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Hello my fellow music zombies...I present you...the January 09 bootleg videos (so far):

Stars Live @ Esplanade Concert Hall

Calendar Girl (Torquil went ape shit and jumped into the crowd)

Your Ex-Lover Is Dead (a crowd favourite)

Ageless Beauty (the song featured in The O.C?)

The Ting Tings Live at Fort Canning Park

Traffic Light (an excerpt)

Fruit Machine

Having trouble uploading the Mystery Jets clip, but I know someone who takes kickass bootleg vids (because she has a kickass camera). I say share the lovely..

Mystery Jets Live at Zouk (vids courtesy of ikinai)

Flakes

Half In Love With Elizabeth

Enjoy!

Your gig-calendar is on fire!

Kaiser Chiefs Live @ Fort Canning Park, Singapore

7 Apr 2009

Get your early bird tickets at SISTIC.

I predict a riot!

Fruits of machines

The Ting Tings
Live @ Big Night Out (Fort Canning Park)
13 Jan 2009

There was the loop machine, a song called 'Fruit Machine', and all the machine thingamajigs that supported the 2-piece band to make them sound like 5-piece DJ set. Money don't make the world go round, machines do.

Such evolution means you don't need 6 people to sound like a full orchestra, just pre-recorded stuff that comes on cue, and do it often enough, you become singer/songwriter/button-pusher.

Okay digs aside.

I had a marvelousssssss time at The Ting Tings. Sure they get flak for their melodic hooks, I just think those savvy machines have got subliminal functions that wires some of us to get so extra hooked while the infra-redness diluted across others who'd end up thinking the songs are merely irritating.

The band teased, they threw treats and they delivered to their very-young (or is it just me?) audience.

Slightly extended versions of their biggest hits, "That's Not My Name" and "Shut Up And Let Me Go" were delicioussss, we lapped it all up like hungry dawgs, wishing there were second servings.

Their other songs were tasty dancey treats as well - "We Started Nothing", "Great DJ" and "We Walk"...it's just too bad they've only got one album!

Half in love with....

Mystery Jets
Live @ Zouk, Singapore
11 Jan 2009

I don't deserve to really review this because Mystery Jets are abit of a mystery to me. I haven't heard of their music and I haven't heard of them before, but a pair of tickets landed on my hand so I did a Youtube skimming of their songs and found myself humming addicted to one or two - "Young Love" (if I only knew your name / I'd go from door to door) was one of em. And hopped to Zouk to check 'em out.

A pretty awesome band, short of mighty awesome only coz I haven't had enough time to make memorable memories with their songs or build a rapport with their lyrics yet. haha, so it was abit cold. But I did enjoy myself and the songs all spoke for itself.

For those of you who're clueless bout this band, here's a story about the lead singer and his dad (Blaine and Henry Harrison) to warm some cold cold hearts..

Read this article.

How cool is dad?!

At the gig, Henry didn't play, so I guess he's said his goodbye.

Mraz-culous.

Jason Mraz will pop by Singapore again 5th March.

Check it out: SISTIC

LIVE THROUGH THIS AND YOU WON'T LOOK BACK.

Stars
Live @ Esplanade Concert Hall
07 Jan 2009

First gig of the year and it started out with a bang already!

I'm posting this while it's still fresh in my head. Whatever Torquil was sipping, it's so strong I am feeling its buzz, still. Hahah.

So I didn't have the best of seats, way up on top, but the band seemed mighty sympathetic that we're paying so much for their gig, they played close to 2 hours long and kept thanking us and expressing their gratefulness at how they managed to sell 1,500 kinda-expensive tickets to this tiny red dot. They were also shocked that the crowd was made up of many locals as opposed to "only Canadian English teachers" as the band had expected. heh

So appreciative they were, Torquil during his bouts of musical spasms, after repeatedly spouting the lines "Stay Alive" on 'Calendar Girl", suddenly leapt out into the crowd, balanced his way on the seats to the middle of the crowd, like Criss Angel walking on water. He was warmly received and he screamed (I've no idea what, his thanks?) while reaching out to people whose hands are in the air eager to give him a bigger welcome. This could be the first (maybe the last) time I see a successful crowd-surfing attempt at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Wicked. I want whatever he's having.

On top of that there were dozens of white and red roses sitting on their amps on stage. The members would occasionally grab some stalks and throw it to the crowd, or bunch a handful of petals and throw it on stage the way people throw rice at a wedding - ceremoniously to give the songs abit more oomph. How romantic. Lovely. (Though not so lovely for the cleaner afterwards)

Oh I'm so caught up describing the experience I haven't even mentioned about the music. How rude of me. What else is there to say...the crescendo of "Your ex-lover is dead" would've put anyone in the Hall in a second of cosmic high. There is nothing else I can describe about the music 'cept, you shoulda been there!!

If you weren't, you also missed:

- Amy Millan rocking in her disco sequinned top.
- singing a Happy Birthday song for Evan Alan!
- seeing drummer Pat playing the drums with 2 stalks of red roses.
- catching a glimpse of Chris two-stepping a salsa(?)-esque dance when he thought no one's watching.

Do you know how old these guys are?! Ageless Beauties never stop rockin'!



Will post vids soon...including the one of Torquil walking on the crowd.