copy of any non-chinese artist here)

hopefully this is a good sign of the new direction the music scene is going here; now maybe pearl jam will get off their butts and come here, if sonic youth can pull it off you know pearl jam can. shanghai is starting to kick it up a notch in the concert realm; sonic youth, rolling stones, roger waters, eric clapton, james brown, norah jones, the roots, ziggy marley, etc. i don't love all those people but at least they're all on a certain level, so that's means more shows at that level, and that's good for me!

my only fear is that i'm getting my hopes up; quite a few artists have been blocked by the PRC something-or-other ministry, but SY doesn't really have any BLATANTLY political songs, not the kind china freaks out about, so maybe this will go through and i'll be rocking out next month. and the venue they're playing at is AWESOME it's almost like an opera house. i can't wait to see them play a full set!

msitig (i'll keep your first name a mystery, wink..)
how is it that my office is down the hall from yours and i didn't know anything about your music taste till i accidentally ran across you twice on the WORLD WIDE WEB?! i'll swing by your office tomorrow and tell you about this. it's nice to know there's more people at our school that like good music. by the by, have you ever gone to see tim's band? they played w/ loudspeaker last year, i don't know if you'd like his music though, his songs are kind of 'americana', not that that's bad, just maybe not your cup of tea.

later

Heard the news yesterday. Will def. be there for atleast one show.

Does anyone know when the tickets will be on sale?

been looking out for tickets for a while (for Shanghai). No one seems to have a clue.
Anyone knows where to buy tickets pleeeaaaaaase??!!
Sonic Youth, please help.
thanks!

yeah china. i heard they have a lot of copies.. every thing~
I hope sonics to come to Korea ......

Ministry of Culture approval doesn't come fast... I hope good news to break soon!

it will be not a problem in china, cause sometimes thurston do some kung fu things with the guitar

Holy crap are you in Wuhan?

If so...We must know each other. Ever been to Vox?

A bunch of us in Wuhan are going together in a group. I think like ten people are taking the night train to Beijing. But nobody has any info on show tickets yet. :confused: Maybe they can't start selling until after the Ministry approves???? I hope the band remembers to bribe those Wenhua guys :D

Does anybody have any info on the venue in Beijing? Star Live is it? Where is that?

Sonic Youth in China...
If it all goes off without a hitch....
It'll be pee-yr-pants awesome...

hey,i'm in nanjing of china.I m a chinese girl
.I 'll want to Beijing and Shanghai's two Places to see SY's performances,
because I think they can sing the different song in two performances
. I like sy's all songs.
I have made a book together with my friend，the book is about SY’S
all lyricses，IT‘S very very nice，
I dare to say that, the world only has this，
I hope sonicyouth band member's signature in this book firstpage if I can see them in China。SONIC YOUTH ,I LOVE YOU ALL THE TIME.
MY MSN:WOAIWOMA2006@YAHOO.COM.CN
MY E-MAIL:WOAIWOMA2006@YAHOO.COM.CN

http://www.blogcn.com/user16/xiaoxuexiaoxue/index.html
it's my blog.welcome.hahahaha.....

You made that? Awesome. If Sonic Youth saw that, they'd be impressed I think.

Be that I made together with my friend.I hope that they can like it , I want to let them sign. The place signing has all stayed well.

chinese ALPHABET??

:eek:

you gotta change yr brand of liquor

it's great to see some chinese guys here
i'am in Nanjing,and i 'll go to shanghai in Apr 24,escaping from my job

hehe.

Tickets are on sale NOW:

http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/..._youth_tic.php



I have some co-workers who have already ordered tix. They are "reserve now, pay later". Oh, and "380/580" translates to roughly $50/75. Not bad for a thousand-and-some person hall, but a little expensive for China (underground shows typically go for 20-50).

THX!

hi all u guys, i'm from HongKong
i'm planing to join the show at Shanghai
(only one .......to go)
is it too late for buying ticket?

-any hk ppl in here?

Got the tickets! Going to see them tomorrow. Can't wait!!!! Yay!

What's with all the Chinese people suddenly joining? Oh well, good to have diversity! Welcome!

some pics from the beijing gig:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/saisaiilli/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hermy/

hope to catch a set list at somepoint

cool pics. I'm going to China in july... beautiful country!

also just added, a amazing raucous rendition of Candle from Beijing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w61eFI3xPxc