Archive for the ‘concert review’ Category
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Hello, Korea Gig Guide readers. It's been a heck of a long time since I posted here. But it is definitely good to be back. I started the KGG way back in early 2008, but after moving to Europe, I thought it did not make much sense for me to ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
This is being posted a bit later than usual, but here’s Korea Gig Guide’s annual “Staff Live Faves” list sharing the 10 shows from the past year that we each enjoyed the most.
If anyone is interested, our 2009 picks are here, our 2010 picks are here, and you can see ...
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
By Mark
Sadly, I could not attend this year, but it sounds like the Jisan Valley Rock Festival was pretty good this year. Yonhap is reporting the festival had 84,000 people there over its three days, which I think is its best turnout yet. And you can read reports on the ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
By Mark
So I guess our friends who are playing North America at the moment are all about halfway done their tours. And we are starting to get a little press on them.
At Canadian Music Week in Toronto, where Seoulsonic took Galaxy Express, Vidulgi Ooyoo, and Idiotape to play last ...
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Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
By Shawn Despres
We at Korea Gig Guide are obviously big fans of live music and do our best to get out to as many shows as we possibly can. Although we all saw many great performances over the last year, we've each compiled lists of the ones that stood ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
By Mark
Scatterbrain, one of Korea's best indie music websites, is running an online survey to determine the top acts and festivals of the summer. All the questions are in Korean and English, and Scatterbrain's programmer-in-chief tells me that he would love to have as many expats participate as possible. Personally, ...
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
By Mark
A review from the Klone Wars blog of the Smashing Pumpkins' show from last Saturday night. Sounds like it was a bit of a mixed bag (considering the post is titled "Kind of Smashing Pumpkins").
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
By Mark
To nobody's surprise, it seems there will be no Peace in the DMZ concert next weekend. The only thing I find surprising is that it took the organizers so long to announce what everyone had long suspected.
Peace in the DMZ had faced a lot of troubles from the ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
By Mark
So last weekend was the Pentaport Rock Festival, held over in Incheon. I thought I would write up my impressions. But feel free to add you own, if you went and if you want.
Actually, the only day I attended was Saturday, so that is all I can report ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
By Mark
Guns N' Roses had their big concert in Korea last week. I thought I would post the comments sent to me about the show by a friend. They are short, but pretty fun, imho. Enjoy:
... went to see Guns N’ Roses (or, “Axl Rose and some other guys he ...
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