Blog Tag - Hot Cat Club

Fangjia Hutong's Hot Cat Club Raided Last Night
Hot Cat Club, one of the few bars left standing on Dongcheng's now unrecognizable Fangjia Hutong, was raided last night and patrons were tested for...
Singaporean Shoegazers Cosmic Child Talk Nostalgia and Lethal Recording Experiences Ahead of Mar 31 Gig
I’ve become a bit of a shoegaze junkie as of late. There’s something comforting about being drenched in dreamy nostalgia and shit tons of reverb that...
R Veteran Local Rocker Justin Richardson to Screen a Trailer for New Punk Scene Themed TV Series at Hot Cat Club March 4
Nearly 20 years after he founded one of China's earliest rock bands, Big Aeroplane, Justin Richardson is now training a camera on the music scene...
Jamaican Reggae and Dancehall Vet Biggaton to grace Hot Cat Club's stage on Oct. 7
Though Hot Cat Club has recently seen a resurgence as an intimate indie rock and standup venue as of late, the typically cozy Fangjia bar will soon...
Turntable Punk: DJ Scratchy talks touring with The Clash, keeping an old school ethos, and more ahead of Beijing Residency
Unlike most of Joe Strummer's fans, DJ Scratchy didn't worship The Clash frontman as a punk God. In fact Scratchy (born Barry Myers) was given a far...
Get the Look: Emma Sun and Li Yan
Every month in the Beijinger magazine, we photograph two local fashion fiends and get them to tell us their style secrets. Emma Sun, Marketing...
Music Industry Insight: Li Lei, Hot Cat Club
For our September Music Issue, we asked a selection of the city's music experts for their take on the current state of the 'scene' here in...
From Hard Rocker to Blue-Collar Worker
He fell from punk stardom to trade labor. Then the world literally left him for dead. Saxophonist Steve Mackay will hit the Hot Cat Club on March 16...