Uh Oh: Future Uncertain For Mao Livehouse
By Morgan Short, Mar 28th, 2011 | In Nightlife
It was a packed out weekend at Mao Livehouse for the opening of their new location on Chongqing Lu -- Friday was Shanren and Paul Kalkbrenner and Saturday was Hanggai -- and it looks like there may have be one casualty: the club itself.
After Friday night's insanity, the Saturday show featuring Hanggai was axed by local authorities at 10pm before the band went on the stage. Really bad news. Tickets were refunded and organizers have rescheduled Hanggai for a Shanghai concert on May 13, but the future for Mao Livehouse as of this writing remains uncertain. Nebulous "neighbor complaints" were posited by various attendees as the reason, although we're still awaiting a status update and official line from the people at Mao Livehouse. We will update this post when we have more information.
Sucks. We're hoping Mao Livehouse can get these issues sorted out and wish them the best of luck in doing so. As of now, we're still awaiting information regarding the shows scheduled to happen there this week and weekend: Lions of Puxi on Thursday, Gala on Friday; World's End Girlfriend on Saturday; Trash A GoGo on Sunday. All those listed here.
[UPDATE]: Hanggai concert organizers, Split Works have issued an apology for the cancellation, as well as refund information right here.
[UPDATE 2:] Management at Mao has released their own apology via their Douban page right here. Split Works' statement above states that the two events they have scheduled will go ahead as planned. Still awaiting confirmation on that from the venue, as well as to hear about what's happening with the other events scheduled there on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday... but it looks like it's being sorted...
[UPDATE 3:] PR Manager Lisa Movius wrote us an email expressing that Mao management is working on the situation: "We expect to have the problems worked out in time for the weekend shows, but Wednesday and Thursday remain uncertain at this point. We'll keep you posted. " Fingers crossed.
And over here you can read Split Works' big cheese, Archie Hamilton about that fateful first weekend.
[UPDATE 4:] Mao is still getting their shite together. So here's what's happening: Thursday's Lions of Puxi performance is at Yuyintang. Both the Jue Festival events are ON for this weekend at MAO Livehouse -- GALA on Friday and World's End Girlfriend on Saturday -- and Trash A Go Go has moved on to Yuyintang for the Sunday night. That's a late show starting at midnight, no cover charge, and now features Mongolian punk band, Mohanik as the main band.
You can read about the circumstances of Trash A GoGo -- salacious reading indeed -- from the Jake Newby Report.
After Friday night's insanity, the Saturday show featuring Hanggai was axed by local authorities at 10pm before the band went on the stage. Really bad news. Tickets were refunded and organizers have rescheduled Hanggai for a Shanghai concert on May 13, but the future for Mao Livehouse as of this writing remains uncertain. Nebulous "neighbor complaints" were posited by various attendees as the reason, although we're still awaiting a status update and official line from the people at Mao Livehouse. We will update this post when we have more information.
Sucks. We're hoping Mao Livehouse can get these issues sorted out and wish them the best of luck in doing so. As of now, we're still awaiting information regarding the shows scheduled to happen there this week and weekend: Lions of Puxi on Thursday, Gala on Friday; World's End Girlfriend on Saturday; Trash A GoGo on Sunday. All those listed here.
[UPDATE]: Hanggai concert organizers, Split Works have issued an apology for the cancellation, as well as refund information right here.
[UPDATE 2:] Management at Mao has released their own apology via their Douban page right here. Split Works' statement above states that the two events they have scheduled will go ahead as planned. Still awaiting confirmation on that from the venue, as well as to hear about what's happening with the other events scheduled there on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday... but it looks like it's being sorted...
[UPDATE 3:] PR Manager Lisa Movius wrote us an email expressing that Mao management is working on the situation: "We expect to have the problems worked out in time for the weekend shows, but Wednesday and Thursday remain uncertain at this point. We'll keep you posted. " Fingers crossed.
And over here you can read Split Works' big cheese, Archie Hamilton about that fateful first weekend.
[UPDATE 4:] Mao is still getting their shite together. So here's what's happening: Thursday's Lions of Puxi performance is at Yuyintang. Both the Jue Festival events are ON for this weekend at MAO Livehouse -- GALA on Friday and World's End Girlfriend on Saturday -- and Trash A Go Go has moved on to Yuyintang for the Sunday night. That's a late show starting at midnight, no cover charge, and now features Mongolian punk band, Mohanik as the main band.
You can read about the circumstances of Trash A GoGo -- salacious reading indeed -- from the Jake Newby Report.
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Andy Best, Mar 29th, 2011
if they can say that location is 'noise complaints' they can pretty much say anything.msjulia, Apr 1st, 2011
I live right next to this joint and from my apartment I did not here a thing last Friday. There were a lot of elements given to whooping/shrieking milling on the streets however.Please sign in or register to comment