The hu tong was packed, pretty much every saturday these days when the weather is good. Still it was nice to have a stage up and have some great bands playing. We started the Plastered music stage at 10:30 and kept going till we were allowed which was 4pm. Arrows Made of Desire were brilliant as were the other acts despite a lack on amps which i learnt a lot about today as i forgot to ask for them. Here are some pics from today.
Here is a short film made by the very talent Vicky Mohieddeen about our Plastered Rock Weekend, she followed the student bands on every night and got some fun backstage interviews and other footage, all building up to the final night at yu gong yi shan on the 19th which was sold out by 10pm, over 1200 people turned up. See the student bands in action on the big stage followed by GAR Carsick Cars and GAR. A big thanks to Maybe Mars, neocha.com, NeochaEDGE, and the beijinger for helping us make this happen.
Last Saturday I got a call to go to the shop to meet some famous people and do a short interview in the shop. It turned out to be really good fun, the presenter Li Chen 李晨 was hilarious and pretended to be an employee of mine mean while a beautiful tall lady movie star from Taiwan Men Guang Mei 孟广美 and we continue the banter. Both of them bought up tones of Plastered gear. Here is a photo of me with them in the shop. Apologies to all those who waited outside while shop was closed for filming.
Here is P.K.14’s set at the Plastered Rock Weekend. I hope to have the proffessional recording synced to the video next week so you can really enjoy the whole live experience.
Back in September I got a call from Hu Nan tv who invited me onto a very popular opo culture tv show called kuai le da ben ying, its the most popular show for young Chinese aged between 18 and 25. The show attracts audiences of up to 300 million so its not something I could turn down. The show has a similar formatt each time. 5 young and cool and very witty presenters take the piss and have a good laugh quite often at your expense. He Jiong 何炅 is the star of the show, he’s been doing it for over 10 years, he’s been to our store on nan luo gu xiang so he knew our brand quite well, and hes a really good guy too. Here are some photos from the show, the show itself you can watch online or wait a bit and I’ll post it on this blog. It went really well, despite having to walk onto stage flagged by crazy dancers wearing Plastered T shirts.
Well you heard it here first, there will be a nan luo gu xiang festival this year after months of trying (sometime in October but too scared to confirm as always gets canceled). I’m on the organsing committee this year so hopefully should be better than last one whick lacked a bit in action. I will be putting up a stage at the north end of the hu tong and getting some student bands and other acts playing on the plastered stage. The date i will confirm next week sometime after the 5th. Plastered will also be doing the official t shirt for the fest which i hope to finish designing soon. Anyway keep your eye on this blog for more news. If you have a band and would like to perform please contact us at info@plasteredtshirts.com
Here is some video of Carsick Cars playing their set at the Plastered Rock Weekend. Jeff the singer is wearing our new Plastered Carsick Cars T shirts which is a huge seller from our stores and online. Look out for the tall bald guy in the crowd, thats me. Will post the others later this week.
After months of planning the first Plastered Rock was a huge success. By 10pm the venue was full, packed solid with students who had won free tickets via our website and the hardcore fans who had come early to get in, so the crowd was full of energy.
The evening kicked off with Rustic, one of the three winning student bands, they were insane, amazing stage presence and really got the crowd going. After which was Bird Striking tipped to be the next student band to get signed to a record label, they were brilliant and looked very excited to be playing in front of over 1000 people. The final student band was Mr Graceless and they certainly didn’t disapoint all in all the student bands were really good.
By the time GAR took the stage the venue was really buzzing, the mosh pit was heaving with young fans… and me. Carsick Cars were a huge hit as were P.K.14 both bands have massive followings.
Thanks to all of you that made it such a successful night, we hope to repeat this next year but on a slightly larger scale so more people can attend. We will be adding more bands to our collection so keep an eye out for yet more cool band t shirts. You can see both GAR and Carsick Cars wearing the Plastered T shirts designed for their bands, these designs are selling extremely well from our outlets and online.
Here are the pics from the night:
I think i might still be drunk after the finals of the student night at D-22 – a really great night with tonnes of people showing up to support the different bands. Some really stood out, some were just not up to it, but all in all a huge success and a great leap forward for the music scene here.
We hope to pull off another one of these next year and we’ll keep you posted on that via this blog.
So the winners are……. Rustic (1st)and Bird Striking(2nd) and Mr. Graceless(3rd) . These three bands will play Yu Gong Yi Shan tonight between 8pm and 10pm.
After that the big three acts will follow. I would suggest that anyone who hasn’t yet got a ticket, come early as we have a huge amount of people coming tonight and besdies, you don’t want to miss the student bands!
Also the first 500 through the door will all be getting Plastered give-aways.
Hope to see you all there tonight, I have to be on best behaviour as BBC will be filming and I’ve got to fly to Xiamen to film a CCTV program at 8am the next day.
Have a feeling I’ll be walking around the airport with my sunglasses on…
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Plastered kicks off its online competitions with “Your City, You’re Plastered”…. Send us your most iconic photos of your favourite cities and we’ll choose a winner. WIN CASH and OTHER PRIZES.
For example, here is a lovely photo of the CCTV tower in Beijing. Got something that compares? Send it to us at info@plasteredtshirts.com
