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| Hanoi333 |
Posted - 07/09/2004 : 06:22:24
Hi, I live in the Netherlands but every year I spend some time at family in Vietnam.Rock music in general is still underdeveloped over there. I only remember the band Suede visited Vietnam for a rock concert. For the rest the country has only foreign pop-influence from the main stream. Do you think that Frank Black and his men are interested in once playing in Vietnam? I think it is for many bands not commercially interesting to play in these kind of countries.
Could anyone send any suggestions?
Could anyone send an answer please, until so far no reactions at all! |
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| Hanoi333 |
Posted - 07/16/2004 : 01:11:35
Hey, Stuart. So the story I told you about my esperanto friend was probably in a smaller provincial town (which in China means that it still has 2 million inhabitants). He probably didn`t visit the main bar streets of Beijing. In Vietnam I donot remember this kind of activities. In Vietnam they just sell illegal CD`s in shops that seem legal to me. In Vietnam there are post card sellers and book sellers (street children), who at first sight seem annoying because they can even follow you for 700 meters, but often they are fun too to talk with.
If you really get bothered too long and too annoying I advise you to do the waving of the hand in the air gesture(next to your head) but don`t look at them, instead of totally ignoring them. If you ignore them they`ll try to get you attention, that`s their job! With children I can do the waving gesture, but with grown-up persons who sell something I find it inpolite for them to do that gesture, then I will just mumble to them in Vietnamese I am not interested to buy.
Anyway I understand you are happy now you donot have to teach English any longer. Well I must admit that I have also done some work in Vietnam some year ago that seemed nice on paper, but in reality I didn`t know how to organise the work in a good way, so there were weeks I felt miserable and then the hot wheather really started to irritate me, so right now I am not really thinking about working over there. Visiting my wife`s family in Vietnam and do some tours over there I enjoy very much.
Anyway, still like to whish you good luck with your good work over there! |
| Stuart |
Posted - 07/15/2004 : 16:39:52
Hello Hanoi333. Nowadays it's more like 'Psssst, dvd, vcd, cd.... looka looka.' It's a little fucking annoying when you walk down the main bar street and about 20 people ask you the same question, and don't seem to understand that ignoring them means that you are not interested. Sometimes they follow you for at least ten - twenty metres, which is highly annoying.
Yep, I am teaching English out here at the moment, but hopefully not for much longer.
Just the good ole boys, never meaning no harm,
that all you ever saw
been in trouble with the law,
since the day they were born |
| Hanoi333 |
Posted - 07/15/2004 : 05:51:49
Yes Stuart I guess you are right. You are defenitely right about fake CD`s over there (In Vietnam as well).
Suddenly Reminds me of a story of a friend of mine from Amsterdam, who once went with an esperanto group to travel around China. He was one time sitting outside with his friends next to a bar to drink a beer, when suddenly behind a stone pilar a chinese man whispered.
Hey! psssssssst, CD?
Here in Amsterdam on the streets they`ll do more like .
Hey!Psssssssst, Cocaine, Marijuana, XTC?
Anyway, interesting to hear that you live and work in China, Bejing. Are you teaching English over there?
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| Stuart |
Posted - 07/15/2004 : 03:39:42
I think that the chances of Frank and the Catholics playing the Nam are as realistic as Frank coming to Beijing. It probably wouldn't make much sense in Frank playing here in China as 1) there are probably not enough people out here who actually know who the Pixies are, let alone Franks solo outfit, and 2) bands usually play places to promote their albums.... and out here everything is fake, I don't actually think there are many places where you can actually buy genuine albums.
When Suede played here they lost an large amount of money, fairplay to them coming though....
Just the good ole boys, never meaning no harm,
that all you ever saw
been in trouble with the law,
since the day they were born |
| Hanoi333 |
Posted - 07/15/2004 : 01:11:50
So first I thought that it will probably to difficult to arrange this, but now I understand actually it is not so hard. I think I donot have to bring him some pho myself. I can send Frank an email that he should go to a Vietnamese Restaurant in LA (With Cally you mean California, right?) and eat a bowl of pho.
After that he will pack his bags, grap his guitar, call his buddy`s and immediately leave for Nam, with the first possible flight.
Over there he can Karaokize (new verb?) his music, ha, ha, ha! |
| Perhaps |
Posted - 07/14/2004 : 10:30:51
Maybe the porgression is to first get FB&TC's or the Pixies on karaoke? Or maybe catch-up with them in Cally and bring him some pho; that would bring me to Vietnam.
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| Hanoi333 |
Posted - 07/14/2004 : 06:02:08
well, maybe it is confusing in my posting, but I am not Vietnamese myself. I am Dutch, but my wife is Vietnamese (from North Vietnam). I have visited the family of my wife before so Now it is my family too. I have to communicate with them in my poor limited Vietnamese, but I keep on trying. I live in Amsterdam by the way. I happen to know some Vietnamese over here, most of them are students from Hanoi, who come over here for 4 year of study. There are many other Vietnamese in Netherland as well but they are spreaded over different cities in the Netherland (most of these were boat-refugees from South Vietnam, who came to Europe in the 80`s), unfortunately there is not a huge Vietnamese community in Amsterdam like you can see in Sydney, Los Angeles, Berlin or Paris. And reffering to your comment. I think it is really OK to say that Vietnamese have a great taste of music. Although in general I like more rock music, underground, alternative etc, but I really like the popular music of Vietnam from singers like Hong Nhung, Phuong Thanh, My Linh and of course they have great traditional music as well. |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 12:51:15
hey Hanoi333,
where in Holland do you live?
One of my dearest Indierock-friends lives in the Netherlands and is from Vietnam too!
is it ok to say that people from Vietnam have great taste in music?
 "I joined the Cult of Frank/Nobody wanted to join my Culf" |
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