Legacy Taipei hosts top Taiwanese pop performers and international acts. Japanese rock band OLDCODEX holds a concert tomorrow and one on Sunday. Sunday’s show is sold out.
■ Huashan 1914 Creative Park (華山1914), Center Five Hall (中五館), 1, Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市八德路一段1號)
■ Show starts at 6pm tomorrow
Photos courtesy of Anthelion and Flesh Juicer
■ Admission is NT$1,600. Tickets available through www.indievox.com and at 7-Eleven ibon kiosks
Wednesday’s spotlight is on Caspian, an American instrumental post-rock band, at The Wall (這牆), Taipei’s most prominent venue for indie rock artists, with Taiwan’s post-rock outfit Constant & Change (康士坦的變化球) and Triple Deer as the opening acts.
■ B1, 200, Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路四段200號B1), tel: (02) 2930-0162. On the Net: thewall.tw
Photo courtesy of Balai
■ Show starts at 8m
■ Admission is NT$1,400, available online through thewall.tw
Hong Kong composer and singer Subyub Lee (李拾壹) comes to Kafka by the Sea (海邊的卡夫卡), a coffee house-cum-music and arts venue in the National Taiwan University area, tomorrow, followed by pop folk artist PiA (吳蓓雅) on Sunday.
Photo courtesy of Chen Yan-yuan
■ 2F, 2, Ln 244, Roosevelt Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路三段244巷2號2樓). On the Net: www.kafkabythe.blogspot.tw
■ Shows start at 8pm. Cafe/bookstore opens noon to midnight Sundays through Thursdays, noon to 2am Fridays and Saturdays
■ Admission is NT$200 tomorrow and NT$500 on Sunday. Tickets can be purchased online through www.indievox.com
Psychedelic/post-punk outfit The Sign of Human (記號士) share the stage with folk combo Dr Beaver (鬍子醫生) tonight at Witch House (女巫店), an intimate coffeehouse-style venue in the National Taiwan University area. Psychedelic folk act Spell Lee (李漫) is among the performers tomorrow. It is electronic group Sonic Deadhorse (音速死馬) and electronic experimental artist Jill Stark (葉家綺) on Thursday.
■ 7, Ln 56, Xinsheng S Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市新生南路三段56巷7號), tel: (02) 2362-5494. On the Net: www.witchhouse.org
■ Shows start at 9:30pm. Restaurant/bar with queer/feminist bookstore and large collection of board games, open 11am to midnight Sundays through Wednesdays, 11am to 1am Thursdays through Saturdays
■ Entrance for music shows is NT$350
Riverside Live House (河岸留言西門紅樓展演館) hosts pop act Achau (阿超) tonight. Pop veteran Shino (林曉培) makes a comeback tomorrow.
■ 177 Xining S Rd, Taipei City (台北市西寧南路177號), tel: (02) 2370-8805. On the Net: www.riverside.com.tw
■ Show starts at 8pm tonight and 7:30pm tomorrow
■ Entrance is NT$500 tonight and NT$1,000 tomorrow. Tickets can be purchased online through www.indievox.com and tickets.books.com.tw
It is a night of jazz fusion with keyboardist Lu Sheng-fei (呂聖斐) and his friends at Riverside Cafe (河岸留言) tonight. Electronic rock group Neko Jam (妮可醬) is among the performers on Tuesday, followed by pop/country/folk artists Eagle Baby Band (小老鷹樂團) and Bonnie W (吳孟純) on Wednesday.
■ B1, 2, Ln 244, Roosevelt Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路三段244巷2號B1), next to Taipower Building (台電大樓), tel: (02) 2368-7310. On the Net: www.riverside.com.tw
■ Show starts at 9:30pm tonight, 9pm on Tuesday and Wednesday
■ Admission is NT$400 tonight, NT$350 on Tuesday and Wednesday, available online through www.indievox.com and tickets.books.com.tw
JJ & the Catz play an eclectic collection of blues, jazz and Latin tonight at Sappho Live, a late-night lounge bar that hosts mostly jazz shows. The Flat Fives jam out on swing and R&B tunes from the 1940s and 1950s tomorrow. On Wednesday, DC Rapier plays classic songs and jazz standards from the great American songwriters of the 20th century, while award-winning Ying-Da Chen Guitar Trio performers on Thursday.
■ B1, 1, Ln 102, Anhe Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市安和路一段102巷1號B1), tel: (02) 2700-5411. On the Net: www.sappholive.com
■ Show starts at 9:30pm tonight, tomorrow and on Thursday, 9pm on Wednesday
■ Entrance is NT$400 tonight and tomorrow, NT$200 on Wednesday and Thursday
On Sunday, pop/folk combo Huanglin Lin+Pure Tone (林煌麟+ Pure Tone) performs at Legacy Mini, a spin-off of Legacy Taipei, with female crooner Chen Yan-yuan (陳妍元) also on the bill.
■ Legacy Mini at Amba Taipei Ximending (台北西門町意舍), 5F, 77, Wuchang St Sec 2, Taipei City (台北市武昌街二段77號5樓)
■ Show starts at 8pm
■ Admission is NT$400. Tickets for the venue’s concerts can be purchased online through www.indievox.com and at 7-Eleven ibon kiosks
Formed by musicians from France, Malaysia and Taiwan, Bazaar plays Middle Eastern jazz at There Cafe & Live House (那兒咖啡), a venue for indie music in Taoyuan, tomorrow.
■ B1, 454, Fuxing Rd, Taoyuan City (桃園市復興路454號B1), tel: (03) 339-8819. On the Net: www.therelivecafe.com
■ Show starts at 7pm
■ Admission is NT$400, available online through tickets.books.com.tw and www.indievox.com
PiA (吳蓓雅) croons at Forro Cafe (呼嚕咖啡) in Taichung tomorrow.
■ 47, Jingcheng 3rd St, Taichung City (台中市精誠三街47號), tel: (04) 2310-1661. On the Net: forrocafe.blogspot.tw
■ Show starts at 8pm
■ Admission is NT$500. Tickets for the venue’s concerts can be purchased online through www.indievox.com
Tonight, deathcore/hardcore outfit Flesh Juicer (血肉果汁機), Kaohsiung rockers Stay Wide Awake (彼岸曙光) and Keelung-based symphonic black metal act Anthelion (幻日) play Live Warehouse, a main venue for indie music located inside Kaohsiung’s Pier-2 Arts Center (駁二藝術特區). It is Japanese indie rockers plenty tomorrow.
■ 2-5 Dayi Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市大義街2-5號), tel: (07) 521-8114. On the Net: livewarehouse.tw
■ Shows start at 7:30pm
■ Entrance is NT$500 tonight and NT$1,200 tomorrow. Tickets available online through tickets.books.com.tw
Paiwan musician Balai (巴賴) takes the stage at Uri-Sabaki-Jo (The Wall, 賣捌所), a historical building-turned-music venue in Yilan, tomorrow.
■ 38 Kangle Rd, Yilan City (宜蘭市康樂路38號), tel: (03) 935-2493.On the Net: thewall.tw
■ Show starts at 5pm
■ Admission is NT$350, available online through thewall.tw
Pop songwriter and crooner Kaomao (狗毛) appears tonight at Tiehua Music Village (鐵花村), an arts village in Taitung City.
■ 26, Ln 135, Sinsheng Rd, Taitung City (台東市新生路135巷26號), tel: (089) 343-393. On the Net: www.tw.streetvoice.com/users/tiehua
■ Show starts at 8pm. Music venue and crafts shops are open 2pm to 10pm Tuesdays through Sundays. Weekend arts fair opens 6pm to 10pm every Friday, 3:30pm to 10pm every Saturday and Sunday
■ is NT$250, available online through tickets.books.com.tw
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
The following three paragraphs are just some of what the local Chinese-language press is reporting on breathlessly and following every twist and turn with the eagerness of a soap opera fan. For many English-language readers, it probably comes across as incomprehensibly opaque, so bear with me briefly dear reader: To the surprise of many, former pop singer and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ex-lawmaker Yu Tien (余天) of the Taiwan Normal Country Promotion Association (TNCPA) at the last minute dropped out of the running for committee chair of the DPP’s New Taipei City chapter, paving the way for DPP legislator Su
It’s hard to know where to begin with Mark Tovell’s Taiwan: Roads Above the Clouds. Having published a travelogue myself, as well as having contributed to several guidebooks, at first glance Tovell’s book appears to inhabit a middle ground — the kind of hard-to-sell nowheresville publishers detest. Leaf through the pages and you’ll find them suffuse with the purple prose best associated with travel literature: “When the sun is low on a warm, clear morning, and with the heat already rising, we stand at the riverside bike path leading south from Sanxia’s old cobble streets.” Hardly the stuff of your
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist