Proximity Butterfly (变色蝴蝶)

Inner Mongolia Grassland Music Festival

July 29th, 30th, 31st 2005

So, I get this call from the owner of the Little Bar. We just finished a commercial show that didn’t suit our characters or direction of Being. I think it was for some ice tea company. On our way home, Tang Lei gave me a call and asked if we would be interested in playing in Inner Mongolia in the end of July. Ecstatic as you could imagine we were, we adamantly agreed.

Because I can’t read Chinese, I don’t know much about what other bands will be at the festival, but I know there are The Subs, The Verse, Muma, AK47, and so on (they are all listed at www.littlebar.org). I am very excited to be in the middle of nowhere with a slew of creative minds…

The festival will take place in the grasslands of some part of the Chinese section of Mongolia (called Inner Mongolia), where there is no power supply, no hotel, no Mc Donald’s or KFC, no Chun xi Lu or busy traffic. Each band is given a tent and an incredible vastness of space to choose from. Everyone will be lying in the grass for three days listening to music, looking at art, sharing each other, knowing more and more about what makes us who we are and what to further do while we are here in this now…

It is not often that Chengdu bands can get together and share ideas or goals, to plan together what future lies ahead for us all…

We will be traveling with Cai Ming (Greenwall), Chen Ke, Tang Lei, Ashura, and Sound and Toys. I think this is quite an important trip because we are at a very crucial moment in the music environment in Chengdu. Our actions decide whether the current artistic situation blossoms or deflates. Our ideas and ambitions are based upon our efforts and the persistence that follows from that. I have a lot of ideas for the next year and I am looking forward to sitting down with everyone to see how we can make things happen. So, I guess I’ll have to ‘get back’ to you after we return to Chengdu… This is a beautiful thing…