Funki volgt Afrowhat-band Mdungu tijdens hun tour door Azië. De negenkoppige band blogt over hun ervaringen en deelt zo met de wereld wat voor vele Nederlandse bands een droom is: internationaal touren. Een verslag van hete temperaturen, inclusief muziek, foto's en video's. Aftiteling!
VERSLAG MERIJN Blog, Zhuhai, 26th september 2011
Yesterday was gig number 1! Felt really good to do some working after all the hanging around and partying ;)
In the morning we had our soundcheck which took a bit longer than we'd hoped but in the end things worked out. We had some lunch at the venue before returning to the hotel. I ended up sleeping for nearly the whole day, until we had to leave for the show. Partying hard is definitely exhausting, so I figured I'd better get some energy saved up! We opened the show with my tune, Nyabinghi, for the first time which worked great. It was awesome watching Benny go on by himself while we slowly built up the groove, entering the stage one by one.
After Nyabinghi we played various old and new tunes, all with the trademark Mdungu energy! Girls were screaming when David took off his soaking wet shirt. :) After the show we signed CDs, flyers, posters, people and even iPhones! What a great audience, the people here in Zhuhai! We did an interview for the media, also some from Macau. It was a great opening of the tour, tomorrow we leave for Shenzen, and another chapter starts!
Today we had a little trip around the city with Benoit, Ruben Ebou and me. A bit of shopping and we had lunch in a very dodgy place. Ebou (who is muslim) goes through great lenghths to explain he doesn't eat pig, only cow. Imitations of cows are a regular appearance when ordering food! ;) In the end, I was pretty sure we ate 'something' that wasn't pig, but it wasn't cow either..
Benoit bought some drumsticks because he thought he lost them all already ;) we played some music in the store, which sadly didn't have basses so I just played some guitar. Also we got a nice demonstration of a traditional Chinese instrument. We had another great dinner, again using sign language and pictures to get what we wanted. Afterwards we went to some clubs with insanely loud music and personal assistants. I almost danced again ;)
