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So with Jack in the 33 a, they were joined by another student they met at a Beijing meaty school of music.

The band's name comes from the initials Fashion Main Shipping, which means bread of life.

Together, the three young men began writing and performing songs.

They released an album called 50,000 in 2000 and one, and it featured songs like this.

That song ended up on a local radio station, Digeo are Millions, which is for $800 go yonder.

Just the oh, they were new and inexperience, but SNCB Kick started an underground punk scene in Wuhan.

More bands farmed and together they lived and breathed punk music, but it was still a small scene E o, which is how how e o.

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On Just like that, Wuhan became the birthplace off Chinese punk.

When fans came to the city, they would go to a venue called Box.

This is where all the underground concerts were held.

This is Nathaniel Amar.

He does research on modern China, specifically China's punk scene.

What happened, in fact, is that in the mid nineties you had a sufficiently large number off people in Wuhan interested in the same music.

Because when you want toe, create a new kind of music, you need that you need people that are interested in that kind of music and places.

But why Wuhan, instead of other big cities like Beijing or Shanghai in Wuhan, it's more complicated because you have a lot of working class kids and also people coming from the countryside.

It has a strong working class off course because of his industry and all that, and also a strong also history of dissent.

Wuhan was the site of an uprising in 1911 that led to the Sin Hae revolution, which overthrew China's last emperor and established a republic.

Then, at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the 19 sixties, the people of Wuhan Challenge leader Mao Zedong's policies in an armed conflict later called the Wuhan Incident.

So I think it also had, ah small impact on the minds of the youth.

Yeah, and and they also used this history off.

The single revolution, for example, is used by the banks, the Wuhan things themselves in their lyrics.

What is the crowd like?

What are the people who go for these concepts like Oh, it Z can be very different people.

I saw a lot off course banks.

So people that are already in the bank community, they were students in in Wuhan, they had nothing to do with punk music.

But they discovered a similarly and the banks in through this concert at works, and it moved them profoundly.

My deepest memory off MGB performing within Wuhan because you can see that s m C.

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It was at box at the time, and you had It was full house like everybody was there.

Everybody was super excited.

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