Some TING! 听 #003: Skip Skip Ben Ben & Astro Children

Skip Skip Ben Ben and Astro Children are two bands from your wildest grunge-noise-pop-shoegaze-dream. Find them in your nearest garage. BYO booze. >>>>>Skip Skip Ben Ben was created in the mind of Taiwanese guitarist/songwriter/singer Ben Ben 斑班, one half of the now defunct but brilliant Boyz&Girl of Taipei. After gigging and collaborating with bands on the D-22 scene and “ping-ponging between TaipeiContinueContinue reading “Some TING! 听 #003: Skip Skip Ben Ben & Astro Children”

Flat3 in the Super City: Interview with Perlina Lau

I first emailed Perlina Lau as a nervous 17-year-old for advice about taking a gap year in the West Midlands, UK. Five years on, Kiwese hung out with Perlina at a mate’s flat in Auckland, to get the deets on Flat3 over some wines and see who’s Asian glow was the hottest. KIWESE: To be honest, when I first heard there wasContinueContinue reading “Flat3 in the Super City: Interview with Perlina Lau”

China in the Documentary Edge Festival

The Documentary Edge Festival is well upon us here in Wellington, showing a range of documentaries from New Zealand and around the world at the Roxy Cinema in Miramar. Kiwese picks out two docos with links to China that you might be keen to check out over the next week or so! CHIMERAS (2013) FINLAND / 89min. / Chinese with EnglishContinueContinue reading “China in the Documentary Edge Festival”