My brain is failing

"Brain Failure" is coming to town! One of my friends is spamming all his email list excitedly. This is the second time this infamous Beijing punk band coming US. I saw their last show in Berkeley two years ago and got very impressed. They were on stage with another all female Chinese punk band "Hang on the box". Only this time they are doing a more complete US tour in more cities.

Founded in 97, the same year I graduated, they have released a few albums in Chinese. A Japanese label signed them and support this US tour promoting their upcoming album "American Dreamer", due release on 4/26/05.

We got to the bar an hour late, then stucked in rediculous long line for another 20 min before we finally got in. The music has already started with defting drum, high pitch guitar, and singer's desparate voice. 90% of the audiences were white males, most of them with dyed hair, black punk jacket, jumping and running in circle like there's no tommorrow. Only a handful Asian faces, I knew almost everyone of them, hehe.

The music was cool, just the way I'd like it to be, fast, energetic, with implicit melody lines underneath. I felt the click when they were singing and shouting like typical Chinese teenage boys. I was jumping, waving, shouting with everthing I got. They were pretty comfortable with staging performance and did a good work keep the audiences with them. No matter what music you played, public performance is always the best way to improve your skill and put your music to test. Only if Chinese bands all have such performance opportunities to perform 300 days out of 365, we will start to see great band like U2 mushroomed.

40 min show was over before we knew it (there were three other bands playing at the same night but I got out a few songs after the next band started playing, their music kinda sucked). I had a breif talk with one of the band members, bought their upcoming CD as a souvnir and went ahead to a friend's drinking party till 1 in the moring. That's the life I am talking about.