Early last year we saw a Chinese punk band called PK 14 at the South-By-South-West Festival in Austin, Texas. Interestingly, I can still remember the performance. Max and I rolled up to a venue off the main street – and I had started on the beers fairly early in the day. They had a few stages running, bands playing all day. After kicking back in the afternoon sun by the front stage, we decided to wander out the back to find PK 14 tearing up the main stage.

I took a bunch of film (wobbly as it was) right up the front. The band was great – one of the most exciting shows of the festival (of the shows we saw).

Max bought me my very own PK 14 t-shirt. I wore it everywhere, including on stage in Europe a few months later. Then, the unthinkable happened: Max accidentally threw my t-shirt out with the trash (it’s a long story). The video below features the band in full swing (in the US)…

Early this morning, in Melbourne, a new PK 14 t-shirt arrived by courier all the way from Beijing. I put that baby on straight away.

We’ll be touring China in May. We’re hoping to meet the guys in Beijing (they don’t know it yet, we’re secretly scheming).

Checkya tomorrow,
Fires out.