furniture's Singapore tour...

Went for it. Was good to go for gigs which I don't organise. Refreshing for a change... Gettin' too old, I guess. furniture played 'I Am Ying' which is my favourite track. KLPHQ, Subway Stars (which were not bad but they jumped around like they were playing emo-punk) and Life Without Dreams, an insomniac's cure (that's what Fuzz told me lah...) opened for them. But Billy had to rush back to book in for his reservist stint and missed their set.




Life Without Dreams


Subway Stars




KLPHQ




furniture

Lunarin album pre-launch party

Lunarin threw a party at Scarlett Hotel last night. Went for it. Good fun. Waaaayyyy too much booze. Puked after I got off the cab. A lotta drunk fuckers around. V. nice. It rawks. Though I must say, it's the weirdest hangover I've gotten. No headaches, nothing but I'm hungry the entire day. I dunno why boss...

Though I was quite disappointed that we din thrash the hotel room like true rock stars though...

These guys are fucken geniuses!!!

The 80's hair metal tribute to Air Supply..

I present HAIR SUPPLY!!!

Check them out!!! This is their official site. Complete with screaming vocals and calls for "guitar solo!!!" Utter geniuses!!!

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Ever note the increasing trend of Hollywood spending more money on making movies with increasingly long names? Hell, yeah.

Check out the trailers and an action clip of the major war scene at the end of the movie (the money shots) here.

Lady In The Water

Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's latest flick 'Lady In The Water' can be found here. NIce trailer though. Expect the usual ending-with-a-twist sheenigans and atmospheric and lingering shots... Will the movie sink at the box office? Sink? Geddit?

Oh. fuck off...

Blah blah blah...

1) Why do people keep claiming to support local music and when it's time to actually pay for a gig, everyone starts shirking away???

2) When you say Band A rawks and the album comes out, you say that you got no money to buy the album. You'd probably burn the album from a friend... Why?

3) Why can some people learn to build a HTML website when they are only 12 and can't use Google when they are 16, studying for their 'O' levels?

4) Is Googling for the word 'tech rider' very difficult?

5) Why are most people's concept of local music only restricted to a band (2 guitars, 1 bass and 1 drumset)? Are DJs, buskers, sound artists and rap crews not vital enough?

6) Why are you only 14 and rapping about gettin' high and being a playa?

7) Can local indie kids stop blogging about that album which you hug to sleep every night?

8) Can the fucken emo kids stop playing those same few power chords and jumping around like monkeys onstage? If I need to see simians, I'd go to the zoo. It's the same few power chords played in the same progression, regardless what you call it, emo-core, post-hardcore, emo-punk, melodic emo, etc.

9) What's up with metal guys and leather jackets? Have they heard of the term heatstroke?

10) Why is everyone so obsessed about turning local music into something commercially viable? Don't they know that it's a business after all and it's not as rosy as what they think it is...?

The end.

Time to take out your pair of lucky red underwear again...

He's returning...



See the trailer here.

Frequency Of The City

I caught the 1st episode of the documentary. Good shit. It pairs up 2 musicians from different genres to collect 3 sound samples each to mix them to create a tune. Nice. The 1st episode had Don Richmond and X'Ho collaborating. I missed David Tan and Kelvin Guoh's collaboration.

Here's Arts Central for site the program. Comes with the samples. I rikesss... Soundart.

This rawksss...

Found it on Grace's blog...

Gorillaz 'live'...

Check it out...

The saga continues...

My friend Simon posted this on a forum. What he walked out from a meeting held at Prince Of Wales about the God-forsaken Sembawang Fest.

I was at the "free drinking session" at POW that Tuesday. With regards to the $75 ticket price when I asked Malcolm, he said "Local bands should stop doing free shows for the audience. Isn't it great to see audience paying $75 to watch you play? I've got people from overseas laughing at how cheap the tickets are! It is about time crowd goers deserve to pay this amount to make the bands feel more worthy!" "So don't you think local bands deserved to be paid more than just $100 when you are making $75 from 1 audience?" I asked him. "No" he said. "I need the money so that I can bring in more international bands and local bands can have the opportunity playing with the big acts".

I told him his so-called "international" bands are unknown to most Singaporeans and you know what he said? "Singaporeans are ignorant. These international bands that I'm bringing in are huge in their countries. The internet is there for you people to find out. Singaporeans need to change their mentality on the way they look at things and I am going to change that! If you guys are not supportive of the festival, don't play. I've got 2 more local bands begging me for a slot!"

How can he say such a thing like this? Who is he to change the mentality of Singaporeans? We don't go around saying the Australians are ignorant for not knowing Dick Lee or Electrico or Taufik, do we? And I totally despised his statement "local bands begging me for a slot". Yes, the music scene here is small, but we still have something call "pride" and "respect". For that, Zero Sequence has pulled out from the festival along with If, Camra, and Lunarin. The $100 payment is never an issue for us. In fact I still think the festival is a kick ass festival. But to play for him, even if he is paying us $1000, I'll say fuck off!

GO HOME, WHITE APE!!!

The return of disco...

You know disco is making yet another comeback when the Material Mom, Madonna samples ABBA's 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight' for her new single, 'Hung Up'. Even her video is homage to the 70's. Check out the single here.

Highly disturbing...

... to know that you have appeared in the national papers, The New Paper, our nation's only afternoon tabloid.


Me on Halloween as a sweet Convent girl with none of the Catholic guilt.

Check out the rest of the party here.

1 outta 2-and-a-half

According to Kirsten Dunst, we will be getting 2-and-a-half villians for Spiderman 3: Sandman, Venom and someone who will be resurrected... Hmmm... Anyway, Topher Grace from "That 70's Show" will be playing Eddie Brock aka Venom. I've always thought that Topher Grace would have made an excellent Peter Parker.

Anyway, here's the first official shot of Thomas Haden as Sandman.

Recording part 2

Recording continues...

Some folks have asked why we are taking so long to record 'Orbit 'Round Me', a new tune. We have taken more than a month (but we only record on weekends lah...). I'll say we want to get it perfect. We've scrapped the original recording and redone it again. We are almost done in terms of the instrumentation: the overdubs, additional layers, etc. except for the vocals and live percussion bits.

When they ask, "Why are you going to bounce the tracks down to 44.1kHz, 16-bit to SONAR 3 and mix then if you are going for perfection?" That's when I poke the muthafucka's eyes out...


Always good to have a light-hearted moment before we start recording.


The producer


The engineer


The artist


Keyboards layers on the song...


A look from the recording control room which is actually the fucken toilet.


Domestic help are gettin' uglier these days...


Additional guitar layers. Doing the whole wall of sound thing for the outro...


Miking the amps...


Miking the amps...


Failed attempt on day 4.


Additional sound layering on the song's chorus


Highly primitive way of getting stereo/ ping-pong signals. We panned one mike hard left and the other hard right.

I love recording...

Children's prayers to God...

A natural bootlicker...