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singascene #01: Finders, Keepers
August 9th, 2011. While everyone else is enjoying their super long weekend from calling in sick yesterday, I’m still happily jobless, and I find myself putting together a little mixtape. Armed with considerable online stalking skills and a propensity to download everything I come across, I’ve collected a small stash of forgotten music from my favourite bands — early demos, ripped off abandoned MySpace’s, tracks shared on blogs long deserted, recordings taken from that friend who knows that guy in that band. Some of these might’ve seen limited release physically or online, but those that haven’t… well, I found them anyway. I’ve kept it to the more recognisable names of the past few years, but even loyal fans should be able to find something new.
So it is with some pride — the patriotic kind, mind, lest I be labeled as some kind of indie snob, which I might be, but that is not within the scope of this post — that I present to you singascene #01. I’ve already put in the hard work as a slightly deranged fan and musical pack rat; you need only move your mouse a little over this way to share in the spoils.
Download singascene #01 (.zip)
Tracklist:
01 Adel Rashid - Sun Through My Window
02 Giants Must Fall - Whale Song (demo)
03 Paris In The Making - A lonely sky bids farewell
04 A Vacant Affair - How About Enough (demo)
05 For This Cycle - For What It’s Worth (demo)
06 I Am David Sparkle - Dance of Death (Live at Cactus Records)
07 Inch Chua - Cheers To Love (Caracal cover)
08 Elsa Kidspy - The Cloud Song
09 Amateur Takes Control - The Difference Is (live)
10 West Grand Boulevard - DKNY
11 Postbox - Find A Way (Plansunset cover)
12 Caracal - When Open Inverted Commas Close
13 Seyra - You make me go (demo)
14 B-Quartet - Rainbow Connection / Beautiful Crash (live)
15 Plainsunset - Checking Email (live)
Thanks to channers for naming this mixtape!

Hey guys, here’s something I’ve been working on.

singascene #01: Finders, Keepers

August 9th, 2011. While everyone else is enjoying their super long weekend from calling in sick yesterday, I’m still happily jobless, and I find myself putting together a little mixtape. Armed with considerable online stalking skills and a propensity to download everything I come across, I’ve collected a small stash of forgotten music from my favourite bands — early demos, ripped off abandoned MySpace’s, tracks shared on blogs long deserted, recordings taken from that friend who knows that guy in that band. Some of these might’ve seen limited release physically or online, but those that haven’t… well, I found them anyway. I’ve kept it to the more recognisable names of the past few years, but even loyal fans should be able to find something new.

So it is with some pride — the patriotic kind, mind, lest I be labeled as some kind of indie snob, which I might be, but that is not within the scope of this post — that I present to you singascene #01. I’ve already put in the hard work as a slightly deranged fan and musical pack rat; you need only move your mouse a little over this way to share in the spoils.

Download singascene #01 (.zip)

Tracklist:
01 Adel Rashid - Sun Through My Window
02 Giants Must Fall - Whale Song (demo)
03 Paris In The Making - A lonely sky bids farewell
04 A Vacant Affair - How About Enough (demo)
05 For This Cycle - For What It’s Worth (demo)
06 I Am David Sparkle - Dance of Death (Live at Cactus Records)
07 Inch Chua - Cheers To Love (Caracal cover)
08 Elsa Kidspy - The Cloud Song
09 Amateur Takes Control - The Difference Is (live)
10 West Grand Boulevard - DKNY
11 Postbox - Find A Way (Plansunset cover)
12 Caracal - When Open Inverted Commas Close
13 Seyra - You make me go (demo)
14 B-Quartet - Rainbow Connection / Beautiful Crash (live)
15 Plainsunset - Checking Email (live)

Thanks to channers for naming this mixtape!

Hey guys, here’s something I’ve been working on.

09/08/11

Also happening very soon:

The Fairy Tales of Lotte Reiniger, featuring music by Amiina
2-5 June

Arms and Sleepers (US) w/ Monster Cat (SG)
9 June

Taken By Cars’ album launch w/ Plainsunset, A Vacant Affair
10 June

Envy (JP) w/ Amateur Takes Control (SG)
18 June

30/05/11

If I told you which of these 10 bands were great I would have 10 bands to tell you about

Let’s goooo

11/02/11

OH RIGHT, TONIGHT:

It’s Friday and I clean forgot about this, tonight at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre:

7.30 - 8.15pm A Vacant Affair
8.45 - 9.30pm B-Quartet
10 - 10.45pm The Great Spy Experiment

06/08/10

Crap I forgot about this. Anyone wants to go in the afternoon?

Saturday, 8th May
Tessalation: One
The Substation, Guiness Theatre
4pm onwards

Typecast (PHI)

Featuring:
They Will Kill Us All (MY)
A Vacant Affair (SG)
Silhouette (SG)
Hello, Is This The Band (MY)
Indus Gendi (SG)

Door Tickets at $20/-
Presale @ $15/- (email sqncsg@gmail.com)

Facebook event page

06/05/10

-mockingbird:

consider this free advertising.

but then again, it IS an awesome lineup.

find out more here

Wahhh, why am I confined again

11/04/10

WHO NEEDS MOSAIC WHEN YOU CAN HAVE MUSIC*

It’s a busy month ahead and I can’t make it to at least half of these, so you really have to go and tell me all about it. All events free unless otherwise stated!

20th March, Saturday, 8.30-9.30pm @ 15 Minutes Cafe, Lasalle
mux - The King Is Green
mux is Bani Haykal, Luqman Hakim and Siraaj Anwar, i.e. half of B-Quartet. You have to go.

26th March, Friday, 8-10pm @ Dhoby Ghaut Green
I AM TAKING CONTROL: fin — an interdisciplinary collaboration between Amateur Takes Control, Bani Haykal (spoken word), and Fezz Hoo (visuals)
I would pay you to go, if you had even the slightest reservations.

27th March, Saturday, 7.30pm till late @ *SCAPE
WeekendTRIP featuring For This Cycle, Silhouette, Barricade, Good Morning High Fives (Philippines), The Mission in Motion (Australia), and City Escape (Australia)
Barricade are just sick. I mean I know this guy and we’ve been through jungles and mountains and shit but one day he sings and WHOA. They are on at 8.15pm!

28th March, Sunday, 8-10pm @ Singapore Art Museum
i-AM 2010: Storytelling with The Analog Girl
$15 presale, $20 at the door

1st to 4th April @ Esplanade Waterfront
To Who Knows When… A Shoegaze Weekend
Jellybelly (Indonesia), Swirling Light (Thailand), Stellarium (SG), Elemental Gaze (Indonesia), Galactica (SG) and a Vapour Trails DJ Set

9th to 11th April, 7.30pm till late @ Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
+65 Indie Weekend with Amateur Takes Control, The Oddfellows, I Am David Sparkle and A Vacant Affair
ARE YOU KIDDING!!

11th April, Sunday, 9.30-11pm @ Esplanade Recital Studio
Uncommon Fields: the launch of B-Quartet’s 2nd full-length album Conformity Has Replaced Conciousness
$25 via SISTIC

* I am not angry about 65daysofstatic. I am not angry about 65daysofstatic. I am not angry about 65daysofstatic. I am not angry about 65daysofstatic. I am not angry about 65daysofstatic.

15/03/10

Free this Friday night? Chillax with Freddie Bryant and Gilad Dobrecky or help bring Inch Chua to Texas!

World-class jazz/fusion guitarist Bryant and percussionist Dobrecky will be performing a free set at the library@esplanade tomorrow night at 7.

Then at 8.30pm head over to 15 Minutes at Lasalle (next to Sim Lim Square) for some of my favourite local acts — A Vacant Affair, B-Quartet, Caracal, Amateur Takes Control, Plainsunset, and Talk to the Walls — as they put on an unplugged show to raise funds for Inch to get to SXSW.

All this during my weekend confinement :(

04/02/10

9837 Miles To Texas: A Fundraiser

15 Minutes Cafe, Lasalle College of the Arts (next to Sim Lim Square)
Friday 5th February
8pm
Admission: By donation (We will be selling merchandise during the event.)
Amateur Takes Control, A Vacant Affair, B-Quartet, Caracal, Plainsunset, Talk To The Walls and Inch Chua

zomg B-Quartet and ATC in the same room, unplugged

zomg first day of confinement for the recruits so I can’t go

sadface sadface sadface

30/01/10

Universal releases +65 Indie Underground — 3 whole CDs featuring top local independent acts from the 80’s up to now, including Amateur Takes Control, A Vacant Affair, MUON, B-Quartet, I Am David Sparkle, Astreal, The Observatory, aspidistrafly, Plainsunset, Stoned Revivals, Etc, Concave Scream, Humpback Oak, The Padres, The Oddfellows, Zircon Lounge, and if I don’t stop here I might as well post the entire track listing. I’d much rather you bought each of the great albums featured here, but it looks like a fantastic compilation if you’re starting out.

12/12/09

WeekendTRIP is back!

SATURDAY, 19th DECEMBER

*SCAPE LAB, 3-5.30pm
- Workshop with Leonard Soosay on recording a good demo & the local music industry
- Up close and personal with Closure in Moscow
- Workshop 2 with Esmond Wee & Mike See, managers of The Great Spy Experiment & The Firefight, about band management and promotion
**Limited slots! Sign up at weekendtrip.onetickethub.com

*SCAPE LAB, 7.30-10pm
Pixel Apartment
Waiting for Nothing
Quick Quick Danger

*SCAPE Youth Park, 7-11pm
Trella
No Talent (Indonesia)
Closure in Moscow (Australia)
A Vacant Affair

SUNDAY, 20th DECEMBER

*SCAPE LAB, 3-4.30pm
Up close and personal with Farhan Borst
Up close and personal with Inch Chua (TBC)

*SCAPE LAB, 6.30-10pm
Fire Away Samson
Her Silent Wish
Mouthful of Air
Vermillion

*SCAPE Youth Park, 7-10.45pm
Audiocean
Tacit Aria
They Will Kill Us All (Malaysia)
Closure in Moscow (Australia)

29/11/09

quick gig update

Updated 23/05:

27/05 7pm Lasalle College of the Arts Official Opening (closed event) Amateur Takes Control, I Am David Sparkle

27/05 830pm Cineleisure Like A Band

30/05 Heeren For This Cycle (5pm), SORE (7pm)

05/06-07/06 5/8/10pm Lasalle The Observatory $30 tix from Sistic <— who wants to go with me!!

05/06 5pm Earshot Cafe @ The Arts House For This Cycle, Trella

06/06 8pm Earshot Cafe @ The Arts House ATC

06/06 Rock the Sub @ The Substation ATC, Caracal, Silhouette, For This Cycle, The Fire Fight, Postbox, The Great Spy Experiment, Allura, Force Vomit, Urbandub, A Vacant Affair

11/07 SMU night festival ATC, Muon, Tiramisu, The Pinholes

11/07 7pm *scape For This Cycle EP Launch

23/05/09

“Liveblogging” “Live ‘n’ Loaded” for the lols

End So it wasn’t so bad, and not just because I’ve drastically lowered my expectations since last week. Here’s to better shows.
9:29 Next episode: Plainsunset (yay), Marchtwelve (yay), and Kate of Kale
9:26 Just please be mindful of people who don’t actually enjoy hurting each other?
9:22 A Vacant Affair are on with We Are Not The Same, great song. Jerkwads in the middle, it’s cool if you mosh this one
9:18 Marcus going crazy with the wailing ambient guitar effects — possibly my favourite thing about VR?
9:17 Jerkwads in the middle moshing
9:16 VR’s Spaceman. One of their better pieces.
9:11 Tic Tac ad seems to encourage popping multiple sweets at once — possible laxative effects?
9:07 Jack & Rai again, The Fa La La Song. I love these guys.
9:03 Bad ACS band playing Mr Brightside. Didn’t know they took cover bands. On the bright side (ha ha) that might be an easy way to get onto the show, play some DT or something
9:02 Jack says “expose” and doesn’t look like a creep — Utt please take note
8:57 aughhh Singtel ad prominently featuring Arial Bold
8:55 Presenting Shigga Shay, Chinese kid trying to be a white guy trying to be a black guy. Bloody annoying accent (no offence intended to people who actually, naturally speak like that)
8:52 Utt says “Myanmar”, Adam corrects him, “Burma actually”, Utt says “Myanmar” again
8:49 OMG programmed drums. GUYS CAN I SESSION FOR YOU
8:48 Eden State playing Crash Into You, which I posted earlier today. Guitars’ a bit rough and off intonation? Don’t just slap on a capo (especially on the first fret) and expect it to work perfect guys
8:48 “exposed”
8:43 Utt says “exposed” for the fourth time
8:40 Cam pans past some jerkwad filming with a digicam. Hello?
8:39 For This Cycle are on with just Weiwen and percussion
8:39 Utt makes some tasteless comment about Fiona
8:37 Jack & Rai (and that other guy) play Fiona, awesome
8:35 Idiots making faces at the cams
8:34 Missed most of Vertical Rush’s opening song

03/02/09