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It’s Starry Nite XIV, for the XIV^th time! The organiser, SMU Soundfoundry, never fail to make it a rocking blast! Amidst their intensive exam preparation, SMU students know there’s always the time for Starry Nite.

And the one thing for sure that Starry Nite will bring to you, it’s awesome live music. It’s the event we all look forward to.

So what was rocking the stage this time round!

We saw some new bands, “The Flying Yam Cakes” and “Uncle John’s Moon Party” joining the line-up this time and to no surprise, the crowd just loved them.

Guest Band, Run Neon Tiger mesmerises the crowd with their rock originals!

 

And the familiar faces we never got enough of.

Chordless

Like always, turning the crowd wild with their energetic music, it's head-banging time with St. Helens!

 

And finally the all-time favourite, Yelyn and Her Boys, engaging the crowd with popular covers and getting them all up and dancing!

 

Thank you once again to SMU Soundfoundry for the invitation, Starry Nite has always been a great entertainment and it's a pleasure to be involved.

Cheers,

Terence

City Alive! 2011 like its previous years was a huge success, drawing a crowd of over 6000 people to the pit building, all ready to party to the wee hours of the morning. 
 
A prelude to the actual party day, there was the Tri-crew (Singapore Finals) and DJ Protege . Response was amazing, great effort from the organisers at PAYM in putting all these together.

Tri-crew Singapore Finals

 9 very talented trios compete on stage to be selected as our Singapore Tri-crew Team to compete against the other teams from China, Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan, 'Styles from Beyond' emerged as the champions and yes they will be representing Singapore in the Tri-crew - Best of Asia which was held on the event day of City Alive!2011.




 
The Judges

 
A great turn-up despite the wet weather!

And the Winning Performances!

The Champions: Styles From Beyond


1st Runner-up: Hustle Boogie


2nd Runner-up: 3GS




DJ Protege

 The winner of DJ Protege got a chance to perform in front of a 6,000 strong crowd on the actual City Alive! 2011 event day. The DJ Protege finals was held in Studio Wu. The 3 contestants took their turns to display their skills in front of renowned judges, DJ Andrew Chow and DJ Sarasa aka 'Silver Boom Box'. 

And the winner for this year is duo, Chris and Cedric, both 18 years of age. Full of life, this duo did an awesome performance and the house enjoyed it just as much as they enjoyed playing.

We also had the tri-crew teams from Hong Kong, Japan, China and Philippines to join us for this event. They were all very nice and warm, patiently giving some pointers to the dance enthusiasts from Studio Wu. We sure love them around.

Enjoy the spins of the night!
 
Champions: 
 

1st Runner-up:
 
 
2nd Runner-up:



And the Party Begins!!!  City Alive! 2011






 Tri-crew - Best of Asia competition: what a stunning performance from all the nations! 

China Team:



Hong Kong Team:
 

Philippines Team:
 

Singapore Team:
 

Japan Team:


The results:
Winner: Phillipines Team
1st Runner-up: Hong Kong Team
2nd Runner-up: Singapore Team 

Chris and Cedric having a spinning great time on the grand stage! 
 

And the crowd goes euphoric for the rest of the night with DJ Tashi, DJ Sarasa aka Silver Boombox and DJ Andrew Chow taking turns on the table accompanied with performances by Rapper Dandee and the gorgeous Cyber Japan Girls.


(Photo courtesy of PAYM)


Cyber Japan Girls
(Photo courtesy of PAYM)


 (Photo courtesy of PAYM)

Special Thanks to the organisers, PAYM for inviting Live4MusiC to City Alive! 2011 and Red Dawn Communication for their wonderful support.

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Its Starry Nite again! And it’s for the 12^th time, and as usual it marks the last day of the semester for the SMU students to party before hitting back to the books in preparation for the exams.

Fun, party people, awesome live music and booze, all put together by the amazing people at Sound Foundry; that’s Starry Nite!

Performances for the Nite!

First, we had The Blues Machine...

Starting off the night was guest band, The Blues Machine, who plays at Crazy Elephant, one of the bars in the Clarke Quay arena. They sure captivated the crowd with their excellent technical flair, watching them strum their instruments so swiftly in an effortless style was sheer enjoyment.

Then the Retro Rockers, Amnesia Haze comes on..

Putting a real test on the vocals, what an awesome set!

The Last Men Standing hits the stage with their rthymic tunes and gets the crowd on their feet..

The crowd’s now wild with Fancy Free..

Spectacular Showmanship + Popular Hits + Fun loving Audience all Nicely Boozed = Its just gonna be a Rocking Good Time!

A perfect ending with 6^th Avenue..

Keeping up the mood, the charismatic 6^th Avenue had the crowd dancing all thru the set.

What an awesome nite yet again.

Thank you Sound Foundry for inviting.

Thank you Sheryl and Rayner for the Camera.

 

Terence

Be part of the crowd for a rocking good time!
 
 Coming to day 2, it starts from 3.30pm all the way to 10pm and just take a look at the band line up, its going be non-stop solid entertainment.

• Plain Sunset
• Zero Sequence
• Meza Virs
• Fish Tank
• The Analog Girl
• Pervy Boy
• Jammerz Arena

These homegrown bands have established themselves beyond local ground and some of their achievements have been most inspiring.

However, what is really important is that they are all coming together on day 2 of IGNITE! 2010 to give us their very best tunes. So all we can say is that, you have to be there.

If you need some orientation to boost your enthusiasm, the videos below are for your enjoyment:

 Plain Sunset:
 
 The local veteran band, familiar to many, loved by many is here once again to give us an awesome good time. They have toured around extensively in Asia and even to New Zealand and their music has been expectedly well liked across the borders and their achievements include having 5 of their tracks featured in Star World's Heroes Season 2 promotional.
  



Zero Sequence:
 
Known  for their highly charged music, this 7 piece, very talented band blends music of different genre together fine-tuned to their very own style. You cant really expect what is coming from them, you just have to be there to hear them; you would be captivated by their impressive musical capabilities.
 



Meza Virs:

Alright, coming to the much awaited metal band, to metal fans you would simply love them, to non metal fans you would love them just as much. Yeah but beware of moshing lurking at every corner for sure. Its just the time to get all wild.
  

See you all at Republic Poly @ the Lawn, you wont want to miss it!

Cheers,
Terence

Firstly, we would like to thank the organisers of Third Mind Experience for the kind invitation.

Third Mind Experience was held @ Blackhole on the 10th of April 2010.  

An insight to Third Mind Experience, from the organisers:

"Third Mind Experience is like being submerged in an isolation tank -- it's enveloping, subverting the senses with surreal visions we'd swear were our own, cleverly jarring and disorienting consciousness beyond any footing in reality.

These are artists who feel the fires of inspiration to create sound art or music that is original, emotional and epic whether it is ambient soundscapes, rock based music, drone or anything else under the sun. Music that crosses boundaries while celebrating expression rather than glamour.

Third Mind refers to a writing style (and eventually cinematic style), popularized by William Burroughs, which involves combining and re-arranging unrelated texts or film scenes to form new narratives and often-surreal images. It's a metaphor for different bands doing their own thing but having a similar ideology or dedication to creating sound art that ties to them to the larger picture.

The series of gigs will cover a broad a range of sound art as possible. With the belief thatif it comes from inside you, it is automatically valid and that music is never wrong, this is the Third Mind Experience. Come join us this April the 10th at Blackhole. It starts at 7pm."

Sounds interesting ya? Right, when we first received the event introduction, we were very curious about it and decided to check it out.

Looking for the place was the start man; the front entrance with the shutters down looked like some vacant shop and I thought, "what"?? Then we were told to enter from the back alley through its back door, nicely building up the suspense.

We had 5 very competent bands for the night.

Air Traffic Control started the night, a solo performance, there wasn't any instruments, just his Mac laptop and all the gadgets on the table, good stuff. Couldnt quite comprehend the music initially with all kinds of sound projected into the studio-like room. Then I saw some people closing their eyes, as if soaking in the full essence of the music. Ya so I tried closing my eyes too and the feeling was indeed very different. I started to immerse into this virtual, scenic setting and after a while I was beginning to appreciate the uniqueness of the music. It is very illustrative, your mind freely wanders to whatever you make out of it, so this is what they call artistic music.
 





By the time Overhaul in Damnation, the 2nd band, came on, I was totally enjoying the "Third Mind" experience, ha, I found it rather therapeutic actually. Overhaul in Damnation's music had this very suspense-inducing kind of effect and its perfected with the lights off, enjoy the thriller.
 




Next we had Dulcinea, something which we were more familiar with, a full band, the only band with a vocalist that night. Yeah, but you got to check out their very own creations, nicely blending the special sound effects with their very sound musicianship.
 




The band of few words, "This is Atlantis" was next, charming the crowd with just their instruments, no vocals at all. A very humble band, thanking the organisers at every interval. To the very kind organisers, it was most wise of you to have invited them, their very fast tempo music was a sheer enjoyment.
 



 

The closing band, "Great Empty" took on the stage with their supporters populating the cozy room. The smooth and suave band entertained the crowd beautifully with their very pleasant tunes.

Third Mind Experience was a great exposure to a very new genre of music, check out the rest of the videos, you might just be a new fan to Third Mind inspired music.  

First off, Live4MusiC would like to thank all our members for continually showing us your support thus far. We hope our services have been useful for you and we would like to know how we can further improve ourselves. We sincerely hope all of you can provide us with your honest feedback with the chance of winning a humble iPod Nano courtesy of Live4MusiC.

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Firstly, thank you to all who have participated in the survey and we deeply appreciate your opinions.

And congratulations to the following respondents who have gotten through to Round 2:



We apologize that we have decided to cut down the number of respondents to get through to round 2 by half, from 60 to 30 as the number of responses received were almost half of the expected number.

Selected Responses:

Question 6: What do you like about Live4MusiC?

"I like how they update with us with all the music or Gigs that will happened here in Singapore.. Even before the press release it."

"Its a quite impeccable online source for music scenes that happens in Singapore where it list out all details about it, thus it keeps me up-to-date, always. Other thing is to know more musicians, from the amatuers to the highly regards"

"Magazine, with contributors constantly updating members on music news in Singapore, not only on Live4Music.com, but also on the group on Facebook.  It also enables users like me to contribute to the magazine, which I really like a lot since the only other place where I can do so is my personal blog, which hardly gets any traffic."


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"The forum. It is way under utilized by its users and hence lacked the ability to establish itself as a place for interactivity and the exchange of information."

"1. Videos too cluttered, the more 'commercialised' videos (which can be found easily in youtube or official websites) shouldnt be uploaded to the website (unless needed for articles etc) so that the more exclusive videos can be found more easily (can administer the browsing of the videos page more conveniently).  2. The slow bandwidth can be improved to make surfing the website a more pleasant experience."

"Not much updates on the local scene here. Forums are quite dead since lesser people know about this site"


Question 8: In what ways can Live4MusiC do better?

"Improve video and sound quality. Increase marketing for your website."

"Include a "Local Bands" section that can update the viewers with the band's press releases, upcoming gigs, album launches etc (band interviews could be done too!). This can give some exposure to the local bands as well as allow the viewers to know more about the local music scene. Its not as dead as it seems."

"Probably set up an emailing service that helps to inform if any of your favorite acts will be coming to Singapore. As it make it customized to it's users favorite bands."

Alright, thanks once again and stay tune for the final draw.


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Final Draw:

And the winner is "Ahmad Zhafran".

Congratulations!

Event: PlayOn 2009 Band Competition
When was it: 19th Dec 2009
Venue: Junction 8



PlayOn 2009 is a band competition organised by Bishan Toa Payoh GRC Youth Executive Committee (YEC), PlayOn is in its 3rd year, it was first brought forth in 2007.  This year, supporters had a 30% stake in the final results and the remaning 70% decided by the panel of judges. Supporters would vote by sending a text message to the number flashed on screen as shown in the picture, cool ya, and the text messages are free of charged.

A Cozy Affair with ….

Yeah that’s Jasmine Tye, the bubbly, sweet faced teen who exhibited exceptional confidence each time she took on the stage. No surprise at all for her amazing achievement, clinching the 2^nd runner up for Singapore Idol Season 2 in 2006.

Nudge! 09 Carnival and Concert was a charity event in aid of the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund, it was put together by 4 very fine young men. I would say these guys did a splendid job, everything  from the food, venue, sponsors and especially the music, which was planned and executed perfectly. These boys proved they werent any bookish bunch, and in fact very resourceful and capable. Most importantly, all this great work was done with a very meaningful intention.