The trip could be postponed for now, but Liu Wen was still very interested in visiting the half-built building.
Liang Liang then seized the opportunity to explain the detailed uses of each part of the building.
Liu Wen didn't comment, just laughed it off.
That old fox! He's still trying to keep him in suspense.
Haha! Since you're not going to say anything, I won't bring it up again. Anyway, there's no rush right now, so let's just wait and see.
Liang Liang then refrained from making any further invitations.
Liu Wen showed no interest in Liang Liang's record company, but he became enthusiastic about Liang Liang's music festival. Once he confirmed that Liang Liang was really going to hold a music festival, it was as if a fire was suddenly ignited in his heart. He not only helped to come up with ideas, but also used the excuse of traveling to go to other cities with Han Chui's people to send invitations to other bands.
Liang Liang asked one of Ban Ya's comrades to accompany and protect him, in case anything unexpected happened.
The invitation from the capital was sent to Dou Wei, who then passed some of the invitations on to Huang Jie.
This means that the rock music scene inside and outside the Third Ring Road in Beijing has been basically invited.
As for how many bands would come, Liang Liang wasn't quite sure.
Bands from outside the Third Ring Road will definitely come, but it's hard to say about those from inside.
While the music festival was in full swing with preparations, the publicity department also conducted a review of Haiyun Audio-Visual Company's hardware equipment.
However, the inspectors were somewhat dumbfounded when faced with the building that Liang Liang had identified as the location of the audio-visual company, but which was still under construction.
How can it be used as hardware when it's not even finished being built?
However, the publicity department didn't dwell on this issue and turned to other aspects, as if it were just a formality.
After the review was completed, about a week later, Haiyun Audio-Visual Company obtained all the necessary permits.
Just like a married couple who have obtained a marriage certificate are legally married even without holding a wedding banquet, Haiyun Audio-Visual Company, although not yet officially registered, is a legitimate audio-visual product company approved by the Ministry of Culture.
Now, all Haiyun Audio-Visual Company needs to do is hang up a sign, and it can start operating.
Of course, right now it's just a shell company because the building isn't finished and many pieces of equipment can't be installed. Even if it can produce master tapes, it can't mass-produce them.
The No. 2 Haiyun Theater, located in Shahe District, officially opened on May 8th after more than half a year of renovation and refurbishment.
Liang Liang personally presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
This gave the small bands attached to the Ocean Shipping Ballroom another performance venue.
The No. 2 small theater is significantly larger than the No. 1 small theater, and can accommodate two to three hundred more audience members, nearly a thousand.
The profits generated here are significantly higher than those of Theater No. 1.
The small bands were shuttling between venues one and two, keeping themselves very busy.
Han Chui's men spent a month visiting several major cities in Northeast China, searching for rock bands that were hiding in these cities.
Heaven helps those who help themselves; they actually found some bands and sent out some invitations, but whether the bands will actually come is another matter.
The invitation stated that the music festival would open on June 18th.
It's still almost a month until June 18th, but the first batch of bands participating in the music festival have already arrived.
This group of more than twenty people came from Beijing, and the leader was Huang Jie from the Night Machine Band.
"We had no food in Beijing, so the reason we came so early was just to freeload a meal here."
Liang Liang was both amused and exasperated by Huang Jie's words, but she believed them wholeheartedly.
He had witnessed firsthand the starvation they faced.
The other bands from Shucun who came with Huang Jie expressed their gratitude to Liang Liang for generously sponsoring their travel expenses home at the end of last year.
No food was easy to solve; Liang Liang simply threw the four or five village bands that had come with Huang Jie into the No. 2 small theater.
Whether you can get a meal or not depends on your own ability to make a living.
There are quite a few rock fans in Lianwan City now, and if you have really good work, they will definitely support you.
However, Liang Liang strongly objected to the name "Night Machine Band," arguing that it was a terrible name.
This has to be changed. Anyway, their band's name isn't well-known and has no commercial value, so it's fine to change it.
After some discussion, Huang Jie and his band members changed "airplane" to "sky," and the Night Plane Band became the Night Sky Band.
As long as it's not called a "wild chicken band," it can be called any band except for "chamber pot."
That evening, they went to the No. 2 small theater to perform.
They knew Liang Liang's style here, and they brought a brand new, refreshing tune with them.
Liang Liang didn't care whether Huang Jie's band and his rock musicians from Shucun could make enough to eat.
It's almost June, and it's time to prepare new albums for Ocean Waves and Mayday. If we don't start now, it will be too late.
Liang Liang started reminiscing, writing down song titles as she recalled: Coco Lee's "True Lover", Dai Pei Ni's "How", Liu Ru Ying's "Later", Zhang Shao Han's "Fable", Fish Leong's "Courage", Sun Yan Zi's "Encounter", F.I.R.'s "Our Love", plus the DJ song they originally sang, "Help Help Help".
That makes eight songs.
Although Liang Liang was going to give the song "Help Help Help" to the Hanmei duo, since the first song sung by Hailanghua was actually sung by Hailanghua, let's give it to Hailanghua instead, otherwise Xiaoyao will never finish singing it first.
In some situations, he really couldn't beat two women.
I've almost finished working on the songs for the Sea Waves band, and my mind is a bit muddled. If I can't remember them, I'll stop thinking about them.
In his previous album, he selected famous songs by female singers from Green Island in the 1990s. This time, he selected songs by female singers from Green Island in 2000 or Southeast Asian singers who were affiliated with Green Island Records.
During this period, Green Island produced many singers and many songs, which Liang Liang essentially captured all of.
Liang Liang couldn't possibly bring every song; firstly, many songs were worthless, and secondly, he couldn't possibly think of that many.
He's aiming to capture the very best of the songs.
It's like he plucked a flower, leaving the rest of the branches and leaves to fend for themselves.
Without these top-notch, classic pieces, Green Island would be nothing more than a supporting character, no matter how many pieces it composed.
The band Ocean Waves is a band with a semi-rock feel, and Liang Liang used a rock singing style for these songs. Anyway, the melodies are all the same, just the accompaniment and arrangement are changed.
There are already eight songs, so we just need to add two or three more to make this album.
After finishing the album by the Sea Waves band, the next one is the album by the Mayday band.
Liang Liang plans to finish this tomorrow; today he wants to write out the sheet music for the Sea Waves Band.
Because the Sea Waves band will be back soon.
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