Norwegians out there will have noticed that SUBS were featured heavily in commercials lately: Acclaimed music program LYDVERKET featured an episode entitled "BEIJING ROCK CITY", the commercials for which showed SUBS doing their thang. Alas, editing removed them from the actual show, which was broadcast March 10. Check the show's site for more: http://www.nrk.no/lydverket/
Speaking of ROCK CITIES... BERGEN ROCK CITY, VOLUME I is OUT NOW in CD shops, music stores, live venues and more ACROSS CHINA. 5,000 readers of TONGSU GEQU magazine will find a CD in the April issue of the magazine as well. The compilation, which features 18 bands from Bergen (ok, 2 are from elsewhere in Norway), is being distributed for FREE thanks to October Party Records, SUBS and YGTwo. This is only the first of many discs to come and is ONLY AVAILABLE IN CHINA!
OCTOBER PARTY RECORDS is run by Kjell Moberg, whose band, JEF (www.myspace.com/jefband) will hit China in April. Their schedule:
Fri 7 Apr—Beijing, Club 13 (w/Reflector and Joyside)
Sat 8 Apr--Anyang,
Sun 9 Apr--Wuhan (Vox bar)
Mon 10 Apr-Changsha,
Tue 11 Apr-Guilin (Suanle bar)
Thu 13 Apr-Nanjing,
Fri 14 Apr-Shanghai
Sun 16 Apr-Beijing Yu gong yi shan (w/Subs and Cafe-in)
IN OTHER NEWS... CHAILE is BACK! Ok, it's been back for a while, but we need to point you all to what is for sure Portland, Oregon's best source for pretty-up-to-the-minute Chinese rock info, but is also one of the best online sources for info on what's actually going on in Chinese rock. Yes, Chaile himself has made this site possible, so we might be biased, but so what.
www.chaile.org.
Go there. Often.