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”
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Some TING! 听 #002: Hiperson & Cut Off Your Hands
Hiperson from Chengdu are one of my favourite bands right now. Cut Off Your Hands were one of the first live bands I ever saw in Wellington. They are both awesome. >>>>>Hiperson 海朋森 Hǎi péng sēn are a rock band from Chengdu, the capital city of the mountainous greenery that is Sichuan. Their super tight rhythms, haunting male-femaleContinueContinue reading “Some TING! 听 #002: Hiperson & Cut Off Your Hands”
Spice Up Your Life! Interview with Brad and Jing
While most of us are repeatedly hitting the snooze button on a Sunday morning, the duo behind Wellington’s first Sichuan street food enterprise are firing up the woks down at Chaffers Market. Kiwese caught up with Jing and Brad from Sichuan:Spice in their nifty Panda trailer for a chat and some deliciously spicy street food! Hey guys, what’s on the menu tonight? *salivatesContinueContinue reading “Spice Up Your Life! Interview with Brad and Jing”
Some TING! 听 #001: Carsick Cars & Ghost Wave
Introducing… Some TING! 听 (tīng, ‘to listen’) sharing independent music from both China and Nu Zilland. This week we’ve got Carsick Cars and Ghost Wave. Jangly guitars, surf rock, sunglasses and cigarettes. >>>>>Carsick Cars are a guitar-bass-drum trio from Beijing that formed back in 2005. Despite a few line-up changes in recent years, the band have retained the catchy, guitar-driven melodies that haveContinueContinue reading “Some TING! 听 #001: Carsick Cars & Ghost Wave”
Falun Dafuq?
I have been agonizing over whether or not to write about Shen Yun. Now, a month on, here is the result of said agony. I attended the second of two shows back in April at the St James with my friend Rosa, out of strong curiosity and desire for $60 worth of entertainment. The postersContinueContinue reading “Falun Dafuq?”
Quit punkin’ around: Interview with John Lake
What happens when a Wellingtonian photographer resides in Beijing for three months with a camera, no Mandarin and a passion for punk music? Kiwese caught up with John Lake of Up the Punks down at his current BEIJING DAZE exhibition in Newtown. Hey John! Favourite punk bands in Wellington at the moment? The Johos, Johnny and the Felchers,ContinueContinue reading “Quit punkin’ around: Interview with John Lake”
Flat White Cafe and the Rickshaw Roasters: a Wellington-Beijing Coffee Crew
To live in Beijing is to give oneself to the incredible push and pull of constant human traffic. For a Wellingtonian, sometimes you just need a form of escapism from the urban madness of a city home to 20 million people… and the Flat White Cafes and Rickshaw Roasters coffee havens provide just that. IContinueContinue reading “Flat White Cafe and the Rickshaw Roasters: a Wellington-Beijing Coffee Crew”
High Times with Shanren
Back in January, Kiwese hung out with the boys from Shanren 山人 (mountain men) in Beijing to chat about ethnic music fusions, tourism development in Yunnan and their upcoming trip to New Zealand for WOMAD. Shanren are a band from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south-west of China, where the mountains are tall and majestic, theContinueContinue reading “High Times with Shanren”
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