Music or lack of

I am what you might call a failed Musician. I "play" five different instruments: Piano, Clarinet, Saxophone, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar. That is also the order in which I learnt them and is also the order of my ability on them although I am divided about the last two.

Despite this however I struggle to read Music (this is one of the ways my Dyslexia manifests itself) and the best way I have found of improving my playing has been to watch somebody else play and I play essentially from memory a lot of the time. I am therefore an avid concert and gig attender, everything from Opera down to Punk is fair game to me as I don't limit myself by style. I do like to go and watch musicians who are at their peak or who are doing something new and challenging.

For example I loved going to watch a performance of Mahler's 8th Symphony, as it was one his more innovative works along with the 5th which was the first Symphony to use a choir. My favorite gig to date has been going to see Dream Theater at the Manchester Apollo. These guys are on the cutting edge of what it is possible to do with the basic setup of Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Drums and Vocals. If you haven't heard anything by them I would heartily recommend you to go look at the video below. The main part of the song kicks in about 2 minutes in after the heavy intro.

The real rub with living in HK is that I hardly ever get to see any decent musicians or hear any decent music. I cannot see what is good about Canto Pop, J Pop, K Pop or Cheesy Dance music that I hear everywhere. I can get the occasional decent Jazz or maybe some more inventive dance or Drum n Bass at a couple of places, Gekko in mid-levels is fast turning into a favorite. 

There is also one "rock" club in HK called The Underground which tends to play middle of the road Indie pop bands. It is a shame as a lot of the time it makes me think twice about going out for the night. The company is important yes, but as I am not the sort of person who goes out and gets drunk for the sake of it I like to have something decent to listen to or watch being played.

As a result of this I am contemplating forming a band just for the sole purpose of trying to shake up the music scene here and introduce some variety into the system. Maybe two will be required one decent rock/punk band and one fusion tripped out weird Jazz band. The grand plan is to try and make HK more like Japan, a must stop place for all decent or well know artists. Anyone interested?