Comments on: Any Pentaport in a Storm

By: Haisan

Haisan — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:36:19 +0000

Well I’ll be damned… April 15, 2004. Sigur Ros. At the Sejong Center. Now I’m depressed.

By: gbnhj

gbnhj — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:09:36 +0000

Can’t remember exactly when, but Sigur Ros has played Seoul (a year ago?) - part of some performance art piece to accompany dance (and, incidently, Radiohead performed in the same piece on dates at other venues worldwide).

By: Haisan

Haisan — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:49:42 +0000

> What about Busan Rock Fest?

I snobbily did not include Ssamzie Fest, Busan Rock or a couple others due to scale, taste and/or other reasons. I just think Pentaport is a major step up in significance, both for developing the Korean music scene internally and getting Korea on the international music map.

By: numinous

numinous — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:23:40 +0000

“The organizers lost a bundle of money and that was about the last we heard of rock festivals for a few years (not counting the occassional K-Pop fun time).”

What about Busan Rock Fest? (http://www.rockfestival.co.kr)

It’s been an annual event since 2000 and the closest thing we metalheads have to an international metal fest (last year Deicide came). Not as many trendy foreigner bands as Pentaport, but they pull together a decent festival with similar acts (several Japanese bands, Crash and Oh Brothers have both played BIROF).

By: nerdieboy

nerdieboy — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:49:10 +0000

Gahh… speaking of Radiohead, I had tickets to see them here but had to give them up because I’ll be going to Korea…

But I’m pretty suprised that there are pretty big names coming, especially the Black Eyed Peas: responsible for the most annoying and overplayed song of 2006.\

I’m also planning to stalk the Strokes while they’re in Korea, even though their new album is awful.

By: Haisan

Haisan — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:29:56 +0000

Thanks for the nice words.

Bulgasari - The Oh! Brothers are an instrumental surf-rock band. Not the greatest band in the world, but they are fun and the band of Lee Seong-mun, the owner of Cavare Records, Korea’s best indie label (www.cavare.co.kr). Cavare was responsible for a lot of good music, including Bolbalgan, Witch Hill, the Peppertones and the very demented Yoonki (who had a decent following in Japan at one point).

And Lee is just a hell of a nice guy. He used to spin the tunes at Woodstock in Shinchon on Monday to Wednesday (or Sunday to Tuesday, I cannot recall), despite being a complete tea-totaler.

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:52:34 +0000

Yup. And yup, this event could be some fun.

— some great girl-watching at it, i’ll bet! —

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:36:45 +0000

Haisan,

A fantastic and useful contribution as a guest blogger to The Marmot’s Hole.

(Just wanted to point that out.)

By: bulgasari

bulgasari — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:18:59 +0000

A friend of mine mentioned this to me the other day, though she’d heard radiohead was coming. Looking forward to this, at any rate - the last music festival I went to here was the Ssamzie sound festival five years ago. I’ve heard rave reviews of last year’s Jaraseom Jazz Festival, so I’ll have to check it out this year.

Btw Haisan, I hadn’t known about the Oh Brothers, and I’ve always appreciated your taste in music - any other recommendations? I just found out 우리는 속옷도 생겼고 여자도 늘었다네 just put out a new cd (er… 3 months ago), so that’s my music-related excitement for this week…