Chinese band Stolen on six weeks of quarantine

When the coronavirus started people "didn’t talk about it - in Chinese tradition, discussing bad things during the New Year is bad luck" - Liang Yi, singer of the Chinese band Stolen said in a Pitchfork interview. But when things got worse, they all had to stay indoors, and "given that we had nothing to do, we decided to all write songs and think about the next album". He lives in Chengdu and is allowed to go out now, but people in Wuhan still have to stay at home. Yi describes it as "a very good performance city because it has a lot of college students. People in Wuhan are like people in Sichuan in terms of their personalities: They are more open, not like people in Shanghai or other southern parts of China that are more reserved".