Introduction to the 2004 Midi Music Festival

The 2004 Midi Music Festival will be held grandly in the 40,000-square-meter open-air square of the Beijing International Sculpture Park from October 1 to 4, 2004. . There will be 45 outstanding bands of different styles presenting wonderful modern music to the audience over four days. Just like the previous four music festivals, the audience can enter the music festival venue independently (just purchase a park ticket, 10 yuan each time).

Under the warm sunshine and clear starry sky in October, music, woods, grasslands, lakes, accompanied by passion, sincerity, romance, and friendship, true emotions will burn and be released freely with music. .

Time: October 1-4, 2004, 14:00-22:00 every day

Location: Beijing International Sculpture Park, Shijingshan District, Beijing (Yuquan Road, West Chang'an Street Subway station)

Hosted by: Beijing Midi Music School

Beijing International Sculpture Park

Co-organized by: Beijing Bena Advertising Company

2003 The Midi Music Festival lasted for 3 days and 3 nights, with tens of thousands of visitors every day. 45 bands from across the country participated in this largest open-air rock event in China. She extended her mysterious and warm arms to all the people present...

Four years since the festival was founded, rock music, as an important part of youth subculture, can finally have its own place and space for recognition. . She heralds that Chinese rock music no longer hopes for recognition and charity from the so-called mainstream culture, but gradually possesses the development elements that any cultural industry should have: creation, dissemination, audience, communication, feedback and debate.

"I hope someday you will join us. " -- I hope one day you will join us

This Lennon lyric written in the 2003 Midi Music Festival commemorative book, Undoubtedly possessing missionary prophetic passion and tender flower child fantasy, this pure and passionate emotion has bloomed so brilliantly and brilliantly through rock music countless times. Today, China's Midi Music Festival has once again lit up the souls of young people. Don't worry about them! Because they have learned the secret of happiness, found the road to salvation, and regained the power of dreams in the numb commodity society. They will be sincere in this dream forever, stay young forever, and have tears in their eyes forever. 1. Background and introduction of the music festival

1. Image positioning: an annual truly large-scale open-air modern music festival held in the capital of China.

2. Development history:

Modern music covers blues, jazz, rock, pop, Latin, country, FUNK, FUSION, rock, and heavy metal that developed from the beginning of the last century , rap metal, hardcore, alternative, electronic, gothic, folk and other music types, as well as the various styles of music derived from them. From the birth to the development of modern music, they have absorbed a large amount of excellent European classical music and traditional music of various ethnic groups in the world. As a "new" music system, it has long been independent and mature.

When talking about the development of modern music in China, we have to mention Beijing Midi Music School. Beijing Midi Music School was founded in 1993. It established a clear purpose from the beginning: to spread artistic and humanistic modern music theory, and to educate and promote exquisite modern music interpretation techniques.

The initial motivation for holding the Midi Music Festival was to conduct exchanges and report performances among classmates on campus, and to invite friends from the modern music industry outside the school to come to the school for a reunion, and to show them what Midi has become over the years. The teaching results have allowed more talented students to step onto the stage. However, with the artistic quality of the Midi Music Festival improving year by year and the rapid expansion of the scale of the festival, today's Midi Music Festival has become one of the loudest brands in the field of modern music. Every year, in addition to dozens of outstanding domestic and foreign bands performing at the music festival, tens of thousands of enthusiastic audiences flock from all over the country. More than a hundred well-known media at home and abroad are paying attention to her activities and competing to report on her. news.

There is no music event in China that can compare with the richness of music styles, the grandeur of the scene, and the spectacular scenery.

The biggest feature of the Midi Music Festival is that all performing bands perform for free, and the audience is free of charge and free to come and go (the future development direction is to industrialize the music festival so that all participating bands can Reasonable income and contribute the profits of each music festival to public welfare), the daily performances last from the afternoon to late at night, with tens of thousands of viewers every day. Those who watch the performances are absolutely young groups: original musicians, freelance artists, Punk youth, Internet Rangers, SOHO people, backpackers, Bubo people, college students from all over the country, fashionable young people pursuing individual life, elites of the modern new economic society, the leisure class, and numerous media reporters, pay attention to Chinese youth subculture These characteristics make all music fans naturally regard the Midi Music Festival as China's "Woodstock".

In May 2002, the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC broadcast the lively scene of the third Midi Music Festival to the world. The outside world commented positively on such an event in China. 's appearance.

3. Bands that have participated in the Midi Music Festival:

Ziyue, Ray Blue Jazz Trio, Tongue, Secondhand Rose, Thin Man, Iron Kite, Fruity VC, Trojan Horse , Joy Side, Armory, Penthouse Circus, Hang Tian and the Band, Blister (Norway), JUNKYARD, Brahman (Japan), Disover, Papaya, Ruins, Wonderful Drug Store, Quasimodo, HAPPY ROCK, New Pants, Happy Street, Godot, Xia Jia Jazz Trio, Mortal Words and the Underworld, Mixed Blood, Wild Child, Doll No. 7, Huzi and Sick Doctor, Zhang Qianqian, Godot, Wangcai, Shanren, Sun Dawei, Sha Sha, Princess Huangliang, Wednesday's trip, CMCB, painful faith, wonderful drugstore, sound and toys, mixed capsule, FM3, perspective-X, Fan Rui and 3, Lao Zhang's country, TOOKOO, AK47, sick chrysalis, slap, reflector, Fan Rui and water, mirage, zero and one, twisted machine, brain turbidity, daughter red, submarine, autumn bugs, sound fragments, teaching day, dead funny, marrow, water, what, Xie Tianxiao and cold-blooded animals, Yaksha, doll 7 No., Liquid Oxygen Can, Tomahawk, Suffocation, Panda Twin.

4. The development of the music festival:

On May 1st and 2nd, 2000, the first Midi Music Festival was held in the auditorium of Midi School, with 30 bands participating. , with nearly a thousand visitors every day, and **beer;

In July 2000, Xidan Midi Music Week was held in Xidan Cultural Square, a seven-day large-scale open rock music event in the form of a square. It has brought a wider space for original music in Beijing, with more than 10,000 live audiences every night;

The second session was held from May 1st to 3rd, 2001 in the auditorium of Midi School Midi Music Festival, more than 40 bands from all over the country participated in this summer carnival, with an audience of 3,000 people every day, ** beer;

May 1-3, 2002, third The 2016 Midi Music Festival was grandly held on the campus of Beijing Midi Music School. More than 50 outstanding bands participating in this music festival were selected from all over the country. The daily audience reached 6,000-8,000 people. It was hailed by the media as China's first real music festival. An open-air rock music festival.

From October 1st to 3rd, 2003, the 4th Midi Music Festival, which was postponed due to SARS, was finally held in the bright golden autumn. 43 Chinese and foreign bands all performed on a voluntary basis, and Midi Music Festival was held every day. The enthusiastic audience on campus reached tens of thousands.

The 5th Midi Music Festival, which was held from May 1st to 3rd, 2004, was urgently suspended on the morning of April 28th due to safety reasons.

5. Media report collection:

For the future, a particularly good function of the Midi Music Festival is to set a precedent for an open-air rock music festival in China and let the government know The rock music festival is not a scourge, but a channel of communication with the people, whether indirect or direct.

-"Southern Weekend"

The real youth culture begins with Midi. A spirit called cultural romanticism is desperately starting from a world of materialism, hatred, and indifference. and sprouting in a world about to be taken over by capital.

-"China Youth Daily"

Dozens of bands and tens of thousands of enthusiastic young people from all over the country participated in the grandest performance in the field of Chinese band culture, Midi Music The festival has become a "Huashan Sword Discussing" level event in the hearts of rock youth across the country.

-"Beijing Evening News"

Tens of thousands of young musicians participated in this event. They chanted the theme of this year's music festival "Rock and Roll Supports Animal Protection" and performed countless times throughout the country. There is a POGO craze in the market.

- Sina.com

Rock and charity, rock and social responsibility, rock and action, it’s time! Say goodbye to indifference and self-isolation, release your suppressed spiritual power, and welcome the arrival of the passionate era!

- Highland Music Network

All bands participating in the Midi Music Festival perform for free, and the audience is free of charge and can come and go freely, with tens of thousands of visitors per day. There is no doubt that it is the most important music festival in the history of Chinese rock music.

-"Phenomena Influence Magazine"

In early May, during the holiday when the middle class and petty bourgeoisie across the country went out to spend money, the rock youths came to the same place invariably - Beijing Fans Flute music school. From south to north, distance does not seem to be a problem, and those persistent and kind-hearted young people always have ways to achieve their goals. So they are willing to let their summer begin with noisy crowds and exciting music, yes, they long for this..."

"The three-day Beijing Midi started on May 1, 2002 The music had just ended, and the participation of 52 bands made people exclaim: 'This is China's Woodstock! 'The Midi Music Festival has been held for the third time since 2000..."

-"Southern Weekend"

"Beijing Midi Music School and several media jointly planned This modern music festival is held for the third time this year. The exponential increase in investment, performers, audiences, enthusiasm and sweat every year has made its influence continue to expand. This year's music festival was held at the Midi Modern Music School at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain. The three-day hot performance gathered elites from all over the country. 40 bands were selected, and the audience was rock lovers from all over the country... Ordinary life needs to be released and sublimated. Rock music, because of its huge spiritual power and powerful entertainment function, brought these young people who knew each other together and Cheer, pump our fists together, sweat together, cry together, dance together..."

-"Boutique Shopping Guide"

In the early summer in Beijing, more than fifty rock bands Gathering at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain to create a classic moment of Chinese rock music... What is gratifying is that happiness is the master of this scene. What is even more gratifying is that although there are not many police on the scene, the crazy emotions are not violent. Even if people got nosebleeds during the dance, they all laughed it off. If this music carnival is to be compared with the American "Woodstock", the level of happiness should be comparable... …

-"News Weekly"

Specially famous music critic Yan Jun wrote: "The third Midi Music Festival this year became the beginning of Chinese youth subculture. Thousands of young people from Beijing and other places, speaking the same slang and with tacit understanding in their eyes, welcomed the performance of 51 bands on the grass of the Midi Music School near Xiangshan..."

－ "Boutique Shopping Guide" December 31, 2002 - This undercurrent has become so lively Beijing Rock Year-end Report

"Since 2000, every May, outstanding rock bands from all over China gather in Beijing. Participate in the annual Midi Music Festival. This year, a total of 52 bands participated in the three-day performance. More than 6,000 audiences came to the scene every day to enjoy hip pop, hard core and other popular music in the world today... Young musicians show their courage to face society directly, and this courage will help promote the development and progress of Chinese society..."