Outdustry’s in-house net-label MicroMu is proud to present a special performance from it’s first international signing, Fink…..
As the first acoustic act on legendary electronic label Ninja Tune, Fink has carved a unique path as a singer-songwriter. With a background in downtempo beat production and top level remix work, his brand of acoustic music is distinctly modern while remaining deeply intimate as a live show; a formula which has seen him share the stage with the likes of Zero 7 and Massive Attack and earned him rave reviews around the world:
“Mean moody and magnificent. One of the most original singer-songwriters around.” – Clash
“…say hello to your new soundtrack.” – NME
“Surprises when you least expect it. Sort of Revolution refuses to succumb to the obvious.” - Mojo
Fink will be performing solo-acoustic for two small shows in Beijing (MAO Live on Nov 5th) and Shanghai (Yuyintang on Nov 6th), followed by a mainstage appearance at Clockenflap Festival in Hong Kong (Nov 8th).
Acoustic legend Wan Xiaoli will be supporting Fink in Beijing. Shanghai support to be announced…
Tickets 50RMB in advance, 60RMB on the door
http://micromu.com
http://douban.com/artist/finkmusic
http://myspace.com/finkmusic
Posted by Ed Peto at 1:54 pm on October 26th, 2009.
As the Chief Economist for PRS for Music and one of the few actual economists in the music business Will Page has a reputation for providing clarity, both on the state we’re in as an industry as well as the direction we should be heading. PRS for Music is one of the largest collecting societies in the world, representing some 60,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members, collecting and paying royalties to them whenever their music is played, performed or reproduced. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 12:22 am on May 29th, 2009.
Last weekend I attended SPOT Festival 2009 in rainy/sunny Aarhus, Denmark. The organisers kindly flew me in, along with a number of other international music industry types, to soak up some outstanding up-and-coming Danish artists as well as generally spew forth about our respective markets. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 10:22 pm on May 28th, 2009.
Chinese mega portal Netease recently released their 2008 China Internet Communication Report (h/t Adam Schokora). The report generates statistics from the behaviour of some 200 million Chinese netizens who use Netease’s range of online products (ie. Netease Blog, Netease BBS, Youdao Search Engine, Netease Channels and Netease Posts). According to the authors: More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 10:08 am on February 5th, 2009.
In April 1985, big-haired pop-duo Wham! took to the Worker’s Gymnasium stage in Beijing infront of thousands of screaming Chinese fans, becoming the first western pop act to play communist China.
This unlikely event had taken band manager Simon Napier-Bell 18 months of negotiations to organise; a process documented in his 2005 book I’m Coming To Take You To Lunch. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 8:00 pm on December 18th, 2008.
Almost exactly a year ago I posted on the hype surrounding the Chinese music scene. I boiled my feelings down to a kind of cautious optimism ie. way too early to start billing Beijing as one of the best music cities in the world (as some over-zealous mainstream western media would have you think) but a genuinely exciting place to be nonetheless. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 12:14 pm on October 19th, 2008.
A shorter, edited version of this piece appeared in The Guardian under the title ‘Online Pop Explosion’. Please treat this longer, draft version as a separate article.
When unknown Chinese singer Yang Chengang wrote and recorded the song Mice Love Rice in Wuhan, Southern China in 2000, he would have had no way to predict it’s eventual impact. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 10:58 am on October 6th, 2008.
Midi School have just announced (Chinese link) that they will be delaying the festival by another ten days or so. Dates are yet to be confirmed. The official reason is that the government expects millions of Chinese tourists to descend on Beijing during the upcoming October holidays to look around the Olympic facilities, including the Olympic Centre planned for use by Midi. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 9:43 am on September 18th, 2008.
As someone who recently spent three months and nearly a thousand pounds in flights, lawyers fees, bribes and fines to just be allowed to remain in the country I am all too aware of the bureaucratic nightmare that is attached to getting anything done in China. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 11:39 am on September 17th, 2008.
During last month’s Olympics I had the good fortune to be introduced to Matt Yanchyshyn, a visiting IT manager for Associated Press (AP).
Roughly four years ago while living in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, Matt started blogging about the music he came across during his travels in the region. It was part of the first wave of audioblogs and “certainly the first to deal with African music” says Matt. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 9:10 am on September 9th, 2008.
In their recent ‘final tally’, the Nielsen stats boffins have declared the Beijing Olympics to be the most watched games in history:
“The 4.7 billion viewers who accessed television coverage of the Beijing Olympics officially translates into approximately 70 percent of the world’s population, or more than two in every three people globally.”
When you consider that each country’s coverage of the Olympics More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 2:31 pm on September 6th, 2008.
I really enjoyed a Bob Leftsetz ‘Mailbag’ mailout the other day which contained a heartfelt email from one of his readers describing what life is like outside of the conventional music markets. I imagine this is a pretty representative state of affairs for the majority of music fans in the developing countries. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 12:35 am on August 24th, 2008.
This article originally appeared in Issue 191 (1st May 2008) of the MusicAlly Report.
China never fully adopted the “traditional” tools of music discovery and consumption: TV, radio and the print press are all heavily monitored by the government and relatively anodyne as a result; CDs never really gained any meaningful traction; live music events are circuses of permits and arbitrary cancellations. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 1:12 pm on May 23rd, 2008.
In November last year I got a call from a flustered Chinese magazine editor. ‘Would you be able to do an 800 word album review for our December edition?’ she asked, adding ‘by tomorrow?’.
Normally I would have turned this down as the money tends to be poor and the deadline was a bit abrupt, but the magazine in question was Rolling Stone China More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 1:07 pm on February 5th, 2008.
Ahead of his MidemNet panel appearance, Mathew Daniel, VP of R2G (digital distribution company) in Beijing has a few observations and words of advice for labels seeking digital licensing opportunities in China:
As Olympic hosts and country-of-honor at MIDEM, China’s music industry is an increasingly common feature on the western agenda. There is, however, almost a whiff of the ‘Wild East’ in the way companies are approaching licensing in the Middle Kingdom. More… »
Posted by Ed Peto at 5:42 pm on January 17th, 2008.
