FunHill Music Festival Is Going to Shining Out in Beijing’s Mid-autumn Festival
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The 1st FunHill Music Festival will be held in Riverfront Park located in Changyang town, Fangshan District, Beijing dated 21 -23 September 2010. In the three-day holidays of Mid-autumn festival, you can take your friends and family members to the festival venue and experience the big party with passion, green and music.

Nowadays there are too many music festivals, and FunHill Music Festival hopes to be the new landmark for the outdoor festivals.  It will bring the music carnival with the largest area of the festival venue, the strongest line-up of international artists and most comprehensive of systematic service this year. In this traditional holiday, three days of continuous music carnival and four different styles of stages will bound to create unexpected surprises for you.

Since last year, the government of FangShan District has suggested to build CSD—Central Shopping District in Fangshan, and become the next ten years of strategic planning for Fangshan. Changyang town is the center of CSD, only 15 kilometers from Beijing downtown, it’s close to light rail station of Fangshan line, and the transportation is very convenient. FunHill Music Festival relies on CSD and will be held every year in next 10 years. It will be one of the best international cultural and musical events in Beijing. In the end of this year, a music gathering area titled FunHill Music Manor is going to build up in Changyang town as well, it will be the dreamland for Chinese music artists in the future.

Date: 21 - 23 September 2010
Location: Changyang Town, Fangshan District, Beijing
Tickets Prices: One Day Pass 150(RMB) / Two Day Pass 240 (RMB)/ Three Day Pass 320(RMB)

Line-up confirmed: Ian Brown, Mr. Hudson, Zero 7, THE CONCRETES (Sweden), Qi Qin (China Taiwan), Joanna Wang (China Taiwan), Zuoxiaozuzhou, Xie Tianxiao, Zhang Chu, Hang On the Box, Super VC, The Tumbleweed etc.  

Ian Brown (the headliner on 21 September) Born: Ian George Brown D.O.B: 20 February 1963 Birthplace: Warrington, Cheshire, UK Band member: Vocals Ian's first band was The Patrol, in which he played bass. He was the major lyrical influence in the Stone Roses' earliest work circa Garage Flower, before the classic Squire / Brown partnership that would yield the 1989 debut TSR. For all the criticism Ian's voice receives, it has become one of the most imitated in the years since his emergence. He contributed to only 3 songs on Second Coming (Daybreak, Straight to The Man, Begging You). Ian usually points to John's excessiveness in the Second Coming years as one of the main reasons for the group's downfall. However, his own lethargy in this period contributed just as much. Had John not come up with the goods, the Roses' hiatus would have reached Stereo MC's proportions... Having chosen to continue on as The Stone Roses after John's departure, it all finished disastrously at the Reading Festival in 1996. He headlined Sunday night's performance, having been out with former band member Cressa the night before, smoking weed, which ruined his voice for the gig. Ian would argue that he was in a no-win situation concerning that gig though. Speaking to Jo Whiley: "A girl's told me that she's been at the meeting with the NME on the Friday, and the man's told her: "We bury him this weekend." So it didn't matter to me how I performed. That was how he was going to do the thing". Describing the music business as "the filthiest business in the universe", he closed the book once and for all (?) on The Stone Roses. Ian is currently working on a successful solo project. Mr. Hudson (the headliner on 22 September) Most people sound-tracking their own break-up wouldn't make an album as gleamingly epic as Straight No Chaser, the future-thinking pop album from Mr Hudson. But most people don't have Kanye West throwing down the gauntlet to make a classic, stadium-filling pop record. G.O.O.D Music / Mercury Records artist Mr Hudson is a multi-talented singer/songwriter from Birmingham, UK with a heart for major hooks, soaring melodies, bright new-wave synths and crushing beats, so his break-up album is a document of misery that sounds like total joy; from the gravity-defying anthem 'Supernova,' to the dubwise banger 'Anyone But Him' to the utterly spare headphone-jam 'Instant Messenger.' Written in just two months in the spring of 2009 after a whirlwind of touring the UK, flights between London, Los Angeles, and Hawaii (where he worked with West on 808s and Heartbreaks), Hudson was in a weird headspace upon his return to his tiny flat in North London. 'My room was full of guitars and keyboards, there wasn't even enough room for a bed,' says Hudson. 'So I got my landlord to sort out a mattress for me, and I'd put it up against the back wall, it was really good soundproofing. When I'd finished recording at like three AM, I'd throw it down on the floor and jump in my sleeping bag. It was a very low point in my life'I'd thrown everything away. I'd moved out, I left my girl, I had nothing. So I had to make this album work.' Hudson set out to make an album that both reflected his diverse musical background (raised on the piano and records by The Police, he can 'sort of' play any instrument he picks up) and his then-emotional truth. 'It's about not fiddling around, not over-complicating the message,' says Hudson. 'People have got busy lives out there, they don't want to be bothered by every idea you have squeezed into an album. It's great, it's fresh. I think we're at a stage now where it's all just pop music. There aren't any rules it's just like let's have fun and entertain people.' So he pared down his ideas and got on his grind. He expanded his vocal ability, singing in higher and breathier ranges than he had on A Tale of Two Cities, his somber, glitchy electronic album from 2007. For Straight No Chaser - executive produced by West - Hudson plugged in an expanse of drum sounds, tweaking hip-hop, new wave and reggae influences together for epic rhythms. Deep beats, irrefutable piano melodies and vast vocal harmonies take a record steeped in dire emotional circumstances and launch it into something else entirely: ubiquitous, melodious pop. 'It wasn't so much tapping into the emotion of the breakup,' says Hudson, ' as the pipes bursting, so you grab a couple of buckets and try to collect the water. I'm not recommending to anyone to break up with someone in order to write a good album' but if you do, make sure you get into the studio shortly after.' That such deep sorrow translates into such a massive record is really only right: it's been the emotional undercurrent in all of Hudson's influences ' from stadium-sized rock to Motown soul, from plaintive reggae chants to R&B balladry. 'To admit to the chinks in your armor, to admit to your sorrow, is actually the most gangster thing you can do,' he says. Zero 7 (the headliner on 23 September) They begun their career with a remix of Radioheads “Climbing Up Walls”, after that they did different remixes for famous artists like Lenny Kravitz, Lambchop and Terry Callier. They were originally engineers, 30 year old Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker. They did some studio work on the side, but after a while they got tired of sitting on the side and helping bad pop artists. That’s when they contacted their good friend and producer for Radiohead, Nigel Godrich, and asked if he could get hold of something from the giant band that they could play with. After a lot of hard work they presented the result to Radiohead, and they were so impressed that they chose to have the remix as a b-side on their hitsingle “Karma Police”. Terry Callier was impressed over Zero 7’s remix and asked them if they could make a version of his gorgeous “Love Theme From Spartacus”. After several other remixes Henry and Sam decided to give out an EP, the 1000 copies were sold out in a few days. After the outstanding positive response they gave out their debut album “Simple Things,” which they got a Technics Mercury Award nomination for, a Mercury Music price and last, but not least the prestige full “Best newcomer” award from the English “Muzik Awards.” Zero 7’s music style can be compared to Air, Massive Attack and David Holmes. The music magazine Mixmag described the album as “some Stevie Wonder, some John Barry and some sand dunes and saltwater.” Zero 7 goes under the category relaxing, inspiring jazzy electronic music. With rising popularity they left on a tour through England and Europe, and they visited most of the large festivals through the summer and autumn 2001. They were on both Roskilde and the Quart festival. In London their concert was sold out for 2 months before they should play. In 2002 they planned to go further and tour in Japan and Australia. The last addition to the successful Zero 7 is their collecting album “Anotherlatenight” were several artists has made new versions of old songs. Their last collecting album is called Zero 7 and has a new exclusive song from the duo. It follows the same track as Simple Things, and it sounds gorgeous. If you like Air, Radiohead, Portishead, St. Germain, David Holmes or Massive Attack, then try Zero 7!