2017/18 Shenzhen New Year’s Midi Festival

Full festival line up of 2017/18 Shenzhen Midi announced, now presale tickets already opened

To the brink into winter, the slowed down daily life needs some colorful stimulation, if we can not change given conditions of the cold environment we ought to reach out actively for warmth. 

If you are still hesitating, 2017/18 Shenzhen New Year’s Midi Festival provides tree reasons for your consideration:

1. For the last two days of the entire year to be gathered around friends in the mild breeze of the south and spend some quality fun time, be witness of the Grant Ceremony of the annual Midi China Rock Awards and the Finals of 2017 Kid’s Midi Band Competition and party in accompany of music to embrace the coming of the new year.

2. Join Midi and GoalBlue to become a “plastic refuser” and follow the common well call out “No Plastic Fanhe” to reduce plastic doggy bags and undegradable food packaging. You will discover that with a small action you can gain such a power and protect the ocean for its pure blue. We are going to put online a letter of commitment to be signed for refusal of plastic food packaging and also on the festival there will be related interaction installations. In the coming year we will appeal against the harm of white pollution in the oceans with our actions and choose healthy and sustainable ways of life style.

3. The strong line up of 2017/18 Shenzhen New Year’s Midi Festival. Postrock heros PG. Lost (SE) and Wangwen, heavy rockers Second Hand Rose, SMZB, LR, Tian Tang, Die From Sorrow, and the new hip aka Gentle Grape, Noblemen, Mint Green, Call Back ASAP (HK), etc. and more, within such a balanced line up you don’t want to miss the following newly added act. 

The heaviest of hard’n’heavy

Ensiferum (FI) 

One of the Finnish folk metal trinity and front rider of the genre

• Gained leadership of Nordic folk metal with their first three albums; 

• After their successful album “From Afar” an equally successful China
  

• The new album “Two Paths”of 2017 the most epic output of the band to date

Voodoo Kongfu

High priest of screams and sound art

• In 2015 winning interest by famous Marilyn Manson producer Ben Grosse for a collaboration on album production in the US for their debut release;
  

• 2016 a joint Europe tour with Israeli national pride Orphaned Land;

• 2017 a joint North American tour with both Peter Tagtgren and Orphaned Land;

• 2017 in collaboration with the first cellist Tina Guo of Hans Zimmer Orchestra for a joint performance at Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood;

Twisted Machine

One of the festival must have band in the eyes of music fans

Their persistence and ideology towards rock music let them reach certain musical dept. They moved each rock fan with their actions and music and put on live shows for the feast of eyes and ears, they go for it all to protect their stronghold of ideology.

Nine Treasures

Documentation in music of the uncanny diary of a joy ride to grassland

• Elaboration about theology of the grassland in a unaware and indelibrate way;

• Deliverance of the mysterious philosophy of the grassland in rearrangement on folklore and even more on originality;

Suffocated

The China metal legend

• 2007 debut album “Dead Wind Rising”;

• 2010 the 2nd album “World of Confusion”;

• 2015 the 3rd album “Perilous Journey”;

• 2017 kicking off the “Your body is the hardest metal” 20th anniversary China tour.

Dream Spirit

Fusionista of traditional Han-Chinese folklore and western metal music

2015 go on battle as WOA Metal Battle China winner to Germany onto Ragnarock Open Air and Wacken Open Air;

Still on their path to explore the probabilities of heavy metal and Chinese music inheritage.

AK

Life is a combat and never left the front line of rock

2009 winner of Best Metal Band of the Year of Midi China Rock Awards;

2016 the 3rd album “I will never gone like that” and renamed to AK;

2017 new single “Golden Illusion”.

Depth of multi-elemental rock 

Brainfailure

China punks not dead

Brainfailure was the cause of the first Chinese livehouse;

The most active propagator of China punk;

Songs rough and cool, filthy yet with hooks;

Swept over the globe and yet still shamelessly keep up an existence in the underground.

JaJaTao

Watch out for these recently sudden arisen rebels

• 2017 officially signed to Midi Music

• May 2016 released debut album “Zeitgeist Calling” produced by Aerosmith sound engineer and Radiohead producer at infamous Sterling Sound Studio, New York;

• The album place on No. 1 on Xiami’s best 50 Chinese albums in 2016.

Life Awaits

The very core of Chinese atmospheric posthardcore

• 2015 first signle ”InDescent” got labeled as posthardcore;

• 2016 first self-titled EP “LifeAwaits”;

• 2017 first full length album “Waves” and music clip of “You”;

Monkey Legion

Midi Music’s new onstage fabs

• 2012 winner of Midi School Bands Competition;

• 2013 and onwards growing into a unique multi-elemental Nu-metal outfit implying saxophone;

• 2016 entered Asia’s biggest music festival SUMMER SONIC.

Sacred-ROCK

China’s favorite female fronted rock band

• 2016 band formation and quickly gained popularity with their hardrock;

• Debut album ”2016 Come back of the Saint” combining nu metal with pop rock and contributing the song “Escape”to “30 Years of Chinese Rock” compilation.

HipHop for the first day 

Dough-Boy (HK)

The first and only hiphopper winning a Hongkong film award

Cee

Flows like streams out of a living dictionary

Prosa

The land mark of Kanton Hip-Hop

Fresh and cheerful Sing-Song-Scape

Ffion (SG)

Melancholic singing and relieving vibes

THE new comer topping on the worlds new comer tops

Quark

Inherited imperial Xi’An’s pristine beauty

Melodies with hooks, vigorously romantic

2017/18 Shenzhen New Year’s Midi Festival

Ticketing Service 

Show Start: 

Damai: 

HeyHou: 

Dates & Time:

Dec. 30th, 2017 - 14:30-22:00

Dec. 31st, 2017 - 14:30-21:00

Ticket prices:

Presale: Single Day 200RMB / Two Days 360RMB

At Door: Single Day 240RMB / Two Days 420RMB

Place Name: Longgang Universiade Center 

Place Address: 深圳市龙岗区龙翔大道大运新城 New Sport Town, Longxiang Blvd, Longgang District, Shenzhen

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