I was browsing through some music and I saw the band name Plover. Hadn’t read anything about them in a long time, and I thought maybe I forgot to like their fb page. But it turns out they haven’t updated in over a year. o.0
But the singer Penny Hsu *(潘琪妮) has been active.
You can hear some of her songs and Plover songs at SoundCloud.
She also has a very impressive photo collection on flickr, including a lot of concert shots!
(*She may have the nickname ‘Ringo’)
Are any of you familiar with 潘琪妮?
Manic sheep / 2013 NXNE music festival (by Manic Sheep)
Manic Sheep just posted a video of some of their activity in Toronto during the NXNE festival.
I think they had an excellent time, and hope to go back next year. =D
[ENG SUB] [MV] Crowd Lu 盧廣仲-OH YEAH! (by Alison Chang)
This is a fun song, completely infectious! =D Crowd Lu (盧廣仲), from a few years ago. I think he is doing his year of military service now. (somebody correct me if I’m wrong, please!).
There’s no recent activity on his fb.
A few Taiwan bands are going over to Indonesia to play a beach festival this weekend: Go Chic, 88balaz (八十八顆芭樂籽 88 Guava Seedz) and Yan Weiling and Utopia (世外桃源).
You can read more about it here, but you’ll most likely need a translater to help.
Good luck to the Taiwan indies in Indonesia! =D
A little ditty from Joanna Wang aka New Tokyo Terror, with a Caribbean feel. What anybody says to me…
I don’t give a hoot!
Well I got the blues but I don’t care
What anybody says to me!
Well I got the blues but I don’t care
What anybody says to me!
What anybody says,
Anybody says,
Anybody says to me!
Well it’s not difficult as it seems
When you think about it, it’s
Like a dream!
When you think about it, it’s
Like a dream!
Episode #6 from Freda Li and Murmurshow (利得彙 X 慢慢說樂團). The stuffed puppet is back, and I think it is Freda’s 28th birthday party, with a cute cake at the end of the video. Happy Birthday, to a girl with a beautiful voice! =D
They again play 2 acoustic songs, at 5:10 and 14:00 minutes.
Jonathan Campbell moved to Beijing in 2000 to study Chinese and “figure out what to do with” the Master’s Degree in International Studies he received from the University of Washington. Almost immediately, he was thrust into China’s fledgling rock music scene, first as a drummer, and later as a writer, promoter and agent. Red Rock: The Long, Strang March of Chinese Rock & Roll is his first book. Asia Society Associate Fellow Jeffrey Wasserstrom calls it “a rollicking account of how a global genre was transformed as it sank down roots in a very special setting.”
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This is a very interesting read, with clips from 5 Mainland bands. The original article was published in March, 2012. (the videos are from earlier)
Another sweet acoustic live from Yuran 樂人 Media, presenting the band Clockworkers (發條人樂團).
They have an indie ep from 2009 you can buy at iNDIEVOX (http://www.indievox.com/clockworkers), and an album from 2012 on Warner music which you can’t buy at iNDEIVOX. Huh… You can buy it at Xiami.
You can see plenty more from the band at their YouTube page.
Another plug for the July 20 Tizzy Bac concert at the National Taiwan University Sports Center, this time from Wonfu.
The video title translates something like ‘Gentle day Wonfu blessing to tell you the secret of long wisdom’.
Thanks to stayinblue, we have a corrected translation: ‘Wonfu the gentle band tells you the secret to growing wiser.’ Thank you for your help! =D
I think the secret is to go hear Tizzy Bac in concert? Anyway, watch the clip to the end, they get very silly! =D
I’m sure you’ve heard that Rainbow Danger Club are losing their guitarist and singer, Mr. Munson and that Adam ‘Flacco’ Gaensler is taking that tiny guitar he always takes on picnics to Jakarta. So they be throwing down a mad block party and having a heap of bands come shake their dicks on the…
a few from fb…
top: a musician/artist named Chico Tsai (奇哥) drew this to promote ciacia’s summer shows.
left: Here is a map, if you want to help Sadon move tomorrow. =D (I think it may be a store moving, not a home. I’m not sure)
right: a tri-panel from Paige Su’s set for The Big Deal at Legacy Taipei. Haven’t spotted any video yet, but Paige and Yujun Wang have both posted that it went very well.
left/right: P!SCO were doing a thing last week about how the band members & support crew chose their jersey numbers. A few selected merely for their birthday/month, and some had less obvious meaning behind their number. =)
Wonfu just posted this highlights clip of their recent USA tour, including bits of all their South By Southwest gigs in Austin, as well as their trip to San Francisco. Lots of fun, just as you might expect from Wonfu!
Also, they thank everyone for being patient while they get the new album ready, and they have a gig coming up in July, where they will play all of the new songs. =D
After seeing the response to Palapelit yesterday, I decided to ask the band a few questions, and I received this very gracious reply:
Hi there,
it’s to our surprise and honor to be introduced by you.
We sincerely thank for your concerns with the independent bands in Taiwan, not to mention what an eye-catching blog you have built!
We had already released a self-made two-song EP in 2012, and now with the gradual accumulation of our own new songs, we will be thinking about making a full record in the future.
Owing that our guitarist is still doing his obligatory service in the military, our next gig would probably not come until the end of 2013.
As for our chinese band name, it definitely will not replace our current name “Palapelit”. The reason we asked everybody to come up with a chinese name for us is that this word itself is too unfamiliar and hard to pronounce for Taiwanese people, therefore we might need an auxiliary chinese name for people to remember us more easily, and this I believe is quite common for bands in Taiwan. Accordingly now we probably tend use a chinese transliteration.
By the way, if you could give us your address, it is our pleasure to send you a copy of our EP.
Thanks for your support and we will keep up on our works.
——————————— A very big thank you to Palapelit! =D
