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Sing
a medley with me now - "...I met my love
by the factory walls (Irish Folk), when the walls
come tumbling down (Thorogood), I will be your
wonder wall (Oasis), just nod if you can hear
me...I am the walrus (Floyd, Beatles)." Ok,
not that last one, but you get the idea; there
are " walls " thsoughout music, figurative
and physical, especially in hard rock. Except
for musicians like Wu Bai and China Blue, that
hard musical attitude expressed by a wall has
largely been absent from the Taipei nightlife.
But now the Taipei music scene is starting to
roll towards a stone, or wall, of its own. The
venue is called-- no surprise, if you've read
this far--The Wall. It's Taipei's hottest live
house for home -grown rock and roll.
It's also a been a staging ground for some of the
starry-eyed rockers participating in both this
month's Ho Hai Han Battle of the Bands and the
internationally re-known Formoz Festival (www.formoz.com).
That makes it a safe bet to find some quality rock
or, as may be with the case given the many student
bands, avant-garde ensembles, DJ's and performance
rocker/artists that appear there, quality entertainment
(Ref. Frazier, POTS English Edition, "Cat
Power" 6/04). If you're lucky, you'll catch
a night when somebody like Schlumpy is there to
release an album.
Tickets are sold at the door for NT$250 to NT$700
depending on who is playing, but you can save a
100 kuai or so by purchasing in advance online
at http://www.the-wall.com.tw. Go there now to
check out their story and schedule for July, because
I'm going to skip the bio and the schedule is up
front in the "What's On" section of TaiwanFun.
But please do come back and finish this article
when you're done surfing.
One last thing, the acoustics are great and the
bands are loud. A few tables dot the mosh pit,
and there is a great drinking wall behind and above
the pit about 10 meters from the stage and three
meters from the Jack Daniels. If you like your
music live, loud and loaded, then The Wall is the
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