Baybeats 2008 Line-up
Photo: Soh Poh Soo Donald
Photo: Soh Poh Soo Donald
Photo: Soh Poh Soo Donald
Photo: Joey Lim
Photo: Joey Lim
Photo: Joey Lim
Photo: Joey Lim
Photo: Soh Poh Soo Donald
Baybeats, August 30, 2008
Big day for the band. In 2007, we were wondering if we could ever make it to the stage of Baybeats. A year later, there we were. Funny how some dreams do come true and one can’t seem to remember much of it.
Also met up with some of the Esplanade Youth and NUS students writers, who are among the most enthusiastic bunch of interviewers we’ve met, after our set. Zhanhui from NUS would later recommend us to play a show for NUS Radio Pulze Live Lounge.
Don’t we all look young and dandy? Photo was taken by one of our good friends, Aloysius Lim, when we were fresh off the Baybeats audition.
This jovial snap was later used in an interview with Junk magazine. An funny except:
How did you guys get your band name?
Eve: Well it was either this or Sh*t Said Shirley (SSS for short), which was a lot harder to say, plus some of our friends thought we were ripping off Right Said Fred.
Read the full article here.
PODCAST INTERVIEW - SMU CAMPUS RADIO, 2008
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During the lead up to Baybeats 2008, the publicity team of Esplanade did a really good job of hooking up the various bands with the press. Here’s a rare audio interview of us (minus Shirley who was away in Hong Kong for vacation) with the SMU campus radio folks. You also get to hear one of those rare moments where our ex-members Eve and Alf did an awesome acoustic rendition of “Straight Doll.”
“SPIT IT OUT!” - STUDIO DEMO
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We recorded our first demo in December 2007 at TNT Studios over a two-hour session. We had decided to submit an entry for Baybeats 2008 at the very last minute and the both of us - Shirley and Lennat - were also leaving for Perth to catch Tegan and Sara during their tour for The Con around the submission closing date, so time was of the essence.
The song eventually landed us a Saturday opening slot at Baybeats and is also named as one of the 44 songs that define Singapore by Today’s Christopher Toh, who calls the song “pseudo-punk, sure, but it still grooves in all the right places.”
We suppose the three-chord spontaneity and the mistakes in the song made us quite “punk” indeed.
TWO GIRLS. GUITAR, DRUMS, VOCALS. MAXIMUM ROCK 'N' ROLL.
MIDNIGHT MARVEL IS SHIRLEY ON GUITARS & VOCALS AND LENNAT ON DRUMS.
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THANKS TO GIBSON SINGAPORE FOR OUR GUITAR GEAR!
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