Check out my account, the slide show, the Taipei Times blurb and video of one tune - Dress Like a Lion, below.
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Sunradio (and kindof /We Need Surgery) had a wicked weekend at the Spring Scream Festival at Kentington Resort in southern Taiwan. The thing started off slow, with gloomy weather and not so big crowds. But everybody there was very determined to have a good time.
Thursday: Miso, Brandon and Michelle flew and had a hella long trip. When we got off the plane we had a three hour bus ride, then another two hour bus ride, then a 2 hour taxi ride. Finally got to the fest about 3 or 4 a.m.
Friday: The next drizzly morning was downright depressing. The food vendors and music didn't start til way after we woke up but we got to hang out and drink beer in the rain with Jason and Kori, the very talented pop duo/couple Mates of State.
Then we hit the beach road at Kenting and met up with Joel and Carl, buds from Korea. Spent the day checking out the Taiwanese spending a holiday weekend cruising the strip, ate lots and drank an ocean of local beer. Tried to make Carl's DJing gig that night but got too tired had to head back to the fest for some music. The band of the weekend was Atash from Austin, TX. This international band was fronted by a big grey haired Iranian shaman (if there could be such a thing) that everyone in the crowd either wanted to sleep with or hug. Their drummers were among the best in the world and the guitar player's hands were made of rubber. Check these guys out if possible.
Jon, Lindsay and SunRadio merchandiser ground crew extraordinaire Jason flew in, went through basically the same commute, got in late Friday and proceeded to party down at the all night jam set up in the cabin behind ours. Seems like that was legendary party that went on well after the sun came up. Most of us were too tired and missed it.
Saturday: Another dreary day and almost low spirits were cheered up by the Arcade Fire-like The Dolittles, an expat band from Taipei. More rain and then we caught a few minutes of the awesome Mates of State. What a great voice on Kori and tasty drum playing by Jason. Check them out on myspace. It will surely please your ears. But we had to leave after about 3 songs to get to our stage down the hill for our set.
We started with a small crowd but it kept growing as we played and we just kept getting higher and higher of the crowd's energy. Jason got them all up on the front of the little two level stage with us and it turned into and intimate club gig with people-trains crusing the stage, a Dolittle dancing behind Miso and someone putting a cowboy hat on him. We threw in a few We Need Surgery songs for good measure. Someone even told us we had one of the tightest sets of the weekend.
Buzzing from a fun set, we set out to party the rest of the night away. Some of us caught Atash again for the most crowded, high energy show of the whole weekend. The place went off. Then it was off to bed for a few hours of zzzz's (except for Jason) and a 5 hour taxi ride to the Taipei airport the next morning for a noon flight.
Taipei Times Story
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