WHAT HAPPENED?

After months of planning and discussions with the new venue in Qingdao’s old town, the people at PICHAIYUAN decided to...change their mind. During soundcheck of band number 8 (of nine), and just two hours before the festival was due to kick-off, the electricity was unexpectedly switched off, damaging some of the sound equipment in the process. We then spent about two hours trying desperately to persuade them to allow us to continue, as planned, but to no avail. It’s worth mentioning that we had in our possession signed and ‘chopped’ documents with Pichaiyuan venue, and had the full support of the Shinan cultural bureau who had been involved with choosing this venue.

值得一提的是我们拥有和劈柴院场地签署的一系列文件，并且拥有市南文化局的全力支持，他们还曾参与选择这个场地。值得一提的是我们拥有和劈柴院场地签署的一系列文件，并且拥有市南文化局的全力支持，他们还曾参与选择这个场地。

The Show Must Go On...New Venue...

It was an incredibly difficult decision, other than cancel the whole thing and disappoint a lot of people, we felt we had no choice but to quickly switch the venue to CLUB NEW YORK, which although meant downsizing, would allow us to get started with LIVE MUSIC within 90 minutes of making a decision. i.e. there was now no time for sound-checking etc.

演出必须继续进行... 新的地点... ...

这是一个难以置信的艰难的决定，甚至比取消演出并令大家失望更为艰难，我们没有别的选择，只能赶紧把场地转换到纽约吧，这虽然意味着活动缩小了，却可以使我们在90分钟内开始现场音乐。也就是说，已经没有试音的时间了。

The Bands...

We kept our prior commitments to each of the bands - 8 of the 9 agreed to go on, at the new venue. The only one that did not (Victorious War) had other plans in the evening so unfortunately had to drop out.

乐队...

我们保持我们事先的承诺，9支乐队中的8支同意去新的场地。唯一一支没能去的乐队（胜战）由于晚上有其他计划，所以只能不情愿地退出。

The Public...

We offered to return money to everybody who had a ticket - so that nobody lost out. Most people already there simply came with us to the new venue. We sent out hundreds of SMS messages, called friends etc, to get the message out that the venue had changed. Several hundred people turned up. We managed, under duress, to pull it off. It was stressful and tiring, and far from ideal (the venue simply wasn’t large enough), but we had about 8 hours of superb live music and everyone had a great time.

公众...

我们为买了票的观众退票。大多数人跟随我们去了新场地。我们发出了数以百计的短信通知大家演出地点发生了变化，好几百人出现在了新的场地。我们做到了，在无奈下，将事情完成。压力，疲劳，与理想相差甚远（场地不够大），但我们拥有了8小时的出色的现场音乐，每个人都度过了美好的时光。

What’s Next?

Right now we have no plans for a MAX 10 - but ask us again in a few weeks and see how we feel :)

下一步？

现在我们并没有举办MAX 10的计划 - 几周后再问我们吧，看看我们如何感觉： ）

APOLOGIES TO EVERYONE THAT FELT AGGRIEVED BY THE TURN OF EVENTS ON SATURDAY 11 APRIL. IT WAS 100% OUT OF OUR CONTROL. THE PEOPLE AT THE VENUE SIMPLY CHANGED THEIR MIND, AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE.

Photo Galleries

In the coming days and weeks we will be uploading photos of the bands who played at MAX 09:

The Opening Night

The festival kicked off with a film and fashion night at LA VILLA on Wednesday 8th April. The evening featured both PLASTERED and KORYO TOURS from Beijing and doubled as the launch party for a new shop ‘MyMài  买卖’ selling cool products from both Plastered, Koryo and REDSTAR amongst others. The shop will become the place to buy Chinese indie music CDs, tee-shirts, retro dongxi etc.  Photos of the model show etc will be added here very soon - watch this space.

开幕式之夜

4月8日，节日在电影和时尚秀的表演中在拉维拉揭开序幕。夜晚围绕PLASTERED和KORYO TOURS而展开，并在“买卖”商店的开业礼中达到高潮。“买卖”有Plastered, Koryo 和 REDSTAR的精美商品，并将成为购买中国独立音乐光碟，T恤，复古商品等的绝佳地点。照片很快上传，敬请关注此空间。

Live Music - MAX 09

The actual line up who played at MAX 09 - Club New York, was as follows:

MC Shazhou (Qingdao)

Fancy World (Qingdao)

Dama Llamas (Qingdao)

PB33 (Beijing)

Ziyo (Beijing)

Zhaoze (Guangzhou)

Snapline (Beijing)

Playmaker (London, UK)

现场音乐-MAX 09

在纽约吧演出的乐队如下：

MC Shazhou 顶针帮 (青岛)

Fancy World (青岛)

Dama Llamas 大妈辣妈(青岛)

PB33 (北京)

Ziyo 自游(北京)

Zhaoze 沼泽(广州)

Snapline 粉笔线(北京)

Playmaker (英国伦敦)

Links

Train Schedules

Buy a souvenir tee-shirt!

HOW CAN I GET A TICKET?

This year we are producing a special souvenir

ticket / guide to Qingdao. The ticket costs ¥100

and covers admission to all events. 

Redstar card holders get 20% off the price

(¥80 instead of ¥100).

Students enjoy a 50% discount

(total cost ¥50 instead of ¥100).

Buy your ticket at REDSTAR or order by email