{"id":18198,"date":"2008-03-10T20:09:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/new-wave\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T20:09:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T03:09:18","slug":"new-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/new-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing was a rock-free zone until the mid-1980s. But now, finds Alexis Petridis, local bands are winning a cult following &#8211; with the help of Pac-Man masks, corporate cash and a hatred of &#8216;Canto-pop&#8217;.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/music.guardian.co.uk\/rock\/story\/0,,2264056,00.html\">The Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The guitarist on stage at Beijing&#8217;s Mao Lifehouse club wears an enormous furry Pac-Man mask. He throws theatrical rock-star poses, their dramatic effect a little undercut by the fact that he&#8217;s backing a tiny girl in a flowing white dress singing the cutesy theme tune to a mid-80s Chinese children&#8217;s cartoon. The effect is bizarre, like seeing Pete Townshend playing the theme from Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds. But the audience love it, and everyone except me seems to be word-perfect.<\/p>\n<p>My whole evening has been a bit like this. For reasons I can&#8217;t quite get to the bottom of, every band performing here tonight is obliged to play a selection of 80s Chinese cartoon themes. At least it gives some sense of unity to a bill that otherwise seems to have been put together with the aid of a list of local bands, a blindfold and a pin. The tiny girl and the Pac-Man guy call themselves Milk and Coffee and sound not unlike a more winsome Saint Etienne, but they&#8217;re supported by a hardcore punk outfit, as well as a band called Too Koo, who have a bass player wearing a Newcastle United strip and a sound roughly approximate to Kasabian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XZzHmtPfZEs\">film of Beijing band New Pants \uff08\u65b0\u88e4\u5b50\uff09<\/a> via Youtube:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XZzHmtPfZEs\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XZzHmtPfZEs\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing was a rock-free zone until the mid-1980s. 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