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Plastered on BBC Reality TV Show

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:31:59 +0000

Sun Zi and the artof War Reality TV program

Last summer I spent 3 weeks being filmed by BBC reality TV crew who were filming a show called Sun Zi Art the of War. Its a 13 part series and in each program they film 13 businesses around the world and then break down those businesses and call in celebrity CEOs and give you a challenge and advice on how to improve your business using the principles of Sun Zi, that famous Chinese book. It was pretty stressful but all in all quite good fun. The host James Sun was a runner up in the reality TV show The Apprentice in the USA and a very nice guy. It starts airing in Singapore this month and here is a trailer for the program which I am quite heavily featured in. My challenge was to hold a big event to show off my brand which was our Plastered Rock Weekend last year in which we attracted over 1000 people to, a big success that helped us drum up new customers and attract a lot of media attention. Once I get my hands on the DVD of my episode I will stick it online for those of you who might want to see.

Here is link to trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwNdwpvjs0c

For those of you without access to youtube in China will post a youku link soon.

Rock and Roll

Dominic — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:01:02 +0000

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.

GAR

Dominic — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:01:45 +0000

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.