ISpyShanghai

[March 16, 2007]

Well, well- I took a half day off (tomorrow morning) to go and see “Bugz in the Attic” a band from London. I’ve got their Fabric live CD and thought they would be DJing but it turned out to be a full band.

They were class, no question- I was dancing like a gospel singer on Sunday- but as it turned out, the DJs they had on afterwards, blew them away.

Me and Carly, the fantastic singer from Bugs In The Attic

“The Nextmen”, so good I’ll say it thrice- “The Nextmen”, “The Nextmen” came on afterwards and were just the best DJs I’ve ever seen. It was like they’d spent a few months studying my music tastes, asking friends and family about my opinions on Drum’n’Bass versus Blackstreet, Lauryn Hill against the Jackson 5 etc. and decided to play the best tunes I could possibly wish for.

Not only that, but the drummer, the singer (Carly), the MC and a couple of the keyboard wizards from the Bugz kept getting up to play along with them, so it was like a once only, this is here, this is Shanghai, the crowd are tearing the roof off- kind of one-off show.

I went to the show with Craig and Weijia but they weren’t as keen as me and left after the Bugz- so left when they finished. I thought I’d maybe stay another half hour but ended up battling through the crowd to make a fool of myself in front of the DJs telling them how much I was loving what they played.

The club was big, full of white guys and girls who wear hats for a night out, or Chinese people who go to say they’ve been there- sort of pretentious really, but still well worth the trip there and back in the pouring rain to the club (’Absolute House’). I was sat at the bar at one point and this guy gave me a rum and orange juice saying
“This is my club, do you like it?”
I said
“Mate, I am coming back here again, and again and aga- where you going?”

Despite the rain, Shanghai is mint.