A Beijing-based music and gig review blog

So, while I didn’t make it to the offi­cial gig of the week this week, I did man­age to get to D-22 for the first time in more than a month. I will always love D-22, as while it wasn’t the first music venue I went to in Bei­jing, it was the one that inspired me to get into the Bei­jing music scene. So when­ever I hear that one of my favorite bands is going to be play­ing a set there, I will quite will­ingly take the hour-long sub­way ride to Wudaokou for the priv­i­lege. And while Big­ger Bang isn’t in my top three (yet), they’re cer­tainly on their way. The other big draw of the night, unfor­tu­nately, never eventuated.

Listed as “friends of the lead singer of Big­ger Bang”, Spar­row was unfor­tu­nately not on the bill (aka white­board) out front of D-22 by the time we showed up bang on time at 10PM. It was def­i­nitely a blow to the evening, as I had really enjoyed their set at the TooKoo gig, payed the ¥30 for an adorably self-printed EP from Music Sta­tion (which is, as of tomor­row, mov­ing 20 meters east of its cur­rent loca­tion), and have been lis­ten­ing to it on a loop for a while now. I wanted another chance to see them, just to con­firm that they were as awe­some as I thought they were. Sadly, I’ll just have to keep stalk­ing their Douban page for the moment.

How­ever, we did turn up on time to see Dou­ble Har­vest­men, who I have heard of but never actu­ally seen live. I wasn’t wait­ing, but it was worth check­ing them out. Read more