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Some Other Gig Guides

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

While I think the Gig Guide has gotten off to a slightly better than expected start, obviously this is not the only game in town for learning about events and things that are going on. So I thought I would mention a few other options that I know about. - DJCJ: ...

Who Is This ‘Dave’ Guy, Anyway?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Hello everyone from Dave's ESL Cafe (from here). I appreciate the spike in traffic. And if some of you feel inspired to try out Korea's live music scene, so much the better. One little quibble, though -- contrary to what was written in post No. 2, the concert listing did indeed ...

Random Concert Notes

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Here are some random bits of concert news I have come across recently: Nanbanjin, a band from Japan (Myspace page is here), is going to be playing three gigs in Hongdae on June 20 and 21. They play on June 20 at 11pm at Freebird, along with We Need Surgery (for ...

Music Notes

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Thanks a lot to Shawn for adding so many gigs to the concert calendar. No way I could keep on the scene on my own. I have been picking up a lot of CDs lately, as well as listening to albums that I bought a while ago but never got around ...

Updated Calendar Is Coming, Honest

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Sorry for not updating the site over the past week. I became suddenly busy... although busy with some fun projects, so that was okay (you can read a bit about them at my other blog). Hopefully I should find some time in the next few days to update the concert ...

Freebird, Pentaport, and Random Notes

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

A fun little night last night, as I caught Mineri and Animal Dads at Club Bbang, then followed them over to Freebird where they played another show (this time with We Need Surgery). Not a bad couple of shows at all. Mineri has gotten considerably tighter and more polished over the ...

Today’s Shows

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Okay, I know one of the Gig Guide's biggest problems has been that today's shows do not appear in the calendar. At 12:01 am each day, my database deletes the day's concerts. I have not figured out how to change the Gigpress plugin to fix that problem, but I do ...

Hongdae Fun

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I just wrote a little blurb about the rise of fun new places and shops around Hongdae. Far from complete, it is just a little essay about Indian restaurants and other fun things around. It was a decent-sized little essay, but I barely even scratched the surface. Did not talk ...

Lee Sang-eun on TV

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Singer Lee Sang-eun is going to be on TV a couple of times soon. KBS on May 17 (don't know what time, sorry), and then on EBS on May 19 at 8:50pm. Her concert at Club Answer in Cheongdam-dong is being billed as her 20th anniversary concert. Which would be a ...

Shady Promoters Still Going Strong…

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

This is a couple of weeks late (well, three weeks), but I just discovered Janis Ian's announcement that she was canceling her part in the Flower Power Peace Concert. And it is depressing: The South Korean dates have been cancelled, for reasons too numerous to go into here, but among them ...