Other members include bassist Hsiao Bao (小寶), who is eight months pregnant but played with the band at last weekend's OKGO music festival on the beach in Jinshan (金山), singer and electronica musician Mei-mei (滿延芬), and drummer Da Shi Xiong (大師兄). They've just self-released a CD and DVD, which include footage of concerts in Bejing and Taipei, the band's seven songs, and 10 more electronica tracks by Fish, long a DJ at the now-defunct Spin nightclub and currently a member of DJ Lim Giong's (林強) Her-He Party crew. The two-disc set sells for NT$50 at Underworld and Mo! Relax cafe. It will cost more at music stores. Chiu Sheng said the band is also considering a buy-six-beers-get-one-album-free promotion at Underworld.
NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED
To be sure, Fish and the Bedroom Riot is not to everyone's taste. Their appeal is limited to audiences who like to dance and flail around to loud, thrashing music. Nor are they for the easily offended. Members frequently use metaphors for masturbation when describing their music, and on the first track of their new DVD it looks like that's what they're doing. Finally, it remains to be seen whether the band will sustain the spontaneous chaos of their first performances and songs as they write more material and craft an image.
If they maintain the craziness, however, Taiwan has finally found a worthy 21st century successor to the old LTK.
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