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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Because great stories were born out of tough times - 21Feb GET SET GO Showcase @ Esplanade Waterfront

21Feb,

I was honoured to be given the stage at Esplanade Waterfront as part of HUAYI Festival (:

I have done several shows there, but always as part of another group,

so i was really excited to finally have the stage to myself,

for my newly released EP, GET SET GO! (:

I was all geared up for the show,

until one day before, i was struck with fever.

I couldn't even make it to rehearsal without feeling dizzy and weak :(

Thankfully, i managed to regain 80% of my health come show day..

I couldn't have asked for a better band setup,

with Fatt kew my busking buddy and

James Yeo my producer for my English Original "Someday You'll Be" :D

The one and only Guitarist & footdrummer -

Mr Fatt Kew!

James Yeo working his magic,

one layer of keyboard is not enough for him haha
On a sidenote, Special thanks to Chee Wee from Five Stones Visuals

for taking some amazing shots during my performance, including this one (:

It was a very personal show for me,

i sang songs which played a part in influencing my musical taste,

songs which stirred bittersweet memories of my past,

and of course originals from my album (:

I also shared some insights on my love life and how it inspired me to compose,

my journey as singer -

from a little girl in secondary school who had to sing behind curtains because i wasn't pretty enough,

to discovering my passion when i first stepped onto stage during AJ Idol,

to joining the NUS Jazz band,

and finally making music as a music professional (:

I managed to complete one set of performance,

but come 2nd set, the weather started to take a bad turn.

The wind was blowing very strongly when i was belting out my emo ballad,

转捩点！！

And then it started to pour real heavily,

the rain was splashing onto stage,

but all of us were midway into the song!

I have no idea why i looked so happy here,

but i think i was amused that the rain had to come at such a sad song hahaa

I honestly didn't know what to do when it started to pour,

i had to continue with my song,

but at the same time, there was a lot of commotion going on,

the rain was getting into the audience's seats & i saw them squeezing together.

When they finally settled down, I was so touched.

Instead of leaving, many of them took out their umbrellas,

those without huddled together in the rain to watch me sing.

那一幕，令我非常感动 T_T

I had to end off my performance because it was too dangerous to continue

with the rain splashing on all the musical equipments..

Amazingly (again), many stayed back,
bought my album and even got me to sign on them T_T

It could've been smooth-sailing,

but it wasn't, and the rain brought out a different side of people that i never knew existed.

大家的支持，鼓励，一项来对我说是可遇不可求的。

我可以努力为梦想拼搏，但是否可以得到大家的认同是个未知数。

那一晚，你们原封不动的继续听我唱歌，

就好像在向我说 “加油”，

告诉我不管在这个道路上有多艰难，

我都得唱下去。

谢谢你们让我感受到人间的温暖，

我会继续努力的！

希望下次的演出不要下雨 please!!!

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

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!!