老王樂隊

rock

老王樂隊 (Lǎowáng yuèduì) is a Chinese Post-folk/Rock band from Chinese Taipei formed in Winter 2015. They have gained local prominence, winning multiple awards including Chengchi Jin Xuan Award and National Tsing Hua Qing Yun award. The band's Chinese name, 老王樂隊 (Lǎowáng yuèduì), directly translates to Old Wang Band. In Chinese, Old Wang is often used as slang for the man next door who his wife has an affair with. This is the origin of the band's English name, Your Woman Sleep With Others. At the end of 2016, They became 5 band members with lead singer Zhang Lichang, Tong Weishuo (guitar), Liao Jiemin (drums), Feng Huiyuan (bass), and Shao Jiaying (cello).The band is most well-known for their EP Stolen Childhood (吾十有五而志於學), which focuses on the failures of the Taiwanese education system. In 2018, the band won the Golden Indie Award Best Folk Single for the song Cram Schools Killed the Children on the same album. The song became a hit on YouTube within short amount of time. Lao Wang, that is, the red apricot goes out of the wall, with humorous and ironic terms; Lao Wang is a character who is both inside and outside of the relationship, symbolizing humour, irony, and criticism that floats in the world. Just like the musical characteristics, the Pharaoh Band never forgets to use humorous, ironic words and melody when singing a generation of grotesques. With a husky, slightly world-weary voice, the low and reverberating cello, repetitive ...