Summer in Band: Placebo Scenery of Middle-aged Wen Qing

Summer of the Band came to an end. With the company of an ideal and passionate rock band, this unprecedented summer heat is not so hard. It seems too exaggerated to expect a program to save Chinese rock music. According to Song Xiaoka, a veteran music fan, the greatest significance of this program is to give a placebo to Wen Qing, a middle-aged man.

■ "Summer of the Band" program poster? The Big Band

Summer in the Band: Middle-aged Wen Qing Placebo

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One day, I joked with my young rock friend and said, "Wow! Iqiyi has begun to focus on the silver-haired group! "

Yes, according to the age division of users in the online video industry, users over 40, even mature users, are what we often say: middle-aged and elderly people. In the program "Summer of the Band", not only half of the bands are "silver-haired people", but also the people who watch the program in the circle of friends are mostly in the post-80 s and early 90 s who are wandering on the edge of youth and middle age.

In the third episode of the program, penicillin sang "New Teenager", and Zhang Yadong was moved to tears by the scene and took the whole program directly to the hot search. So the program group quickly invited Pu Shu when the last episode was recorded. Through the grapevine, the catalogue of Little Prussian Festival requires going home to sleep at 8 pm, and it was recorded for another two hours under the persuasion of the agent. In the afternoon 10, he said, "I can't stand it when I am old, but I will be sleepy when I arrive." So he stood up, patted Xu and left ... Hearing this story, he couldn't help laughing: Pu Shu is really an old punk.

■ Zhang Yadong who cried in the program? The Big Band

Pu Shu and Zhang Yadong in their youth.

Summer of the Band was an instant hit, and rock fans had mixed feelings. I am glad that I can finally see these "underground workers" going to the ground in my lifetime. Unhappily, these male gods, which were originally only liked by my own small circle, are now consumed by the public. What's more, the ticket prices of major music festivals will skyrocket this year!

A Brief History of China Local Music Festival

As far as the subculture of rock bands is concerned, the music festival is an unavoidable bright moment. For rock youth, watching music festivals is the most important KPI every year. Information about the trend and direction of the year, friends, band photo punching, new album purchase, forced photo taking should be completed at the music festival.

Tracing back to the history of China Music Festival, we should start with Midi Music School. Beijing Midi Music School is the first modern music school in China approved by Haidian District Education Committee. As early as the establishment of 199 3 school, a distinct school purpose was established: rock! ! ! Haidian District really emphasizes education! ) Now Miserable Faith, the number one rock music brand, came out from Midi Music School.

■ Beijing Midi Music School

In view of the fact that 1969 Woodstock Music Festival has been watched by every student at least 200 times, on May 1 2000, Midi Music School held the first Midi Music Festival in the school auditorium in order to be in line with international standards. At that time, 30 bands participated, which attracted pioneers and big Sami from all over Beijing to watch.

■ The first Midi Music Festival? Sohu music

From then on, the Midi Music Festival began a seven-year "unification of rivers and lakes" model, and it became bigger and bigger, which led to the music festival tide in Beijing. During this period, some retail investors held the Sculpture Park Music Festival and Chaoyang Park Music Festival. Among them, the Chaoyang Park Music Festival in 2006 even invited an internationally renowned brand placebo for the first time, which attracted stars from all over Beijing to follow suit, but failed to overshadow the "sacred" position of Midi Music Festival in the hearts of fans from the limelight and morale. It was not until 2007 that Shen Lihui announced that it would hold the first Modern Sky Music Festival in 1 1 month that the dominant position of Midi began to change.

■ Zheng Jun who watched placebo at Chaoyang Park Music Festival in 2006. Song Xiaoka/photo

■ Peng Tan was also at Chaoyang Park Music Festival in 2006. Song Xiaoka/photo

■ In Chaoyang Park, there was the son of Li Peng, the lead singer of Mirror Band. The little guy is running around in the park, and no one cares. Song Xiaoka/photo

■ The 1st Modern Music Festival, live in Shen Lihui. Song Xiaoka/photo

Modern Sky Music Festival has centered the whole music festival on the word "modern" from the beginning. Not only foreign-style young bands participate in the performance, but also the stage design and publicity routines are more avant-garde and international than the Midi Music Festival. Rock fans who have been messing around together are suddenly divided into "Midi School" and "Modern School".

■ "Midi School" represents Miserable Faith.

■ "Modern School" stands for New Pants Band.

For example, a heavy and sentimental band, such as Sadness, is a typical midi style. New Pants, a fashionable and innovative hipster, must be the finale of Modern Sky Music Festival. At that time, two groups of fans often quarreled about which music festival to watch. Modern school usually laughs at Midi school as "earth-shattering", and Midi school laughs at Modem school as "fashion". Looking back now, the two major music festivals were so happy when they coexisted in Beijing.

Ten years' testimony of old fans

The first time I went to the music festival was the fifth Midi Music Festival in 2005. Most of the first four sessions were held in the auditorium of Xiangshan Midi Music School. At that time, I was still in junior high school, and I could only understand the dynamics of male gods through pop songs or "trend magazines" such as Modern Sky. At that time, there was a female fan named Zhu Lin, who always appeared in various peripheral audio-visual products of Midi Music Festival, because she always had the highest pogo. At that time, as a small town girl who went to middle school in a third-tier city, I really envied this young lady who could watch the performance in person.

■ The covers of popular songs are meaningful.

■ At the Midi Music Festival in 2007, the old wolf sat on the flower bed. Song Xiaoka/photo

■2006 Midi Music Festival Pu Shu. Song Xiaoka/photo

Not enough after the music festival. There were New Howl and Unknown Heights, two rock bases in Beijing at that time, and an all-night performance called After the Midi. At that time, Midi officially chartered a car to send everyone from Haidian Park to Maipu. That was the only time I saw so many people smoking collectively on the bus.

The first time I cried at a music festival, it was the 2007 Modern Sky Music Festival, and it was also the first music festival of Modern Sky. On that occasion, New Pants sang Our Times twice. Between the two times, Peng Lei shouted to the audience: "There are still dreams, because this is our time!"

As a result, now, dreams are gone, and our time has passed.

■ Men and women at music festivals. Song Xiaoka/photo

The best music festival I have seen so far is the 2009 Chengdu Hot Wave Music Festival. Because people in Chengdu are really tall. Music festivals in Beijing are generally attended by young artists, but not in Chengdu. A large number of old sisters wearing professional high heels and small purses, small hotel owners riding mountain bikes, grandparents taking them out for a walk can shake their heads at any time under the stage.

■ Wang Feng and Gao are at the Hot Wave Music Festival. Song Xiaoka/photo

■ The enthusiasm of Chengdu. Song Xiaoka/photo

This is the first time I have seen a sea of people. I really want to see Woodstock Music Festival. Many foreign bands who came to perform stayed on the stage after the performance, because the audience was so enthusiastic that they sang along with everything. Remember that it rained heavily before the performance and the performance was suspended. As a result, none of the old railway passers-by in Chengdu left, singing "All the way south, all the way south" in the rain. Later, the eight characters "Rain or shine, the performance remains the same" appeared on the big screen of the stage, and my goose bumps suddenly rose. I turned to look at my colleague and cried out of breath.

■ The pain of performing in the rain. Song Xiaoka/photo

The feeling at that time was that Chengdu was really good and Chengdu people were really good. No wonder local big-name bands such as audio toys and Asura don't come to Beijing for development.

The period from 2005 to 20 1 1 is the most interesting years of China Music Festival. Later, due to some uncontrollable factors and the unprofessional organizers, I gradually stopped going.

■ Black Knife of the first Strawberry Music Festival, then the propaganda director of Modern Sky. Song Xiaoka/photo

After that, the music festival slowly developed from Beijing to other cities. Midi went to Zhenjiang, and strawberries blossomed everywhere in Xi and Shanghai. In order to attract more audiences, mainstream pop singers such as Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou were invited to watch the music festival, which is no longer the patent of young rock and literature artists, but a place where all young people follow the fashion. The last time I went to a domestic music festival was at the Strawberry Music Festival in Xianghe, the first city in the world. A group of screaming girls ran after Leah Dou from the east to the west of the venue, and all kinds of people collided. It's really noisy.

Middle-aged Wen Qing placebo

This year's Summer of the Band is a hit. I think the band's income will increase a lot. I think the music festival and livehouse culture, which have been declining in recent years, can be revived for a period of time. I think some successful people born in the 1980s will enter the music market with reborn capital. But I think the biggest significance of this program is not to revitalize China's rock music at all, but to give everyone who is about to fall into a midlife crisis a placebo:

Zhang Yadong, Pu Shu, New Pants and the mirror ... When they were young, they were bohemian and brilliant. They are the spiritual leaders and dream gods of countless young artists, and many people want to live like them. Later, when I was older, I became less and less active, and there was no scandal.

■ Mr. "Very well" On the program, some commentators laughed and said that these three words are the greatest goodwill of middle-aged men to the world. ? The Big Band

Those young people who followed them in those years are gradually becoming the last people they want to be. Everyone is very lost, helpless and confused. I don't know how a young man faces a bald head, a fatty liver and a rolling child. The summer when the band was born, we had a chance to see Zhang Yadong, a peaceful and affectionate white-haired girl, Peng Lei who tried to take care of her children, and a hedgehog who could be good colleagues after breaking up. Suddenly, everyone has another role model. It's great that people can still live so happily in middle age!

■ Cindy's performance in the combination of New Pants and 3unshine has gone beyond the level of simple music performance, and the whole performance can be called a contemporary art work. ? The Big Band

■ Hedgehog Band? The Big Band

■ Or punk mirror band? The Big Band

When I watch the program, I always think of slogan, who walked out of the school bar of new bands such as penicillin: the society is chaotic, so I have to come to school. Yes, rock music can't make your life better, but it can give you the courage to face life in a better state.

Song Xiaoka

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