Mon, Aug 22, 2005 - Page 16 News List

Taipei shaken by 'taike' chic

The 'Taike Rock Concert' over the weekend was a musically confused evening in celebration of an ambiguous adjective Getting drunk was probably the best response

By Gavin Phipps  /  STAFF REPORTER

The climax of the evening's antics was when Wu Bai and China Blue joined Chen and his combo on stage for a performance of the Taiwanese classic You Can Only Win With Love (愛拼才會贏).

Resembling a variety show rather than a rock concert, the duet had the entire audience on its feet, but it was somewhat overshadowed by Chen, who by this stage in the proceedings had polished off an entire bottle of wine and was visibly drunk.

But then this was a bit of a musically confused evening in celebration of an even more confusing word and Chen was probably only doing what he thought was best -- getting drunk and trying to forget all about the pointless arguments that currently surrounds the phenomena of taike.

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