Willy aka the village bike

Yes, as usual, in my greatest mutant ability ever ... my ability to slut myself into my fren's bedroom and carry away shitloads of CDs, comics, guitar gear, etc. was carried out yesterday. Was at my ex-colleague/ friend, Maximillan Roger Christian Ho's place * had to spell his full name.... hahaha just drives me insane to think someone really has such a long name*

The dude's really a through-bred indie brat (hey, that rhymes!!!). He has like shitloads of obscure Britpop bands and tons of singles. I reckon he has no less than 1000 albums and singles. And that seems to be a conservative estimate. The bugger really has tons of stuff from the late 80's and early 90's shoegazer scene in the UK. The guy has been citing bands like Ride, The Charlatans, Stone Roses, The Smiths and Oasis as his greatest influences. (Okay, The Smiths and Oasis are not eaxctly shoegazer-ish or groovy by nature)

Met his younger brother who happened to be my age, Ritchie Melvin Ho *I bet their parents really had fun coming up with their names...* He used to play lead guitar in Suchness which recorded a track, "Spellweaver" for BigO Singles Club No. 3. I have always thought that track was really one of the stronger tracks done by a Singaporean band, melodic and abrasive at the same time. Apparently, his albums and singles collection is equivalent to Max's, if not, even more!!!

Well, they played one of the songs which they composed, 'Lovely Lady' for me to let me sample. Sounded really like Oasis to me. Max explained to me that some parts were ripped off ... *ahem* inspired by Ride. Well, he told me that he is hoping to draw a bridge between the rootsy sounds favoured by the shoegazer bands in the later parts of the career (think the Verve) and melodic choir boy stylings of the shoegazer bands. Sounds good to me, after all, I grew up on this stuff... Well, we might be jamming soon and will hopefully get down to recording some of his tunes. Hope it'd be fun!!