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The guys at GigLive (the same guys from GigShanghai, the local music podcast you can listen to each week on Shanghaiist) want two of you to drink adult beverages and listen to local live music on Wednesday night ... for free. (And they want the rest of you to do it for 88 kuai.) Enter to win a GigLive ticket at the end of this post. But first, a note from the organizers:
We asked for a venue to showcase indie and underground acts in Shanghai.Bon Bon gave us a venue to showcase indie and underground acts in Shanghai.
Every Wednesday night is GigLive @ BonBon -- indie and underground acts.
88 kuai in the door gets you:
3 bands.
All you can drink (anything -- not that beer and soft drink business).
All for 88 kuai.
GigLive @ Bon Bon.
This Wednesday.
Why Wednesday? Because you don't have plans ... unless you're going to Zapatas.
This week:
Ferris Wheel
Banana Monkey
Flying Fruit9pm.
Be there -- it's going to be so fucking outrageously indie ... and great.
Fill out the form below for a chance to get in to GigLive for free. Two winners will be notified by email on Wednesday morning, and their names will be left at the door at Bon Bon. Good luck!
UPDATE: Congratulations Robert and Qian!
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bon bon - what an 'outrageously indie' rock venue... after all the blathering about how Tang Hui ain't shabby or shitty enough for 'indie' music, does this new night at one of our flashiest clubs strike anyone else as, well, just a little bit hypocritical?
good work on the programming guys - just curious about your thoughts...
Fair point - BonBon doesn't come to anyone's mind when we talk "indie/emo/uground" venue - they might have even surprised themselves, but they offered their venue, gave us the money to bring in good acts, and dropped the price way down for all to afford.
And if you would have actually listened to the show, instead of simply reading the breakdown, you would have heard that our love/hate with Tanghui comes down to it is a bar with music or a music bar? Think no one is debating that with BonBon.
"Outrageously indie" was tongue-in-cheek, as it was prefaced with "so fucking" and I ended it with "and really great".
Once again - if people would put as much effort into supporting the scene as they do breaking down the psyche of the presenters.
To answer a few other emails I've gotten of "why'd you choose BonBon? It's not indie/set up for a rock show/etc", you need to realize they came to us, open-armed wanting to help. Anyone who's spent a day here knows they don't do rock shows - but were any of the venues that do coming to us? No, they were booking cover bands.
Any surprise this is to you pales in comparison to the "Hey, it's _______ from BonBon" call to us - but we have a (newly constructed) stage, they've raised the turntables up and lowered the drink prices, booked some solid bands - and we'll make it work.
Aric
I think it's great that live music is getting a bit of a run out in town, but I'm not sure about the prices. 88RMB when there were 4 bands on at YuYinTang including Banana Monkey for 30RMB a couple of weekends ago. Admittedly it's open bar, but on a Wednesday? Shouldn't there be a price for those that don't want to drink but want to see the bands??
BonBon are pretty on it though. They've spotted phreaktion's dnb nights and nicked them off Pegasus. Now they're getting on the live music thing when it's been the likes of YYT, Live, Shuffle and Harleys who are really working this scene. Why not do this at any of the aforementioned, boys?
None of those offered. I'd love to get to a point where once a week, we take the GigLive on the road, but for now - hats off to a venue not known for it's "indie cred" (whatever that means - I should really find out) for being the first.
Funny how many emails from other venues we've gotten in the past few days saying "Why BonBon?"...it's because no one else was willing to take a chance.
Per the price - Would be pretty hard telling who paid for drinks and who didn't - I still think 88 kuai is a ridiculously low price...even if you drink, oh - I don't know, Diet Cokes in Xintandi, you'll still be set back around the same amount.
Did we see you at the 5 Dollar Shake Show?
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