Tickets for Spring Scream, the four day rock festival to be held in Kenting from April 5 to April 8, will likely go on sale this weekend, with four-day passes costing NT$1000 and single-day passes costing NT$500, organizers said yesterday.
Unlike in years past, four day passes for this year's event must be purchased in advance. One-way bus tickets to the Spring Scream site will also be available at selected ticket outlets, including Apa and Zeitgeist in Taipei and Bhoom and Napoli in Taichung.
Leading up to Spring Scream, Taipei's Zeitgeist Live House (聖界) will throw a pre-Spring Scream party on each of the next three Saturday nights. The gigs will showcase bands that will play the annual Kenting festival. Tomorrow night's lineup features VIC and Sister White.
PHOTO COURTESY OF VIC
VIC
VIC, pronounced "vick," not "V-I-C," is a group that goes for the kind of sound that wraps itself around you, works its way inside you, and builds and builds and builds. The band works with a slow, moody tempo, allowing the voice of female lead vocalist, April Chen (
Sister White
PHOTO COURTESY OF SISTER WHITE
What you'll probably remember after a Sister White show is female vocalist Hsiao-yu (小瑀). She's sexy. She's projects. She gives you something to watch. But the band gets its power from the four guys behind her, particularly guitarist and long time Kiss devotee Ken Cox and bass player Miguel Reatagui. Cox and Reatagui founded the band about a year ago, recruiting a drummer and second guitar player with the help of club rockers Fei Wu (廢物). Hsiao-yu joined after auditioning for the group. Playing over loops and samples, the band plays rock and modern rock or alternative or whatever. "Actually, we're not as loop dependent as I'd like to be," said Cox, a sometimes professional musician who programs the beeps, fades and phaser sounds. The use of the loops, he said, demands that the band be very, very tight, because the live music has to fit in with what's programmed. The band takes its name from Ellen G. White, or Sister White, a pseudo-prophet of the 7th Day Adventists. Both Reatagui and Cox were raised as 7th Day Adventists, though Cox is from America and Reatagui from Peru. When they discovered the coincidence, it wasn't hard to pick their band's name. "It's more of a personal irony," said Reatagui. "We're not really trying to be malicious."
What VIC, Sister White and Tomato
Where Zeitgeist (聖界), 122 Chunghsiao E. Rd., Sec. 2, B1 (忠孝東路二段122號B1)
When Tomorrow 8:30pm
Tickets NT$250
The deadline for Spring Scream band registration is March 25 and the event is still seeking artists, filmmakers and volunteers. To volunteer, register, or see other news related to Spring Scream, check: http://www.springscream.com
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