Pink Floyd’s piano Richard Wright goes back to the great gig

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Richard Wright founding member of Pink Floyd; piano, organ, keyboard player and composer, died yesterday, being 65 years old.
Wright was part of Pink Floyd since the beginning, when their name was Sigma 6, together with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, until 1980 when he left the band to come back later [...]

Live Rock Magic; how to be in the joy of CONTROL.

Saturday, September 13th, 8.30pm. Shanghai will be entering the red zone of the thermometers and the epicenter is going to be Dream Factory’s stage. Not far away from the harmonic Jing An Temple and the peaceful Jade Buddha Temple, the loudness and the chaos will explode in pleasant agreement with our bodies; we all will [...]

Finally!

It took us sometime to recover after one month of unquiet silence; the Olympics were only two weeks, but the sound effect lasted one month. While some people were breaking records on sports and beer drinking, here at Layabozi we were having a little rest under the shadow during summer days, we didn’t have the [...]

Live Dates!

Perhaps some of you have noticed that our live dates calendar has been pretty…bare. Not any more! There’s a whole bunch of stuff going on this weekend, and if you go to the live dates page (or just look at the list on the right of the home page) you can click on the event [...]

Blues of the 60s

Assuming my calculations are correct, I have about forty-eight hours left to be in my fifties, and despite the fact that my lieu de naissance and Nevada are a time zone apart, the fact that Nevada indulges in Daylight Savings Time while Arizona doesn’t, means that the fateful time (around 5:00 PM, the beginning of [...]

Manzou, Pengyous

My heart has been so heavy that it’s taken me three days to report the departure of Victor Noriega and Willie Blair. They have returned to the heart of the self assumed western supremacy system, the old US of A. They took the scene up at least a notch, if not several, and we [...]

Tight Times: Anatomy of a Jam

Don’t worry, ducklings, I’m on an even keel again, but last week was pretty up and down with Wednesday being the most disruptive day. I woke up in the morning and went to a bar to watch the Boston Celtics win their 17th NBA championship and mercilessly squash the love ‘em (as most of China [...]

Spanish Silent Movies with Live Music at MoCA

This next Sunday, June 15th, will be the first event created by the new Cultural Section of the Spanish Consulate in Shanghai. This will be the first of three Sundays, all part of the series named Cinestesia, Spanish silent movies with Live Music.
Sara Abad, from the Cultural Section of the Spanish Consulate, explains she was [...]