November 11, 2010 – 8:20 pm
Last night I went to watch my favourite Chinese band, Wang Wen (惘闻) play at Mao Live House. It was a good gig despite some sound issues. Wang Wen have a really unique, layered and complex sound which Mao’s sound system struggled to deal with. The band hail from Dalian in Liaoning Province which is [...]
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October 8, 2010 – 1:23 pm
Things have been a bit busy recently so this is a little late in the day. This month I had the pleasure of working at the Beijing round of the Creators Project the culmination of a strange pair of partners the corporate Intel and the trashy hipsteresque Vice magazine. It was a mix of live [...]
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Well another weekend and another music festival. The largest electronic music festival in Beijing put on by the only independent electronic label, acupuncture records. It was in an amazing location D-Park which is part of the now famous 798 art district. Courtesy of Greening the Beige and Smarter Than Car (STC) I wangled a free [...]
I was lucky enough to enjoy a very musical weekend with shows from metal bands Bad Mamasan and Chinese band ChunQiu on Friday night at yugong yishang followed by Carmen at the NCPA (aka the egg) on Sunday night. It has been a while since I watched a full on metal show and I’d almost [...]
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Tagged Bad Mamsan, Beijing, beijing photography, Carmen, carmen in Beijing, China, China photography, Chunqiu, heavy metal, heavy metal in china, Kaiser Kuo, NCPA, opera, opera in china, peter carney photography, petercarney.net, Tang Dynasty, the egg, Yungong yishan
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Yesterday I photographed the re-opening of a trendy hair salon in the Sanlitun area of Beijing. It was a fun afternoon/evening albeit a long one with several performances by the burlesque girls and also some Russian flair bartenders who despite technical difficulties put on a great show. I was there mainly to work with the [...]
At last summer finally makes an appearance here in Beijing. It could not have been better timed as several music festivals were held over the long holiday weekend. I opted to go to Midi the longest established music festival in Beijing held at Haidian Park in the North West of the city. It was a [...]
Finally I’ve got my act together and added a blog to my website which also will be redesigned soon. So I’ve been working on a few things recently. Just last week I was photographing at the lastest Greening the Beige event which was a vintage fashion and swing dance affair. I was lucky enough to [...]
