Category Archives: Yugong Yishan

Tag Team shindig at 2 Kolegas; Abigail Washburn at Yugong Yishan

Tag Team Records will hold its fifth annual Christmas Shindig this Friday night at 2 Kolegas (map). The lineup includes Lonely China Day, Arrows Made of Desire, RandomK(e), iLoop, Ziyo,…

Dirty Deeds: Beijing’s AC/DC cover band to rock September 5

- In part because I performed “Have a Drink on Me” with a supersized cardboard guitar in front of several hundred students at a Korean women’s university a long, long,…

Top five all-time Beijing live music venues: Kaiser Kuo

Besides being a writer, single malt aficionado, and bigwig at a PR firm, Kaiser Kuo has been rocking in Beijing for a over a decade, whether with Tang Dynasty starting…

Get hopping: Yugong Yishan, White Rabbit mark anniversaries Saturday

This Saturday is a good time to let your, er, “hare” down and hop between two Beijing clubs that are marking their first anniversaries – Yugong Yishan and White Rabbit….

Valentine’s Day: Getting Jing-y with It

After sending flowers to yourself, strategically placing wrapped boxes of chocolate on your desk, and faking several hot phone calls at the office – what to do on Valentine’s Day?…

Readers’ Writes I: Don, Olli, Eddie and Jason

Welcome to Readers’ Writes week, starring the collective wisdom of 17 fellow bar-goers who answered my survey about their favorite Beijing drinking holes and the city’s general nightlife scene. They…

Memory Lane: Keep in Touch Bar

File this in the “just when you think you know a guy” drawer. Jon Tsao, who I’ve known since arriving in Beijing two years ago, nonchalantly mentioned a while back…

And the TBJ bar award winners are…

Bar and club owners and employees were out in force at the Kunlun Hotel two weeks ago for the annual that’s Beijing awards. More than 30 establishments took home prizes…

Something about Sanlitun

When Sanlitun South was razed last year for redevelopment – incidentally, nary a single foundation has been laid on that plot of land where two-meter high weeds now stand guard…

Dirty deeds, Qingdao cheap

I caught the one-set AC/DC tribute show by the aptly named Dirty Deeds band, November 23 at Yugong Yishan. The lead singer howled through a dozen songs, including some classics,…