7th May 2006 1:42 AM
as i write this i have just finished seeing my 4 gig in a row and have now seen 9 differennt bands since i have been here and through a strange series of coicidences half of them have already bought me drinks and im on first name terms with them.
Last days in yangshou were interesting, went rock climbing however im sure the weather is plotting to kill me, everytime i do anything dangerous it decides to go all troical stormy on my ass. did alright but had one nasty fall where my spine was hrridly introduced to the rcks on the ground (im fine though guys, i feel your concern)
had a terribly stressful last evening, we were getting the ngiht bus to HK and were told when we booked it to wait in a hottwl lobby at set time. we got there early and waited...and waited...and waited........nothing happens, we had already checked out and due to the May holidays for the chinese rooms where very scarce, had to peg it to the trael office at 10 at night and hope we could get on another bus. lcukily we could although had to shed out more cash for tickets. worst nghts sleep ever for various reasons though. grrrrrrrr.
first night in HK there was a tropical storm so got soaked in Tshirt and shorts, air con isnt good for drying off either.
so hit Hong Kong, staying in a tiny place on the 8th floor of a random building but close to everything thats iumportant.
HOng Kong is easily the most comprehendve city i have ever been too, you can doo EVERYTHING here. except maybe go skiing......and the only things you see on the roads are taxis, buses, trams and mercedese. everyone drives expensive cars that cant be more than 2 years old.
firt..st day we scoped out area and went for a pint in alocal irish pub, pickerd up the free events paper and found 3 cool sounding gigs. m,arked where they were on my map and my nights were sorted.
werid how things are layed out, there are hundreds of things from doctors to massage parlours to wath repairs to dnace classes to arcades all satshed away on various floors of buildings, with just a small pavement side sign to notify you of their existance.
the arcades are cool, been a while since i was game and my geek nature was fighting its was to the surface so blew a load of dollars pissing around and loosing lots.
err wat else have I done, went up victoria peak, saw it was a lovely clear day so thought we would take th tram upo to the peak to see view. as soon as we got there the fog had decended and visiablilty was reduiced about 20 meters, saw the light show, went on the star ferry whioch was cool. went to a few random markets but mostly just pottered around random areas.
so many things just jog random memories, would love to track down the places i used to live but we just dont have the time.seen loads of familiar stuff here.
place is really easy to do, english is fine to use and some great innovations here, like a subway pass you can use to buy lunch with (genius idea). quite expensicve if your not careful but a really cool city with loads of character.
right now for the evenings, thanks to 4 more nights, now on another TV show, 2 flyers and 3 webzines. not bad for a few days partying.
First night was the Underground HK event, 0saw a chinese punk band who were interesting a random hard rock band called hotcakes on 55th and a random electro japense band called sexy hammer. As per usual i was the only one rocking out with all i had, then a radnom girl joined me in the moshing (everyone thought we were together), the band thanked me for getting into it and the lead guitarist (a big fat guy) leaped off the stage to join me as i air guitared. nice venue, some lovely ladies and met a bunch of student mettalrs who had paid for an open bar and so smuggled me drinks all evening. was a blast.
next night was at the edge club, couple of bands including the academy (hard rockers, wesatern but form HK) and a japaense metal band called electric eel shock http://www.electriceelshock.com/. by chance started alking to the academy bassist at the bar (who looks exactly like scoot by the way) and then this guy form japan who gave me some good tips, and some scandenavian and chinese girls. Bands were cool and it was really busy, everyone really got into electric eel shock and managed to get into the first pit could get too in weeks, which was great. Byt the end of the evening (dont ask me how) i eneded up int he VIP room with the bands and random birds drinking their drinks and hanign out, so a pretty cool evenign there.
next inght was HK live with some random bands inlcuding a chinese brit pop wannabe and the academy again, this time headlinging, the guys form E.E.S were aslo there, another good show and hung out with the bands cause i had already spoken to the previous guys, one of the guysfriomn the academy informed me of another gig on sunday, so i priomised i would be there.
went down the beach today to try and sort myslef out after 3 nights of heavy rocking out. lovely day but tempreture on the bech was about 40 was absolutely metling :S was feeling pretty dead but went to gig again. as another show with E.E.S asnd another Jap band, was cool but the audeciance consisted pretty much of all the bands in the area and their friends. got some random contacts, some good photos and a good time was had by all.
Tuesday we head fo Tokyo, decided to cut outy Seoul and Taipei due to finacial and time restraints.
oh and my credit card company are being retarded, so have very little cash reserves and this is anoying me greatly..........grrrrr again.
Its late I am tired, when there random event websites udate their photos i will giv eyou thew links just to prove im telling the truth (as you guys wouldnt belive me)
next update prob from japan, so see you later guys.
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