Do You Smell Like Formoz Spirit？--A Generation Story About Formoz Festival
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Chao, Tan-Yu
Abstract
Among Taiwan’s music festivals,“Formoz Festival”, which started from 1995, has recorded the musical memories of fans and the development of Taiwan’s indie music. However, in 2009, the host declared the halt of Formoz Festival suddenly, which made every participant sob extremely. The halt showed that hosting a musical festival seemed not just ideal Utopia imagination, but had to be faced with various difficulties under different space and time.
“Formoz Festival”started from the establishment of“Rock Union of the Northern Universities”, launched by a Fu Jen student, Hsu-heng-wei. He united the clubs of pop music in every university and held a concert in the square of NTU for free. After Hsu-heng-wei took military service in 1998, Lin-chang-tso (Freddy) took charge of this annual concert. He changed its name into“Taiwan’s Musical Revolutionists”and connected the musical groups in different locations in Taiwan by the internet. In 2000, the name of the festival shifted into“Taiwan Rock Alliance”. Formoz Festival hosted successively in the square of NTU, the square of Taipei fine arts museum, and Taipei City Hall. Finally it was held in Taipei children’s recreation center and enlarged its scale to carnivals step by step.
To the musical fans of every generation, these memories, no matter the humble concerts but with great passion held in Da-An Forest Park long time ago, or the luxurious design of the stage, which made it like a carnival these years, impressed deeply the fans of different generations.
“Formoz Festival”, which existed from 1995 to 2008, indeed recorded the bands around the millennium and the youth of every musical fan. It was not only the cradle of Taiwan underground groups and connected the common spirits of musical fans, but also drew out the musical picture of Formoz generations. This reports aims to investigate the development of this fourteen-year festival by visiting those participants and to grasp the generation picture by comparing Formoz Festival and those overboard musical fans.
Subjects
Formoz Festival
Fans
Music Festivals
Generations
Type
thesis
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