Hang on the box & wild strawberries : your opinion ?

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My friend asked me some informations about these two bands but I must admit I don't have a clue (except that Wild Strawberries are supposed to be McLaren's new protégées") : are they any good ? interesting ?could anybody lighten my night up ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Wild Strawberries was some sort of trip-hop-lite-lite duo on Nettwerk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

there was a wild strawberries in canada, who haven't been heard from in 3 or 4 yrs (by me, at least). They were quite good, if a little bland, growed-up pop with some adventurous moments.

― Huck Hurts (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Huck Hurts (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I think they're supposed to be chinese or japanese bands...then again, not sure...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I've found some Hang on the box ("yellow banana")... it does sound like some japanese girls garage band...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

hang on the box are chinese. from beijing. they used to be all girls but then a boy joined last year. compilation came out in the uk on arrivederci baby thru cherry red, called for every punk bitch & arsehole. awesome.

― emsk, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hum. hang on the box sounds kinda cool... a bit go-go's-ish to my ears.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang On The Box are quite good. indeed, Chinese used-to-be-all-girl-band from Beijing, on Benten Records (along with a bunch of other punk bands; at the beginning, i think they were strictly all-girls but then Brain Failure joined...)

saw them live last year With Brain Failure (who is another punk band from Beijing). both were quite fun to see, and highly recommended---although i'm not sure what the new HotB lineup sounds like.

check out Niubi.com for some info and a streaming radio station full of Chinese goodness.

― janni (janni), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I caught a documentary about Malcolm McClaren on Radio 2 a few weeks back. At the end he was asked what he was up to now, music wise. It turns out that Talcy Malcy is currently exited about two things: 1) something he calls 'chip music', which is the tunes from Gameboys and C64s remixed into dancey type music (think Zombie Nation but keeping the bleepy-ness), and 2) Chinese girl-groups, one of which may be called Wild Strawberries IIRC. A section of one of their songs was played, it sampled Kung-Fu Fighting quite heavily, in a mash-up style which the girls sang over in a girlie way. Sounded like Shonen Knife given the Freak Like Me/Being Nobody treatment.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

1) something he calls 'chip music', which is the tunes from Gameboys and C64s remixed
into dancey type music (think Zombie Nation but keeping the bleepy-ness)

A bit late for him there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

As an extension to the question, do you have other japanese/chinese punk bands worth soulseeking ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

. . . saw Beijing Bubbles last night, & Hang On The Box were k-grebt - bits reminded me of Y Pants, Young Marble Giants, even Pulsallama-meets-Neu! sort've stuff, + shouty Ramones interludes. I really, really want the singer's "Rave Rock" t-shirt.

So, anyone heard much of their recorded output? Recording a new album w/Blixa B!

― etc (esskay), Monday, 17 July 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

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