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Yugong Yishan 愚公移山
This live music venue features a variety of local and international bands, and film screenings. Weekly themes are still in the works, but now is a perfect spot for more discriminating drunken debauchery.
Location
- Dongsishitiao 东四十条
- 3-2 Zhangzizhong Lu (100m west of Zhangzizhong Lu subway station), Dongcheng District
- 东城区平安大道张自忠路3-2号(地铁五号线张自忠路站往西100米)
- Daily 7pm-late
- 6404 2711
Map of Yugong Yishan
Current events at Yugong Yishan
Mar 21 2010 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Apr 2 2010 10:00pm - Apr 3 2010 2:00am
Apr 9 2010 9:00pm - Apr 10 2010 3:00am
Apr 25 2010 8:00pm - 10:30pm
User reviews of Yugong Yishan 愚公移山
rock n roll for CHARITY!!
- Joined: Feb 7th, 2010
- Posts: 15
Review of Yugong Yishan
What a nice idea to have a concert for the poor people in HAITI last Wednseday - so many people having such a nice time and for such a nice cause
I think the management set an example for all bars (and businesses in Beijing) - I see other reviews complaining about bad nights with drink or food and we all forget that in some places in the world there is no even FOOD or DRINK - so again Well Done to Yu Gong Yi Shan for organising it and maybe to other people lets be thanks for what we have and stop complaining so much
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"The" place to go for live music
- Joined: Jan 10th, 2005
- Posts: 10,039
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Yugong Yishan consistently holds the most interesting live bands in town ... for that reason alone it's worth recommending. Not much of a place to go on nights without the live music though.
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A Lot of Varied Events
- Joined: Sep 10th, 2008
- Posts: 14
Review of Yugong Yishan
I have been going to Yugongyishan fairly regularly for about a year. I first started going to join in the Beijing juggling club on Monday nights, but then I starting to learn about the music scene there too. For a Beijing bar, I think that Yugongyishan has a pretty diverse bunch of bands come in to play. I heard the Mongolian folk group Hanggai for the first time at Yugongyishan, I hear that they have a lot of punk rock, and I have never made it there but I hear that there is the local hip-hop dance battle there on the last Saturday of every month. It is located conveniently close to the Zhangzizhonglu Line 5 subway stop, and there is a bus station right outside the door too. The dance floor is spacious with plenty of room to jump and bounce around in, although I wish the lighting in the drinking area was a little bit better. Easy to find, and with a fairly good selection of music groups playing, I recommend you to check this place out.
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Yugong Yishan
- Joined: Nov 29th, 2006
- Posts: 731
Review of Yugong Yishan
I really don't know why I keep giving that place another chance every couple of months although it makes me want to beat the livin' sh*t out of the management everytime I go.
Right, it's because I liked the old YGYS. Good old days, long gone. The new one seems to pretend the Olympics are still going to come up.
Taking the full cover charge even if the main acts have long gone home? Great, go ahead! I go somewhere else. Unless I'm too drunk and tired to do so because the place is located in the middle of nowhere.
Rock music and beer go hand-in-hand. And I can drink loads of beer. Well, I would, if it wasn't so ridiculously overpriced. One could get a keg of beer in Beijing for what they charge for a kid's Tsingtao (300ml) in there.
The alternative is mixed drinks, which aren't that madly priced, I have to admit, even if they serve those in the smallest glasses available on the market. However, they managed to train their staff severely to steal those drinks from people having fun on the dancefloor. Kudos to the management, we all know it's hard to train Chinese waiters. But in this case they've done it really well.
The first drink disappeared. Fine, no problem, get another one. It took a bit the fun out of dancing to be forced to watch the second drink sitting there, but well, live is compromise. And after all YGYS has 3 staff mambers being solely responsible for stealing the drinks of people dancing on the dabcefloor, so you have to be alert at all times. But they're professionals. So, they managed to do so again.
3rd drink. I don't dance anymore. Just humping up and down, concentrating on my drink, which I placed on the stage, beneath the DJ desk, almost impossible to see. Concentrating, concentrating... Someone wants to get a light, fine... just takes a second... f***!
f***! f***! f***!
I can still see the waitress running off with it.
But I don't bother anymore.
I won't come back to YGYS anyway.
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