Unfortunately, we won’t be in Beijing when you are there. We’re arriving on a Sunday morning train from Urumqi so I guess we’ll just miss you.

Clubs are: The Loft, 55, Orange, Neo Lounge (all foreigners) and Banana (really Chinese). Also, pick up some of the English-language magazines and look up live music. If you see a band called ‘Secondhand Roses’, they’re a Chinese band worth checking out.

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Is that Rob, superstar DJ we spy in the picture? Did he hire a private jet to come and see you or was he transported by the music police?

Love you all

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Paula & Gids: You are a part of our trip… it’s as simple as leaving a comment! And yep, DJ Laptop briefly joined us on the journey, but seems to have got himself embroiled in checking off the sights on his tourist itinerary We’ll be hooking up with him again in Seoul, when he flys in from Shanghai to meet up with us again.

Six of us rolled up, quickly applied some London blagging skills by reading the guest list upside down to the door staff, and danced to a right old mix up of tracks played as low-quality MP3s off a coupla laptops.

Chris and I left v drunk at the end of the evening and briefly sat in the garden of a club where Quentin Tarantino had just rolled up, but the door staff by then were, quite sensibly, not having it (and all blaggin ability had disappeared in a cloud of alcohol-induced confusion).

Gids and Rach: Private jet of course. Hi from rainy Shanghai. I left the lads in Beijing to get their ferry to Soeul, and I’m re-joining them on Sunday.

“checking off the sights on his tourist itinerary” – I aint no snap-happy tourist, but I certainly like to actually look around the places I visit. Tis a sign of Chris’ dedication and diligence that mainly what he’s checked out in each place we’ve gone to is the inside of the nearest Internet cafe, but its all in the name of providing you the readers with the quality FLH experience you have come to expect.