performing in Taiwan

[reganpatno]

Anyone ever do this?

My question is, how familiar are the folks there with American music?

Regan

[martin ewen]

Betel nuts are overrated

You got a gig? or are you asking about street?
Streets possible, there are a couple of pitches but you'll be the only one there probably.
There will also undoubtedly be a friendly guy who comes up afterwards wearing a baseball cap and reasonable english who has all sorts of curious questions that meander towards 'how long have you been here?' + 'when are you leaving?'
He's a cop, I was only staying for 10 days so they let me alone.Plus I had a good line "I got sick of waiting for the Emperor to die so I'm over here for a week to get my airfare to Australia. There were some breakdancers resident there.
Its workable (or was)

[reganpatno]

We have a gig. Most of them speak some English?

Interesting story about the cop.

Is American music popular there?

[martin ewen]

Many more of them can 'listen' in english than speak it. English is not a problem. American music is fine.
The air quality is about a pack a day, you can visably walk out of the smog in a stairwell.
Also they believe that when your born some sort of spiritual spider ties one end of a web to your little toe and then floats off through the ether and finds your mate and ties the other end to his/her toe.
The strand gets shorter as you age until you meet and get married.
You may want to get married before you go, or amputate your feet.
They also believe theres a rabbit on the moon.
They also have (at least)16 nuclear generators some of which have been leaking plutonium into the sea to the extent that multiples of the amount needed to kill everything on the planet is already loose.
But hey, don't let me depress you. Have fun.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

What, there's no rabbit on the moon?