The good news first... Norway is awesome. The Music Information Centre (www.mic.no) --- not to mention our good friends at October Party Records --- has, once again, stepped up and will be instrumental in Subs’ Return to Norway and Europe in our quest to bring the Subs Story back to the People of Scandinavia, Europe, and from there, THE WORLD… Our good friends across the region are working hard at ensuring that people across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Italy will get to see Subs this summer. Keep checking in here for the latest scoops. Meanwhile, Bergen Rock City Volume II is about to hit the streets across the country and JEF (www.myspace.com/jefband) will be in China soon. Click READ MORE for more...
Also: Subs in Shanghai March 11 was a huge success. Go to shanghaistreets.net for the scoop and to thank Brad for setting it up.
And the not-so-good news… Wu Hao and Kang Mao were beaten up by purse-snatchers: Seeing a crime transpire, they ran after the thief only to be set upon by his three co-horts. They are healing now, but had to cancel some recent shows. They are in generally good spirits (Kang Mao: “I’m alright, but I’m not going out because I’m too freaky-looking”) and healing well. In that spirit, below is Babelfish’s (altavista.babelfish.com) translation of Kang Mao’s description of what happened (for the Chinese version, see Subs’ blog at subs.blogcn.com):
“Now in the heart really is incomparably gloomy, afternoon and Wu Hao takes a stroll in the home entrance in, and so on the traffic light street, has seen a Xinjiang thief right ahead handle bar plug person to wrap pulls out, my this tone has not sunk, left a head, the result is a street corner fights beats. 1 thief turned 3 person of gangs, the fist pa has flushed my surface hanger-on to come, my eye braves Venus to be sore has not stood up straight quite a while, again turns head as soon as looked, Wu Hao is hitting, but also some one did not know the boy has also helped us two, by now gathered round an eldest child viewer, on the one hand me broke through on the other hand shouted stole the thing you also such to entrain also shouted reported to the police the mother, but in brief... ... The police vehicle comes time, this group hoodlums just ran, the police have not simply pursued the meaning, turned along an alley curved to walk, my full face nosebleed, the face swelled at that time an elephant different shape, crowded also cannot open right eye to the present, the tooth also cracked. Some several small satisfactory come for me the toilet paper, the idler also to gather round a big pile, looked your mother compels to look! The such many people such in broad daylight such big intersection let the evil person prevail, my date! Hands over the tube the person hurries to say they bring the knife not to dare the tube... ... I also very living, the question was Wu Hao now cannot move, the internal injury, the present flat and thin piece could not look, was possibly the rib bone fracture.
In my heart is uncomfortable, Wu Hao I with him pledged later will flush don't again, but in my heart will turn only this curved. I said I do not fear the thief. But actually, I cannot forget an instantaneous feelingin chaotic center I to see Wu Haogong to get down, I did not know how he, that moment I good did fear. Such, and so on Tuesday again is going to him pats a flat and thin piece, but also did not know how receives manages.”