MIDI Festival fever hits Shanghai

For the first time in its 11-year history, MIDI, China?s oldest and best-established music festival brand, is heading to Shanghai. Its arrival marks an end to a three-and-a-half year drought that saw a complete absence of any multi-day, multi-stage rock festival in China?s most populous city.

After several years of misfires and false starts, Shanghai MIDI has finally confirmed its maiden foray for the first weekend in May. Local rock fans and musos are both ecstatic and optimistic about the potential of the festival, which will be headlined by 1980s pop-metal supergroup Mr. Big and feature some 25 bands and 23 DJs on two stages.


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