Beijing based business reporter who spends weekends listening to what China?s rock stars are up to and writing about it for CLUAS. It?s a long way from county Mayo. Bands here vary from promising to poor to pure rubbish. But being a rocker in China is an act of defiance. So I admire anyone who straps on a guitar and barks into a mike on a cramped stage for a gang of pogo-ing Chinese who dare not tell their parents what they?re up to. Good Chinese kids never play rock n roll. But Second Hand Rose, Thin Man and - the godfather of them all - Cui Jian, went against the grain, got booed and banned off Official stages, yet stuck around and play good music. 'Hao!' to them!Joined CLUAS: January 2002
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