 Before being treated with a blast of cultural fusion and music feast, I feel that their music is wacky, funny and sometimes almost romantic. So their artistic work, both visual creation and music, reflect their personality and the mixture of global culture. So before we start the screening, as usual, on behalf of the Centre of Talent Studies, I would like to express our thanks for the support that we have always received from the Ministry of Culture and a generous donation from Dr. Samuel Ng without the support which would not have been able to put out this series of events. So now, without further ado, let's start the film. Oh yeah, we have lots. They're always the things you want to remember. So one of the worst ones I've seen, uploading to the internet, she said to me, so what did you do at the weekend? I said, I was trying to upload it to the internet. And I said, San Trois. So it was a very, very awkward sight. But she didn't want to say, tell me what. So that was quite a bad one. Eventually she told me to say that. I think you need to upload it. Actually, I think we have a new member just come in, it's Robin. But can I ask a question, because Robin was not in the film. The whole day I was. So would you like to just describe an evolution of the film? Sure. So basically we came back to England in 2012. During that time we signed the official Olympic song for the time we used to. And then after, he wanted to move on with a few other things. And actually, through a mutual friend, we got to know Robin and asked him to use it. And he's from our home town, so he's very talented. And we asked him, hey, would you actually play with us? And so he started to learn the Chinese. So he's got his own solo career as well. He listened to everything. It's good, it's very good. But we've gone and played with us as well. Robin hasn't been to Asia yet. So we need to persuade him. Any questions? Yes. What was the next challenge? Well, it's a really good question. We're not sure. We did have some, some of you may know, some of you may not know. We had some work permit issues in Taiwan back in 2012, which was one of the reasons for coming back. So officially we're not allowed to work in Taiwan until 2015. But we have had some limitations to go back to Taiwan before peace. Because they said they're talking to the government for us, so we know what's happening. We're also trying to plan a tour in mainland China later on this year. But they're still in the timing stage, so we're not not sure at the moment. But yeah, hopefully that will take place. Anyone? You're not very purist. What's your most impressive cultural shock when you're living in Taiwan? It is, the last one. But actually one of the positive felt shocks. I think one of the things is the multiplies of scooters. So I remember one time I went to a place in Taipei, and for every red traffic light you wait one minute or one and a half minutes. Let's say 200 scooters. So it's like a scooter ride, so you cannot wait in the traffic light. Which one's going to win? Which one's going to win? And then you know, they all accelerate, but that's about one thing. But I think one of the best things was the kind of the culture of eating out with friends as well. And so it's just a really nice social thing. Whereas in England, everything closes by 5 or 6 in Britain. In Taiwan, people are saying, do you want to meet up at dinner? And we're thinking, well, it's a bit late for that. But you know, it opens at 2 o'clock in the morning, or you can open at 9 o'clock. It's a bit of a group of us. And that was fantastic. We loved it. We had a funny boy out there. Yeah, I think one really positive thing was the family. The importance of family seems to be really strong. And a lot of our friends will still live at home when they move after 30 or beyond. They're still living with their parents. Which for me is really interesting, because I still live with my parents. In England it's common that when you reach 18 and you go to the university, you move to the city to go to the university. And usually that's it. For most of our friends out here, at least, they kind of end up seeing their family a couple of times a year often after that, which is great to be independent and there's a good thing. But as well, we really appreciate that kind of strong family relationship. That seems to be really value when we're living in Taiwan. When you first went there, did you know anybody there, or did you just turn up in Taiwan? Yeah, that's a key point, Michael. People always ask us, why do you live in Taiwan when you're not from England? It seems like there's no connection. It was quite, you could say it was a chance to go to the university. You could say it was a rain, which I don't know, but back in 2002, our family, as a couple of others, started to host foreign students. And the first student who came to live with us came from Taiwan and went to the local language school to learn English. So as we were getting to know each other, the Taiwanese classmates in the school, then we first got interested. And so when they saw our band performing in Bristol, they always said, oh, one day you've got to come to Taiwan. Well, where's Taiwan? But over some time they persuaded us. So that was why in 2005 we went to the first time to the Spring Street Festival and I think from then we got hooked. So we kept going back and back until we moved there to stay. Do you want to add anything? No, I think that's good. One of the things that we, about the first time we went was that obviously we had these friends so we were there. But we didn't know if they were going to meet us at the airport or what we would do if we got there. So we had loads of guitars and loads of CDs. Everyone was asking us, so what are you going to do? What do you get there? Something or half a bit more complicated. The other thing was we only had an email from the Spring Street Music Festival which was the first festival we went to to say it's to come. So it wasn't a big contract or anything. And also they were saying, you've got promoter over to Asian. And it wasn't quite like that. So we kind of thought on the plane, I remember sitting there thinking, is this all a big thing? But we actually got there from the friends who we had known before, and it was just one big event really. They kind of took us to a hostel with Josh's books on line and then told us that's a bit of a dangerous thing that you should book somewhere else. It was pretty. And then getting the night bus down to Kenting which is in the very south of the island. When we arrived in Kenting, we felt very smart. Because the people tell us, depending on the years and years, if you're going to last and reach back, all it is is mud and blood, say. And now we've come to the paradise, with Armoury and Canadian. So that felt like the right place for a movie festival. I'd like to ask a second question in the book. Remember you said before how you thought the family was a part of it. I know when I lived there, one of the best things I had was a family basically had adopted me, not just wanted from the start, but also really helped me to go into the culture. Was there a family like that for you? Really, yes. I lived with a family in Taiwan. And that was really special. Apart from really helping with my language course, because I had a practice for every day. They were a youngish couple, and they had two children during the three years that I was there. So I was the uncle of the children. Uncle was the first English word that both of them learned. So that was a real privilege. I was very lucky as well, because I was looking for a place on the internet there. As an English person, you probably know that's pretty difficult. If you don't know the city at all, if you like turning up in London and thinking, okay, let's just go on. You don't know what you're looking for. And one of my friends said, oh, just ask us. And I was too embarrassed. Maybe it over English, I was thinking. I don't want to bother her. Maybe it's not polite. Maybe I'll say the wrong thing. And I just remember after looking at loads of flats, she said, when you call me, you just come over to my friend's house. And we did that. And it was much cheaper and much better because, like you said, she adopted me as brother-in-law. And we walked into her house. And it was just all CDs. And she was a massive music fan. So she was like my professor in Taiwanese music education. And so every night we'd sit there and she'd be like, this is all the viruses. It's a necessary list of the fans and not just the current ones, but also the old ones that we shared. And then she started to take me to concerts to see these guys. So I'm going to sort everyone in the time we'd see, almost everyone. And it was amazing. I loved it. It was like being a small toddler kind of discovering music. Because I had no idea the names sort of changed how all sorts of different artists or even I was having so many sort of green and I couldn't drink in the pen and pen. So yeah, that's the question. Yes, please. Well, you live in Taiwan. Which city do you stay in? Taiwan or Taiwan? We stay in Taipei, but we've got the opportunity to go all around the island. So we were very lucky actually. Lots of our Taiwanese friends said to us, hey, you've been to more places than I have. Any kind of place. The best find because in the UK we use more places than we have. I think Taipei and Gantou were two of the places that we come out most. We had the real privilege once of going right up into the mountains to a place it was a tribe called Xinyi Changu Luo. It was like an Aboriginal tribe right up in the mountains of Taiwan. The idea, it was a teacher from a school was taking the students there or like a weekend camp or going on holidays or something like that. They invited us to go to teach some music classes. So we went and we were teaching drums and jazz teaching and I think the teacher was teaching some singing. And it was really fun. And then we got to the concert part where we played a concert and then we just got the advice okay sing along with this and then they sang along and it's like they don't have any teaching they're super talented at that music. It was really a really special experience meeting a completely different side of Taiwan that we never you don't see in the cities. And also even just taking the various different classes that we have to get all the way up into the mountains. We can see some of the damage on landslides and I think that was still kind of being fixed. Which again showed another side of Taiwan that if you stay in the cities you can see it on TV or on music. So again that I think that brought home a reality to us or some of the extreme weather events that happened there as well. We had to take four buses that was really fun to do. The first bus was right from Taipei with the U.S. station and we got to say I need a mountaintop and how to go to the U.S. and then head back to the mountains and the more the further into the mountains that we go we kind of wait for the bus to the bus stop we'll be the first people there. The bus will arrive and everybody else will get on. We'll be the last on the bus. Someone British. I know you haven't thought. We didn't know how to do it. We just fight. What's the style of the car? The thing was that the tribe the road had been washed away there was no road so the teacher from the school who was organizing the event he said just get off the stop it's just gone by the roadside next to a bridge. Yeah that was our time and so we did we went off and we were just looking around at the mountains and the sea and thinking about the place what's our most great music for that one. Your your heat on YouTube translation and that song sorry my Chinese is not good it's so good because I was looking for teaching Chinese to someone based on the English songs but most of them are Chinese songs people are singing Chinese but you foreign city Chinese it's such an incredible thing so what is your experience of learning Chinese Spanish? Well when we first got into Taiwan we thought quite a sideshow because we've got the environment now but actually that wasn't the case because everybody's English was so good so they just got English to us so we thought we might talk to music but maybe we should go to Chinese so we did study some classes and that really really helped us and for me one of the most difficult things in the time was you can say the wrong things if I get the wrong things and with music it was different for me it felt you could memorize the word first and the melody helped me to remember lots of things so I played with the simplest phrases that I learned after and they tuned out so I had lots and lots of other songs I haven't really studied just silly things to know about like what? but one day this is really stupid so you can see why we didn't release it but one day we had a practice a music practice it was Monday and I noticed every Monday I would just look at it and show it to my every Monday we don't reshape and I don't know why it was so busy over the weekend playing concerts and things and yes the Monday so I had an idea so I thought we should become a tradition to everyone just silly little things like that where I kept forgetting what shading was because I made a little tune like that but I'm sorry that we are actually running out of time because we are getting into the next phase of this event and the concert so maybe we give them a few minutes to get ready and let's give them another around and I think our band is ready so please welcome them and with the greatest enthusiasm you can get thank you everyone well it's great to see you all here we are really excited we are going to sing a song straight away which is Olympic dream so I hope you enjoy this one the song we are singing is called open handed this is an English song and this is one of the first songs that we performed in Taiwan and also one of the first songs that was played on the radio so it's kind of a dances you can dance sitting down I'm sure as well just a little bit of you know very cool dancing we are going to sing a song called Bo Bu Chi or Zhong Weng Bo Han here it just looked funny just that we played in Taiwan and it kind of gave us a really big shock and this was one time when we went to Xi Men Ding and we played in this building that was on the fifth floor so this is in Taipei and half way through the song a little bit like that song then I was playing a solo and everyone screamed and I was like wow this is a great audience wow I must be on fire playing really great music and after the song finished there was a kind of nervous atmosphere and I looked around at the other two guys and they said did you feel it and I said feel what and he said thank god we're still alive and it was a big earthquake while we were playing because I was playing a solo I didn't realize and I looked up and the lights were still swinging and he almost fell off his chair on the drums because he was swinging around so much yeah it was crazy wasn't that great it helps us to write lyrics for this song it's a really good friend called Wing in fact he actually released a mini album two months ago which is really good called the Goudan is the main single anyway if you listen to his music usually the people playing instruments are us and if you listen to our music we've got three or four songs where he's helped to write lyrics so we like that kind of collaboration cross-cultural collaboration it's really enriching for me so this song is called Haikaa and it's the song that we came up with this idea for it and we said Wing help us to put this down in proper lyrics so I don't know if you want to stand up and dance or if you want to sit down and enjoy yourselves both are okay but this song is called Haikaa it's more of a rock song and also it has a video on YouTube as well so if you search on YouTube or on Youku iTunes has it as well in fact you can find that music in most places in fact after this song then I think we should take a picture with everyone together alright guys let's go