A young professional living and working in Shanghai. Very creative - love music and wandering around Asia. I am from England and speak intermediate Chinese. Look forward to meeting you!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Hang out with cool peeps, get lost, get found.

Interests

Guitarist!
I go to lots of gigs- fan of raves in particular, but because of my work I go to all sorts of stuff.

• raves
• music
• guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

Chinese bands: Pet Conspiracy, Unrest In Shadow, Carsick Cars, re-TROS, P.K.14, Friend or Foe, Round Eye, Snapline, Birdstriking, 你男友係碌葛, 无高潮.

Electronic
I love proper UK Grime, Logan Sama mixes, anything out on the Rinse.fm Grime show, Flowdan, Killa P, Preditah etc. Drum&bass especially Black Sun Empire, Noisia, erm erm Trap, so long as it's not 'BRO TRAP'.

Hip hop - not a massive fan but love the golden years 80's stuff, Goldlink, some Drake though it's more of a guilty pleasure because I'm not a materialist. Earl Sweatshirt is my fav now.

Electro Pop / alternative - Haim, CHVRCHES, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Ruban's older stuff with The Mint Chicks, Mac DeMarco, Toro y Moi, Washed Out (Chill Wave in general always good on a sunny day), Destroyer, Phosphorescent and all that alt folk - Fleet Foxes, Andrew Bird, Villagers. Post-rock stuff, Slint, Young Dreams, USA Out Of Vietnam, Planning for Burial.

Jazz / Neo-soul / R&B - Errol Garnel, Sonny Rollings, Miles Davis, anything with fat bass lines from Marcus Miller, Nina Simone, Gil Scott Heron. Benjamin Clementine most recent fav.

I play classical / Spanish guitar, so that's another world. Love soundtracks, anything by Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, classic Italian film composers like that. Also the soundtracks from 王家卫 films.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in China for nearly 3 years - is that amazing? I'm not mad...

Teach, Learn, Share

Guitar lessons!