Rock and Roll
I’ve always been a huge fan of Rock and Roll in China. Each year I’ve been here I’ve tried my best to keep up with the rock and roll scene and go to as many gigs as I can. I can remember clearly seeing Dou Wei’s bands Hei Bao perform at the French School back in 1995 when they had no where else to play. There were so many brilliant bands over the last 15 years, Wild Children, Second Hand Rose, Reflector, – just to name a few – and Beijing continues to churn out great new bands all the time. The scene here, it seems, is still very alive. Kaiser Kuo could tell you a lot he really lived the scene with his band Tang Dynasty and there are some good blogs that follow the scene here quite well like www.outdustry.com.So ealier this year I approached a bunch of bands and record labels about producing and selling band t-shirts from Plastered offering a great deal on the profit sharing so the bands could really benefit from the sales. It is tough to make any real money in Rock and Roll in China. So this month (April) will see the start of our Band T-shirts. We start with Wuliao Contingent and PK-14 (coming late April) with many other big acts to follow. This will be unique to Plastered, so come by and support the bands. We collaborate on every design with the bands and I think you’ll like the results. In the case of PK-14 they supplied beautiful artwork that was made for t shirts.
I got an email a few months back from a young enterprising American who loved Plastered T shirts and was organising a fashion show in the USA and wanted to feature our t shirts. They featured 5 designers in total.
Ten years ago was one of the most exciting times in my life in terms of music at least. The Scream club in Beijing was packed most nights and performing were a bunch of really great punk bands who collectively were known as Wu Liao Jun Dui (The Bored Army). Among the contingent were the likes of 
I Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelinn fame had been to our flagship store during the Olympics before his performance in the closing ceremony alongside David Beckham and Leona Lewis, but had never seen him sporting his Plastered T shirt before. Thanks to Steve Chiu for sending me this pic.
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Back in 2008 I was appraoched by one of London England’s most successful t-shirt brands: Terratag. Terratag has taken the European t-shirt market by storm with its brilliant manga and other related graphics. Terratag and Plastered promptly signed a deal to distribute each other’s designs in their respective countries. We then worked on a design together, a collaboration, using one of Terratag’s robot concept, and our pottery print design concept. The result was a brilliant robot, or “Willowbot” (see t-shirts below). This week, I received this post, from Sine Wave (Sine Wave Company builds software to make virtual worlds more compelling and exciting, running virtual events and sells animations and robots) featuring a very cool bit of animation of our robot: 
Last Friday night I went to see GAR, one of Beijing’s young, brilliant bands. They played at Yu Gong Yi Shan to a massive crowd. The concert marked the official release of their first album which I now have playing in my office … all day. I hope they go on to do great things. Here are a few pics I took that night.
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