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| by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Sunday, October 09, 2005, 5:51:00 AM | permalink |
 I watched my ungelled hair rise like leavened bread into a mini-afro in the glass reflection on the MRT train, as the moisture from a quick shower evaporates into the dry air-con air. I make a quick call on my handphone and arranged to meet Boon at around 9:45pm @ City Hall.A Starbucks Espresso Frap Venti in hand and off we went to the Asian Civilisations Museum at Armenian Street.. except that the place seemed deserted. After circling the entire building once, another time, and another, (as if the walls of the place would collapse and the hidden gig treasure would magically appear Ali Baba style) a call to Jamie to check online maps.. finally we gave up our egos and asked the single bored/bemused security guard at the front gate. "Show? I think you mean the other ACM.Ugh. A hurried dash/hop/cab and we finally arrived at the correct place. Turns out that the first place we went to was ACM 1 (Armenian St) and that the performances were held at ACM 2 (Empress Pl). Actually, the gig itself was intended as 1 of the events celebrating the brand new opening of the place. Good news was that for our troubles we enjoyed most of the gig that night. My journalist-wannabe instincts even had me chatting with 2 of my favourite bands of the night - Surreal and Vertical Rush Summary of "interview" with Jon Chan (Surreal guitarist/support vocals, ex-Plainsunset lead) Qn: What is it that you're singing in the back during the bridge of "Bedtime Story" ? Jon: Well, that part's pretty quick so I have to sing fast, but to put it simply, the words are 'No more sleepless nights, when I am not your bedtime story'. Qn: What happened with Plainsunset? I think its still the greatest Singapore band. Why disband? Jon: Well, the band was starting to go in different directions in terms of musical preferences. So we decided to split while we were still friends. Me: Rather than breaking up from fighting? Jon: Yea. You should have seen the last gig we had, there was alot of crying. The other members of the band are still in the scene. Sham's in another band now, Shamejoannshame. Summary of chat with Vertical Rush band member Me: Hey thanks for playing our request for "Hello Goodbye", it was Boon's idea to want that song, it has alot of sentimental value for him. [sabohs] (Actually it was a mutual idea. The song's quite special to me too. Boon & me finally mustered our guts to yell for the song at the same time) VRush: No probs! But its been quite some time since we've performed that song live. I wrote it back when I was in BMT. Me: Wow. (And I'm still in my 1st year as an NSF :[ ) Qn: What is the band up to at the moment? Any gigs? VRush: We'll be doing a New Year's gig at the Esplanade, 2 sets actually. we're quite worried about it.. it'll be very tiring to handle. Me: Yea I can imagine. VRush: We're also recording material for an upcoming album! Hopefully it will be ready soon. Qn: Tonight's set was great! But we had some problems getting here. We thought the venue was the other ACM. I'm worried that some people were also confused. VRush: You too??? We also thought it was the other place. We found out and ran all the way from there over here, sweated like mad. Me: Well, hope that we were the only ones to be affected by this tonight... It was around 11pm-12am+ when the gig finally ended. A trip to ACM's loo & a tour of the place and we left at 12am+++. Photo opportunities were spotted outside. Being the   So, yep we had a fun-filled evening. And to reiterate for the last time, we've also learnt that the Asian Civilisations Museum is situated at two separate venues.. Now we know! |
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