The Wall Opens
地下社會開幕
Source: “The Locus of Independent Music Identity: The Life and Death of ‘Underground Society'”
From: Sounding Taiwan: An Exploration of Postwar Taiwan’s Sound Culture, pp. 138–144
Date: May 2015. Author: Ho Tung-hung
Underground Society (Ti-hsia She-hui, commonly abbreviated as Ti-she), founded in August 1996 on Shih-ta Road in Taipei’s Da’an District, was one of Taipei’s most long-standing and representative livehouses. At the base of the independent music cultural ecosystem, it shared with the Witch House (Nü-wu Tien) and River Side Music (Ho-an Liu-yen) the role of talent pool for Taipei’s bands.
From 2005 onward, due to the livehouse’s long-standing existence in a legal grey zone without relevant legislation, and the “Shih-ta Community Self-Help Association Incident” — which branded it a social nuisance — Underground Society faced repeated closures and re-openings amid the support of over four hundred musicians and backers. It ultimately closed for good on June 15, 2016.
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External Links
- Underground Society 715 Closure Statement (Underground Society Blog)
- Towards an Era of Lost Innocence — Youth Chronicles of Underground Society (POkey)
- Underground Society, Vital Hidden Life — Observations of a PUB (Hung Hsin-fan)