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Wonderful Drug Store’s “Noisy Dead Silence” 2024 Theme Tour “Interstellar Waste Beam” @ B10 Live – Nanshan
March 2 @ 12:00 pm – 11:59 pm
2024 Wonderful Drugstore “Noisy Dead Silence” Theme Tour
“Interstellar Waste Beam” lasts eight cities
In December 2023 , the Wonderful Drug Store’s “Noisy Dead Silence” themed tour was held in Chengdu, Foshan, Shanghai, Xi’an, and Beijing. This is a performance that many music fans have been looking forward to for a long time, and each performance is more than two and a half hours long. It really makes friends who come from afar feel more satisfied.
Regarding this short winter tour, the band’s lead singer Xiao He said with emotion: “After five shows at the end of 2023, the band seems to have just recovered its vitality, and is getting better and better with the lighting and visuals. At each stop, I saw old friends I hadn’t seen for a long time. What is even more gratifying is the feedback given by those new friends. Well, this is music. Without you, there would be no scene. For those friends who were not able to be there, we are ready to continue our journey. ”
Yes, Wonderful Drugstore gathered again in the New Year and stepped up rehearsals again to have this new spring appointment. Continuing last year’s agreement, Wonderful Drug Store will officially launch a new round of tour in the spring of 2024 – Interstellar Waste Beam, lasting eight cities!
On the stage of the last round of tour in Beijing on January 1, 2024, Xiaohe said: ” Music has this power to make time and space abnormal. ” This feeling of traveling through time and space is precisely through the non-traditional rock music scene As early as 27 years ago, Good Pharmacy started such an attempt.
” When we first started working as a beautiful drugstore, we were against the mainstream. Our earliest definition of the band’s style was: not allowing foreigners to dance. “
In Beijing in the mid-1990s , a large number of homogeneous rock bands began to appear, and their music sounded too similar.
When Wonderful Drug Store was first established, they chose to think outside the realm of rock music. They were not eager to integrate into this scene, but hoped that when facing rock music head-on, there would be some reasons for them to “do the opposite”.
“So Wonderful Drugstore will have saxophonist Li Tieqiao, marimba, percussionist Guo Long, and accordionist Zhang Weiwei, because these sounds were not the first choice for a rock band back then.”
While people were still racking their brains to get rid of those old adjectives to describe beautiful pharmacies, the band stopped activities around 2010 , and it seemed that their stories were sealed in the memories of a small number of people.
Xiaohe said: ” We are not running a band, and Good Drug Store has never disbanded. But over time, we have found the reason why we can still play music together today, including the relationship with the music itself. “
For those familiar with good pharmacies, their scene is full of mystery and uncertainty. For viewers who have not yet seen Good Drug Store, they may be devils, weirdos, thieves, or clowns.
But none of this matters. Because for Good Pharmacy, which does not want to follow the rules, since it has chosen to stand outside traditional rock music from the beginning, it proves that they will always wander, always looking for the most convincing way in different eras to express those who have ” Become a “timeless work.”
The short tour with the theme of “Noisy Dead Silence” to be launched at the end of 2023 is also the best proof of the stage aesthetics of Beautiful Drug Store. This tour is the first part of Beautiful Drug Store’s new “Interstellar Waste Beam” series of performances. “Dead Silence” theme, Xiaohe described the idea behind it.
“Just as beauty and illness are the essence of life, noise and silence are the essence of every soul that cannot be its own master.”
Faced with the contemporary thinking of a band, we can only place it on the stage. Here, the band will bring classic works and new performance forms into the livehouse. In a more cohesive space, let us Follow the wonderful drugstore into their fascinating universe where absurdity and madness coexist.
“The night when the wonderful pharmacy returns to the earth, I miss disorder and prefer freedom. “
——Music writer, Guo Xiaohan
“The entire performance of Wonderful Drug Store is still the ceiling for avant-garde experiments . Xiao He is in great condition. The whole stage is full of a strong sense of drama and a strong personal style. It is crazy and calm, conflicting and beautiful, sometimes violent and sometimes gentle, absurd , playful, and powerful.”
——Professor of School of Journalism, Fudan University, Lu Ye
“The moment I saw Wonderful Drug Store, I was very moved. First of all, the original cast members were together. In addition, on the stage, they used a long rope to connect each member together. It gave a visual sense of being tied up and tied together. The desire to break free is particularly relevant to the core of the music they convey. And to my surprise, the band is now very interactive, and they also used clever methods to get the audience to sing some songs that were completely unfamiliar to everyone. “
——Music critic, Wang Shuo
“Abandoned greed, hypocrisy and vanity, abandoned the desire for expression, leaving only the desire for expression, a true Chinese art rock band. Tough and backbone, fifty years later, they still will not soften.”
——Old Paradise Bookstore, Ah Fei
“From the stage vision, instrument arrangement to Xiao He’s singing, the weirdness, weirdness, and madness of Wonderful Drug Store are all so reasonable . Although the opening song “Funeral of Strange Objects” is a bit dark, it is full and intense, and will remind people of their deceased relatives.”
——Fan Zhihui, the manager of “Music Herald”
“The tour encore song “Wandering Mind” by Wonderful Drug Store included a lot of improvised fragments, and the performance in Shanghai even included Lu Chen in the audience. The tour performance was very enjoyable this time, and the audience was very engaged and satisfied. For two and a half hours, the live performance and atmosphere were so good and hearty.”
——Music critic, Chen Beiji
“Wonderful Drug Store’s performance at Tomorrow’s Music Festival shows that they have been carefully rehearsed and tempered, and the impromptu “Wandering Mind” is within a strict framework. The new song “Underground Bird” shows that they are not just a reproduction, but a real reorganization Let’s go again.”
——Music critic, Zhang Xiaozhou
“Wonderful Pharmacy is in Shanghai tonight. Xiaohe and Li Tieqiao are very good. They still maintain their early nervousness, freedom, and tension. Although the style is a little different, it still has a lot of energy and is even richer and more interesting . Only then It’s a really good band.”
——Music critic, Sun Mengjin
“It was the first time in the past 20 years that I watched the performance of Good Pharmacy. I haven’t seen Tieqiao, Xiaoyong, and Dapeng for many years. I remembered the smell of the soundproof rehearsal room with quilts on the walls in the suburbs of Beijing, the countless stages and wine tables The lost virtues are still preserved in these songs. Still beautiful, still free, long live music, long live friendship .”
——Musician and former member of Good Drug Store, Zhang Weiwei
2024/3/2 Saturday Shenzhen
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