We are....

I have noted before that my gig-going here in China usually occurs in a fog of uncertainty as to which band I'm watching, because some perverse streak of humility seems to debar the performers from announcing their names.

I was therefore very pleasantly surprised at 2 Kolegas last night to hear both bands introducing themselves. Ah, but one of them - Shake Hands With Danger (like the name!) - were a laowai outfit, so that doesn't really count.

The other one - an identikit ska-punk group who gave the unfortunate impression that they were playing everything just a bit too slow (well, they did improve later in the set, but the first one or two songs really were limping along painfully) and whose diction was so bad that it was impossible to tell most of the time whether they were supposed to be singing in English or Chinese - was apparently called The K (dislike the name!). Except that, in the lead vocalist's fractured English, it sounded as if he'd said, "We are..... dickheads." Unfortunate.

And talking of band names..... we haven't had any new entries in the Suggest an amusing band name competition recently. What's up with all of you? There are prizes going begging.