In 2007, Shanghai was engaged in a flamboyant love affair with live music. The year saw a couple of big scale music festivals, several elaborately arranged international acts supported by local talents, and long lineups of high profile Beijing bands almost every weekend. Locally-based concert/party organizers S.T.D. (Sonically Transmitted Disease) rode the wave of passion and were responsible for some of the hottest live/electronic parties in town.