Midi Music Festival 2009

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General Information

Location: The 1st May Holidays, Midi Festival goes to Zhenjiang! With the 10th anniversary of China’s exciting and authentic rock festival, this year’s Midi Festival will move to south Chinese twon Zhenjiang (镇江), on invitation of the city council. Together with Zhenjiang Public Office, Zhenjiang Culture Ministry and Zhenjiang Art Theatre, the Midi Festival 2009 will be held between 1st till 3rd May on the Yiushan Meidi Lvdi Square (优山美地绿地广场). There will be 2 stages, the rock stage and the Yan electro stage, filled with live music each festival day from 2pm to midnight. The main theme of the festival of course will be the 10th anniversary of Midi Festival, 18 Chinese Bands, old and newer friends to Midi, such as Again, Miserable Faith, Thin Man, Yaska, Muma, Honey Gun, Spring & Autumn, Reflector, Subs, Cold Fairytales, LR etc, plus 12 oversea bands will be there to celebrate such a milestone event in China’s long way in modern music, even godfather of chinese rock, Mr. Cui Jian will attend the stage there, too! According to that, back in Beijing, rockfans can also get a chance to see some of the festival bands in a indoor concert in Star Live, organized in cooperation with TNT-Productions (the force behind Canadian Transmission Festival) and Painkiller Magazine. “2009 Midi Night” will take place in Star Live between 30th March and 3rd May, don’t miss if you can‘t go to Zhenjian! Tel: 400-810-3721, 010-58601088 (English: 010-64177845) For Tickets please visit the chinese ticket sales platform www.piao.com.cn or ask for information via phone: 400-810-3721, 010-58601088 (English: 010-64177845) Date: 1st - 3rd May 2009 Organizer: Beijing Midi School of Music Tickets: TBA Festival Series: Midi Music Festival

Bands	Impressions of Midi
Midi 2009 Bands greet you!	Midi 2009 at Zhenjiang - The crowds await you
Schedules: Midi 2009 Stages	Check out the Midi 2009 Photos and impressions of previous Midi festivals. Dive into the concerts before and lighten up the spirit of Midi...

Location & Directions	Indoors in Beijing
Located in Zhenjiang, here are the respective directions...	Some of the Midi Bands will make a stop in Beijing and rock the stages in Starlive: 2009 Beijing Midi Night

Contents 1 Schedule 1.1 Main Stage 1.2 Yen Electronic Music Stage 2 Participating Artists (Main Stage only) 3 Participating Overseas Artists 4 Reactions to Midi 2009 - 10th Anniversary 5 Further Information 5.1 Official pages 5.2 Other specific festival pages 5.3 In the press 5.4 Photos & Videos 5.5 References

[edit] Schedule

[edit] Main Stage

Time	May 1st	May 2nd	May 3rd
2：00 —— 2:30	Tookoo	Yuguo (羽果)	LR (左右)
2：30 —— 2:50	---	---	---
2：50 —— 3:20	Honey Gun (糖果枪)	Hollerado (Canada)	Bonk (Norway)
3：20 —— 3:40	---	---	---
3：40 —— 4:10	Sand (沙子)	Spring Autumn (春秋)	Reflector (反光镜)
4：10 —— 4:30	---	---	---
4：30 —— 5:00	Turdus Musicus (Norway)	CMCB	Jets Overhead (Canada)
5：00 —— 5:20	---	---	---
5：20 —— 5:50	Twisted Machine (扭曲机器)	The Verse	Cold Fairyland (冷酷仙境)
5：50 —— 6:10	---	---	---
6：10 —— 6:50	Again (轮回)	Subs	So Called (Canada)
6：50 —— 7:10	---	---	---
7：10 —— 7:50	MIKE TV (UK)	Gammalux (Germany)	Yaksa (夜叉)
7：50 —— 8:10	---	---	---
8：10 —— 8:50	Thin Man (瘦人)	Happy Avenue 幸福大街	Muma (木玛 & THIRD PARTY )
8：50 —— 9:10	---	---	---
9：10 —— 9:50	Army Of Freshmen (USA)	El Columpio Asesino (Spain)	BlindSight (Netherlands)
9：50 —— 10:20	---	---	---
10:20 —— 11:00	Cui Jian (崔健)	AK 47	Miserable Faith (痛仰)

[edit] Yen Electronic Music Stage

2009 迷笛音乐节（镇江站） 　　“焱”电子舞曲舞台演出时间表

5月1日 May 1st	5月2日 May 2nd	5月3日 May 3rd
DJ Sky Zhang （Chongqing） 重庆	DJ Ivy V （Shanghai） 上海	DJ Cody K (Hongkong) 香港
DJ Bob Chen （Ningbo） 宁波	DJ Jerry K (Guangzhou) 广州	DJ Jerryson （Shanghai） 上海
DJ Gary （Guangzhou）广州	DJ Fish （Shanghai） 上海	DJ Eagle （Ningbo） 宁波
DJ Harry （Chengdu） 成都	DJ Tootekool （Germany） 德国	DJ Baru (Japan) 日本
DJ Xeum （France） 法国	DJ Mickey Zhang （Beijing） 北京	DJ Ben Huang （Shanghai） 上海
DJ @llen （Taiwan) 台湾	--	DJ Dio （Beijing） 北京

[edit] Participating Artists (Main Stage only)

Again	AK 47	CMCB	Cold Fairyland
Cui Jian	Honey Gun	LR	Miserable Faith
Muma	Reflector	Sand (沙子)	Spring Autumn
Subs	Thin Man	Tookoo	Twisted Machine
Yaksa

[edit] Participating Overseas Artists

Army Of Freshmen (USA)	Blind Sight (Netherlands)	Bonk (Norway)	El Columpio Asesino (Spain)
Gammalux (Germany)	Jets Overhead (Canada)	Turdus Musicus (Norway)	Priestess (Canada)
Hollerado (Canada)	Socalled (Canada)	MIKE TV (UK)	The Stills (Canada)

[edit] Reactions to Midi 2009 - 10th Anniversary

I have in mind, that the Midi Music Festival is a festival of young people, it has lots of fresh culture which lets those young people coming to Midi become very happy. More importantly, Midi promotes new music and the development of a new culture. It is a good platform, on which this cultural phenomena can be displayed to the general pulic, so that everyone can see that this society has also a high number of young people with many ideas. - Hu Song (vocals of Yaksa), translated^[1]

We are all the Midi Music Festival - Yan Jun, translated^[2]

Midi is China's Utopian Festival - Li Hongjie, music critic^[3]

Midi is wonderful and there should be more events like it in China. Even though China has a Rock history of some 20 years and Midi has 10 years of history, but this is just the beginning. This is the stuff of youthful dreams and we should be supporting it all we can. - Zhao Nian, drummer of Tang Dynasty^[4]

Every time I attend Midi I get a sense of pleasure and satisfaction out of it, one might even say pride. I might not actually have all that much input into Midi, but I’ve been there from the start, but I am a ceaseless promoter of the festival, especially to foreigners I meet. I feel so proud of it that I just can’t help myself. It is simply my wish that more and more people get to enjoy Midi and that it grows from strength to strength! - Hao Fang, music critic^[5]

[edit] Further Information

[edit] Official pages

• Official page
• Official Midi pages of Rockinchina.com (English)

[edit] Other specific festival pages

• Sina.com pages about Midi 2009

[edit] In the press

• Midi Modern Music Festival to leave Beijing, CRI March 18, 2009
• Where the F@ck is Zhenjiang?, Cityweekend Shanghai, Mar 19th 2009 12:41a.m. by danielshap
• Norwegian power rock to China, Norway embassy in China, 12/03/2009
• see also an article about festival in May 2009 by Dan Sapiro

[edit] Photos & Videos

• All photos of Midi 2009
• Video of Gammalux at Midi 2009, 50min, the complete performance of Gammalux
• 2009 迷笛音乐节 第三天 冷酷仙境 完整视频, 40min, the complete performance of Cold Fairyland
• 2009 迷笛音乐节 第三天 木玛 完整视频, 56min, the complete performance of Muma
• 2009 迷笛音乐节 第三天 痛仰 反场两次, 50min, the complete performace of Miserable Faith
• 2009 迷笛音乐节 第三天 BLIND SIGHT 完整视频, 37min, complete performance of Blindsight
• 2009 迷笛音乐节 第三天 夜叉 完整视频, 28min, complete performance of Yaksa
• Tookoo at the Midi 2009 Festival, 10min
• Sand at the Midi 2009 Festival, 36min, complete performance
• Honeygun at the Midi 2009 Festival, 42min, complete performance
• Twisted Machine at the Midi 2009 Festival, 36min, complete performance
• Spring Autumn at the Midi 2009 Festival, 38min, complete performance

[edit] References

1. ↑ www.sina.com.cn (2009-04-14). "夜叉胡松：迷笛推动了新音乐和新文化的发展". Retrieved on 2009-04-27.
2. ↑ www.sina.com.cn (2009-04-14). "颜峻：我们都是迷笛音乐节". Retrieved on 2009-04-27.
3. ↑ Midi Festival (Edited and translated by eChinacities.com staff) (2009-04-23). "Music Critic Li Hongjie: Midi is China's Utopian Festival". Retrieved on 2009-04-29.
4. ↑ Midi Festival (Edited and translated by eChinacities.com staff) (2009-04-22). "Tang Dynasty Drummer Zhao Nian: A Ten Year Midi Vet". Retrieved on 2009-04-29.
5. ↑ Midi Festival (Edited and translated by eChinacities.com staff) (2009-04-23). "Music Critic Hao Fang: Midi could be even more fun". Retrieved on 2009-04-29.

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