Live4MusiC

Free food, Free beer, Awesome live music. Now that's what we call LIFE! Pretty much something you would expect at every Timbre event. 

With 2 performing stages for the event, namely: UCC Theatre for the soothing chillout music, and the UCC Courtyard for the rockers who wants to go crazy!

The UCC Theater was graced by the performances of Shirlyn & The UnXpected, Miki Gavrielov from Israel, and Michaela Therese Band. This was also the stage where musicians played all their original compositions showcasing the creative writing abilities coupled with top-notch deliverance of their music. 

This "Best Of Olivia" album is out in stores now and is definitey a must-have for music-lovers who love soothing, jazzy, soulful music that can ease and comfort your soul. It is rather popular as I had made wasted trips to 2 CD stores only to come out empty-handed because this cd had been grabbed off the shelves totally, before I could finally get a copy for my very own.

First off, we would like to mark the partnership between Live4MusiC and Coffee and Tea Dreamworks. Live4MusiC will be one of the official supporting online media for Coffee and Tea Dreamworks in their ongoing contest, "Be The SUPERSTAR In You". This is held in conjunction with the STOMP Lyrical Contest, both of which are identical but held on different platforms. 



In essence, this is a songwriting contest whereby contestants submit 4-6 lines of lyrical composition and the winner stands to win a complete Dreamz-Superstar Cartoon Animation with total worth value of $3,500. This includes the whole music and video production from lyrics revision, melody implementation, to cartoon and video production. 

Held at Vivo City amphitheatre, this was an event that I've been highly anticipating judging from the high standards of the bands that went through.

Unfortunately, there was a mishap for the Live4MusiC team on the night. We LOST our SD card!!! =(

Yeah that means we lost most of our footages that night. Our apologies to the bands on the night. But if we looked at things optimistically, we can count ourselves lucky for having the footage of the champions of the night, BLACK, and former champions, Sixology! I'll just attach the videos of the finalists during heats day on this article in case some of you guys forgot how they sounded like =)

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.
 

One of THE band competition to take part in!

This year's winner will represent Singapore in YOKOHAMA, JAPAN to compete with 11 nations. They are:

1. Malaysia
2. Indonesia
3. Thailand
4. Philppines
5. Hong Kong
6. China
7. Mongolia
8. Taiwan
9. South Korea
10. Japan
11. Mexico (Doesn't go in line very well with Geography)

There was plenty of talent showcased with 40 over bands playing their original compositions. Announced by the judges on the day itself, the bands were evaluated based on the following:

1. Potential
2. Sound Balance
3. Originality
4. Proficiency

Each band was only given the chance to play 1 song!

Quite surprisingly, the heats were dominated by bands who played the heavier stuff from rock to metal. With a handful of mainstream and soothing music, which mostly didn't live up to expectations.

Yamaha Asian Beat 2009 Heats showcased many of our homegrown bands' writing and playing abilities and Live4MusiC was hugely impressed!

Out of over 40 bands that took part, only 10 will remain.

Here's Live4MusiC's predicted finalists! =)

1. Helven
2. Black 
3. Naga
4. Ill Sound Chronic
5. Sonic Delirium
6. No Strings Attached
7. Shades of Amber
8. Stranger 
9. Bio Fuel
10. Night Wings

Other bands that came out strongly as well:

1. Rising Heart
2. Lucid
3. Oshiego
4. Dear Who Am I
5. Catalogue V
6. False Pulse

A complete coverage of the event will be up soon!

RockOn!
Yuda