Among them, the band participated in the HUBI Rock Music Festival in Germany, the Paddo Punk Music Festival in the Netherlands, etc.
After the European tour ended in 2005, the band added a member to play Scottish piccolo and bagpipe, and its style changed from before, incorporating folk elements into traditional Old School and Street Punk.
In 2006, the band toured more than a dozen cities in China; from March to May 2007, the band was invited by a famous European punk music festival to perform at the music festival held in Norway on April 28, and at the same time, the band performed for the second time
45-date European tour.
The band has so far cooperated with many record companies in Europe to release various vinyl records, EPs, and compilation albums of various punk bands.
The band's 2007 EP has been released in Europe and the United States.
It has also arranged for many outstanding foreign rock bands to tour China, which has had a profound impact and help on Chinese punk bands and music fans.
In October 2007, they signed a contract with Beijing Bingmasi Records and will release the band's latest album "Ten Years of Resistance" in early 2008.
SMZB is always changing.
This change, coupled with the fact that they have never given up their DIY spirit, makes them unique in the Chinese punk scene.
SMZB has been around for twelve years. Although they cannot represent the Wuhan punk scene, they can illustrate the short history of the Wuhan scene with their rich experience.
From taking the lead in setting up the punk scene in Wuhan to persisting to this day, except for the lead singer/guitarist Wu Wei, and the second drummer and another fixed member Hu Juan, everything else has changed.
"Persistence" is a very resilient word here - the Wuhan scene has returned to its original starting point twelve years later: other bands have dispersed one after another, but only the original scene pioneer is still going on; "Persistence" in
Here is a kind of power, a power unparalleled by the courage of self-choice.
Breaking away from the norm and adopting punk as a lifestyle for the first time was only the first step. The subsequent choices made them unique (and may also be criticized for it).
The "Cake of Life" twelve years ago was slovenly but sharp, mixed with the flavor of Hankou (a district in Wuhan with developed commerce and long-standing human settlements. The character of Wuhan people rumored throughout the country is actually the character of Hankou people).
The grunge punk style and personality, coupled with the "fried, stir-fried, boiled, roasted" ("Gourmet")-style humorous irony, made this band sound so different from only a dozen punk bands at the time - the others
The band's music style is decent, and the lyrics are just shouting out of anger - Wu Wei, without any pretense, uses a market wisdom full of regional color to perform a kind of music that is more down-to-earth, more intimate, more independent and more loyal.
of resistance.
This independence and loyalty have persisted ever since, and to this day, it has become the most unique character of this band.
DIY-style self-reliance made SMZB the third underground band to tour Europe (the former being Wuhan's Die Doule and Beijing's P.K.14), and brought back from Europe the Irish folk music style of the British band Greenland Whalefishers.
Flavor: Group cheerful bagpipes and piccolo.
So, we heard the song "Ten Years of Resistance" in hand.
Greenland Whalefishers' influence is self-evident, and the band themselves have already thanked them.
However, if we say that SMZB is just a pure imitation, then this kind of unthinking and wild criticism is unfair to the band.
In this new album, although the guitar and drum parts tend to be American-style orthodox power chord punk music, they are still as concise, crisp and powerful as ever.
The addition of bagpipes and piccolo has broadened the musical picture a lot. Not only is the music beautiful (no one has ever pursued bad music), but also, good music does not simply mean the beauty of the melody, it is also a related richness.
Lenovo), and gives us a richer picture.
If you think of SMZB's own friendly and loyal character in the market, coupled with the change in Wu Wei's lyrics - he seems to be trying to imagine and try to build a punk scene brotherhood - the humor is no longer, nor is it
Not to vent their anger, but to build a friendly community of rebellion, beer and music that believes in heretical alternatives.
This kind of constructiveness is very wonderful compared to the current Rancid imitation trend that does not have any independent choice at all, although it is still a utopia.
If we don't go to the extremes of musical nationalism and frankly acknowledge European and American influences, then we should respect our own choices, even if it is indeed imitation to some extent (another meaning of imitation is communication).
If we can communicate from heart to heart, then we don't have to worry about losing ourselves.
At this moment, SMZB can be seen as a classic example of success: because they express themselves so vividly and achieve the most sincere expression of a rebellion, and this expression also creates a quite provocative
The inspiring power of China’s current punk scene, which is so stingy about music and personal joy, is lacking.