Whilst fans wait for their ticket refunds, the Oasis/Tibet debacle has at least worked out well for one party: That's Shanghai magazine's publicity team.
Whilst fans wait for their ticket refunds, the Oasis/Tibet debacle has at least worked out well for one party: That's Shanghai magazine's publicity team.
Neocha, a social networking site dedicated to 'connecting China's creative communites', has just released the fifth edition of their webzine Blow Up. The 'zine, a flash-enabled interactive venture, operates under only one tenet: that the webzine can only be composed of "100% original creative works put together specifically for Blow Up".
So by now, everyone knows the gig is off, presumably because of Oasis' pro-Tibet leanings. But before we learned that the British brothers wouldn't be performing on our shores, the editrixes at managed to get an exclusive interview in with them - separately. If it really was because of the Tibet issue and not just finances, the Chinese government really ought to read the piece and change their minds.
This may have been obvious to anyone who's ever been at a show at Zhijiang Dream Factory, but Shanghai (and we're assuming greater China) has got an ever growing population of *gasp* hipsters! Exhibit A: M-Style magazine, which has apparently been churning out monthly issues since January 2008.
April 1st marked the birth of Comme à la maison, the new French online magazine based in our beloved city.