Daniel Gauss: New Yorker in Shenzhen

                                                                  {{{click on image to enlarge it}}} I love this photo that I took a few years ago, when it was still possible to go to soccer matches in Shenzhen. This was probably from 2019. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been soccer matches, but only in certain cities (for example, Shenzhen can play league games, but it has to play them in Guangzhou). Shenzhen has not hosted a match since 2019. This is a wonderful photo - totally accidental - I just wanted to capture and post the score on my WeChat moments.  Inadvertently I caught this quite joyous mom and her son. They typify the spirit at Shenzhen soccer games. The team generally sucks, suffers from rotten coaching and bad player selection, but the players work their butts off and try to make the games intere...

  So here are a few videos of a girl's band from Chengdu called The Hormones. They were playing at one of Shenzhen's premier venues for indy rock and hard rock music.  B10 is primarily a venue for the very young. There is a bar from which to buy alcohol, but there does not seem to be a problem with young people drinking in China. The bar is actually a Bionic Brew establishment - a bar/restaurant in Nantou Old City which is very popular among expats. So B10 is not really my kind of place (I'm too old) but it's good to see there is a nice, safe, clean venue for the young people of SZ to come to to hear cool bands.