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Kunming indie label Voiceweekly is throwing a showcase party at a new bar on Dongfeng Xi Lu called "Halfway House" (or 半山咖啡 in Chinese), which is a strangely appropriate name for a bar in Kunming.

Voiceweekly acts MOTT, One Way, moci, People's Funk, Zhu Xiaolong, Strange Day, Wu and Beekeeper with Horse will perform on October 4 (next Wednesday), beginning at 8pm. Rarely in Kunming is a lineup of so many acts featured in one night, it should be worth checking out if you haven't left Kunming to forget life in Dali or Ruili.

Prior to the evening's musical festivities, there will be a lomo exhibit at the Halfway House, starting at 2pm. For those unfamiliar with lomography, it is a photographic style with enthusiasts around the world that use the Russia-based LOMO's consumer camera to take spontaneous photos that are typically distorted around the edges, with sharp focus in the center.

Halfway House's hidden entrance
Halfway House's hidden entrance
All in all, should make for an interesting Wednesday, unless of course, you can't find Halfway House. Like many places in Kunming, it lacks an actual street address. The easiest way to find it is to look for the little entrance (see photo) on the side of the building just south of the Wuhua District People's Hospital located at the superdangerous three-way intersection that has its traffic lights turned off. Halfway House's beer selection is pretty good, but if you like strong spirits you may want to bring your flask. If you get lost, you can call HH at 535 2702.

Links

Voiceweekly

Lomography: From answers.com

Lomo Kunming (Chinese): LomoKM BBS

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Together with our UK and local partners and are setting up a new Music TV channel dedicated to Asian Indie Music. It will also feature content from the US indie scene as our partners are the exclusive resellers of Hacov TV ( www.havoctv.com ) for this region and the UK. Havoc tv is a music tv channel dedicated to US indie (live on US cable Comcast) and has now penetrated the UK market via the Vodafone 3G network. In a nutshell, what we are doing is a "Havoc TV Asia" (ie. Mtv Asia) and will start promoting Asian Indie in the US, UK and Canada via the 3G network.

If you are interested to have your music video on this channel, please do not hesitate to contact me at gen@kampany.com.

My website is www.kampany.com

Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.

Gen

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