Carsick Cars Announce Split

While the Raveonettes rocked Yugong Yishan last night, the real event of the night for the local scene came during the set of support act Carsick Cars. As the band rolled into their standard closing number "Zhongnanhai," singer/guitarist Zhang Shouwang announced from the stage, “This is our last show… the past five years has been really important to us.”

Shortly afterwards the band sent out an email via their Douban site, which clarified the situation:

“We have made an important decision: Because of our different musical interests and different plans for our development, bass player Li Weisi and drummer Li Qing have decided to quit the band; Zhang Shouwang will continue the production of Carsick Cars with new members. The performance on November 16 will be the last performance by the original members.

Since our first practice and show in 2005, the three of us have put together two albums and given more than 100 shows in the past five years, including domestic and international tours. These have been the most important experiences and most beautiful memories of our lives.

In the future, Liqing and Li Weisi will put more focus on Snapline and Soviet Pop; besides Carsick Cars, Shouwang has also being working on projects like White+. It is also possible the three of us will work together on a freer music project in the future.”

The original statement in Chinese is here.

Carsick Cars formed back in 2005, and gained an international following when they toured Europe with Sonic Youth in 2007. That same year they released their debut self titled album, which was followed by You Can Listen, You Can Talk last year.

More details on the split to follow tomorrow.

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Quote: "Pathetic, attention-whoring."

Right, unlike people who anonymously post comments on websites that make sweeping generalizations slagging off other people.

If you think this band sucks so much, why did you read the post?

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gonobobel wrote:
finally, one crappy band less in this city's "rock scene"

So true.

Who cares about a crap band breaking up and then "reforming" immediately with a "different line-up".

Pathetic, attention-whoring.

Chinese pop bands suck.

Irish coffee, and Irish car bomb
A fat drunk jew starts singing this song
I take a closer look and the fat guy is me
So I buy him a shot, and he buys me back three

oh, another malcontent foreigner complaining. fucking original.

finally, one crappy band less in this city's "rock scene"