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If you were around on the blogs in 2009, you might remember Top Floor Circus as being a controversial band. They wrote a song called Shanghai Doesn’t Welcome You in their inimitable parodying style during the run-up to the Expo, which promptly got their following shows cancelled, forcing them out into neighboring Hangzhou for a little while. The scandal blew over, though, and the ironic folk-punk band has had time to regroup and come back stronger than ever. This is the first time I’ve ever seen their name pop up in Beijing, and despite the myriad amazing things going on last night (oh, the many other gigs I could have been with), I made the commitment to see them because I knew it would be a once-in-a-Beijing-lifetime event. I was not disappointed.
To start off with, SUBS opened the show in full Halloween getup. Kang Mao was dressed as a mummy, which slowly got unraveled as she thrashed around the stage in her usual weird dancing routine. I know I’ve spoken about SUBS before, and mentioned how beautifully intense and spectacularly performative Kang Mao is, but it always bears repeating. It’s a true testament to this band that despite the fact I really am not a fan of high-pitched squealing or ear-splitting volume or almost any other part of SUBS’ sound and act, I always really enjoy myself. Of course, I always wear my earplug because seriously, I’m not kidding about that ear-splitting thing. If you haven’t seen these guys yet, get a good pair of earplugs and catch them next time they perform.
Between the sets, and helping to assuage a restless crowd, VeryRock.net put on a (twenty minute) video of other musicians’ impressions of Top Floor Circus — and the music scene in general. Everyone was there — from experimental folk artist Xiao He to jazz saxophonist Li Tieqiao to punk veterans Misandao — and they all had good stories to tell. There were particularly long segments about the lead singer getting drunk and getting into fights, as well as his habit of taking his pants off… Nevertheless, it was a great video, and really helped to pass the time as the stage hands set up for the main event.
Now I didn’t know this before the show, but Top Floor Circus sings almost exclusively in Shanghainese. So for their pilgrimage to Beijing, they brought along a projector and a charmingly DIY slideshow with the lyrics so that everyone could understand what was going on. I’ll admit, it was a little bit of a distraction (for everyone, not just my inner linguistics nerd), but with a large part of Top Floor Circus’ appeal being in their wonderfully sardonic and satirical lyrics, it was important to get the message across. They were all great songs, but particularly memorable were the following: an ode to “hailuo ayi” set to Knocking on Heaven’s Door, a KTV-style tribute to the Suzhou River, a song about monks accompanied by pictures of our robed friends at McDonalds, and one of their few songs in Mandarin about the girls at pink-window “hair salons”. But really, the whole show was memorable, and I hope they make their way back to Beijing sometime soon.
And he really did take his pants off.
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