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2012 Blue Bone Cui Jian concert tour
    After the debut of "Nothing to my name" for twenty-six years later, Cui Jian is not like some of the old fans just indulge in nostalgia, he says his concert is not a nostalgic party of the middle-aged, but a hope of creating a future with more and more people together, such as music in future, movies in future, society in future and ideological in future. This rock veteran who has just over 50, named his 2012 tour concert “blue bone”, hoping to take this as transformation from red to blue and calls for wisdom and free spirit. This is a remarkable transformation - self-renewal of green military uniform and five-pointed star symbol of the era idols, this red is still not faded. The blood is red, the bones are blue, times are changing, Cui Jian is moving out from the clouds of red, to the infinite transparent blue.
    In his last diversified styles album Show You Colour, Cui Jian represented the red as rock, the blue as electronic music, and the yellow as popular music. The lyrics of title song Blue Bone in this album: red, yellow and blue, respectively represent the heart, the body and the wisdom. Blue means wisdom for Cui Jian, also means that the innovation and free ideas of music.
    “Blue bone” is also the name of Cui Jian’s completed film that is the first length film of Cui Jian as director, and which will be released in early 2013. The “Blue Bone” is movie about a song, two generations, three-story and four singing ways. It is a film divided into three part, tells a young man who is an underground rock singer and network hacker encountered a small unknown singer, stumbled upon their parents for some plaintive love story hidden in the years of the "Cultural Revolution" in the process fell in love. The audience will hear four styles of the “Blue Bone” in the movie.
    Before the release of the movie "Blue Bone", audience of Dalian, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and other places will be the first to see the “Blue Bone” of concert style. The 2012 – Blue Bone Cui Jian concert tour will focus on the launch a few new songs like “Blue Bone” which is unfamiliar to Cui Jian's old fans, and “the Lost Season” in Ning Hao’s film “Guns and Roses” will also make new understanding of Cui Jian in old fans. In the upcoming concert, besides many classic songs, Cui Jian’s new work will also be interpreted, not only songs in album “Show You Colour”, but also some new piece in the new album which is expected to be published next year. In addition, many old songs will be interpreted with a whole new way.
    Cui Jian declared in the song “blue bone” that “blue sky gives me unlimited rationality, while it looks like endure, only infinite feeling can give me infinite strength, daddy, I am a spring flower, just live in spring, because my bones are blue”. ”

Blue Bone Cui Jian Tour concert in Nanjing


2012 Blue Bone Cui Jian Tour concert in Xi'an


2012 Blue Bone Cui Jian Tour concert in Shanghai


2012 Blue Bone Cui Jian Tour concert in Beijing


2012 Blue Bone Cui Jian Tour concert in Dalan


2012 Blue Bone Cui Jian Tour concert in Shenzhen
September 29, 2012, the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center was packed and the debut of 2012 Blue Bone Cui Jian Tour achieve great fully success! Cui Jian brought classic works and shared new works with fans. Ten thousands of audience felt the hot atmosphere of the scene. After second encores, the performance ended perfectly! Please continue to look forward to the next performance: Dalian, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an, Kunming, ... and so on!



October 1, 2012, Cui Jian and the band was invited to participate in the 2012 Changjiang Strawberry Music Festival.Zhenjiang city was shocked by Cui Jian and ten thousands rock fans! It is the third time for Cui Jian’s performance in this historic and cultural city. In order to make up for the last regret of the interrupt of the rain-soaked show, Cui Jian deliberately performed long version of Balls under the red flag, the night of the times, fake monk, the lost season, blue bone, flying, tolerate and many other classic music.

Cui Jian joined 2012 Beijing Midi Music Festival
Following the 2009 Zhenjiang Midi Music Festival and 2011 Ocean Midi Music Festival, Cui Jian has participated in the Beijing Midi Music Festival, propelling the first brand of Chinese Music Festival. This is also the first appearance of Cui Jian in Beijing Midi Music Festival.On the evening of April 29, Cui Jian's classic raised the audience chorus! Midi Music Festival Details

On January 19, 2012, Cui Jian and the band accepted the invitation of Shandong TV, recording for Legend of songs. The fans are very excited, and the scene is almost out of control.

On January 1, 2012, Cui Jian and the band were invited to participate in "Dragon TV New Year's Eve concert" and performed "Greenhouse girl" and "Nothing to my name" two classic tracks for viewers.

On December 23, 2011, "the 7th Shenzhen Beach Music Festival held" at the Dameisha Promenade,Shenzhen. Cui Jian carefully selected his most welcomed repertoire since the 1980s, including "A Piece of Red Cloth", "Get over that day”, “Nothing to my name" , "" Blue bone ","Balls under the Red Flag " and "Fake monk ". In addition, Cui Jian particularly presented "Wild on the snow" to local fans. With snowflakes swirling in the air, performance created a different kind of winter dinner for audience.

On November 19, 2011, Cui Jian Live Concert of 2011 held in Chongqing People's Auditorium. Cui Jian started the concert by Night of the Times, and then he sang more than 20 songs like "the Last Complaint", "Balls under the Red Flag”, “Greenhouse Girl” and "Buffer". At the end of concert, 10 Chongqing girls were invited onto the stage and performed "Get over that day” with Cui Jian, which pushed the atmosphere to climax. After the concert, the audience was reluctant to leave, shouting "nothing to my name". Cui finally returned to the stage, performing the audience waiting song "Nothing to my name".

On November 1, 2011, Cui Jian and the band sang at the "Macao International Music Festival" which had attracted hot pursuit of fans. Cui Jian said that the footprint of the band had gone through majority of the motherland, with the exception of Macao, a small town which he had long awaited. At the scene, the passion of rock, accompanied by sound of winds and waves, impressed many fans who had left an unforgettable memory.

On the evening of September 12, 2011, Cui Jian and the band took part in the World Urban Music Festival held at Chaoyang Park in Beijing.

July 30, 2011, Cui Jian and the band took part in "WHITE DOLPHIN MUSIC FESTIVAL"in Xiamen city.

After an absence of 19 years, Cui Jian finally held his second concert entitled "Night of the Times 2011 - Cui Jian Concert "in July 23, 2011 in Jinan city. Cui Jian's voice was still sonorous and forceful for the local audiences, and he played nearly 20 songs in 2 hours like "Wild on the snow", "Balls under the red flag", "Blue bone", "A piece of red cloth", "Rolling egg", etc. Halfway through the concert, Cui Jian invited more than 10 female fans dancing, which made the atmosphere of the concert approach climax. Subsequently, "Nothing to my name", the song made fans crazy in 19 years ago, performed by Cui Jian which pushed the atmosphere reach climax and more than 6,000 audiences singing with arm waving. The concert was ended with "Rock and roll on the New Long March", but Cui Jian got 3 times encore, he played "Greenhouse girl", "Like a knife" and "the city of springs" was again ignited by the passion of rock.



 Cui Jian New Year's Concert of Rock Symphony
   December 31, 2010 and January 1, 2011 Cui Jian presented two concerts entitled “New Year's Concert of Rock Symphony”in collaboration with conductor Tan Lihua and the Beijing Symphony Orchestra at the Beijing Workers’ Gymnasium. As a representative figure in Chinese rock and roll and a person who has touched countless people, Cui Jian chooses to cooperate with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, which was his former unit, is a great new and funny ideas for a concert. The performance began with “Tolerate”, then Cui Jian’s classical songs like “Lost Season” and “Blue Bone” promoted the concert reaching its climax. When Cui Jian performed “Nothing to My Name”, “A Piece of Red Cloth” and “Greenhouse Girl”, all of the audiences sung in chorus. The “Rock’n’Roll on the New Long March” led them to fall madly in rock. During the concert, the symphony and the rock complement each other and the audiences became infatuated with rock symphony. At the end, Cui Jian gave three encores and won a very warm and intense ovation.   Media report

   Cui Jian and the Beijing Symphony Orchestra conductor Tan Lihua attend a press conference at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium on November 4, 2010.     Media coverage


December 18, 2010, Cui Jian and the band were invited to perform at Shenzhen Concert Hall. The evening concert in Shenzhen is a large gathering of Cui Jian’s fans. They followed with Cui Jian, sang those old songs. Thousands of audiences were singing in chorus and identified with the atmosphere on stage which showed lots of touching moments in the concert. It is understood that for the concert in Shenzhen, Cui Jian has brought the most sophisticated production team, sound, lighting or video effects, all emerged as the highest-quality in domestic and melt into with his original music which made music powerful and expressive.

Written and directly by Cui Jian, Blue Bone is shooting in Beijing now and Chris Doyle worked as photographer in the film. December 1, the media was invited to visit the set of the film for the first time. Doyle use endless rock to describe this movie and Cui Jian is also full of confidence on this film. Blue Bone, based on Cui Jian’s song Lost Season for the spiritual thread, tells three love stories of two generations through the Cultural Revolution period and modern times. According to Cui Jian’s presentation, the film is his masterpiece to dedicate to youth and love. With Cui Jian’s same name song Blue Bone throughout the film, the film Blue Bone is divided into three chapters. Here is Media Video.

September 3 and 4, 2010, a two-day Qipanshan Rock Festival ended. In the past two days, 14 domestic top rock band including Cui Jian, Zheng Jun, Zhang Chu and Yip Sai Wing, gathered in Shenyang Qipanshan and brought a feast of rock and roll to local fans. Cui Jian and the band appeared at the grand finale and performed 7 songs including "Blue Bone". With the fans cheering, Cui Jian performed his classical masterpiece “Nothing to My Name” as encore. At the moment the whole audience left seat, cried and swayed to his music.

June 8, 2010, Cui Jian attended the opening ceremony of Holisland Rock Festival, which was held in Suzhou city. During his performance on July 18 evening, Cui Jian has brought fans a whole new audio-visual experience! Although it began to rain heavily on that day, everyone joined in the chorus of each song with Cui Jian.

June 5, 2010, Cui Jian and the band performed in a “Green” Low-carbon Concert held in Shanghai World Expo Park. As an ambassador for the annual Earth Hour campaign of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Cui Jian requested the lights be turned off many times while he performed. On the stage with the absence of lights, Cui Jian led the audience to sing in a loud. On the concert, Cui Jian performed many his classic songs like “Balls under the Red Flag”, “Get over that day”, “Blue Bone” and “Start Again”.

The evening of May 7, 2010, Cui Jian and the band held a concert successfully at Kawaguchi City of Saitama Prefecture in Japan.

This is the second time for Cui Jian to come to Japan for his own concert after 1995. As a special guest, Amari Kyosuke, the Former band member, sang "Wild on the Snow" with Cui Jian jointly. Performance venues: 川口リリア総合文化センター (Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture) NEWS

 


December 24, 2009. 19:30. Cui Jian Beijing Concert, Beijing Exhibition Center.

In the evening of December 24, 2009, the last concert of Cui Jian “Rock’n’Roll on the New Long March V21” Tour 2009 held in Beijing Exhibition Center. As always, Cui Jian’s songs like “Balls under the Red Flag”,”Fake Monk” and “The Opportunist” and other classic songs created a climax at the scene. The entire audiences were totally crazy during the whole concert. 20 years later, Cui Jian returned to Beijing Exhibition Center once again. Comparing with 20 years ago, the white hat sewed with a red five-pointed star, the band and “Nothing to My Name”, nothing had changed. As long as he picks up the guitar, Cui Jian would give us tremendous passion.

Cui Jian attended a press conference for “Rock and Roll on the New Long March V21” Beijing Concert on November 18, 2009 in Beijing. The concert will be held on December 24, 2009. Singer Ai Jing and Cheng Lin appeared in the conference and presented a gift for Cui Jian. 20 years later, Cui Jian’s once again returned to the stage of Beijing Exhibition Center. Cui Jian said frankly that his rock&roll spirit has not changed, once he find the release point, such spirit would be completely broke out.

In the evening of December 4, 2009, Cui Jian “Rock’n’Roll on the New Long March V21” Tour 2009 came to Taipei. This is the last stop before the final stop, the upcoming Beijing Concert on December 24, on his Tour Schedule. It is the first time for Cui Jian to hold such a mini-concert which held in “Legacy TAIPEI” Showcase Center in Taipei. During the almost 2 hours performance, Cui Jian represented many classic songs like “Nothing to My Name”, “Rock’n’Roll on the New Long March” and “Greenhouse Girl”. The concert ended with “Solve”. Taiwan media said it was “the Rock’n’Roll baptism of Cross-generation, Cross-Straits”. Many Taiwanese musicians like Harlem Yu (Yu Chengqing), Chang Chen-yue (Zhang Zhenyue), MC HotDog, Chen Qizhen, Zhang Xuan, Tarcy Su (Su Huilun), Chan Shan-ni, Yang Naiwen, Huang Dawei, Wang Zhiping, A-Xiang, etc. came to the scene. The well-known poet Lung Ying-tai also appeared in the audience. Zhang Huimei who was absent because of a performance also gave her respects to Cui Jian and conveyed regret.

ROCK'N'ROLL ON THE NEW LONG MARCH V21-Cui Jian Tour 2009
  October  24, 2009   19:30  YANTAI  PHOTOS
 “Rock'n'Roll on the New Long March”, Cui Jian Live Concert ended with loud cheering perfectly at the first stop of tour 2009 in Yantai city. Yantai Grand Theater became a heaven for rock. Cui Jian sang for nearly 2 hours and gave two encores to end the concert.

October  26,2009    19:30  CHANGZHOU
  October 26, 2009, “Rock'n'Roll on the New Long March”, Cui Jian Live Concert ignited the atmosphere of Changzhou Grand Theater. In the concert, Cui Jian performed “Balls under the Red Flag”, “Do it all over again”, “Blue Bone” and other songs. When music approached a climax, many local audience and fans from other place in China stood up waving arms with his song. The entire concert became sea of joy. Cui Jian said on the stage that both the audience’s enthusiasm and the acoustics in Grand Theater are the best in recent performances.

October  29,2009    20:00  HUIZHOU
  October 29, “ROCK'N'ROLL ON THE NEW LONG MARCH V21-Cui Jian Tour 2009” came to Huizhou. With almost no melody shout, Cui Jian on the stage belted out many unforgettable lyrics. Time suddenly froze at that moment; everyone felt blood pulsing through their veins. Huizhou began to rock! When the music of “City Boatman” sounded, more than a thousand audiences called Cui Jian’s name! “Reality is like a stone, spirit is like an egg……” Cui Jian’s sound made a quiet moment at the scene, and then caused uproar in an instant. When Cui Jian put down his guitar and let all the audiences stand up and dance with him, the entire fans went crazy ……

October  31,2009    20:00  SHENZHEN  PHOTOS
Every seat in Poly Theater is occupied on the performance day. Cui Jian opened the concert with “Balls under the Red Flag”. The atmosphere was charged with excitement from beginning to end. In the nearly 2 hours show, Cui Jian brought his most welcome songs which triggered the chorus of fans. When he sang classic songs such as “Rock and Roll on the New Long March” and “Greenhouse Girl”, over 1,000 audiences began to sing in chorus. Cui Jian also performed “Blue Bone”, “Slackers” and some other new works.

November  2,2009   20:00  DONGGUAN
  “I have asked you endless, when will you go with me? ……”Cui Jian’s sound made the entire audiences stand up and wave their arms shouting”Nothing to my name”. It is the most moved scene in Yulan Grand Theater of “ROCK'N'ROLL ON THE NEW LONG MARCH V21-Cui Jian Tour 2009” Dongguan stop, November 2, 2009. In the concert, Cui Jian brought his classic hits from 80’s in 20 century. The scene of chorus by the entire fans appeared several times, especially when Cui Jian performed “Nothing to my name”, “Rock and Roll on the New Long March”, “Greenhouse Girl” and other classic songs. Beside these songs, Cui Jian brought “Blue Bone”, “Dream in the sunshine”, “Slackers” and many other new works to local audiences who relived that unforgettable period of their own crazy time.

November  5,2009  19:30  WUHAN
“ROCK'N'ROLL ON THE NEW LONG MARCH V21-Cui Jian Tour 2009” came to Wuhan. Local fans are still enthusiastic. “Cui Jian! Cui Jian!” Thunder-like applauses exploded in the theater. When all of the audiences stood up waving arms, Cui Jian was touched and he changed the lyrics: “I realize I can't leave you, oh, Wuhan!” At last, Cui Jian gave two encores. “Wuhan, an important rock city and I will be back!” Cui Jian said at the end of the concert.

November  7,2009  19:30  ZHENGZHOU  PHOTOS
The evening of November 7, “ROCK'N'ROLL ON THE NEW LONG MARCH V21-Cui Jian Tour 2009” is on at Henan Art Center Theater. All seats are occupied by Cui Jian’s staunch fans. This is not the first time to watch his concert for most of them. They hold high the banner says “Cui Jian, show me some color!” which stands for their support. More fans carrying their own “Piece of Red Cloth”, wave their arms with Cui Jian’s singing. Finally, “ROCK'N'ROLL ON THE NEW LONG MARCH V21-Cui Jian Tour 2009” finished successfully.

 



October 24, 2009, "China's first rock and roll MIDI Award" dropped the curtain. At the prize presentation ceremony, a special "Chinese Rock Contribution Award" was awarded to Cui Jian in praise of him who has made an outstanding contribution to rock and roll scene in China. Cui Jian was not able to attend the ceremony because he was on his China Tour, 2009; however, Cui Jian recorded a VCR in particular to congratulate the prize presentation ceremony.

“Jeep · Person of the Year Festival”, which are organized by Off-road brand JEEP and Phoenix Net jointly held in the ancient city of Lijiang on the 16th of Oct., 2009. Cui Jian won Jeep Pioneer Award. Cui Jian said as winners we are successful, but we should encourage people who failed in exploration. So I believe that it is more significant of this award to encourage them.

Cui Jian and the band participated in Shanghai Jazz Festival on October 18, 2009. The Festival took place at Shanghai Century Park from October 17th to 18th; Jazz team from 13 different countries all over the world began the carnival.
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Cui Jian attended 2009 Pusan International Film Festival; "Chengdu, I love you" is selected in GALA PRESENTATION.
     With the film “Chengdu, I love you”, Cui Jian and Fruit Chan, two directors who directed the film came back from Venice Film Festival with honors. By the virtue of its art and high quality of production, the film has been entered in the Master Classes (GALA PRESENTATION) of the 14th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). This called “Solemnly Introduce” classes, since its inception in 2007, aims to introduce the world famous director’s new work, the topic of international works and so on, and becomes a new hot spot and symbol of PIFF.
    Pioneer Cui Jian’s directorial debut and Hong Kong director Fruit Chan’s part of film “Chengdu, I love you” has won a good reputation and widely praised in the just concluded Venice Film Festival. With international influence, as well as the relationship between Cui Jian and Pusan International Film Festival, “Chengdu, I love you” has been introduced as a master of film which is also regarded as a time to pay tribute to the high level director in Asia. This year’s PIFF becomes more diversified and gets rid of restrictions on regional film festival gradually. Although the PIFF is not a competition-based film festival, its dedication of finding new film maker has built an international-oriented film exchange platform.

Invited by Spanish Casa Asia Organization, Cui Jian and the band had set out for Spain for a week-long exchange of performances. Cui Jian has achieved a great success in his first Live Concert in Madrid, capital of Spain, September 19, 2009. These days the mainstream media coverage of his concert is overwhelming. Cui Jian hits the headline in the most important Spanish newspaper “El Pais” and talks about the great achievements of China’s reform and opening up and the development of rock and roll in China. Moreover, Madrid TV station did a special report and invited Cui Jian to appear on the live broadcast. On the performance day, audiences come from far and near gathered in front of the concert hall SALA HEINEKEN1 to watch Cui Jian’s performance, nearly half of them are Chinese, as well as more than half of Spanish who showed great interest in China’s most famous rock musician. To begin with “Balls Under the Red Flag”, more than 3,000 fans spent a “night of the times” with Cui Jian. He has just learned to speak to local fans face to face with a simple Spanish, sparked an eruption of cheers from all the audiences. The atmosphere is so exciting during the whole performance. Cui Jian sang “Flying”, “Blue Bone”, and “Rock’n’Roll On the New Long March” and other songs and played “Nothing To My Name” to end his first concert in Spain successfully. Fans gathered in the door of concert hall and were loath to depart. In the next Barcelona Concert, Cui Jian and the band have also been welcomed and completed the performance successfully, Sep. 23, 2009.
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"Chengdu, I Love You" was invited to be shown in Venice Film Festival as the festival's closing film. Cui Jian, as one of three directors of this movie, will attend the closing ceremony on September 12.

Synopsis of the story:

  Chengdu, an exciting city.
  Countless emotion of people and their fate blend and impact in space-time of the city.
  Emotional attachment, friendship and love, they write their stories on their own tracks respectively.
  When a sudden disaster struck the city, everything is facing with a new twist.
  How will their stories be changed?
  Where will their fate move toward?

Cui Jian and the band was invited to partipate in "Review of China's 20 years of classic rock music - Yinchuan Concert",the evening of August 15,2009. This concert is another big event in the western China besides "Helan Mountain Rock Music Festival" which held in 2004.

July 26, 2009 Cui Jian and the band took part in the second Green Banner of Grassland Music Festival, held in Hohhot in Inner Mongolia. Besides watching the performance which has lasting for three days, audience can also experience the Mongolian cultural at the same time.

July 5, 2009 as the invited guest performer of Shanghai “Pepsi Qunyin” activity, Cui Jian and the band performed Cui Jian’s first rap work “It’s not that I Don’t Understand”. Cui Jian shows his in favor of no-out, non-draft model and believes that the approach of “selecting songs rather than player” can ensure the selection of good music without judging it from the performer’s appearance or the errors in live performance.

May 1st, 2009, Cui Jian and the band participated in "MiDi Music Festival 2009"(Zhengjiang Station).

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April 10, 2009,Cui Jian attended the ceremony of shooting starts on the film "Chengdu, I love you" which held in world's Art Museum of China Millennium Monument in Beijing.

Feb. 7 night, 2009, Cui Jian and the band were invited to perform at the activity 'A gathering of heroes' which was held by 'Mercedes-Benz' at Sanya city. The atmosphere reached climax when Cui Jian gave the finale performance to audience. After singing 'Get over that day', 'Greenhouse girl' and 'Here we got space', Cui Jian gave several encores and sang the 'Let me go wild in the snow' for the excited audience.

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