North Comes South!!

Likely the most esteemed independent record label in Taiwan and champion of all things underground, White Wabbit Records, has picked up the torch for southern indie music! A nice fella named Simon recently interviewed us about the upcoming documentary, and posted an article on their label's blog. In addition to our film, they mention other goings-on in Kaohsiung's music scene, including Zhen Shan Mei Music and WombBloc. The label is also presenting a free show this Sunday, "城市擴大機 City Amplifier" (mentioned in an earlier post) that features Orange Doll, KoOk and Shy Kick Apple. This event will take place at the new Hanshen department store on Boai Road (providing Typhoon Jangmi doesn't come and ruin everything). Come support indie music, dammit!

Change of Date

There has been a change of date concerning the pre-film festival show at Mega. The date has been moved up one day to October 18th (Saturday). This change is due to concerns that any kind of loud activity (ie. rock bands) playing on a Sunday might disturb the neighbors, who have to go to bed at 7 pm in order to get up at 5:30am to send their kids to school etc. Subsequently, Saturday is a more suitable day for an event such as this one. Dig!

This Just In... All 5 Bands Confirmed!!!

Happiest of days!! KoOk singer/guitarist Leslie confirmed with us that his band will indeed be participating in the screening of "Voices From The South" October 18th at Mega Department Store. This show is a pre-Film Festival event that will be the coolest thing happening in Kaohsiung that weekend.

In the meantime, KoOk will be playing live at the new Hanshen Department Store (aka. Huge Egg,高雄 漢神巨蛋廣場) on September 28 at 4:00. Also on the bill are Orange Doll and Shy Kick Apple , as well as several bands from Taipei including Aphasia.

Orange Doll will also be on the bill for the "Girl Power" show at ATT September 27, sponsored by Womb Bloc , along with Polygon from Kaohsiung, Nekojam from Taichung and Space Cake from Taipei. Lotsa great shows this month still!!!!

Band Lineup Confirmed

The date for the first screening of our little documentary about KHH's kick-ass bands has been confirmed for October 18th, and will be held at the Mega Department Store, corner of Chung Shan and San Duo Roads. This will be just one of many events going on around the city to kick off the Kaohsiung Film Festival, but promises to be the most fun. Maho singer A-Chang confirmed the lineup for the show that will accompany the screening of Voices From The South as such- four of the five bands from the film will be performing live, with KoOk being the only group absent. This is understandable, as their drummer recently moved to France to pursue a Master's degree, and apparently they're still breaking in the replacement. The event will be absolutely free, and absolutely rockin'!

Kaohsiung Film Festival-bound!!!

According to the assistant to the events co-ordinator of The Kaohsiung Film Festival , who contacted me late Friday night, Voices From The South has been accepted to be a part of this year's festival!!! The event co-ordinator herself was at the Music Orgy show to see the preliminary clips/trailer, and asked that we provide her with actual material from the film. This is the end result!

By the time the public gets to view it late next month, it will be almost exactly one year to the date that this project was conceived. Further details are not yet to be disclosed at the request of the film festival organizers, but it can be mentioned that the screening will definitely be coupled with live performances from some, if not all of, the artists in the film (this is currently being discussed with said bands).

In the meantime, here's another video of Orange Doll from their brilliant Spring Scream show earlier this year. The song is "水果糖“ (Fruit Candy). Advice: It's preferable to watch it in high quality, not the compressed crap that appears when you embed clips into your website. Use the Youtube link to the right of this page, choose this video and click the "Watch in high quality" link that appears to the lower right of the screen. Dig!