As March swings in, so does the warmer weather (allegedly) and lots and lots of music. Alongside the aforementioned JUE Festival, you would have to be blind to walk around Shanghai and not see that Usher will be here next week (12/3). There are several Usher pre-parties around the town this weekend (apparently every single club is having one) and it’s no surprise that Shanghai is showing her penchant for blinged up R&B (did anyone else read that Usher has invented a genre for himself – Rev Pop?). Tickets are racing out the various doors, so gorge people, gorge.
Three days before (9/3), the Eagles will swoop in carrying their own sound and lights on their shoulders, so we can expect the acoustic strains of Hotel California to sound better than they have ever done at PartyWorld. Apparently tickets are also flying out of reputable outlets, so it looks like we might have a couple of pretty well attended big shows on our hands this month.
More importantly, what’s coming up? You may have seen more Bob Dylan rumours circling these shores. After the debacle of last year, it seems that the government have confirmed the permit just today (although it has since been deleted from the official website). You can see that royal goodness HERE. Does Bob have the ability to pull in arena capacities in Beijing and Shanghai. We have only 6 weeks to wait people.
(update: kungfuology got to this rumour before us we’ve just discovered).
And the last rumour – well, that deserves a post of its own.