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Legacy Taipei hosts top Taiwanese pop performers and international acts. Tomorrow and Sunday the club hosts its annual Voice Up Concert series, featuring pop group Four Friends (四個朋友) and pop singers Eric Kung (龔敬文) and George Hu (胡宇威).
■ 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).
Photo courtesy of Trees Music
■ Show starts at 3:30pm and 7:30pm tomorrow and 2:30pm on Sunday
■ Admission is NT$1,600. Tickets available through www.kham.com.tw and at OK Convenience store kiosks
The Wall (這牆), Taipei’s most prominent venue for indie rock artists, hosts a weekend of music from Japan, including Tokyo Girls Style and PinocchioP on Sunday. Tonight at Korner, which is inside The Wall, it will be a night of house and techno with Boris Ocram, JB, Sunbird and Intrus.
Photo courtesy of Guess What
■ 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
■ Show starts at 8:30pm tomorrow and 9pm on Sunday
■ Tickets cost NT$300 tonight (Korner) and NT$1,700 (NT$1,500 in advance) for Sunday, available online through thewall.tw
Pipe Live Music, a major venue for indie music and parties, hosts Unfriendly Vol 3 tonight with visual artist Yearning Kru, who pieces together digital soundscapes and samples, sound artist Ruby Fatale, DJ Soma Liang and DJ Yen. On Sunday, Human Brutality (人類暴行) will play their version of metal/hardcore, and they will be joined by punk bands Accomplices (共犯結構), Feed Pigs (餵飽豬) and rock outfit Dirty Laundry (骯髒著衣).
■ 1 Siyuan Rd, Taipei City (台北市思源路1號), tel: (02) 2364-8198. On the Net: www.pipemusic.com.tw
■ Show starts at 11:30pm tonight and 7:30pm on Sunday
■ Admission is NT$450 tonight and NT$400 on Sunday (NT$350 in advance). Tickets available online through www.indievox.com, pipemusic.kktix.cc and at FamilyMart (全家) FamiPort kiosks
Bobwundaye (無問題), a small pub in Taipei, tomorrow hosts Vancouver-based roots singer Buckman Coe, acoustic guitarist and singer Mark Darvill and singer-guitarist Chris Bailey.
■ 77, Heping E Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市和平東路三段77號), tel: (02) 2377-1772. On the Net: bobwundaye.blogspot.tw
■ Shows start at 10pm
■ Admission is NT$300
Fingerstyle guitarist Su-jer (舒?) will play a set tonight at Witch House (女巫店), an intimate coffeehouse-style venue in the National Taiwan University area. Tomorrow, jazz/funk duet Duology will take the stage, followed on Thursday by a performance by DJ Puzzle Man.
■ 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
Trip-hop artists Ma-te Lin (林瑪黛) play tomorrow at Kafka by the Sea (海邊的卡夫卡), a coffee house-cum-music and arts venue.
■ 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
■ Show starts at 8pm. Cafe/bookstore opens noon to midnight Sundays through Thursdays, noon to 2am Fridays and Saturdays
■ Admission is NT$400 tonight, available online through www.indievox.com
Tonight, jazz saxophonist Tony Tung (董舜文) will play a set with a saxophonist and bass guitarist at Riverside Music Cafe (河岸留言). Tomorrow, pop musician, producer and composer Kevin Lin (林隆璇) will team up with three singers and a four piece band for a night of pop music. On Sunday, Aboriginal rockers Black Kids (黑孩子樂團) will take the stage, followed by 6-piece band B House on Monday, who will play pop classics. On Tuesday, Playmess plays old time rock ‘n’ roll, followed by newcomers Nula Band (NULA 樂團 )# 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 and 8:30pm tomorrow
■ Admission is NT$400 tonight and tomorrow NT$350 on Sunday and weeknights, available online through www.indievox.com and tickets.books.com.tw
Jazz Way Station plays its version of soul, jazz and funk tonight at Sappho Live, a late-night lounge bar that hosts mostly jazz shows. The Flat Fives will bring their version of swing and groove from the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s, while Tony Taylor and The Rockits will host the Sappho Sunday Blues Jam. And don’t miss Tuesday’s jam session when the house band will play jazz and you can bring along your own instrument and join in.
■ 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
■ Shows start at 9:30pm
■ Entrance is NT$400 tonight and tomorrow, NT$200 on Thursday
O2 Sun Shine (氧樂團) plays house, EDM and dubstep tonight at TADA Ark (TADA方舟), a music venue located inside the Taichung Cultural & Creative Industries Park (台中文化創意產業園區) in Taichung.
■ 362, Fuhsing Rd Sec 3, Taichung City (台中市復興路三段362號), tel: (04) 2229-0989. On the Net: www.tadaark.com.tw
■ Show starts at 8pm
■ Admission is NT$200.
Indie rock band Mary See the Future (先知瑪莉) will play tomorrow at Legacy Taichung, a spin-off of Legacy Taipei.
■ 117, Anhe Rd, Taichung City (台中市安和路117號), tel: (04) 2359-8780. On the Net: www.legacy.com.tw/taichung.
■ Show starts at 8pm
■ Admission is NT$500. Tickets available through www.indievox.com and at 7-Eleven ibon kiosks
Forro Cafe (呼嚕咖啡) in Taichung hosts folk rock artist Chen Hui-ting (陳惠婷) 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
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Sound artist and band leader Sipara Hesher plays tomorrow at The Mercury (水星酒館), an indie rock club in Kaohsiung.
■ 46 Liwen Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市立文路46號), tel: (07) 550-8617. On the Net: mercurybar.blogspot.tw
■ Show starts at 7:30pm
■ Entrance is NT$250, available at www.indievox.com
A capella group Guess What (問樂團) will perform at In Our Time, a restaurant-cum-gallery located inside Kaohsiung’s Pier-2 Arts Center (駁二藝術特區).
■ 99, Penglai Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市蓬萊路99號), tel: (07) 521-0017
■ Show starts at 7:30pm
■ Admission is NT$350, available through www.indievox.com and tickets.books.com.tw
The Goat Restaurant & Bar (山羊飯館), a music venue and restaurant in Pingtung, hosts vocalist and songwriter Summer Hsu (徐鳳玉)# tomorrow.
■ 23-2 Hengnan Rd, Hengchun Township, Pingtung County (屏東縣恆春鎮恆南路23-2號), tel: (08) 888-0183
■ Show starts at 8:30pm
■ Minimum drink charge is NT$200
Uri-Sabaki-Jo (The Wall, 賣捌所), a historical building-turned-music venue in Yilan, will host Indie rock band Maffine (瑪啡因) on Sunday.
■ 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
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Richard Bush, Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and former Chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, will give a lecture, The Height of Conceit: An AgingForeignerSpeaks About Taiwan’s Future, as part of the Lung Yingtai Cultural Foundation’s (龍應台文化基金會)Taipei Salon lecture series. Bush will offers his thoughts on Taiwan’s past, present, and future, and on bridging the gap between generations and cultures. The presentation will be moderated by University of Hong Kong professor, Lung Ying-tai (龍應台).
■ 177 Jianguo S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市建國南路一段177號). The lecture will be conducted in English. Admission is free, but those attending must preregister online at www.civictaipei.org or by calling Cathy Wong: (02) 3322-4907 ext. 16
■ May 21 from 2pm to 4pm
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
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
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
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said on Wednesday the bone, called a surangular, was from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur. Based on its dimensions compared to the same bone in closely related ichthyosaurs, the researchers estimated that the Triassic Period creature, which they named Ichthyotitan severnensis, was between 22-26 meters long. That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would