Bamseom Pirates: South Korea

I went to Super Color Super this weekend in Hongdae Seoul, South Korea to check out some new music and caught up with Bamseoum Pirates an angry grindcore band from South Korea. We had a little chat about what inspired their music..

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Super Junior ‘Sorry Sorry’: I’ve gotta learn that dance..

Super Junior ‘Sorry Sorry’: I’ve gotta learn that dance..

I’ve been in Korea for three months now. And I’m slowly getting to grips with K-Pop (Korean Pop).. I saw a few K-Pop bands a few weeks ago in Incheon including Generation Girls, Super Junior and Taeyang.. (and noticed the Mayor of Incheon sitting at the front nodding away at Generation Girls.. gosh loves his music doesn’t he.. ) After going to a party and seeing everyone dance the moves to ‘Sorry Sorry’ by Super Junior.. I have become more inquisitive about this K-Pop scene actually. I’d written off my disinterest to do with the language barrier. But the expats around me knew the dance moves surprisingly well.. and now I’ve found myself with a wee addiction to ‘Sorry Sorry’ by Super Junior..

It’s gotten so bad that I’ve started acting like a 16 year old – you know….like… super imposing yourself on band photos… writing.. ‘I love SJ’ all over the books in form class…

I guess that last one wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t the teacher..

Anyway I’m pretty sure that when everyone moves to a foreign country they go through this. This is completely and totally normal behaviour .

But you probably want to know the band I’m talking about.. the band.. hotter than Backstreet Boys.. SEXIER than JLS..

I know you might want to sing along..so here are the english lyrics to the chorus (the best bit):

‘Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry
I I I first
For you for you for you I fell
fell fell fallen baby
Shawty Shawty Shawty Shawty
Eyes are blinding blinding blinding
Breathe is stifled stifled stifled
I’m going crazy crazy baby’

Can anyone explain what has just begun? Is this the beginning of.. no.. I can’t say it..

Becki Bx

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Pentaport Rock Festival: South Korea feat Hoobastank

Korea known to some as ‘Land of the Morning Calm’…. is home to over 50 million people and is one of the most ethnically homogeneous societies (apparently)..

I’ve currently been in South Korea for just a little over a month now and it’s been a series of ups and downs.. at first I wasn’t sure what to think, the struggle to order food, not being able to converse with the locals and the vast amount of apartment blocks scared me. Not to mention the random voice that shouts out over the tannoy in my apartment from time to time awaking me from deep slumber (although that is generally just annoying). One month in and I’ve found everything is steadily becoming more exciting as I immerse myself in Korean culture. I can now order a few dishes meaning that I no longer am stuck eating fast food (I was too afraid of unknowingly eating dog which actually is not as common as first thought), I love Bibimbap (hate Kimchi) and getting around is becoming easier as I am slowly getting to grips with the transport system (ok ok.. taxi’s are very cheap).

So this weekend I went to my first Korean festival: Pentaport Rock Festival! A small event that had some big western names such as LCD Soundsystem, Ian Brown and Stereophonics.
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I managed to find some other westerners that were also craving some good music and we ventured on down there looking forward to relaxing in the sun. We had only been at the festival a few hours, our feet up, admiring the Korean people from afar when a large entourage of men in suits walked through the centre looking pretty god damn out of place. Obviously, we went to find out who these people were and before we knew it a journalist (whose English was not very good) had literally ushered us into the tent for an interview with the lead man and the Korean press were snapping away. This was all very interesting and surreal. This man we were told was the Mayor of Incheon City – (where the festival is hosted and Korea’s third largest metropolis) and I suspect this entourage were his party. Incheon is not too far away from both Seoul and the DMZ and is also one of the cities of Korea that aims to attract foreign investment. Which explains quite a lot.. FYI: I live further south in a city called Cheongju which probably means nothing to you. As I stood talking to him I tried to imagine Boris Johnson walking through the centre of Latitude Festival, with many men in suits behind him. I believe English culture would not let this happen but then Korea is in a very different place.. (and I don’t mean on the map!)

We also had the opportunity to meet Hoobastank who were very gracious to give us an interview 20 minutes before they had to go on stage. In fact they seemed to have no stage fright whatsoever, which shows how long they’ve been around..! Anyway I love Hoobastank (I know a few of you out there don’t… Phonebooth..) but each to their own! LCD also put on a great show, and it was a shame we didn’t get an interview… but one of the best parts of the night for me was partying to Astro Voize and wandering around the site witnessing really drunk Korean’s.. sorry but my camera was safely locked away at that point.

Check out my video report!

Next week Becki is very much looking forward to attending Jisan Festival and hopes that the mosquitos keep away..BECAUSE I AM IN SOOO MUCH PAIN!!

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Bestival Blag Blog 2009

Blag Blog came back … for the end of the summer for BESTIVAL…!

featuring interviews with Speech Debelle, Seasick Steve, The Correspondents, Tom Middleton, Beardyman, Kitty Daisy and Lewis, Chew Lips, Barry Ashworth from Dub Pistols and lots of randoms!

with thanks to Marina Pol for her help!

 

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