I'm sorry for all non-Chinese speakers. I have to blog this as it's massive on Douban right now and relevant.
Zinging its way about China's most used site for underground music and arts at the mo is a note on 2010's boom in music festivals here. It comes from Pet Conspiracy's band page and is called, loose translation by me, All the festivals we played were trash.
The gist of it is that there were a massive bunch of festivals suddenly this year as investor fever trumped gov arts policy, as they are all investors themselves. The band played twenty and found that they were all let downs due to a culture of third-rate business man's tricks.
China Music Radar have been following this carefully.
Here's the full text of the note:
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