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The Plastered stage was a huge success at this year’s Nan Luo festival. The bands were all great and tones of people turned out to see them in a beautiful setting in the middle of the Hu Tongs just off Nan Luo Gu Xiang. The live graffiti by Quality Street was also a big hit, [...]

A few months back I filmed a really big TV show that I did tones of preparation work for, I had to present my business to some of China’s most successful businessmen and persuade them to invest in my business. The show will air on Oct 2nd on CCTV2 at 9:20 pm. Its called Chuang [...]

Its that time of year when we hopefully get to have a festival on the Hu Tong. After a few meetings it looks like its going to happen this September, and even though I know the date right now I don’t dare confirm it as these things always change at the last moment. But keep [...]

This year on Nan Luo Gu Xiang we’ve seen even more people up and down the hu tong, but not a huge difference in sales. Having spoken to a lot of business owners and fellow members of the chamber of commerce everyone agrees more people looking and not so many spending money. The problem is [...]

The affordable art fair was a big success for Plastered art works, we sold 3 pieces of the stained glass which now brings my total to 6. I really wasn’t expecting to sell anything as they were priced quite high. I got loads of text messages and emails from those who went to the show [...]

Its always nice to see celebrities getting Plastered, in this case its Ruan Jing Tian and Ying Da. In the case of Ying Da I was invited onto his program so I gave him a long sleeve t-shirt that he requested, in the case of Ruan Jing Tian he came to our flagship store and [...]

I first came to know Gu Lou when I enjoyed my first game of snooker in Beijing in 1993, an old Beijing mate took me up this old building to the 3rd floor and we played snooker and drunk beer all day, I used to call that building the “snooker building”. Years later the 3rd [...]

This week I got to give a talk on creative entrepreneurship to the university of southern California. A group of 40+ students who were all super excited about being in Beijing and meeting business and creative types. My talk went really well and they really enjoyed listening to one foreigners perspective on how to do [...]

We are proud to announce that Plastered products will be on sale at the South By Southwest music festival in the USA this March. South by Southwest is one of the largest music festivals in the world and this year the Chinese rock scene will have its own stage! Plastered sponsored bands such as Carsick [...]

As a child I had to go to church every morning at school, it was a time to reflect and space out and think of things that I wanted to do with my life other than sit in a boring church. It was in church that I hatched many of my plans to go travelling, [...]