JZ festival

I’ve moved to a new office today and one of my workmates tried to buy tickets to eat at the canteen. Apparently the earliest this can be done is next month, and we need to have a special letter signed and stamped.

Now if that’s the kind of red tape you need to go through just to  eat lunch, can you imagine how hard it would be to set up a music festival in a park for thousands of people?

Me neither.

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On Sunday I went to Century Park for the JZ Music Festival- and it was fantastic.

Getting to and finding the venue was easy, buying tickets took 30 seconds, the staff were friendly, the food (Kebabs on the Grille, Wagas, Maya Bakery etc.) was great, drinks were a reasonable price (20RMB for beer, 10 for water), the sound on all three stages was crystal clear, there were plenty of toilets that didn’t make you sick up in your mouth, there was space to sit down, fly a kite, dance, and I heard some great music.

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Congratulations to whoever organised it- I had a great day, so did a ton of other people, I hope you made fist-fulls of cash and put on plenty more events like this one.

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One question: what was with the giant inflatable hammer & sickle during Cui Jian’s set?