Who is Mayday?
Mayday (五 月天), is a rock/pop band from Taiwan that dreams of being the “Beatles for Chinese People” (華人的披頭四). I’ve often wondered why they’d limit themselves to just the Chinese. The band has five members: Lead singer Ashin 阿信, Guitarist/Band Leader Monster 怪獸, Guitarist Stone 石頭, Bass Player (+random other instruments) Masa 瑪沙, and Drummer Guanyou 冠佑 (formerly known as Yanming 諺明, or just Ming. He went through a phase in 2007 in which he tried to get reporters from English-language newspapers to call him “Ryan,” but I’m ignoring that). For English-language information on Mayday, including album reviews and news, there is no better place than Mayday Blue. The basics (information about band members, band history, and discography) can be found on Wikipedia.
