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| by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Sunday, July 30, 2006, 4:43:00 AM | permalink |
 Headed down to frequent haunt HOME club on Friday, listened to opening band Valium live for the first time (good stuff btw), and then the stage was cleared for LocalBarBoy to setup.Joe Ng walked by and I asked him a couple things about the band's long term hiatus. He had this warm smile as we chatted, but the moment was quite sad really. The band will not be performing anymore as Yap will be heading to Japan due to work. The other Bar Boys felt that to carry on with member minus one will cause something to be amiss and decided to put the band as a whole on hold. As much as I will miss the sessions of merry local music singalongs, I respect the loyalty that these guys have. But LocalBarBoy never was about sadness or sulking. With a jug of beer in hand, Joe grabs the mike with the other and introduces the band with a gusto like its their first time around performing. "We are LocalBarBoy! And if you notice, we hold lyric sheets in our hands.. coz' we're a karaoke band. Of local songs!"It was one for rememberance. Waving papers & feathered boas in the air, Joe+Ler+Yap+Tim+Alexis+Cal got the crowd to sing about Girls from Katong, Songs about Caroline, Siti and Dewa, Class 'A' Love Affairs and Horizons ahead.   The next day Great Spy Experiment played @ the outdoor amphitheatre at Esplanade. Sitting there chilling out to their songs, I thought about their meteorical rise. Since their first public appearance roughly 2 year ago, they have since been covered by the LBB team, performed at Zouk, been spun by Poptart, and even got airplay time on Perfect 10. And looking back, its still feels as if they miraculously appeared from nowhere. One day, I was at RockForGood@RGS being puzzled-bemused spotting some guy in the crowd wearing a green tee with GREAT SPY EXPERIMENT print in huge psychedelic fonts and happily confusing that with another band The Love Experiment (sorry). Today, I'm proudly looking at my own newly acquired GSE shirt as I type this blog (bought it cos' the band's good lah what else). And the guy's name is Fandy aka "Carlos". He's the hard-thumping drummer of GSE, "dancer & choreographer" extraordinare.   Amidst the crowd's wild applause I'm smiling. Things are looking up for them and I'm expecting spectacular things to be happening soon. Yep, pictures are UPs. Click on the pics above to go view gallery :) |
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