Description
Crowned as “Greater China Grunge Kings” and as “representatives of Beijing’s underground punk”, their style is far more aggressive (Virant 1999). Founded in 1994, the four musicians released three songs one year later, and gained fame as China’s first “dirty” rock band. The band managed to produce two albums in 1996 and 1998, which were produced and distributed abroad, before Modern Sky released them on the Mainland in 1999. Even the British press once described The Fly as China’s “dirtiest and trashiest band” , while Beijing’s media mention the band as the city’s most popular and significant underground band. Their albums were made with eye-catching covers designed by Song Yonghong and the band’s singer Feng Jiangzhou, who is a graphic designer by profession and wrote most of the lyrics, respectively. ”
