The Life Journey

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The Life Journey

The Life Journey (旅行团), pop rock band from Liuzhou, Guangxi

History

来自广西柳州的旅行团乐队2005年签约摩登天空。在快餐时代坚持精致音乐。聆听旅行团的音乐，会让人有游走于世界各地美丽风光的奇妙之感，阳光、快乐、清新、松弛，是他们想要表达的。正是这独具一格的田园气息中弥漫出的时髦感觉，把旅行团和时下诸多乐队区分开来。旅行团乐队首张专辑《来福胶泥》所收录歌曲，正如乐队名字那样，在创作上极尽浪漫。从幻想出来的“巴巴拉拉的城堡”到旅途中短暂停歇的“中央花园”，从灼热干烈（暴烈干燥）的“沙漠”到黎明村庄的“稻田间”，再到留下过伤心故事的“罗马假日”，都成为旅行团创作的灵感。而“全世界都在水里游”的梦幻意向更让旅行团跳出真实世界，选择了一条专属自己的旅行路线。2009年4月17日，乐队推出全新EP《等你吃饭》。主唱：孔阳吉他：子君贝斯：P 型键盘：韦伟鼓手：段然

Participant of the Strawberry Music Festival 2009. September 26th they performed during the opening party of the M.A.O. Shanghai. ^[1]

On May 2nd, 2010, they performed at the Strawberry Music Festival 2010. According to Beijing Gig Guide: They were, as usual, completely adorable. Their new band member, drummer Xu Biao (徐彪), fit in perfectly with the others, and definitely enjoyed riling up such a large crowd. Keyboardist Old Banana (韦伟) was as cute as ever, videotaping the crowd and miming requests for applause. Yann (孔阳), as well, was particularly emotive as he introduced their song “Marry” as being for his new girlfriend (or, more accurately, “the girl who has recently come into my life”).^[2]

On June 24th 2011, they performed in the Yugong Yishan presenting their new record "Wonderful Day". According to Beijing Gig Guide: As we all know, album launch gigs can be a little awkward sometimes, when a band hasn’t had the chance to introduce their new stuff to fans, so everyone’s standing around trying to get into new music when all they want to do is rock out to their favorite stuff. However, this album has been so long in the making that I have already heard most of the songs on it, and so had the crowd, which made this a great show. I suspect that the bass player was sick (he was absent from a pre-gig video I saw on weibo, and didn’t look exactly healthy during the show), but that didn’t detract from the enthusiasm with which they played this show. They opened with an incredible round of upbeat songs that had everyone bopping around, and knew exactly when to wind the crowd down. There was also a five-minute interlude as the boys changed clothes and we watched their new music video — literally, Yann walking along a shoreline playing a guitar — for their new soporific single. However, once endured, the slow songs were over, and they rounded up the gig with some more upbeat tunes from the album. They feigned the end of the show and then came out for a great encore — a collection of some old favorites. They finished the night with the very appropriately-titled “Summer Holiday”, which had everyone singing and dancing.^[3]