MP3 Monday: The Flying Mantas
By Morgan Short, Aug 23rd, 2010 | In Nightlife
MP3 Monday is a weekly SmartShanghai column, serving up mp3s from bands living and making music in China (or coming to China, or thinking about coming to China, or whatever). Copyright holders: if you would like your song removed, please email us here, and we'll honor your request promptly.
Today's MP3s are from Beijing-based three-piece The Flying Mantas, ahead of their set at Trash a Go Go this Saturday at Yuyintang and Logo. If you're looking for the punk rock, this is the one for you -- with a stacked line-up of three bands at Yuyintang and three bands at Logo, along with a pair of garage / punk / surf DJs, this is the most punk rock to occur in Shanghai since... probably the last Trash a Go Go party.
Playing for the first time in Shanghai, headliners The Flying Mantas are making the trip in from Beijing, and self-described as "heavy, grungy, surfy, and instrumental". Under their earlier incarnation, You Mei You, this three-piece has been a staple of Beijing bar D-22 for a few years now, doing a classic, New York, mid '70s, CBGB/ Max's Kansas City kind of city punk thing: Dead Boys, Dictators, Heartbreakers, Ramones. They just recently changed their name to The Flying Mantas reflecting their newer foray into surf rock, but these downloads here are from their You Mei You days
...'cause they was alls I could get.
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Don't know if they're playing these ones, so maybe just click on those and imagine them with a more "surfy, grungy" edge. Maybe like... The Barracudas? That would be alright.
Say Bar-Rah-Cu-Dah! And now put it all together.
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Along with The Flying Mantas are locals JB and the Jockeys, Pairs (read about them here, again and again and again), The Beat Bandits, and The Instigation. That last band, The Instigation is a newer act made up of members of The Beat Bandits. They do first wave hardcore covers a la Regan Youth and Dead Kennedys. It's quite the sight, so make sure you catch that. They seem to be taking it pretty serious.
Did you check out on hardcore or did hardcore check out on you?
So the five bands are split between Yuyintang and Logo, along with those DJs at Logo after the show, who are scheduled to be bumming out the house and techno kids in a serious way with garage and punk until 5am.
It breaks down like this:
10pm to 12am @ Yuyintang: The Instigation, The Beat Bandits, and The Flying Mantas.
12:30am to 5am: JB & The Jockeys, Pairs, The Flying Mantas + DJs Surfinrina and B.O.
So: Trash a Go Go. Saturday night at Yuyintang and Logo. 8 million trillion bands. Cover: 35rmb.
Event details here.
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