"People are strange." "But most of the people in the world are strange." "But in China strange people are more." "Because most of them can't understand what I'm doing." "They will never know." "Maybe I can boil some peas for you." "I don't know." "Nothing to cook." "No food." "Do you like this kitchen?" "No." "I want to do really Rock 'n' Roll." "And my idol is Jim Morrison." "They hate us." "The neighbours." "Bring us some glasses, please!" "." ""God save the Queen."" "Everytime your guitarist is walking behind the girls..." "I don't know." "Maybe he loves to do that." "When we are playing, most people are at work in their offices." "They live a regular life everyday." "But we have no idea about how it will be tomorrow." "Also we don't know if our efforts of so many years will pay off in the future." "And we have almost no regular income." "They will get married and have kids but we are not sure about that for us." "I love staying at home every day." "Not to go out every day to meet people." "I think it's very boring for me." "I really need a quiet mood to think about music." "It's important for me." "My parents support me because I'm growing up more and more." "But I don't have a job." "I can't make my own money compared with other young people." "Maybe for the ordinary parents they would worry about their children." "Why their lifestyle is like that." "But my parents decided:" "Okay, I support you." "I can give you money." "If you really want to do your band, of course you can't make money by yourself." "But I plan:" "After I am 25 years, I really should be independent by myself." "But not like now and live on my parents." "My only income is my band." "And if we produce a CD, this money is my only income." "She loves beer." "And every day the life starts with the beer." "Very funny!" "." "Very funny!" "." "I recently told a friend about a place where we once performed." "It was so stupid there." "He asked me:" "So why didn't you pee on the stage then?" "." "I said :" "No." "And he said :" "Why not?" "." "I said :" "We used to overdo in former days but people attacked us for this." "This really harmed us." "Now we have become a little more reserved." "I think it's cool what Peaches is doing on stage." "But you can't behave like that in China." "Wang Yue, that's the coolest bike I've ever seen." "I have the same bike." "Different colour." "It's made from a friend's father." "He handmade the bicycles." "Maybe in Beijing there are only four bicycles like this." "They are all ours." "Everybody speaks to you in the street when they see you with this bike." "On our first album there is a song called "I'm okay"." "It's about the helplessness in the adolescence." "It says: "No girlfriend today, no girlfriend tomorrow and no girlfriend forever."'" "I think things like that can happen to all young people in the world." "I still want to be a child!" "We are living in a subculture." "Although we have a record deal and although we sell CDs:" "We are still underground." "The song is about someone who was very poor and then decided to get rich." "He is really devoted in his own career." "He just wants to be rich." "He thinks the money can help him." "He believes that he can purchase his happiness with his money." "But he fails." "What's your normal life like?" "Often I get up very late." "And I sleep very late." "And I play guitar in my own place..." "What do I do?" "." "I don't know." "Maybe I spend most of my time in thinking." "Just thinking." "Watching TV." "Watching TV and thinking." "Okay." "One day maybe I can live on my music." "Just play and someone..." "And I can buy a big house because someone listens to my music." "You know that's..." "that's all my imagination..." "I can keep being an outsider." "I think that's my life." "I don't want to be involved in society." "Most Chinese people in our age have to live a normal life." "There have to be some people who have the courage to do something else." "These both belong together." "And the Xinjing?" "." "Xinjing?" "." "The Xinjing is sold out, isn't it?" "." "It's sold out." "Then give me the Evening Post." "I thought it's only one RMB." "No, just five Mao." "I'm always telling you to sell the old one first." "I'm ordering a beer." "Not ordering." "I'm asking." "Let's have a drink and then we go on." "Shall we go this way?" "." "This is my girlfriend." "Li Xiang." "She's so pretty." "She's a beautiful girl." "I can see it." "My English is very poor." "It doesn't matter." "She is a professional musician." "She plays Bach." "She plays Bach and Mozart." "Classical Music." "Anything on the piano she can play." "This is a restaurant." "We used to be here and have..." "Some of the bars, I think maybe 80 per cent of those bars in this street, they offer some special service." "You can order a wine, some cigarettes, and also you can order some girls." "Most of the prostitutes come from the same place." "Because I think in that area the economic situation now is awful." "Where have all the girls gone?" "." "There's no girls." "Is it possible to buy Joyside-CDs in this area?" "No." "Impossible." "But maybe ten years later." "Do you want to shoot something special?" "." "It's hemp." "Weed." "And that's where we live." "What's up with this room?" "I used to live here last summer." "Because it was so hot in the house." "I liked to live here when it rained." "But now I have a girlfriend." "Why do you live in this area?" "So cheap." "The rent is cheap." "Just that:" "It's cheap." "How do you pay the rent?" "Borrow, just borrow." "Anyone I can borrow." "My friends, my parents and our manager." "I just want to sing, drink and fuck." "I'm so lazy." "Why?" "It's no use to be a hard working man." "No meaning." "I just want to go to more places before I die." "I don't want to die here." "And no one here gets out alive." "In China." "This is my house." "Yes, my house." "I sleep in there." "Why?" "I like this." "If I was sitting in the bus, just like I' m sitting here now, and if there was a seat which was not taken next to me:" "Nobody would sit down beside me." "They would rather remain standing." "Those people think that I stink." "We have a song which is called "Dream of London"." "Because in my opinion, maybe 1 977 was the time rock music in London was the best." "And that era is an era in my dream." "So maybe one night I dreamt of that scene." "And then I wrote this song to express my yearning for London." "More and more young women don't think of nothing but earning money, so that they can buy expensive clothes." "In addition to that they want to have a rich boyfriend, go out dancing, take drugs, want to become an actress and a star." "Most people in China are totally hypocritical." "They are doing stupid things." "And as soon as their hypocrisy comes out, they can't stand it themselves." "We also wrote a song about this." "Most Chinese people are materialists and opportunists today." "They would never devote to any kind of art." "I mean :" "They are so superficial!" "They would do anything for money." "More and more people are only interested in entertainment and consumption." "They don't think about the society any more." "They have lost their rational ability to judge." "They don't develop a critical attitude." "This is a new area." "If you build some bars in here, you can earn much money." "So more and more people come here and set up the bars." "And most of the rich people move here and every night spend money here." "Is this your favourite shop?" "Yes, I only come here to buy clothes." "Because this store is my friend's." "My friend is the owner." "Second hand for me is great because it is good for the environment." "People can save much clothes." "They don't need to buy new." "And I love the second hand style." "This is a Muslim community." "My family borrowed me some money, you know." "If you rent an apartment in Beijing it's very expensive." "But in here it's more cheap." "It's very cheap." "It's very small." "Just like in Japan." "This is very special." "Every eighties-fan should have this." "Where did you find all these vinyls?" "Everywhere." "Hongkong, Beijing, Canton." "Some of them are really hard to find." "And some friends gave them to me, you know." "This is a Chinese song." "Is it possible to play a song of Hang On The Box?" "Which song do you like?" "." ""No More Nice Girls. "" ""No More Nice Girls"?" "." "I would need drums for this." "Can you sing the lyrics?" "No." "Should I shoot him for you?" "." "Should I be your guide or something today?" "." "Do you have a special feeling at this place?" "Every time I come to this place," "I think, you know, sometimes I feel really pleased because this is a square and it's very big." "You cannot have other wide sights like this anywhere else in Beijing." "You know, it's so big!" "And you can just..." "In fact I like this place but, you know, every time I come to this place, there are a lot of tourists." "And this is a very historical place." "A lot of big events have happened here." "Some good, some bad." "I think, this is the most safe place in Beijing." "A lot of policemen, they always focus on us." "Look at that!" "You know this building?" "." "They have some meetings here." "And they give some really bad ideas..." "they just come out of this building." "You know, thousands of people they raise their hand for one act and nobody says no." "The suppression of the democracy movement on the Tiananmen Square in 1 989 has left deep scars." "I was going through my adolescence at that time and parents, teachers, the government, all authorities which controlled us were suddenly all the same for us." "They didn't count any longer." "I remember pretty well how I went to school by bike one day." "There were busses on the streets." "As barricades." "They were meant to prevent the armoured cars with the soldiers to drive to Tiananmen Square." "The people tried to persuade the soldiers to go home." "It was hot, the people handed them ice-lollies." "Everybody went demonstrating and took part in hunger strikes to get accommodations from the government." "But it was pointless." "That's yours." "Thanks!" "." "I put the music MP3 in my computer." "I listen to it every day." "When he was a baby..." "I think this is why my son has become a musician." "My mother said maybe I'm influenced by her..." "I'm a bit different to other parents." "I don't want him to become famous but to do what he wants to do and what he likes." "Rock 'n' Roll musicians still have a hard time in China." "In former times people would have laughed at him for his long hair." "For example his grandma." "Your first time Karaoke?" "." "Thank you!" "Thank you!" "My relationship to my family?" "." "When I was young my parents were against what I was doing." "Since our first album came out they think that it is a real job." "You could say that they support me now." "I love my parents and they love me, too." "I love this band and also I think this logo is very cool." "Do your parents like your tattoos?" "They don't care about it." "I have done it three years ago and last year they said that it is a tattoo." "They thought it is just a picture." "Hello." "This is Susanne." "This is George." "Do you speak Chinese?" "." "No, unfortunately not." "This is my son." "New Pants." "Do you like his style on that poster?" "I like him better when he' s dressed like now." "Normally." "He looks strange on the poster." "Just for the show." "They make music quite spontaneously." "They don't have a fixed style." "It's their hobby." "Those young people get together to have fun." "They are all amateurs." "They make their money in different jobs." "My son is a designer." "David Bowie." "Boy George." "Why do you like him?" "Fashion." "This is a horse's head violin." "There used to be the city-wall which was built in the time of the Yuan dynasty." "The river was the protective barrier." "And there used to be fields." "Peasants worked on them." "Further in the north you can see skyscrapers now." "I haven't been in touch with my classmates and friends for a while now." "I isolate myself since a long time." "It's not good, I'm afraid." "Since I concentrate on my music I ignore everything else." "My parents have influenced me a lot musically." "My mother loves music, loves singing." "She is really an excellent singer." "And my father has taught me a lot about Mongolian culture and songs." "The first kind is very ordinary." "This is the Humai with lower pitch than the first one." "And this is pure." "This is the way to sing with your mouth closed." "This kind of Humai is controlled by the mouth." "These are the main kinds of Humai." "This street is very busy." "Many people come here because there are so many shops." "Most of the shops are not my favourites." "So when I walk on here there's so many crowds." "And I feel sick because I don't want to..." "How much money do you earn with each concert?" "One person can get not more than 1 00 or 200 RMB." "200 is the best." "But we go to the gig on taxi." "And the food..." "So every time we have no money beside the taxi and the food." "We almost can't get money." "And we don't expect to get money from the concerts." "These drumsticks are very great but expensive." "Each one is almost 80 RMB." "My drumsticks are only 3 RMB for each." "I haven't got money to buy good ones." "And if I break one I can throw it away easily." "I can buy another one for a cheap price." "I don't need to worry about it." "Almost ten dollars - if it was broken I'd be too sad." "That's why I always buy the cheap ones." "About my favourite music:" "I usually download MP3 from the internet." "Some CDs are cheap, but some CDs are expensive." "The same price as abroad." "How do you feel if you find a record of Hang On The Box?" "If I find a record of Hang On The Box?" "." "Here?" "." "Or in any record shop." "I have no special feeling because most people don't know this band." "It's just my band." "Nothing good." "Bullshit." "Stupid lovesongs." "There's also music for the mainstream in Europe." "For example boygroups." "Or girlgroups." "At the same time the whole culture in Europe is very diverse." "It offers an infrastructure to the mainstream but also to alternative music." "The alternative music has an audience and also a market." "People can listen to any kind of music they like." "In China there's no alternative to the mainstream music." "We have not more than twenty years history of rock music." "It's not like in other countries where people grew up with the Beatles or Elvis Presley." "Or also some British people: they listened to David Bowie when they grew up" "For us, Chinese people are still conservative." "They are not open-minded enough to receive this kind of culture." "We wish we could sign a contract with a record label abroad." "And to be able to go on tour abroad." "But we still want to live in China and make music here." "This environment is very important for us." "We need these bad circumstances and the depressing atmosphere in here to make really good music." "If I'm not in a band any more" "I would go to Africa and feed the lions." "Or I'd go to..." "how can I say?" "." "I'd go to a village and be a teacher."