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    3 Mar 2010

    Our dear friend Patrick, who plays in TypeWriter and the Oddfellows, is getting married! Do come by for the wedding celebration gig where everyone is invited. Details as follows: WEDDING POP!featuring:LivoniaTypeWriterEtcMidnight Marvel Venue: Home Club (The Riverwalk #B1-01 To #B1-06, 20 Upper Circular Road)Date: 27 March 2010Time: 8pm - 11pmFree entry before 9pm. After 9pm, $12 inclusive of a drink. Club rules apply. The bands will donate all proceeds to H.O.M.E., a non-profit organisation that provides welfare assistance to migrant workers. More details at the official Facebook event page!

    Our dear friend Patrick, who plays in TypeWriter and the Oddfellows, is getting married! Do come by for the wedding celebration gig where everyone is invited. Details as follows:

    WEDDING POP!
    featuring:
    Livonia
    TypeWriter
    Etc
    Midnight Marvel

    Venue: Home Club (The Riverwalk #B1-01 To #B1-06, 20 Upper Circular Road)
    Date: 27 March 2010
    Time: 8pm - 11pm
    Free entry before 9pm. After 9pm, $12 inclusive of a drink. Club rules apply.

    The bands will donate all proceeds to H.O.M.E., a non-profit organisation that provides welfare assistance to migrant workers.

    More details at the official Facebook event page!

    Tags: gigs.

    10 Feb 2010

    Photo: Jonathan Fong

    Photo: Jonathan Fong

    Photo: Jonathan Fong

    Photo: Jonathan Fong

    Photo: Jonathan Fong

    Photo: Jonathan Fong

    Photo: Aw Siowting

    Photo: Aw Siowting

    Photo: Aw Siowting

    Photo: Aw Siowting

    Home Club, January 30, 2010

    SETLIST:
    Spit It Out / Wago Fever / Her Wicked Smile (Le Chat Noir) / Your Girlfriend Knows / Gold Mine / You Bring Me Down (Blood Red Shoes) / Straight Doll / King Kong Beat

    Tags: gigs. photos.

    1 Feb 2010

    Gig Diary: Noisy-Pop Vol. 2, Home Club, 30 January 2010

    Salutations, fancy web dwellers!

    I love reading sanctimonious exposé of life on the road. Some of my personal favorites are Ben Blackwell’s Tremble Under Boom Lights, Screaming Females’ official blog that’s updated mainly by their drummer Jarrett D and The View From The Bus!!, a blog by Steven who’s the touring lighting designer for The Killers. (PS: If you haven’t read Steven’s latest entry on the Killers’ Asian tour cancellation, you should.)

    While there’s hardly any “life on the road” for us just yet, we still play the odd one-off shows, all seasons around the year. Naturally, because shows don’t really happen frequently or back-to-back, they become somewhat of an highlight of our band career. It also doubles up as a social outing because we also get to reconnect with old friends who would drop by, as well as make some new friends along the way. Just last Saturday, we played our first show of 2010 at Home Club and had a blast. Here’s what went down!

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    Tags: blog.

    17 Jan 2010

    Whatever happened to my rock ‘n’ roll?

    Whatever happened to my rock ‘n’ roll?

    Tags: blog.

    15 Jan 2010

    Announcing our first gig of 2010! We will be playing with some of our favorite local bands such as the Karl Maka, TypeWriter and the Pinholes. As the boys are all cool gents, it’s ladies first. Midnight Marvel will kick off the gig at 5pm sharp so be there early if you want to catch us. Details as follows: Noisy-Pop! Vol. 2Date : 30 January 2010 (Saturday)Time : 5pm - 11pmPlace : Home ClubEntrance Fee : $15 (including 1 beer or house-pour) CRANK IT UP! ALL THE WAY UP! Let the WALL OF SOUND surround you, and DIVE into ALL that’s noise and pop! WE ARE BACK and NOISIER than EVER! NOISY-POP! Vol.2 features a stellar line-up of 8 bands across genres. A whole night of manic, pure & juicy, noise-making goodness!A-go-go to the foot-stomping, hip-twisting, heart-breaking beat! Be fueled by the shimmering, hypnotic sounds of TypeWriter, Midnight Marvel, The Karl Maka, Quasimodo, Cheating Sons, Shelves, Moods and The Pinholes! Who knows, by the end of the night you might just fall in love all over again with your old favourites, or grow a brand new crush?! Ah, the dizzy days of a blossoming relationship between fan and band.How’s that for a grand way to kick start a brand new year of NOISY-POP?!! More details at the official Facebook event page!

    Announcing our first gig of 2010!

    We will be playing with some of our favorite local bands such as the Karl Maka, TypeWriter and the Pinholes.

    As the boys are all cool gents, it’s ladies first. Midnight Marvel will kick off the gig at 5pm sharp so be there early if you want to catch us. Details as follows:

    Noisy-Pop! Vol. 2
    Date : 30 January 2010 (Saturday)
    Time : 5pm - 11pm
    Place : Home Club
    Entrance Fee : $15 (including 1 beer or house-pour)

    CRANK IT UP! ALL THE WAY UP! Let the WALL OF SOUND surround you, and DIVE into ALL that’s noise and pop! WE ARE BACK and NOISIER than EVER! NOISY-POP! Vol.2 features a stellar line-up of 8 bands across genres. A whole night of manic, pure & juicy, noise-making goodness!

    A-go-go to the foot-stomping, hip-twisting, heart-breaking beat! Be fueled by the shimmering, hypnotic sounds of TypeWriter, Midnight Marvel, The Karl Maka, Quasimodo, Cheating Sons, Shelves, Moods and The Pinholes! Who knows, by the end of the night you might just fall in love all over again with your old favourites, or grow a brand new crush?! Ah, the dizzy days of a blossoming relationship between fan and band.

    How’s that for a grand way to kick start a brand new year of NOISY-POP?!!

    More details at the official Facebook event page!

    Tags: gigs.

    13 Jan 2010

    Greetings! A new year is upon us. To kick things off grandly, we managed to catch one of our biggest inspirations live on January 12, 2010 at the Esplanade Concert Hall. It was a fruitful and rewarding journey, as we also got to meet the band, as well as spend some time with our friend Brian the next day. “In Chase, We Trust” indeed! We are still reeling, of course. If you really want us to summarize the whole experience, we can only say: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are untouchable! YEAH x3!

    Greetings!

    A new year is upon us. To kick things off grandly, we managed to catch one of our biggest inspirations live on January 12, 2010 at the Esplanade Concert Hall. It was a fruitful and rewarding journey, as we also got to meet the band, as well as spend some time with our friend Brian the next day. “In Chase, We Trust” indeed!

    We are still reeling, of course. If you really want us to summarize the whole experience, we can only say: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are untouchable!

    YEAH x3!

    Tags: blog.

    22 Nov 2009

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    “KING KONG BEAT” - HOME DEMO
    [DOWNLOAD: MEDIAFIRE]

    Second song that we’ve worked on as a duo. Recorded live with our handy Zoom H2. Still a work in progress. Like the economy, it can always be better.

    Play count: 78
    Tags: music.

    22 Nov 2009

    Photo: Angela Chng

    Photo: Angela Chng

    Photo: Angela Chng

    Photo: Angela Chng

    Photo: Angela Chng

    Photo: Angela Chng

    Prince Of Wales, October 8, 2009

    We played our first gig as a fledgling guitar and drums duo at the John Peel tribute gig at Prince Of Wales. The show was plagued with Murphy’s Law and we played a super sloppy and short set of a couple of new songs (“Get Out” and “King Kong Beat”), old favorites (“Spit It Out!” and “Wago Fever”) and covers (The Upholsterers, Blood Red Shoes, The Coathangers).

    Here’s a review we found on the Internet:

    “Opening band Midnight Marvel could have sounded tighter, but that was really secondary to the snarling riot grrrl vibes it projected reminiscent of Sleater-Kinney.”

    We like how the reviewer was “honest and unmerciful,” the way proper rock critics should be. Keen observation with the reference to one of our favorite bands too.

    Tags: gigs. photos.

    20 Nov 2009

    The first time we didn’t engage the help of the self-timer for an official band promo photo. Taken by one of our good friends, Kaya Ow.

    The first time we didn’t engage the help of the self-timer for an official band promo photo. Taken by one of our good friends, Kaya Ow.

    Tags: photos.

    20 Nov 2009

    Sometime in April 2009, one of the Converse representatives from Shanghai got in touch and lots of emails and a couple of phone calls later, we were on board for their Fall ‘09 Music + Lyrics campaign that centers around indie music and its community around the Asia-Pacific region.

    Converse has been part of the whole rock ‘n’ roll heritage for a long time. We’re definitely most honored that the Shanghai folks believe in the band enough to choose us as the only band from Singapore for the campaign. You also would have never guessed that Shirley originally wrote the song about Lennat’s obsession with paintball. (Keynote: Lennat has since quit the sport.)

    Other than the song and lyrics, we also contributed a series of local stories for their Dispatches column. We had a lot of fun in the sun chasing stories as a band, interviewing our peers, talking to them about their hopes and dreams, sharing the very same hopes and dreams - we learned a lot more about that “renegade indie spirit” that we were told to capture. In a way, Singapore definitely lacks the derelict urban decay of China, Korea and Thailand but we are all still here chasing teenage kicks, aren’t we?

    You can download the lyrics from “Kill Pill” as your wallpaper here.