The Medullary Paralysis - China Tour 2010 - Routine Matters
Finally this video is online! It's about our China Tour and you can discover where we played and what happened during our gigs and in our everyday life. We wanna thank all our fans who came at our shows in Beijing (Yugong Yishan and D-22), Shanghai (Yu Yin Tang), Wuhan (VOX Live House), Changsha (46 Live House), Hong Kong (Hidden Agenda) and Guangzhou (Iron Age Space). The soundtrack is a live recording (mixed in studio) of a song we performed there. Enjoy our video and the new song! Special thanks to Umberto Brugni and Andrea Collet for their precious support. Routine Matters You, ashamed of lack of money You, who prefer solid crap to nothing You, polishing your name tag on the desk You, always 10 minutes ahead of all I blame you not Things are straight now Same dream Different paths It doesn't matter how sad you are This time I don't care anymore My happiness is rare You, planning your old age You long for your name on the buzzer You, obsessed by the opinions in the neighbourhood You, embarassed of my missing tie I blame you not Things are straight now Same dream Different paths You are my pain You believe You feel good in your routine It doesn't matter how sad you are This time I don't care anymore This sensation is so new to me But not to you It doesn't matter how sad you are This time I don't care anymore My happiness is rare What do you need more than love? What do you need more than me? I blame you not Things are straight now Same dream Different paths It doesn't matter how sad you are This time I don't care anymore This sensation is so new to me But not to you It doesn't matter how sad you are This time I don't care anymore You're feeling so good in your routine matters
Working on a Video
It's about our China Tour and the soundtrack is a new song we performed there! Yay!
More Photos?
Here's our China Tour 2010 slideshow with other new photos! Enjoy it in full screen mode! We are also working on a video about this tour, woaa!
China Tour 2010 Slideshow!
We have just uploaded on Flickr some other photos from our tour! Check them out!
Hong Kong Feedback
Thank you Lina Yeung for your review! We copied and pasted it here from Facebook. There's also the Chinese version with some photos on bbs.GuitarChina.com! "The Medullary Paralysis is not just a band but an idiosyncratic lifestyle. We don't drink, we don't take drugs, we don't have sex, we feel compassion. We have a different vision about how to enjoy life, we repudiate mechanical sex, we hate victimism and we practice compassion." In the central nervous system, “medulla” controls involuntary behaviours such as breathing and heart-beating. So what would we feel when our medulla paralysis? Mentioning “industrial music”, people usually recall violent and aggressive scene such as Front 242 and Skinny Puppy. That’s why I was quite surprised by the introduction of the Medullary Paralysis: no drunk, no drugs, no casual sex, sounds like those “pure” guys who claim to be only interested in soft, folk songs! I was even more amazed when I first saw them standing aside and watching the opening band’s performance peacefully---they didn’t look like those industrial musicians at all! And things were totally different when the show started. Under the psychedelic lighting, the MP members all in the violet latex suit as the promoting photos captured the sight of the audience. So stunning. Generally speaking, I was astounded by the synthesizer player who could let her instrument stood out without crashing with the programming/software. And her hands swept so fast!! Besides I also loved the bass, guitar and vocal. Although MP shared some “similar” elements with other industrial rock music, they were quite different from many industrial musicians for the MP didn’t have such kind of “violent” atmosphere. Well I know “psychedelic” refers to another music genre, still the way that MP led the audience to throw away daily life troubles and enjoy the music was so “psychedelic” and fascinating ;) At the beginning the audio system seemed to have some problems, yet everything became perfect again afterwards and were even better than what I had seen online. The loveliest scene was that the band was so thankful to the audience whom volunteered in tuning for the best sound quality. They called his name on stage and performed a song for him. How lovely and kind-hearted the Medullary Paralysis were! So why don’t I mention about the songs one by one? Well, forgive me for being too high to recall all the song names! :P They still have a few gigs in Beijing and Guangzhou after this Hong Kong concert. Please support them there!!!
