Brain Failure

(脑浊 Nao Zhuo) The first punk band in China ever to self-release an album, Brain Failure has been playing Beijing venues since 1998.

Xiao Rong, the lead singer, is a punk with hair shaved and dyed into something resembling a leopard. On stage, he is primal and charismatic and self-possessed, exuding dangerous charm. In one of the bigger recent events in China, Brain Failure played in Inner Mongolia last summer with Cui Jian, the founder and “godfather” of Chinese rock music, in the second of a widely publicized “Chinese Woodstock” series of concerts.

Last year Brain Failure traveled the States opening for the Dropkick Murphys, a Boston-based punk band that’s generated enough heat to pop up on "Conan O’Brien." "Not only did we play for a bunch of drunk Irish men, it was in a cool club called Avalon and there were 2,000 people there," says Xiao.

"On Halloween we went to Avalon again, to open for Big D & The Kids Table. The audience [recognized us and] all started to scream our name."

http://www.brainfailure.com/

Past Gigs:
2009-10-11 @ 20:30 : MAO Livehouse (with Oliver, Blademark, Flying Midnight, Cactus)
2009-12-05 @ 22:00 : D-22 (with Rustic, The Flyx)
2010-01-23 @ 21:00 : Yugong Yishan (with The Face, Steely Heart, CMCB)
2010-03-28 @ 20:00 : Tango Third Floor (with Tang Dynasty)
2010-04-03 @ 21:00 : Yugong Yishan (with DH & Chinese Hellcats, New Pants, Re-TROS, Da Bang, Sulumi)
2010-05-04 @ 13:00 : Haidian Park (with Narakam, Lao Liu & Sand, Nanwu, Chaine Band, Yaksa, Wang Fanrui, Miserable Faith, Rolling Rolling, A.J.K (Army of Jade Kirin), Caracal, Gemini, Escape Plan, The Urbis, Miao, Fall Insects, Velvet Highway, Carsick Cars, Muma & Third Party, DISH, Free The Birds (Ziyo))
2010-06-04 @ 20:30 : Tango Third Floor (with DUDE)
2010-08-21 @ 16:00 : Ditan Park (with Laoya, Twisted Machine, Ourself Beside Me, Steely Heart, Nancheng Brother, XTX, Carsick Cars)
2010-09-21 @ 13:30 : Wanmu Binhe Park (with The Concretes, The Tumbleweed, Kulu, iLoop, Jiang Shan, Sandee Peng, Zhang Jing, SuperVC, Lijian, Zhong Tongxi, Zhou Yunshan & The Ruins, Suyu, Ian Brown, Supermarket, Hongqi, Sulumi, Wei Qing, Joanna Wang, Gemini, Zhong Lifeng, Twinkle Star)
2010-12-24 @ 21:00 : MAO Livehouse (with ILTB, Candy Monster, The Dancers, Steely Heart)
2011-04-30 @ 12:00 : Tongzhou Canal Park (with Terry Tu, BearBabes, Kulu, Nanwu, Mix Market, He Yong, Four Five, Logic Control, Catcher In The Rye, A.J.K (Army of Jade Kirin), Annie Dora, Hang on the Box, DJ QQ, Omnipotent Youth Society, Dingke, Candy Monster, The Girl and the Robots, Arms & Legs, Elvis.T, Mushroom, Left-Right Band, Twisted Machine, SKARAOKE, Go Chic, Patrick Yu, Sound Fragment, Descendants, Velvet Highway, Lin Shengxiang, Maizi & Micro Band)
2011-05-01 @ 13:30 : Jinglangdao Park (with Left-Right Band, Paradise, SMZB, Nanwu, Dengel, Mya Audrey, Descendants, Misandao, Mr. Big, K362, The Ghost Spardac, Mongol800, Finger Family, DH & Chinese Hellcats, The On Fires)
2011-06-04 @ 21:00 : Jiangjinjiu Bar
2011-06-25 @ 21:00 : MAO Livehouse (with The Dancers, Casino Demon, The Lone, Sulumi)
2011-06-30 @ 21:00 : Jiangjinjiu Bar
2011-07-02 @ 20:00 : MAO Livehouse (with A.J.K (Army of Jade Kirin), Twisted Machine, Four Five, The Falling, Raving Radio, Unregenerate Blood)
2011-07-15 @ 21:00 : Yugong Yishan (with Rustic, Steely Heart, The Ghost Spardac)
2011-07-30 @ 21:00 : Jianghu Bar
2011-08-06 @ 18:00 : MAO Livehouse (with Zhao Muyang, Hell City, Skarving, Shochu Legion, Return of the Truth, Trash Cat, The Last Choice, Misandao, SUBS, The Unsafe, Discord)
2011-10-04 @ 13:30 : Huaibei Ski Resort (with GOOD4NOTHING, The Life Journey, CiaCia, XTX, Streets Kill Strange Animals, The Go! Team, White Eyes, Hanggai, Bing Yong, Cao Fang, Bear Biscuit, Mamer & IZ, Carsick Cars, Fortune)
2011-12-08 @ 20:00 : Yugong Yishan (with The Ghost Spardac, Steely Heart)
2012-01-13 @ 20:00 : Yugong Yishan (with Chi Ren, He Yong, Yaksa, Hao Yun, CMCB, L.S.D. (Long Shen Dao))