The History of The Subs

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Wu Hao and Kang Mao
Whilst talking to YLK in the comments at Jake's blog I made this comment and realised afterwards what an impact the band has had on me.


Their live shows have been pretty much the highlights of my eight years in Shanghai and though I was a bit distant at first, way back when in Harley's, I have grown to love this band. 

So, checking in at their Douban group I noticed that they have a kind of potted history of the band. It's a kind of convention to list up all your gigs in the description box of your Douban group, but they add in CD release dates and some other stuff too. It starts thus:

*2002年02月,于北京组队。
*2002年05月,现任贝司手加入,乐队成员形成稳定状态。

Feb 2002 The band formed in Beijing.
In May the current bassist joined and there was a stable line up.

Click into the post to see the full list. Chinese only for now. Maybe people could translate their highlights in the comments? Can we see the early Harley's gig there, where I bought Subs Life?
*2002年02月,于北京组队。 
*2002年05月,现任贝司手加入,乐队成员形成稳定状态。 
*2003年02月,首次登台,于北京原著名摇滚乐俱乐部CD CAFE演出。 
*2004年04月,录制首张EP,由瑞典制作人Mats Hammmarstrom后期处理。 
*2004年10月,参加"竖起耳朵 BONK VS SUBS"活动,与挪威著名乐队BONK巡回北京-上海演出。 
*2004年10月,发表首张EP《SUBS LIFE》,收入4首歌曲和1个现场视频。 
*2004年10月,参加2004迷笛音乐节。 
*2004年10月,首次在北京新豪运酒吧专场演出。 
*2005年05月,首次中国巡演,于17个城市演出,历时28天。 
*2005年06月,录制新专辑DEMO,12首曲目。 
*2005年07月,参加格根塔拉草原狂欢节。 
*2005年08月,赴欧洲参加OYA音乐节,是参加此世界范围音乐节的首支亚洲/中国乐队,与众多世界一线摇滚乐队同台演出。 
*2005年08月,赴北欧巡演,途径挪威、瑞典、芬兰演出10场,其中包括芬兰Espoo Cine电影节。 
*2005年09月,参加绿色北京夏季露天音乐节。 
*2005年10月,参加2005迷笛音乐节。 
*2005年10月,赴荷兰参加东方音乐节。 
*2005年10月,赴欧洲巡演,途径荷兰、法国、德国等国演出。 
*2006年01月,赴马来西亚参加STREET ROAR音乐节,是参加此亚洲音乐节的唯一中国大陆乐队。 
*2006年05月,参加2006迷笛音乐节。 
*2006年05月,参加中国摇滚20年"再来20年"系列演出。 
*2006年05月,2006年中国春季巡演。 
*2006年06月,独立出版新唱片《DOWN》,收入7首歌曲。 
*2006年07月,赴欧洲公路巡演,历时2个月,途径芬兰、瑞典、挪威、丹麦等国演出40余场,其中包括Ilosaarirock音乐节、Puntala音乐节、Augustibuller音乐节、Karlsoy音乐节等。 
*2006年09月,于丹麦录制现场唱片,10首曲目。 
*2006年10月,签约美国INVISIBLE公司。 
*2006年11月,原鼓手施旭东离开,张舜加入。 
*2007年01月,唱片《DOWN》被《滚石(中国)》评为年度最佳唱片,其中歌曲《DOWN》为年度最佳歌曲。 
*2007年02月,赴新加坡参加华文节。 
*2007年05月,参加2007迷笛音乐节。 
*2007年07月,参加CH+INDIE音乐节。 
*2007年07月,参加由湖南广电局举办的崔健 银沙滩汽车音乐节。 
*2007年09月,在欧洲电视连续剧《乒乓》中友情客串出演,并有两首作品作为配乐。 
*2008年01月,4轨录制新唱片《我们没有走进21世纪》。 
*2008年03月,全球1000张限量发行《我们没有走进21世纪》 
*2008年04月,中国东部10个城市巡演。 
*2008年05月,中国西部10个城市巡演,途中遇地震被迫终止。 
*2008年06月,原鼓手离开。 
*2008年07月,鼓手李帆正式加入。 
*2008年10月,參加2008摩登音樂節。 
*2008年10月,參加2008迷笛音樂節。 
*2008年10月,赴挪威国际电影节参加纪录片《ROCK HEART BEIJING》的首映式。这是导演KAREN历时4年拍摄的一部关于SUBS的纪录片。并做小型巡演。 
*2008年11月,参加第三届群英会音乐节。 
*2009年02月,MAO LIVE-HOUSE最佳乐队奖,最佳表演奖,最佳摇滚精神奖。 
*2009年05月,參加2009迷笛音樂節(镇江)。 
*2009年05月,参加成都热波音乐节。 
*2009年08月,参加张北草泥马音乐节。 
*2009年09月,参加青岛金沙滩音乐节。 
*2009年10月,参加厦门 海峡摇滚音乐节。

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It seemed like you and YLK had reached a common ground in the comments on my post so I didn't want to stir it up again, but I have to say Subs are one of my favourite bands - especially live. They have consistently been one of the best live acts I've seen and I don't think I've ever seen them give anything less than an amazing show. They don't know how to do lacklustre.

The history is great, but unfortunately it's hard to pick out specific gigs. *2005年05月,首次中国巡演,于17个城市演出,历时28天 - their first national tour could have been the time you saw them at Harley's? Life had come out in October of the year before so it's possible.

Every time I've seen them they've been amazing, but I reckon one of my favourite performances was when they opened Windows Live and Kang Mao, in a see-through black netting "dress" and bright pink underwear told the people on the balcony up top and the people stood near the back of the crowd to get in the mosh at the front or go fuck themselves.

I mailed YLK off-blog to make sure that it was all passionately stating our own cases and not taken as attacks, so it's good. Also YLK is an intelligent and considerate guy 'in real life' so there's nothing to worry about.

Yeah, the list is not that specific, it would be way too long for the Douban page if it included every single gig.

I think the show must have been in that tour. If we read this post here and check the comments, the Shuffle show was 2006. I took my friend Richard to that gig promising that it would be good as I'd seen the band before and bought Subs Life.

I saw them at 4Live a long while back, 2007 I suppose. Then at the opening of Windows Tembo:

and finally at the Dream Factory. They were great every time.

What's on this weekend anyway? Is there some kind of calendar for the Shanghai live music scene?


Most people use Douban for all their info and 90% of high profile gigs make e-events there with flyers. Yuyintang.org has a calendar format on their front page.

Now we have the following places that put on bands, and I mean like indie bands or original music as opposed to blues, jazz or other house band type stuff, not that there's anything wrong with that. There's some overlap between these two groups and some I haven't mentioned.

Smaller bar type: Logo, Anar, Sus2, 021, Harleys

Venue type: Dream Factory, Yuyintang, Live Bar, Live Bar downtown (696 weihai), Mao Livehouse

This weekend ... Friday has two shows: Culture Clash at Yuyintang with Boys Climbing Ropes as the main band (no Hard Queen now) and then a ska punk night at Mao, headlined by the excellent Misandao from Beijing.

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