taykexin: Street-Busking "Get Set 就走！"

Yes, it's official,
i'm hitting the streets with Fatt to busk!

I've done so many different kinds of gigs; weddings, corporate Dnds, car/watch/fashion launches,
but i've never sung on the streets before!
So fatt and I decided to reach out to a wider audience this Christmas,
and what better way than busking???

Of course, we had to apply for the busking license, mind you we are the "fine" city,
so several months back, we auditioned with the National Arts Council at the National Library...

Back then we bought a Roland BA-330 portable speakers from Swee Lee

but we later realized some problems with it.

The folks at Swee Lee were so kind to refund us even after we used it for the audition!!

A month later, we were notified of our successful application!!

Thanks to the panel of judges who put us through!

A little teaser video during Christmas to kick-start our busking!

Day 1 - Busking in the rain?

It was not a good start for Operation Busking.

Hours before, the skies were grey,

parking was torturously hard to find at Wheelock place,

and we had to park nearby because there were so much barang we had to bring for busking!!!

Thankfully, we had the help of so many kind souls,

who braved through the rain for me just to kick start the operation *touched

Here's peipei my holding the brollie for everyone else lugging the

1) portable speakers

2) fatt's footdrums + high stool

and other barangs out of my small car.

It was a struggle handling all the stuff in the rain,

little and daphne in the picture below... struggling on the right!

and Sam on the left hand arm holding the portable speakers, another the brolly...

poor guys..

The rain was so bad we had to evacuate to the underpass connecting Ion to wheelock!

The traffic was great and there was natural acoustics in the tunnel hehe

We only managed to sing 3 songs before the security came to chase us away..

we were so loud Breadtalk could hear us oops lol..

Here are my helpers!

And Justin on the left who came to film us!!

Day 1 concluded rather abruptly and we were unfortunately unable to do further busking :(

Day 2 - Sunshine after the rain!
We almost thought we couldn't make it
but heaven didn't let us down and showered us with weather-goodness!!!

It was, in my opinion, an awesomee weather!
The cool breeze after the rain made our busking experience a real "breeze" hehe (pardon the pun),
and the response was overwhelmingly great!

After scribbling some words on a cardboard,

we are ready to hit it!!