Chinese Punks and The Ramones Tribute Concert @ Mao Livehouse in Beijing

Are the Ramones really a “punk” band?  Personally I don’t associate them with the punk movement of the 1970s [I do now--AF, 2017] but people here in Beijing seem to think they are the quintessential punks.  At least judging from the tribute concert held last night at Mao Livehouse near the drum tower.

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Project Dementia Goes to Shanghai: An Interview with Wu Jun and a Night @ 4Live

While in Shanghai I was able to kill two birds with one stone, or as they say in Chinese, 一举两得 .  Three birds really, since I also reuned with my family, but that’s another matter.  While Sat and Sun were reserved for the CET fieldtrip (see my previous blog), Friday July 20 was a chance to reengage with Shanghai’s live music scene. 

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人在中国现在能读我的博客！People in China can now read my blog!

Now that I am living in China, I am painfully aware of the fact that this website is blocked.  Nothing to do with the site per se, just that all Squarespace websites are currently blocked in China.  In order to get around this, I've set up a sister site where I will be posting all my blogs.  I will continue to use this site as it has already developed a readership, but will not be posting photos for a while, at least not in the blogs, since it is incredibly time consuming to do so.

My sister site is:  http://www.myspace.cn/shanghaidrew

People who are linking to my site in China may wish to alert readers of this new site. 

 Cheers!

Andrew