Struggle session noise9/4/2023 They later went on to play shows where they pretended they were a Filipino cover band, they played a show where they actually got circus performers to do magic tricks and juggling, and eventually even did a hip hop show, just drawing from everything around them and have biting commentary on the social conditions of Shanghai.Īaron Moniz: I would like to shout out two bands real quick. Nevin: Later when I started reading the lyrics and getting into it, it was pretty genius stuff - commentaries on the punk scene and pretty much everything happening around them. I went with an older band I was in to play this festival in Hangzhou, my band played pretty early and I got wasted in the afternoon, passed out on this bench and woke up to Top Floor Circus playing the singer was completely naked, running around rubbing his ass on people, and they were playing this amazing GG Allin hardcore punk-type stuff with local Shanghainese lyrics, which I didn’t understand at the time. The first time I saw them they were on this massive GG Allin kick. Instead of mix it up inside one song itself, they just did a completely different style for each album. Nevin: Top Floor Circus is another great example. Īlfie Henshaw-Hill (bass): Or you could even talk about older stuff, Shitdog or Top Floor Circus. So maybe that’s a good example of an interesting mashup that a band is doing here. That’s pretty different from what you would normally expect from that sort of band. And the stuff they’re doing, especially when they play abroad in the West, people are kind of surprised because it does have the street punk elements to it, so they can play street punk shows, but it also has hardcore and ‘80s metal elements to it. They mix early ‘80s metal, especially Iron Maiden-type licks, with street punk, and then later with more hardcore elements too. Nevin: There’s not really a band that comes to mind, but I guess Demerit is one good example. ![]() But it was sound and image, void of the history behind it, so people latched on to the stuff that they liked purely based on how it sounded and how it looked, and threw together different weird combinations of stuff they could like, stuff that was completely different genres but for them kind of made sense. It was stuff that people were discovering through dakou CDs, and after about 2002 through the internet. Nevin Domer (guitar): In general, a lot of music, as it came into China in the past, didn’t come with baggage. What alternative splices of genres have you found particularly interesting or energizing in China? Whereas in the US or Australia you have whole independently and barely overlapping scenes for sub-genres like street punk or grindcore, for example, it’s all kind of mixed together here. RADII: You all come from outside China, but have been drawn to the punk/hardcore scene here thanks in part to the open and omnivorous attitude that musicians and fans here have towards this kind of music. Ahead of that, we’re happy to premiere a track from their forthcoming EP (which also features a killer Los Crudos cover, and is out today via Beijing label Dying Art Productions), as well as to share some recommendations from the band members of some of the most interesting punk/hardcore/metal/whatever hybrids they’ve encountered across China: Dedicated to spreading their noise along roads less traveled, Struggle Session completed a 33-city tour of South America earlier this year, and are gearing up for an equally ambitious tour of the US, Mexico, Guatemala and Belize in early 2019.
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