Modern Sky Festival 08-Day 2

Surprisingly, it only took approximately 20 minutes to get into the site on the 2nd day of the festival. Maybe the majority audience was put off by the 1st day’s waiting, or they just got clever and got up really early. I gotta say I did a better job today shooting the pictures and recording the video clips because I got some help that really saved me from dying at an early age.

Pictures first.

A performing artist near the entrance. Milk was kind of coming out from his eyes. Undoubtly it’s about the poisonous milk incident.

Lead singer of Life Journey, creator of some nice cheesy milky sound. It’s getting a lot easier for similar bands to surface since Indie and Brit-Pop is getting really popular among young rock lovers.

Lead singer of one of the most popular Heavy Metal bands, Suffocated. It was like a volcano eruption even when he was just talking. “Your body is the hardest metal”, he said, so true and so powerful.

A girl standing beside me was being really haunted by the idea of finding out what kind of hair shampoo the guitar player uses.

I guessed he uses Hair and Shoulders.

I like it when band memebers stand closely together and move strictly according to the same rhythm. It’s like they are holding their guns and marching to the war zone. It always make my blood boil.

You know why rockers or guitar players in general are more attractive to girls? My guess is that guitars act like male genital organs in the girls’ subconsciousness. Holding a rifle (if you are in the army) or a camera with a relatively long lens works the same way.

Who’s she? A middle school girl puzzled by a math problem?

NO! It was the one and only, unprecidented, from outer space, extremely cute, dangerous, and explosive drummer of Hedgehog-A Tongmu!! You’ll fall in love with her instantly when she performs, no matter if you are a guy or a girl.

Really quiet before the storm.

The “unhappy” lead singer of Hedgehog, A Tongmu’s boyfriend. Come on man, why do you feel unhappy when you got to hang out with one of the cutest girls on the planet?

Here comes the storm. You see what I mean?

“The purpose of Rock n’ Roll is to destroy yourself, discover yourself, and release yourself…” A Tongmu said during the performance. Man, my life is so wasted. I’m 28 years old and still can’t figure out what Rock n’ Roll means to me until she said that!

Here comes the Subs!

Subs, similar to Chinese pronunciation “Sha Bu Si”, which means impossible to be killed, really lived up to the name!

Some crazy dance. Note the little rabbit quietly sitting on the amplifier.

It’s not easy to be a qualified camera man!

The surprisingly professional bass player and backup vocalist of The Right of Statues (which I think should be The Right to Rebuild an Idol).

Can you believe the lead singer and lead guitar player, the soul of the band, just started to learn playing guitar 2 years ago when they started the band? I’m so ashamed of myself!

Some say they are like B-52. What the heck. We all originated from monkeys!

The Saxphone player was being really creative with the instrument.

Now, the legendary, one and only He Yong! Another forefather of Chinese Rock n’ Roll. He’s put on weight. But what the hell, it was hard to see what’s under his pajama.

The heroic guitar player Ou Ge, who accompanied He Yong during the revolutionary performance in Hong Kong in 1994, which marked the mile stone of Chinese Rock n’ Roll after the era of Cui Jian.

Some Jimi Hendrix style shreding.

“Hypocrisy is like an underwear. Everybody wears it, and you gotta change it once it got dirty”, said He Yong.

He Yong and his father, He Yusheng. Being an Sanhsian (a kind of traditional instrument with 3 strings) player, He Yusheng also accompanied He Yong during the Hong Kong concert in 1994. He is the same legendary as his son and being respected by the whole nation.

Near the end of the classic “Zhong Gu Lou” (Bell and Drum Tower, one of the most important historical buildings in Beijing, where He Yong was born).

He Yong once had been banned by the Ministry of Culture for the political implication in his songs after the performance in Hong Kong in 1994. He stayed silent until recent years. Like all the other “banned” artists, the government was being hypercritical.

The officials now are being actually supportive in such performances. But there’s always a limit. Thanks to Bjork, her ignorant declaration about Tibet during her performance in Shanghai made it even harder for overseas artists to perform in China.

Stop acting as savoirs of the Tibetan people you so-called rockers! The British invasion army had slaughtered tens of thousands of Tibetan people in the 1950s in order to take control over the place (everybody knows how significant Tibet is in terms of military importance)! It’s either you or me! Calling for the independence of Tibet is just an excuse! Stop showing off your so-called attitude and acting stupid I ask you.

We just want music, not politics!