Sugar Plum Ferry
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Sugar Plum Ferry is a Taiwan
-based indie post-rock
band formed in 1998 by guitarist Insecteens (昆蟲白, Huang Jiang-Shiun 黃建勳), bassist Yezi (葉子, Li Po-Ye 李柏曄) and drummer Youzi (佑子, Lin You-Qing 林佑青).
, in which Lennon was counting the beat and thrice uttered the word "Sugar Plum Fairy", a role in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
's ballet The Nutcracker
. As the movie Titanic
was so popular at the time, the band retained the misunderstanding of "fairy" to "ferry" and thus named themselves "Sugar Plum Ferry".
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
-based indie post-rock
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
band formed in 1998 by guitarist Insecteens (昆蟲白, Huang Jiang-Shiun 黃建勳), bassist Yezi (葉子, Li Po-Ye 李柏曄) and drummer Youzi (佑子, Lin You-Qing 林佑青).
Origin
The band's name was inspired by an anecdote of John LennonJohn Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
, in which Lennon was counting the beat and thrice uttered the word "Sugar Plum Fairy", a role in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
's ballet The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
. As the movie Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
was so popular at the time, the band retained the misunderstanding of "fairy" to "ferry" and thus named themselves "Sugar Plum Ferry".
Studio Album
- Lack of Something (是不是少了什麼, 2001)
- Thanks for Reminding Me (謝謝你提醒我, 2007)
- Islands on the Ocean of the Mind (腦海群島, 2010)