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 Dimi Dero Inc, one of the most impressive acts at last week's Spring Scream, is playing two more shows in Taipei, tonight at Bliss and Sunday at Riverside. PHOTO: COURTESY OF DIMI DERO | They've made a name for themselves in Australia, they rocked Spring Scream, and now brooding French swamp rockers Dimi Dero Inc take their dark but swaggering six-string carnage to Taipei's Bliss (tonight) and Riverside (Sunday). Dimi Dero Inc, according to the band's bio, “were born one drunken night in Paris, when a bunch of musos were pissing in each other's pockets, talking shit, and promising they should work together some time. So they did.” This four-piece is led by magnetic singer/guitarist Dimi Dero and has been compared to Antipodean discophile art rock bands The Scientists and Birthday Party. ▲ Bliss is located at 148, Xinyi Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市信義路四段148號), one block east of Dunhua South Road (敦化南路). Call (02) 2702-1855 or log on at www.bliss-taipei.com or www.myspace.com/blisslivehouse for more information. Riverside Cafe (河岸留言) is located near Taipower Building (台電大樓) at B1, 2, Ln 244, Roosevelt Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路三段244巷2號B1). Call (02) 2368-7310, or visit www.riverside.com.tw ▲ 10pm tonight at Bliss; 9:30pm Sunday at Riverside ▲ NT$200 at Bliss; NT$350 at Riverside |
 Mark Goding will not appear as Hellboy, but he will make fun Canadians at CSI: Taipei, one of the year's most anticipated standup comedy shows. PHOTO: COURTESY OF KLOIE PICOT | He's on the outs with ICRT but Kurt Penney, aka San Ba Di (三八弟) aka Elder Li, knows how to put on a stand-up comedy show. Tonight and tomorrow, he and fellow funnymen Mark Goding and Matt “The Puppet Guy” Bronsil team up with Tom Levene and the Taichung Improv Group for the fourth annual CSI: Taipei (Comedy Show in Taipei). Penney saves his best material for CSI: Taipei and last year's show packed a standing-room-only crowd of 120 people into Tianmu's Post49 Club for one of the funniest comedy nights of the season. This year it moves to the Comedy Club, near National Taiwan Normal University (師大), an intimate venue that offers great lines of sight and a projection screen and sound system rigged for stand-up. Produced by Taichung Improv and ICTIT (International Comedy Troupe in Taiwan). Both shows are no smoking. CSI: Taipei travels to Taichung for a show at 89k on Saturday, May 17.
▲ Comedy Club, at B1, 24 Taishun St, Taipei (台北市泰順街24號B1). Visit english.comedy.com.tw for more information. For reservations, call (02) 2369-3730 or e-mail social@comedyclub.tw ▲ Tonight and tomorrow at 10pm ▲ NT$350 admission includes one drink. NT$80 beer specials all night |
Theater
Audience members will be given the opportunity to vote for their favorite singer in Godot Theater's (果陀劇場) stage version of the television show One Million Star 2 (星光二班). Titled Wonderful World (我要成名之美好世界), Godot invited 10 crooners from One Million Star 2, the hit singing competition reality show, to belt out their favorite tunes in front of a live audience.
▲ Taipei International Convention Center (台北國際會議中心), 1, Xinyi Rd Sec 5, Taipei City (台北市信義路五段1號)
▲ Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$800 to NT$4,000, available through NTCH ticketing
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