Obama's China itinerary revealed
Shanghai Photographer Night at Dada
Monitors remind classmates that love is publically unacceptable
Go ahead, stare at my chest
Racism in China: How poignant is it?
The sign on the gate that leads to Tang Hui on Huating Lu reads "停止营业" (ting zhi ying ye or "No longer open for business"). Yep, it's true — the new Tang Hui failed to last a year. The bar and supposed music venue closed last week, Tang Hui general manager Morry Morgan confirmed via SMS:
Yes, unfortunately Tang Hui is closed. The music revolution is going to have to wait a bit longer. ... The building is owned by a Malaysian investor who has a sizable mortgage. He's going to have to realize he's a stakeholder and sort out the neighbors. Otherwise the next business will fail. I believe Tang Hui was the third business in that building.
But as it does for Jerry Seinfeld, "it all evens out" for the Shanghai music scene. Via SH:
monday mar 26SUS2 MUSIC FACTORY REOPENING. One of Shanghai’s oldest live music bars will be reborn at a new location tonight. Be there and make some noise to show your support. SUS2 Music Factory, 685 Dingxi Lu, near Fahuazhen Lu.
Thanks for the SUS2 tip, Michael!
Also on Shanghaiist
Tang Hui Pub getting shut down!
Say goodbye to Tang Hui
Tang Hui to reopen in April, party this Saturday
A sneak peak at the new Tang Hui
A night out on the town: Pecha Kucha and Tang Hui
GigShanghai: Dance rock, a smashed bass, a Tang Hui challenge
GigShanghai: Northern grunge, Tang Hui strikes back and Akufen
Did Tang Hui lose its last ounce of 'indie cred' Saturday night?
Tang Hui forced to cancel all live rock music
Where we're going tonight: So Much Soul
Music Merry-Go-Round: Zooma hops on again
Where we're not going tonight: So Much Soul
Who needs live music when you can have a pillow fight?
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
post to facebook
For the time being at least, you can relive your Tang Hui memories at their website.
It serves them right for ruining Shanghai's only club with a lick of character. Trying to turn a genuinely cool, underground Chinese rock bar (the old Tang Hui) into "Zapata's Jr" was just stupid. But I do like the way the manager tries to lay blame on the location.
the old tanghui was kidnapped by a greedy landlord ... the owners worked hard to find a new location ... it wasn't ever some sort of "sell-out" intention.
Finally, the new location was to blame, certainly not anything wrong with the intentions or marketing or whatever. The new Tanghui rocked! It was awesome and busy until the cops kept shutting it.
For the record, the new Tang Hui looked like the marketing department at Starbucks took-over (so sterile); the old one was 1000x better. The old Tang Hui was authentic; the new Tang Hui was just another bar.
Do you think that the owner of the old location could possibly have come under pressure from the police. I mean, with all of the open... er, riff-raff that went on there? I've seen the new bar at TH's old location, and it doesn't seem to be doing much business.
The place was crap from day 1. Death to crap live music and crap live music venues! This is an electro town.
Shanghai is also a defecating-outside town, a polluted town, and a terrible-food town...we aspire for greater things than motherfuckin' electro.
I keep hearing these comments but I just dont get it...
The old Tanghui was not a dive bar, nor a live music venue. It was a nice little bar that happened to have good honest music, sometimes DJs, sometimes live on a small side stage. It was decorated intelligently with antiques and alt culture posters in frames.
The new bar at TH's old location -- Logo Bar -- is even more successful than the old Tanghui was, and doing so with equally good honest music. It is busy most nights of the week, and packed at least 2 or 3 nights a week, often until 7 in the morning!
... and the riff-raff hasn't stopped.
The old Tanghui was neither cool nor 'underground'.
EVERYONE knew about it. It featured mediocre musicians, and a crowd who were desperate to go there just to feel 'cool'. They tried to make more money out of the name 'tanghui' - an easy feat seeing as expats and westernised-Chinese will follow all trends they feel that they 'should' - but they even failed at that.
Trev hit the nail on the head. Tanghui was just a wannabe, would-be if they could-be masturbatorium.