If you haven’t been to the festival village yet, here’re some good reasons to check out the Singapore Arts Festival before it ends on Sunday:
Love and Accolades — Inch Chua & The Metric System
Thursday, 2 June, 9 - 9.45pm
Secondary Stage, Festival VillageMother Superior Jump the Gun — The Observatory
Friday, 3 June, 9.30 - 10.15pm
Secondary Stage, Festival VillageA First Date Mixtape — The Karl Maka
Saturday, 4 June, 9.30 - 10.15pm
Secondary Stage, Festival Village
Singapore Arts Festival 2011 music programme highlights (according to me):
Raga Jazz Liaison — Loops (Australia)
Friday, 20 May, 8 - 8.45pm
Main Stage, Festival VillageLucid Dreaming — Topology (Australia)
Friday, 20 May, 10 - 10.45pm
Main Stage, Festival VillageVillage Sessions: Singapore ’60s Pop — Georgiana Glass (unpopular.radio)
Friday, 20 May, 10.45pm till late
The Tuckshop, Festival VillageAirwaves — Topology and Loops (Australia)
Saturday, 21 May, 8pm and Sunday, 22 May, 3pm
School of the Arts Concert Hall
Tickets at $60, $40 and $20Love and Accolades — Inch Chua & The Metric System
Thursday, 2 June, 9 - 9.45pm
Secondary Stage, Festival VillageMother Superior Jump the Gun — The Observatory
Friday, 3 June, 9.30 - 10.15pm
Secondary Stage, Festival VillageA First Date Mixtape — The Karl Maka
Saturday, 4 June, 9.30 - 10.15pm
Secondary Stage, Festival Village
Don’t go to a rally tonight. Go see Gruff Rhys at TAB. Sneak into Nosaj Thing x Caribou. Or get lost in The Observatory’s live improvisation gig with Analog Girl, Bani Haykal (B-Quartet) and Fuzz Lee (Life Without Dreams).
ok sorry, or post-rock out to This is Atlantis at Identite
or, do none of the above because you have a prior dinner appointment with best friend of 23 years who is leaving for brisbane next week
In The Studio With The Observatory
This channel features informal videos and ad-hoc audio recordings of The Observatory’s jam sessions as they work on their 5th album. The idea is to give people sneaks into the group’s creative process. The flaws, the bum notes, the slips, the dynamics, the connection, it’s all there. No edits, no production gimmicks, just live off the floor.
Brilliant as always.
Singapore_1977_25 by Pierre Wayser
Recently in Paris, we met Pierre Wayser, a photographer/artist who helps run Les Voutes (our gig venue). In the 60s-70s, as a young man, he had travelled afar and settled momentarily at Amoy Street. In his tiny office in one of three underground tunnels at the venue, he showed us these. In the dark, Les, Victor, Dharma and I just stood there quietly as we were transfixed by a mirror of our lives growing up. How much we had forgotten…
Amazing shots of a time I never got to see with my own eyes.
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.
hello,
our performance this sat will mark the end to our hexa series gigs.
and no better place to finish it off at the ucc theatre!
we will be joined by b-quartet, who will be showcasing material from the latest album, and brandon tay (krozm), and his intriguing visual projections.
this event is free but tickets will be given at the door from 7pm due to limited seating.
see you there!
obs
HEXA II
Blu Jaz Cafe (Level 3)
11 Bali Lane
Singapore 189848
25 Jul 9.30pm, $20Tickets at door starting at 8.30pm
A3 poster giveaway for 1st 30 ticket holders
Open Bar all night
DARK FOLKE
The new album by The Observatory
Fresh from the release of their 4th album, The Observatory play an intimate club gig at Blu Jaz with special guest Concave Scream.
Join us for Hexa II, the second gathering for all dark folk.
Oh yes
new Observatory album “Dark Folke” ahhhhhhhhh
many things to update but I’m off to enjoy my weekend. Booking in on Monday morning. Ta!
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
The Observatory “have recently finished recording the 4th album at duper studio in bergen, norway”. And they’re having what sounds like a crazy ambitious gig in June just two days before I go on block leave. Dammit dammit dammit.
The Observatory - The Absentee
An unreleased track from their 2005 album Blank Walls, The Absentee was somehow the first I’d heard of local experimental legends The Observatory, and I’m glad I had the patience to sit through it back when I was young(er) and stupid(er) and buried in Top 40’s pop-rock shite. Thoughtful and mellow, the song wanders from motif to motif, but always with deliberate, steady steps. It’s sorta like what Radiohead’s Hunting Bears would sound like if it’d been about taking a walk along the outskirts of the city in the quiet just before rush hour instead of, you know, hunting bears.
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