With gigs from Foster Parents and The Horde, a Bon App! food fest, ShanghaiPRIDE film screenings and talks, Faded Ghost's debut album release at new club ALL and more, this week is set to be another biggun. Here are our top picks.
MUSIC
PK14
Quite simply one of the greatest bands in the country, Chinese post-punk godfathers PK14 play Shanghai as part of a nationwide tour before heading to Germany to record their new album.
MAO Livehouse 308 Chongqing Nan Lu. Sat 10. 9pm. 150RMB; 100RMB (presale).
Foster Parents album release
Shanghai-based instrumental math-rock duo celebrate the release of their excellent record Grim with support from Halo Effect.
Yuyintang 851 Kaixuan Lu. Sat 10. 10pm. 50RMB.
LadyFest 2017 Concert
Locally-based female-fronted Riot Grrrl punk act Ugly Girls headline this gig from the LadyFest organisers, with Thundersouls and Ennis F.W. also on the bill. A spin off from March's annual LadyFest, this show is all about celebrating and supporting freedom of self expression – that, and some good tunes as well.
Chair Club (Jingan) 555 Haifang Lu. Sat 10. 8pm. 100RMB; 80RMB (presale).
An Evening with Members of The Horde
Once one of Shanghai's finest folk acts, The Horde have been out of action for some time now due to a number of members leaving the city. But this week The Horde's diaspora descends once more on their old stomping ground of Fennel Lounge for what ought to be a mighty good time.
There are a load of good shows on this night, but the boys will be playing until at least 1.30am (or so we're told), so carve out some time in your schedule to go and enjoy this one.
The Fennel Lounge 217 Zhenning Lu. Sat 10. 9pm. Free.
NIGHTLIFE
Faded Ghost Moon Mad release party
Shanghai-based producer Faded Ghost, aka ChaCha, releases her debut album Moon Mad at ALL, the new club from the people who brought you The Shelter. ChaCha has sought to realise her creative vision on all aspects of the album, designing the Faded Ghost image, hand-making outfits and self-shooting portraits. She's also drafted in frequent collaborator Nini Sum of IdleBeats to create a limited number of risograph-printed Moon Mad zines featuring 11 artworks to accompany the 11 tracks.
ALL 17 Xiangyang Bei Lu. Sun 11. 10pm.
POPASUDA Global Sounds
POPASUDA returns to DADA for another massive round of global music, dancehall and reggae. For the latest instalment, guest DJ/VJ Steo Panda comes down bringing an audio-visual global set of culturally infused bass music. Also on support is DJ Tatya from Shenzhen with latin bass and reggae, and POPASUDA front man Skinny Brown.
DADA 115 Xingfu Lu. Sat 10. 10pm. Free.
FOOD AND DRINK
LL Palooza
All of your fave chefs in the city dressed in fancy dress like rockstars for one night only. Liquid Laundry is celebrating its third anniversary with a boozy blowout and 13 chefs from spots like Jean Georges and El Willy.
Liquid Laundry 1028 Huaihai Zhong Lu. Thu 8. 5pm. 150RMB; 100RMB (presale).
Foodies Unite!
Stuff yourself at Bon App!'s 'party on the moon' with eats from the city's top restaurants. Oh, and of course there'll be the annual hot dog eating contest with the winning prize of free Dog House hot dogs for a year. Start stretching your bellies.
Raffles City Changning 1139 Changning Lu. Sat 10-Sun 11. 11am-9pm. One-day ticket 69RMB; 50RMB (online). Two-day ticket 100RMB; 80RMB (online).
THINGS TO DO
KFK Presents: Joe Machi
US stand-up Joe Machi of Last Comic Standing fame was the winner of the Funniest Comedian competition at the 2013 New York Comedy Festival. Expect an awkward yet affable performance from this squeaky-voiced funnyman.
Kung Fu Komedy Club 1 Xiangyang Bei Lu. Fri 9. 9pm. 170RMB (presale).
Healing Arts Festival
The fourth annual Healing Arts Festival returns this June, bringing an array of live music, stalls, coaches and healers, creative workshops and healthy food and drinks. Entry is free for the event, which this year has the theme of Unity Through Diversity. Organisers promise that the festival will bring all manner of healthy and well-being into your life – one not to be missed.
United Valley 462 Changle Lu. Sun 11. 10am-5pm. Free.
THEATRE
How I Met the Master
After playing an incestuous mother in Ma Mere (2004) and a homicidal postal worker in La Ceremonie (1995), France’s first lady of cinema Isabelle Huppert is no stranger to controversy. But even she must have been awed by the life of Marguerite Duras – the French writer, film director, resistance fighter, communist and alcoholic who had sex with one brother and tried to murder the other. This week in Shanghai, Huppert reads Duras’ wildly successful novel, L’Amant (The Lover), in her one-woman presentation of How I Met the Master. A controversial actress reads a controversial novel by a controversial writer.
SAIC·Shanghai Culture Square 36 Yongjia Lu. Sun 11. 2pm-late. 80RMB-88RMB.
CLASSICAL
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
David Afkham leads the RPO in a programme of Jeths’ Suite Hotel de Pekin, Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 (Tue 6), and Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (Wed 7). With violinist Ray Chen.
Shanghai Oriental Art Center 425 Dingxiang Lu. Tue 6-Wed 7. 7.30pm. 80-580RMB.
ShanghaiPRIDE 2017: Pride Talks
ShanghaiPRIDE's annual Pride Talk invites 13 special guests to discuss a variety of broad and hard-hitting topics. Some will make you ponder and others will make you blush.
Colca 199 Hengshan Lu. Sat 10. 2pm. Free. RSVP online.
ShanghaiPRIDE 2017: Film Festival I
Join the first instalment of this year's ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival. Presented in a new format, the film festival offers full-day queer film marathons, with screenings followed by panel discussions and talks from guest speakers.
Goethe Institut 318 Fuzhou Lu. Sun 11. 10am. Free. RSVP online.
Entangled in Duality
Hu Weiqi makes an attempt to unveil how deep of an imprint this miraculous, eye-catching and lighting-fast social, political and cultural transition has left on the mentalities, conscious and believes of Chinese people. Hu Weiqi saturates his works with dualities, with red and blue solid monumental colour fields being the most striking. By choosing one colour for each of his colour fields, the artist explores the tranquility of total abstraction.
Art + Gallery 191 Nan Suzhou Lu. Until Sun 30 Jul. Free.
Julian Opie
This week is your last chance to catch British contemporary art legend Julian Opie's first Shanghai exhibition. He's brought with him over 50 of his signature graphic works. His art, which is featured on the cover of Britpop band Blur's 2000 Best Of album, is internationally renowned for its skilful simplicity but extraordinary clarity.
Fosun Foundation Art Center 600 Zhongshan Dong'er Lu. Until Sat 10. 100RMB.
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