GigShanghai: Sonnet (yay!) , film noir and Swiss goth

While we’re not ones to brag (we smell nice and had a BBC interview this week), there’s simply no other way to convey how good of a show this is -- we mean, if other podcasts were, say, a foreign match-making service, then we’d be the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau. After calls, pleas and a signed naked staff photo (sans Jimi), local indies Sonnet make their first appearance in a while at Yuyintang this weekend, along with three others for the “5 Dollar Shake” show this weekend (and c’mon -- film noir played nonstop and beer from a can). Also, our favorite MC Mojo not only drops by to talk all things “scratch-off” (not to mention make that record-scratchy-thing-sound with his mouth and bring us a short from the other weekend (see video above) but also this weekends party that expects 500+. We also get a visit from Blue Garden (although, they might have changed their name to “Orchid”), our downstairs neighbor playing his first show tonight … and, ummm … Swiss Goth (type that into Google and you’ll get a very cool font). Again, never ones to boast -- but we’re pretty sure after this show people will talk about us on their phones.
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It all goes down like this:

1:14 - “It’s kind of part of what’s the bigger part of something…”
2:07 – “They (Mortal Fools) just brought on a Seattle drummer…”
2:32 – Xuxuan music clip*
3:19 – “Why would you call anything '5 Dollar Shake' in this town?”
3:33 – “If you don’t know Sonnet you are nowhere in the indie music scene…”
4:02 – Shanghaiist Pick of the Week: Sonnet music clip**
5:08 – “You and I have shared Cuban cigars and pig brain…”
5:55 – “F*ck this -- I’m going to take over.”
6:51 – “Whoever wins out of China gets flown over to London…”
7:49 – “Aw-wa, aw-wa, aw-wa, aw-wa, Ari, aw, wa-da-wa-da-wa, Ari….”
8:31 - MC Mojo & Tang King (produced by Beatmaker Sickstar) music clip***
9:39 – “Right now we’re working on an album -- a little compilation…”
10:05 – “Tell me about this hip-hop movement in China…”
10:57 – “It’s that struggle that you saw in hip-hop in the 70s…in Brooklyn…”
11:43 – “Youth wants to express themselves -- it’s only going to happen that way, man.”
13:21 – “Now this is your alls (Blue Garden/Orchid) new single, right?”
13:48 – Blue Garden/Orchid music clip****
15:05 – “Who was the director (of the film BG appeared in)?” “Zhang Guo Li!”
16:41 – “Finally I get the chance to have my own show…my dream is coming true!”
18:09 – “The passive Swiss…and angry goth?”
18:34 – Unsigned band of the Week: Lacrimosa
19:44 – “Wait -- can I call England overseas?”
20:02 – “We did a BBC interview last night…”
20:14 – “Here’s what’s going on (this weekend)…”

... hope you like the show as much as we love most of you.

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*Any obvious comparisons to The Cure will result in a slowed internet speed
** Anyone who doesn’t think this is a brilliant band will win two tickets to the next Beach Party
***Anyone who can get this catchy number out of their head is doing better than us
****Name change explained in interview
*****First angry Swiss band ever -- aside from the Von Trapps