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Week Around the Ists
As confusion over the secret hoax Daft Punk gig rules supreme (unlike their appalling third album), spare a thought for the boys from Bananas.
Shanghai's beat-banging stalwarts were remarking earlier in the week that:
...we're doing our once-every-few-months party the same night, and guess who are target crowd is?... Pretty much the sort of people who are going to lose their shit about Daft Punk being in China for the first time ever... lucky us!
To capitalise / rip-off the buzz around the Daft Punk gig, Bananas changed the name of their night from RMBananas ("In times of economic downturn, we turn it up") to Daft-er Party ("Venue kept secret until you look at the flyer").
And now they don't know where they are.
No matter what they're calling it though, the deets are the same:
Friday 13th February, 10pm onwards at The Shelter (5 Yongfu Lu near Fuxing Xi Lu)
30RMB entry.
The best (hip-hop / electro / mashup / funk) music in Shanghai
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I read all the above, and I couldn't understand a word.
And why on earth would anyone pay money for Daft Punk? You'd have to be very, very daft to do that.
gazjoe- I'm guess you're not in the target audience.
And what audience might that be? Ho ho.
French hipsters / people who like new-fangled music.
Details, they are called details, you incorrigible trendy, not "deets".
Oh well excuse my steez.
I'll have you know that's the kind of backslang that all of us 30 year old bald Software Engineer ladykillers use these days!
So Daft punk will be getting an audience here in Shanghai?
Are you living in some sort of cave?
The "Shaft Punk" scandal is all anyone is talking about in the Gin Mills, Taverns and Ale Houses around town.
"The "Shaft Punk" scandal is all anyone is the Gin Mills, Taverns and Ale Houses around town."
Again ... that makes no sense.
You write so badly. Give it up and stick to being a "30 year old bald Software Engineer ladykiller"
[i]You write so badly[/i]
Irony, thy name is gazjoe.
Damn I wish you hadn't quoted that before I could fix it.
They sold 2,000 tickets for the Daft Punk show, an it turned out to be a hoax.
A hipsters lot is not a happy one (happy one).
so ... no audience, and you can't write. And you are a trendy, not a hipster. Best of luck with that. Bye.
I'm not sure what point you're making about someone (Daft Punk? Bananas? Me?) having no audience, but I do know I'll be crying myself to sleep tonight.
Daft punk
Right now it looks like the rumour of a Daft Punk gig sold 2,000 tickets in a few days.
Suggests there's a strong potential audience for Daft Punk to me.
Jeez, do I really have to explain this ... if they don't play, there will be no audience.
you write for an english-language website, but your understanding of english is so poor. And your writing in that language is that of a child.
Stick to being (your words) a "30 year old bald Software Engineer ladykiller"
Gazjoe- Yesterday I thought we were just having a bit of light-hearted banter, and that you understood I don't consider myself a hipster, a trendy, or whatever else.
But now it seems that you really were having a pop at me.
The word "audience" has several meanings:
1. The spectators or listeners assembled at a performance, for example, or attracted by a radio or television program.
2. A body of adherents; a following.
...
(dictionary.com)
Even if Daft Punk aren't playing a show in Shanghai, they still clearly have a large "body of adherents; a following" who are eager to see them.
That "body of adherents" is made up of French hipsters / people who like new-fangled music / people who might see the irony in a white, bald, 30 year old englishman using the terms "deets" and "steez".
2,000 x 500 = 1,000,000 RMB pure profit. Not bad for 2 weeks of work.
The figure sounds a bit like BS to me though.
Yes, too bad they spent 950k on those gold and platinum helmets for the photo.
You have my apologies. You are right, I shot my mouth off too quick, and without thought.