To celebrate the Chinese Films screening at Raindance, we are proud to present, direct from China, a special night with NEW PANTS, the electro and new wave group fronted by Panda Candy’s director Peng Lei (http://www.myspace.com/beijingnewpants).
New Pants are among the brightest, most original and adventurous artists performing in China today.
The four members hail from Beijing and formed the band in 1997. New Pants is distinguished by their sclectic Retro taste and have been on the forefront of new music in China since their formation. They are influenced by a wide range of western music. Anything from the Ramones and New Order, to  80’s disco and electro. Their totally captivating and distinguished sound is combined with an eye-catching stage presence. They are the vibrant, original fish in the over-crowded pond of Chinese music.

Live Painting inspired on "The Panda Candy" and "Twilight Dancing", Chinese films showing at RFF.

Hin (Philip Pak Hin Chiu), Painter-illustrator-designer (http://www.hinstudio.com). Born in Hong Kong, China, moved to United Kingdom at the age of 12, graduated from Kent Institute of Art & Design, moved to Brussels in 2005 to continue a 1 year fine art post graduate course. Now based & works in East London. Created art group ELAC (East London Art “company”) in March 2007. Previously involved in feature movie “ 28 Weeks Later “ as a storyboard artist. Hin is currently exposing in a gallery and his work is being shown across Europe and the US.

The life painting performance will be pure improvisation and free flow.

Preceded by a DJ set by Zoë Baxter

Zoë started Djing at parties in 2000 and progressed to Internet radio and then community radio. She has always had a keen interest in East Asian cinema and cuisine and this lead her to investigate East Asian music. Now she is a collector of vinyl with a specialist interest in 1960’s ‘Asia Beat’.

Zoë has had 3 series of her weekly radio programme Lucky Cat, which focuses on East Asian arts and culture, on Resonance 104.4FM.  She has also produced documentaries for Resonance on the history of London's Chinatown and Chinagrass (folk music from the grassands of China).

Blog: http://luckykitty.blogspot.com