A band I had wanted to see for a long time was mayday, or wuyuetian, five month day! One of chris's student's recently showed me a website, damai.cn which lets you buy concert tickets, and I saw that they had a concert on April the 30th in Ningbo! cool! I booked tickets for me and chris and away we went.
We were surrounded by chinese people and there was no warm up band or supporting act, just straight into the headline show.
We got a taxi there, and even showing the taxi driver he wasn't 100% sure that it was the right stadium, but luckily it was. We walked past a huge number of people and eventually found out seats, sat at the back of the stadium right at the top. There were so many police, every single entrance or exit had a line of policemen as protection, although as soon as they show started they mostly went in and found seats inside for a better view of the stage.
We were surrounded by chinese people and there was no warm up band or supporting act, just straight into the headline show.
The played a good 2 hour set, with many songs chris and I knew from our time in China and it was really good.
The Chinese concert was a bit strange, they had luge LCD each side showing the lyrics for each song (as chinese people can't always understand by listening alone due to accent and regional pronunciation differences, and the fact they dont sing the tones) and so the concert becomes one giant KTV sing along!
It was a good gig though, and it was cool, they sold light poles with LEDs in that the audience were all waving but they were remotely controlled so they could change the colours remotely! so they changed them for different songs or had them cycling, it was cool!
Overall I'm glad I went, it was expensive, 500rmb a ticket for the second cheapest, especially with no supporting act, but was a great gig and nice to sing along with thousands of chinese people to songs I knew.
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