Some shots from the filming of Cupid's Middleman, conceived by and starring Ludi Lin, directed by Michael Biggam. Look out for this one. Thanks to the whole cast and crew for making this such an excellent experience.
Exciting times for The New Masters documentary team. They just passed $11k on their Kickstarter campaign to reach $15k, and produce in full glory this amazing piece of work.
You can also read a piece that Sascha Matuszak did on Kung Fu's Identity Crisis here
by Michael Biggam
To say that Bill Callahan is an influence of mine is a slight understatement. Formerly performing as Smog, he crafted the lo-fi bedrock to many peoples ideas of loss, loneliness and love. Bill is playing tonight at Yugong Yishan, and the Live Beijing Music team will be there. Hope to see you there too.
By William Griffith- Live Beijing Music
Found myself killing some time in the Gulou area a few weeks back and had the pleasure of checking out Chengdu outfit The Hormones with the one and only Foukographer at Temple – a tag team if I ever saw one. The female-led dance punk outfit were on tour promoting their EP Elephant, and gotta say, they were quite impressive. Girls got chops.
It certainly helps that the band is entirely made up of women, fresh into adulthood, which adds a certain innocence and vulnerability to the dark wave that creeps into their music. And having backing vocals that isn’t some dude crooning – always a plus in my book. Check below for more and get over to Foukograper’s photoset for some red-hot photos of the band.
Jerry shows the safe hands that have scored more touchdowns than any man on Earth.
One supremely happy Cereprods team and one legendary NFL superstar.
Last night the Cereprods team were lucky enough to be invited to meet the mythical and legendary winner of 3, that's THREE Superbowl's, Jerry Rice, during his tour of China to promote the National Football League. Spirits were high as we relived some of Jerry's career and amazing feats in the name of sports.
Held at Beijing's Kerry Center, we had the chance to interview Mr. Rice before the event and discussed the Chinese tour so far, Jerry's life after the big game and, of course, those dancin' shoes.
Recorded as part of the first episode of our new show: Sporting Season: China Edition, watch this space for updates and the interview itself.
Why is Jerry the best? Well, aside from being the greatest American footballer to ever don a jersey, because it is the fans that have always been #1 in his eyes. True legend.
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Holder of 36 NFL Records, all time leading scorer of touchdowns and arguably the best player to ever don an NFL jersey: Jerry Rice, is in Beijing to promote the NFL and Cereprods' Mike Biggam will be interviewing him today!! Everyone in the team is supremely excited about this and will post the results soon!
Cerebral Productions are crewing for a bilingual feature film to be shot in Beijing, and other parts of mainland China in spring 2015. We invite applicants based in the Beijing locality for the following departments initially.
Lighting,
Sound,
Grips,
Assistant Director,
Accountancy,
Set Design,
Construction,
Art Department.
CV/Resume's can be emailed here
Financial Investment company Montpelier commissions CereProds to produce this short promotional film alongside their graphics work for in-house communications.
Montpelier GWM from Cerebral Productions on Vimeo.
Dir/Pro/Ed: Michael Biggam
Cerebral Productions founder Michael Biggam interviews THEESATISFACTION and We Are Wolves at DDC, Beijing, on their recent tour of China. Shot for Live Beijing Music.
Dir: Will Griffith
Cam: Will Griffith, David Mondin
Uber Short animated film about the ideas of change, and the resistances encountered
The Oval Team from Cerebral Productions on Vimeo.
Short hand drawn animated film featuring the 43rd POTUS, Barack Obama, and his twisted advisor, who seems bent on global annihilation.
© Cerebral Productions 2013
And last but not least, a friend of mine, a rowdy Manchester gent who used to accompany me to shows in my early days – to heckle, encourage, and basically create uncomfortably awesome situations (i.e. taking the mic from the lead singer of Reflector in front of thousands at Strawberry) has secretly been releasing electronic music under the name Old Man Mike. I happened upon his latest ambionic release Dormants on Facebook and figured I might as well pimp out my buddy’s work (of course without his consent) – he’s selling it somewhere but I’m sure if you buy the bloke a beer he’ll gladly get a copy for you. You can listen to his music over at Soundcloud. Fucking Manchester brothers…
http://www.livebeijingmusic.com/news-releases-yada-yada-yada-9/
Buy the high-quality download of "Dormants", the second album by Old Man Mike