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A R O U N D T O W N 發光的城市 15 TIMES • FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2010 BY David Frazier MUSIC

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Fuji Rock artists sound out What: Fuji Where: Naeba, Japan long with baking heat, air-conditioner and pop will sweep through East Asia, and reggae band, Matzka, will play the Jisan Valley “the live performance is king.” When: July 30 to Aug. 1 drip and typhoon alerts, late though we will get to see many of them in Taipei Rockfestival, also in South Korea. “I personally go to other festivals, like SXSW, Admission: Three-day passes are 9,800 July signals the coming of — , , Atari Fuji Rock, in its 14th year and located in a ski the Great Escape and ADA to check for new yen (NT$14,800) Athe summer Teenage Riot and to name a few resort 150km north of Tokyo, however, ranks artists. We’re always looking. A good record On the Net: www.smash-uk.com/frf10 season. In the next few — the epicenter of this annual rock ’n’ roll as the senior Asian rock fest. The headliners it creates interest, but if the artist’s show is no weeks, several of the earthquake continues to be in Japan. announces as early as February each year now good. Then we have to pass,” he says. What: Summer Sonic, with Stevie world’s biggest Both the , from July 30 to regularly add dates at other in Taiwan But as a camping festival where many of the Wonder, Jay Z, Smashing Pumpkins and names in Aug. 1 in Naeba, Japan, and Summer Sonic, in and South Korea, such as the upcoming TWinkle 40,000 attendees at Fuji Rock each day have rock Tokyo and Osaka on Aug. 7 and Aug. 8, boast Festival at the Taipei World Trade Center been coming for several years, the event has Where: Chiba Marine Stadium (near monster lineups that are feeding the region. Nangang Exhibition Hall (台北世界貿易中心南港展覽 become about more than just music. Tokyo) and Miashima (near Osaka) Taiwanese bands will play a small part in 館), which has managed to recruit Massive Attack, “As time goes on, the festival has developed When: Aug. 7 to Aug. 8 from 11am in the action. Go Chic, a Taipei foursome mixing and from Fuji Rock’s into not being just about rock performances,” both cities (the lineups switch cities from dance rock with riot grrrl energy, will become lineup. [See Highlight below.] says Fingers. “Fuji Rock is a social and lifestyle day one to day two) the third Taiwanese band to play Fuji Rock Other headliners at this year’s Fuji Rock event, a weekend away from the Monday-to- Admission: Two-day passes are 29,000 when it performs there next Saturday night. At include the Brit band Muse as well as one of the Friday grind in a beautiful setting. The audience yen (NT$10,700) for�������������������� Tokyo and���������� 26,500 the same time, they will also become the first first concerts in 20 years by new wave pioneers has grown to think of it as their festival, and we non-Japanese band to play the Rookie-a-Go-Go . They are joined at the top of the have that in mind all the time.” (NT$9,800) yen for Osaka stage there, a free stage outside the festival bill by John Fogerty, who played Summer Sonic, Japan’s urban summer rock On the Net: www.summersonic.com gates where bands compete for a proper berth with Creedence Clearwater Revival over 40 festival, poses a sharp contrast. Held just one in the next year’s festival. years ago, and a new band called Crooked week after Fuji Rock in a baseball stadium Taiwan’s senior rocker Wu Bai Vultures that includes Nirvana drummer Dave and convention center on the fringes of metro For Taiwan’s music fans, the magnetic (伍佰) is also traveling to South Grohl and Led Zepplin bass player John Paul Tokyo, its lineup plays out like the wet dream of draw of such big names and mega-festivals is Korea’s Pentaport Festival, Jones. And that’s just the festival’s main stage. some music company executive. increasingly enough to overcome the steep where he performs On Fuji Rock’s 14 other stages, leading indies Taylor Swift and Jay-Z will fill the niche for ticket prices. (Festival passes alone can cost today, and next like electro-pop duo Air and dance rockers MGMT current Top-40 talent, while an all-star lineup of NT$10,000 to NT$15,000). weekend will cap an utterly eclectic offering of more than 90s alternative and hip-hop acts will be filled out A Facebook group called “I Want to Go to Fuji Taiwan’s 250 acts that spans from big-band mambo groups, by , the Pixies, Pavement Rock” (我要去 Fuji Rock) has so far garnered more best hula dancers and all varieties of rock to all-night and . But the top festival than 350 fans, of whom around 30 will make the raves and even circus sideshow acts. slot goes to none other than the 60-year-old R pilgrimage to Fuji Rock this year. In the festival When it comes to choosing artists, says ’n’ B legend , who’s already been campground, they plan to fly a flag with the Johnnie Fingers, one of Fuji Rock’s promoters, generating headlines for performances at major Taiwan Tourism Bureau’s “Taiwan” logo and the Jay-Z, left, the Pixies and Stevie Wonder are among the acts scheduled for next month’s European festivals in the early part of the summer. words “I am Taiwanese” (哇系台灣郎). . Photo courtesy of Daniel D. Zarazua EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT THE VINYL WORD BY Queen Bee Night Club.” On Sunday Canadian indie- renowned metal musicians Michael tonight at Sappho de Base, the late- Theater Classical music rock collective Broken Social Scene Angelo and Neil Zaza perform in a night lounge bar and hangout for takes the stage [see article on Page 13]. tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio. musicians from Taipei’s jazz and blues Xinbei City International Arts As part of the International Chopin On Tuesday, the TWinkle Rock Festival Also appearing is local -rock guitar scene. Tomorrow the venue hosts Jo Jo Festival (2010新北市藝術節) is an Festival 2010 (20X10蕭邦CHOPIN國際 kicks off with UK psychedelic Brit-pop hero Marty Young (楊沛霖). Ma Quintet, a group led by international art carnival that began 音樂節), pianist Gwhyenth Chen (陳毓襄), band Kula Shaker. ■ 177 Xining S Rd, Taipei City (台北市西 saxophonist Joseph Marchione. The early this month and runs through Oct. who first performed with the Los Angeles ■ Huashan 1914 Creative Park 寧南路177號). Tel: (02) 2370-8805. On the Emo Jazz Trio appears on Tuesday, 24. Forty-three groups from six Philharmonic Orchestra when she was (華山1914), Center Five Hall (中五館), 1, Net: www.riverside.com.tw saxophonist Klaus Bru’s plays on countries including Malaysia, Australia, just 13, will perform a program of Chopin Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市八德路 ■ Shows start at 8:30pm tonight and Wednesday, and TNT Jazz hosts an Italy and the US are scheduled to bring nocturnes and ballads in two concerts 一段1號) tomorrow and 7pm on Sunday open jam on Thursday. a myriad of theatrical, music, acrobatic over the weekend. ■ Shows start at 8pm tonight and ■ Admission is NT$400 tonight and ■ B1, 1, Ln 102, Anhe Rd Sec 1, Taipei and multimedia shows to more than ■ Today at 7:30pm (Taipei) and tomorrow, Sunday at 7:30pm and tomorrow and NT$600 or NT$900 on City (台北市安和路一段102巷1號B1). 20 towns and villages in Taipei County. tomorrow at 7:30pm (Taichung) Tuesday at 8:30pm Sunday afternoon. Tickets can purchased Tel: (02) 2700-5411. On the Net: Performing groups slated for this week ■ National Hall, Taipei City, and ■ Admission is NT$1,400, NT$1,600 or online through www.riverside.com.tw/ www.sappho102.biz include Ming Hwa Yuan Arts and Chunghsing Concert Hall, Taichung (台中 NT$2,000 tonight and tomorrow, livehouse or tickets.books.com.tw ■ Music shows begin at 10pm Cultural Group (明華園戲劇總團) and If 中興堂), 291-3 Cingwu Rd, Taichung City NT$2,200 on Sunday (NT$1,800 in ■ Entrance is NT$100 tonight and Kids Theater Company (如果兒童劇團). (台中市精武路291之3號) advance) and NT$1,800 on Tuesday Tonight Underworld (地下社會) hosts Wednesday and NT$150 tomorrow, free For more information, go to ■ Tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,800 (NT$1,650 in advance). Tickets can be expat rockers Half Mile Radius and Mr on other nights www.xinbei-arts.com. (Taipei) and NT$350 to NT$1,000 purchased at ERA ticketing outlets, online Dirty. Electro-rock band Sunset ■ Major venues include Taipei County (Taipei), available through ERA ticketing through www.ticket.com.tw or www. Rollercoaster and Nintendo The Wall (這牆) programs regular live Arts Center (台北縣藝文中心演藝廳), 62 or online at www ticket.com.tw. Also legacy.com.tw or at 7-Eleven ibon kiosks Generation Blues (任天堂世代憂鬱) rock shows at Kaohsiung’s Pier 2 Jhuangjing Rd, Banciao City, Taipei available before the day of the take the stage tomorrow. Roxymoron Arts Center (高雄駁二藝術特區). County (台北縣板橋市莊敬路62號) and performance through 7-Eleven ibon, Indie rockers Touming Magazine (透 appears on Wednesday. Tonight features punk group Autumn the East Plaza (東岸廣場) in Bitan (碧潭) Family Mart (全家) FamiPort and Hi-Life 明雜誌), electro-rock band Sunset ■ B1, 45 Shida Rd, Taipei City (台北市師 Tiger, The Last Chance and Drum ■ Admission to most shows is free. (萊爾富) Life-ET kiosks Rollercoaster (落日飛車) and garage 大路45號B1). Tel: (02) 2369-0103. On the N’ Keyboard. Tomorrow veteran Tickets for the indoor performances at rockers The White Eyes (白目樂隊) Net: www.upsaid.com/underworld punks Fire Ex (滅火器) celebrate their Tony Soul is mixing it up at Opus. Photo courtesy of Tony Soul the Taipei County Arts Center are ATS 20th Anniversary Concert perform tonight at The Wall. Tomorrow ■ Music shows run from 9:30pm to 10th anniversary. On Sunday the venue available through NTCH and ERA Series (台灣絃樂團歡慶20週年系列 音樂 night it’s Orangegrass (橙草), a post- 11:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays and hosts Yan Yung-neng (嚴詠能), a folk ormer House of Blues DJ Tony Soul (previously known ticketing or online at www.kham.com. 會) presents the Academy of Taiwan rock band with an emo-punk . 9pm to 11pm on Wednesdays. singer who won the Best Taiwanese- as Sandman) recently moved to Taipei. His mission is tw Strings (台灣絃樂團) quartet performing a Later on DJs Dim Mak, Mykal and Underworld is open daily from 9pm, language Album prize at this year’s to promote local talent through his Web radio station program that includes Haydn’s String Dino keep the venue moving with an closed on Mondays. Happy hour on . FRadio4by4. For Kungfu Poetry Nine Volumes Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, No. ,1 all-night dance party billed “Mustard Tuesdays and Thursdays before midnight ■ 1 Dayong Rd, Yancheng Dist, The son of WWRL radio station legend Hank Spann, (功夫詩˙九卷), Beijing’s Poly Kungfu Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A Minor, Pimp.” Japanese pop singer Megumi ■ Entrance for music shows is NT$300 Kaohsiung City (高雄市鹽埕區大勇路1號). Tony Soul is also a veteran radio host as well as a veteran Performing Group (保利功夫明星表演 Op.13 and Schumann’s String Quartet in A Nakajima appears on Sunday. on Fridays and Saturdays, which includes On the Net: pier-2.khcc.gov.tw, hip-hop DJ. But after more than two decades playing hip- 團) updates and hybridizes shaolin (少 Major, Op. 41, No. 3. ■ B1, 200, Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, Taipei City one drink, and NT$100 on Wednesdays www.thewall.com.tw hop, he switched allegiance and now plays deep house. 林) martial arts with elements of ■ Tomorrow at 7:30pm (台北市羅斯福路四段200號B1). ■ Shows start at 7:30pm tonight and His radio shows have attracted an international Broadway musicals, ballet and modern ■ Performing Arts Hall of the Cultural Tel: (02) 2930-0162. On the Net: The Earl Hines II Jazztet appears tomorrow and Sunday at 7pm following over the past six months and he plans to dance, as well as yoga and Western Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan County www.thewall.com.tw ■ Admission is NT$300 tonight and broadcast house music sets by local DJs spinning at Opus classical music. Government (桃園縣政府文化局演藝廳), ■ Shows start at 8pm. Tomorrow’s DJ Sunday, NT$400 tomorrow Bar every Friday starting next month. ■ Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念 21 Sianfu Rd, Taoyuan County (桃園市縣 show starts at 11:30pm Vinyl Word: How did you start out spinning? 館), 505, Renai Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台 府路21號) ■ Admission is NT$400 tonight and hIGHLIGHTs Tony Soul: My father gave me this lifestyle early in my 北市仁愛路四段505號) Tickets are NT$200 to NT$500, available tomorrow for the bands, NT$900 ■ BY MAHSA ALIMARDANI BY david Chen life by bringing me everywhere with him. Eventually I was ■ Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at through ERA ticketing or online at www (NT$600 in advance) for tomorrow’s able to get on the one turntable and play to a crowd at a 7:30pm ticket.com.tw. Also available before the dance party and NT$1,500 on Sunday. gathering for radio cats when I was 9. ■ Tickets are NT$500 to NT$2,500, day of the performance through 7-Eleven Tickets can be purchased online through VW: Why did you switch from hip-hop to deep house? available through ERA ticketing or ibon, Family Mart (全家) FamiPort and Hi- www.thewall.com.tw or tickets.books. TS: After taking a five-year break to start a family, I online at www.ticket.com.tw Life (萊爾富) Life-ET kiosks com.tw wanted back in. But hip-hop wasn’t really growing. It was actually getting worse, with the horrible lyrics that For Entrance II (飛行樂園), Diabolo 2010 Taipei International Choral Tonight Witch House (女巫店) hosts disrespect women, and really give a false face to the music Dance Theatre (舞鈴劇場) injects a Festival (台北國際合唱音樂節) opens indie-pop group Miss Silk Stocking Trip-hop duo Massive Attack performs that I once loved. Using Traktor [DJ software] while on my dose of visual opulence and high Sunday with a concert featuring the (絲襪小姐). Tomorrow it’s indie singer- in Taipei on Wednesday as part of The hiatus, I developed a unique sound of always mixing four energy into diabolo, a traditional Gustaf Sjokvists Chamber Choir from songwriters Huang Pei-yu (黃培育) TWinkle Rock Festival. records at once. Things seemed fun again, so I changed my children’s game and Chinese acrobatic Sweden and the Bratislava Boys’ Choir and Liu A-chang (劉阿昌). Acoustic Snap to it. Photo courtesy of Craig Ferguson Photo courtesy of Gold Typhoon name and got back in the game. routine. from Slovakia performing Haydn’s Nelson solo performer Marine and Taichung VW: Who or what are your greatest influences? ■ Nangang 101 (南港101), 71 Xingnan Mass together with the Taipei group FiFi Two (緋緋兔) split the bill on The TWinkle Rock Festival, a four-day TS: Besides my father, I am currently influenced by The St, Taipei City (台北市興南街71號) Philharmonic Chorus (台北愛樂合唱團) Thursday. The Scott Kelby Worldwide event featuring major Martinez Brothers. They bring the same intensity to mixing ■ Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at and the Taipei Philharmonic Youth ■ 7, Ln 56, Xinsheng S Rd Sec 3, Taipei Photowalk tomorrow tours the and electronica acts from the UK, that I do, and do it with reckless abandon. Mark Farina 2:30pm and 7:30pm, Sunday at Orchestra (台北愛樂青年管弦樂團). The City (台北市新生南路三段56巷7號). lanes and alleyways of Taichung and kicks off this coming Tuesday with influenced me greatly, too. Being from NYC/New Orleans, 10:30am and 2:30pm performance will also feature Chen Mei- Tel: (02) 2362-5494. On the Net: Taipei’s Shilin District, giving psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker and having half of my family from Chicago gave me a ■ Tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,500, ling (陳美玲), soprano, Chen Pei-chi (陳珮 www.witchhouse.org professional and amateur shutterbugs at Legacy Taipei. combination of gritty soul with all of the Chicago house available through ERA ticketing or 琪), alto, Vincente Fortunato Moran, tenor ■ Performances start at 9:30pm. the opportunity to mingle and take On Wednesday, the festival moves to influences I could handle. online at www.ticket.com.tw and Liau Chong-boon (廖聰文), bass. This Restaurant/bar with queer/feminist photographs. the Taipei World Trade Center VW: What’s your deejaying philosophy? opening concert will be followed by a bookstore and large collection of board The two-hour walks, part of an annual Nangang Exhibition Hall to host TS: It’s your responsibility as a DJ to make them dance, Legend Lin Dance Theatre’s (無垢舞蹈 recital by Gustaf Sjokvists Chamber Choir games open 11am to midnight Sundays event started by photographer Scott trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack. but also to give them something new, something fresh. 劇場) highly acclaimed Song of on Monday, the Bratislava Boys’ Choir on through Wednesdays, 11am to 1am Kelby, are open to anyone interested The take the stage DJs playing the same old music are doing their listeners a Pensive Beholding (Chants de la Tuesday and Rajaton from Finland on Thursdays through Saturdays in photography. on Thursday at the same venue. The disservice by not giving them new music. If you treat your Destinee, 觀) is the final part of the Wednesday. The festival runs until Aug. 1. ■ Admission for music shows is NT$300 “The event is a great chance for expat London duo of vocalist Neil Tennant listeners like they are dumb, musically, they become just trilogy set in a mythological world Free choral concerts will be held at 3pm and local photographers to go out and keyboardist Chris Lowe has left that, dumb musically. inhabited by men and spirits by tomorrow at the No. 7 Underground No shows are scheduled for tonight at and shoot together, sharing an indelible mark on electronic dance VW: What’s the idea behind Radio4by4? renowned choreographer Lin Li-chen Plaza of the Zhongxiao Fuxing MRT Riverside Cafe (河岸留言) as of press photographic knowledge, technique music with classic hits like West End TS: I am here to show the world that Asia has many (林麗珍). [See story on Page 13.] Station (忠孝復興捷運站), and at noon on time. Check the Web site for updates. and culture,” says Mark Foreman, who Girls and It’s a Sin. house music DJs that are doing great things. Our station ■ Kaohsiung Cultural Center’s Chih-teh Sunday at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum Tomorrow jazz pianist Hsu Yu-ying (許 will lead the walk in Taichung. The festival concludes on July 30 usually has about 400 viewers at any given time, featuring Hall (高雄市立文化中心至德堂), 67 Wufu (台北市立美術館), located at 181 郁瑛) performs to promote her latest The Taipei walk begins at the Shilin with former Stone Roses frontman DJs from around the world playing all sub-genres. 1st Rd, Kaohsiung City, (高雄市五福一路 Zhongshan N Rd, Taipei City (台北市中山 release. On Sunday it’s jazz-rock group MRT Station (士林捷運站) and takes in Ian Brown, who performs at Hopefully this will help to expose DJs here to the world. 67號) 北 路三段181號), and at noon on Monday Seven Shekels (七舍客勒) and the Baba Shilin night market, while the Legacy Taipei. Opus Bar is located at 104, Civil Boulevard Sec 4, Taipei ■ Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm at the NTUH Children’s Wing (台大醫院兒 Band (爸爸辦桌). Monday is the venue’s Taichung walk begins at the Sogo Massive Attack (Wednesday) and City (台北市市民大道四段104號). ■ Tickets are NT$300 to NT$1,500, 童醫療大樓), located at 8 Zhongshan S weekly open jam. Department Store (百貨) on Taichung Pet Shop Boys (Thursday) at Taipei Minimal techno producer/DJ Thomas Jung returns to available through NTCH ticketing or Rd, Taipei City (台北市中山南路8號). More ■ B1, 2, Ln 244, Roosevelt Rd Sec 3, Gang Road (台中港路). World Trade Center Nangang Taipei for a set at tonight’s Earworm party at VU Live online at www.artsticket.com.tw information on the festival can be found Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路三段244巷2號 Proceeds from the sale of official Exhibition Hall (台北世界貿易中心南 House. Jung will be spinning four decks using Traktor and at www.tpf.org.tw. B1), next to Taipower Building (台電大樓). Photowalk T-shirts will be donated to 港展覽館), 1 Jingmao 2nd Rd, Taipei an Ableton sequencer to add live elements to his set. Based on Nobel Prize-winning Italian ■ Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Tel: (02) 2368-7310. On the Net: the Springs of Hope orphanage in City (台北市經貿二路1號). Both shows Earworm (耳朵蟲), tonight from 10:30pm to 4:30am at playwright Dario Fo’s The Tale of a Wednesday at 7:30pm www.riverside.com.tw Kenya. start at 7:30pm VU Live House (地下絲絨), B1, 77, Wuchang St Sec 2, Taipei Tiger, Tiger and Soldier (老虎與士 ■ National Concert Hall, Taipei City ■ Shows start at 9:30pm tonight and Participants are eligible to take part in Kula Shaker (Tuesday) and Ian City (台北市武昌街二段77號B1). Admission is NT$400. On the 兵) is a one-man show by Indian stage ■ Tickets are NT$400 to NT$2,000, 9pm all other nights. For a list of a global competition for a US$1,000 Brown (July 30) at Legacy Taipei, Net: earworm.tw. director and actor Chongtham Jayanta available through NTCH ticketing or standard songs and ground rules for the gift certificate and other prizes. located at Huashan 1914 Creative In other clubbing news: Break out the cigars as Taipei has Meetei from EX-Theatre Asia (EX-亞洲 online at www.artsticket.com.tw open jam, visit the venue’s Web site Shilin MRT Station (士林捷運站), 1 Park (華山1914), Center Five Hall a new addition to the fold. Space opened as an electronic 劇團), who uses traditional Indian ■ Admission is NT$400 tomorrow, Fude Rd, Taipei City (台北市福德路1號), (中五館), 1, Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City dance music club on Friday last week, boasting some of the forms of story-telling and dance to tell NT$350 on Sunday and NT$150 and Sogo Department Store, 299, (台北市八德路一段1號). Both shows country’s top veteran DJs (Jimmy Chen, Tiger and Stone) the Italian story. Contemporary on Monday Taichung Gang Rd Sec 1, Taichung start at 8:30pm as residents. But the following day that club’s music policy ■ Kaohsiung’s Pier 2 Arts Center (高雄 City (台中市台中港路一段299號). Tickets are NT$2,000 to NT$4,000 changed to hip-hop, and the DJs were given the heave-ho. 駁二藝術特區), 1 Dayong Rd, Yancheng Legacy Taipei, located in a former Tonight Riverside Live House (西門 Admission is free, but those attending for Massive Attack, NT$2,999 to “They told all the DJs not to come in because some Dist, Kaohsiung City (高雄市鹽埕區大勇 warehouse at Huashan 1914 Creative 紅樓展演館) hosts Mando-pop singers must pre-register online at NT$6,999 for the Pet Shop Boys, friends of the boss said they want hip-hop,” says Jimmy 路1號) Park (華山1914), hosts top Taiwanese Jason Chang (張正宗) and Tong-en www.worldwidephotowalk.com NT$1,800 for Kula Shaker and Chen. “It was totally nasty. The club is owned by some ■ Tomorrow at 7:30pm pop performers and international acts. (同恩). Tomorrow the venue hosts pop- Tomorrow from 2pm to 4pm NT$1,800 for Ian Brown. Tickets are outsider who cares about nothing but money.” ■ Tickets are NT$300, available Mando-pop singer Harlem Yu (庾澄慶) rock band Crystal Dancer (舞璃), pop- On the Net: available through ERA ticketing or Space is located at B1, 171 Songde Road, Taipei City through ERA ticketing or online at holds concerts tonight and tomorrow, punk group The Fen-Fens (紛紛樂團) www.worldwidephotowalk.com online at www.ticket.com.tw (台北市松德路171號B1). www.ticket.com.tw which are billed as the “2010 Harlem and Indie Famous. On Sunday