MJ@Backyard
I’d like to start today’s post with a rather disturbing picture.
If you have young kids, please make sure they are asleep before you scroll down.
Are you ready?
Here it is…
does this remind you of something? Can’t quite place it?
Here… have another look..
ooooh… yea… can’t quite put your finger on it… Same here.
Took me a while, and some searching on Google but then I saw it.
Fuck, that is dead scary.
Yes, it was halloween, and we all decided to dress up.
Okay, okaay…. rather, I decided to dress everyone.
So anyways, I bought two markers, and one RM12 SilkyGirl eyeshadow kit from Guardian and Hey Presto….
Frank “wanna see my nuts?” Stein (yes, I reused my costume from last week’s party cos not enough time).
Zombie “Tiger Claw” Ahbeng
Skeletorajah a/l Subramaniam
And finally….
ZombieTrannie - Incidentally, Suren also gave this week’s MetroTip of the Day - Always use eyebag cream! And in absence of cream, get a good pair of shades.
Much better than SK’s one from laundry which was somethin like “Yadadadadada…. jabababababa…*2 hours later*… heebeejeebeee… and that’s why you should never cut chili before seeing your girlfriend”.
And a few other pics
Dinesh’s bro, Vinod as either Ray or Stevie
Sexy Jaz from Xandria’s Lullaby, and me with a hint of eyeshadow left
The rest of the group, drunk as hell. From Left (Suren, forgotyournamesorry, Din, Vinod, Din’s Hotsteph, Devan, Me, SexyJaz)
All in all, a very fun night, cept for a few old pub regulars who couldn’t wait for us to get out of their beer n peanuts, and for the next cover band (which was awesome, btw.. Laylaaaaaaa).
Oh and here’s a flashback from last halloween.
I think our costumes have improved by leaps n bounds.
Thanks for comin peeps… We love ya all!
The laundry list
1. Play a rocking gig at laundry
2. Sell some CDs
3. Tell some lame jokes
Those were our modest goals at flyFM’s Campur Chart Goes LIVE at Laundry last thursday. And we achieved most of em. Thanks to all the guys who bought our CD - we didn’t set up a booth, but still managed to sell about 40 of them to various people, not forgetting the two righteous dudes who each bought ten from us. We love you guys!
Yes, we told some lame jokes, including our new regular thing - Superbar’s Metro Tip of the Day!, courtesy of SK. And yes, we rocked it up. Sorta. I was so keen to put on a good show, with 3 months of pent-up non-performing frustration in me, that I threw it all into Out of Body at the intro.
By Same Way I Do, I was croaking (although I’d like to think for an emo break-up song, croaking gives it an extra edge).
Here are some pictures from the night…
Superbar with Basil. I was levitating for real, much to Basil’s amazement. He does it in Photoshop. Tsk… amateur.
Our song list for the night. Pretty much our album + Power of Love (which still gets a great crowd response, so we’re keeping that in our repertoire.
Dinesh, showing off his mad Photoshop Skilzzz as usual… PS: Thanks to Jeremie for taking all these awesome pics!
Laundry extended the stage forward a bit, but unfortunately, there was a big fat table right in front where the most pit woulda been.
Gotta admit, I would like to take Bala’s guitar out for dinner and a movie.
SK wailing cos no one got his joke 
SuperSuren was havin a good time, although he wasn’t in dress code with the rest of us. Who wears the pants, boy?
Through all this, we gotta say, FlyFM rocks the house! They fed us well, paid us well, and gave this gig a heckuva lot of publicity, and basically really put their money where their mouth is in terms of supporting local music.
So to anyone who says that FlyFM sucks, I will get personally offended. Whack u oni u know.
FLY FM’s Campur Chart Goes Live 4th October 2007
Finally folks, we’ll be playing our first gig since we released “Someone Open A Door and Let Me Outta Here!”. We’ll be playing a half hour set for the FLY FM Campur Chart Goes Live gig on 4th October (next Thursday) at Laundry. Show starts at 10pm.
Also featured during the gig are Army of Three and James Baum, so it’s gonna be a pretty awesome nite of good ol’ moozik. So come over to Laundry next Thursday and do us a favour and wish Chak happy belated birthday, will ya?!
SUPERBAR WOOO HOOO, WE’RE HERE! International Tour 2007 Part 1
It didn’t really start all that well.
• Bala and Suren were still on Malaysian time, and ended up in my house an hour late.
• Once we got in, I was afraid of getting stopped by cops. With the three darkies and me in the car, it looked like a kidnapping (oh yea, Sen Kiat went a day earlier to bonk).
• We had shitty fishball noodles in Yong Peng. Just for reference to anybody who hears about Yong Peng’s fishball noodles – the fishballs are awesome, but the noodles and soup are shit.
• We got lost on the way to the ‘Hotel’ in Singapore, which had a big sign outside that says “LEARN ENGLISH HERE!!”
• The clincher - 1 hour after arriving in our grumpy neighbour’s backyard, I found out that some underaged girl had just plowed her Kembara into two of my cars.
What a way to start off Superbar’s first and last leg of our International Tour.
Luckily enough, the rest of the band were in high spirits. After 4 years, this is actually the first real road trip we were taking. It helped that we all have similar tastes in music, so the music in the car and even in the room (on my excellent Logitech Ipod Portable Speakers) really helped set the mood.
Also, Suren’s car was doing its best Little Miss Sunshine impersonation all the way to Singapore (it kept dying around highway corners), so we had a real blast on the way down, talking shit and wordplaying every sentence with “Busteeeeeeerrrd” (inside joke for anyone who’s heard Shine by Pete Teo.
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Superbar in the car
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Bugs Bala
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Our Beatiful home at RELC, where many peoples is learn good english! Thanks RELC!
Anyhows, after finishing packing and giving words of encouragement to help individual band members past constipation, we went straight to the venue of our performance to check out the band performing the night before us – LIED.
The venue was Esplanade, which is sort’ve at the end of Orchard road. It’s a huge stage sponsored by Nokia facing Marina Bay, and your audience is basically anybody who’s walking by and happens to be interested – in tonight’s case, a weird mixture of aunties, mat rockers and tourists.
Right from the time we got there and had our first shitty Singaporean meal (Kuey Tiao and Prawn mee at Makansutra), LIED could not stop talking about how awesome soundcheck was – how it started on time, how they really felt special with the crew and how absolutely amazing the sound was.
When the time came for their performance, it proved right. LIED sounded better than they ever have before (cept on their bootleg MP3s, which we have, of course). Every instrument came through beautifully and Adlin’s groar during their cover of Quiet by Smashing Pumpkins made sure that only the hardcore aunties stayed around for the rest of the performance.
When it was over, the only thing I was thinking was…
“I can’t wait for tomorrow!!!!!!”
And the rest of the band felt the same. Sen Kiat (who performs with LIED) told us he didn’t even want to get off the stage after soundcheck. We didn’t even think too much of the lukewarm responses of a casual audience.
All we were thinking about was how awesome it’d be to be playing on that stage.
All I was thinking about was where the heck to buy my suspenders.
Stay tuned for Part 2 on Frida 15th May – promise!
Rock Safe at KL Jam Asia
We were recently invited to perform at a fund-raising event organized by Taylor’s College called Rock Safe. The gig was part of a series of events to send out a clear message that drugs aren’t cool. The turn out was pretty good and Jam Asia was packed to the brim. The line up of bands was excellent as well, with big names like Tempered Mental playing alongside newcomers FYPK.
Say no to drugs, not beer!
Interview with Hitz.TV just before we hit the stage
Just listen to me!!
The crowd seemed to love it
Five Years Pending Knife
How could we possibly say no to this lot?
Pictures from the Laundry Gig
Ok folks!! Photos are up now. These photos were taken by one of our bigger fans, Alan from the band FYPK. (We’re playing a gig with them on 12 August at Taylor’s College) There’s more pictures on Laundry’s Official Blog.
The view from Leonard’s (sound maestro) console
Keeping in tune!
Dinesh has officially replaced Sen Kiat as the band’s pretty boy
Pretty awesome turnout, a view from the side
Isaac Entry & Friends
All in the family - Superbar & FYPK. Adlin’s taking photos, so thats two-fifth’s of Lied
Sound Explosion - Tying The Knot
If you’re free today head on down to KL Jam Asia for the Sound Explosion “Tying The Knot” gig.
We got in pretty last minute but hey…we haven’t gigged since last December anyway!
“Bridging the Gap” gig @ Jam Asia
Last Saturday, the band (minus Dinesh who was working…sigh!) went over to Jam Asia in Sri Hartamas for the “Bridging the Gap” gig. This restaurant-pub outfit has gigs lined up almost every week, showcasing the diversity of acts that our music scene has to offer. This time around, the line up was pretty awesome - Furniture, Cosmic Funk Express, The Love Experiment (from Singapore), Ferns, Tempered Mental & Lied.
Came in a tad bit late and by that time Furniture, CFE & TLE had already taken to stage. The Ferns (fronted by Warren of Klue) were pretty decent, but Tempered Mental absolutely blew the crowd. With Melina on bass and vocals, I had to face constant torment from Chak about when I’m gonna start playing like that. How la….comparing me to a virtuoso!
Lied came on to close the show. This time around, Adlin was at his cathartic best. When he introduced the title track from their “Making Enemies” CD by saying “In life you are making friends, but you are also always making enemies” followed by the pounding bassline from Adam, you have a sense that this band certainly didn’t make any enemies with this crowd!
ANNOUNCEMENT: Superbar will also be playing at Jam Asia this Saturday nite (6th May). I’ll be posting further details as soon as possible.
(P.S - Sorry lah, no pix. But there are a couple of pictures here at Lied’s blog)
Superbar tracks available for download
Just got back to the office from my Sabah (Mt Kinabalu) trip and got online for the first time in a week and I figured I’d check out Music Canteen’s website. Whaddya know…..Superbar’s on the home screen as a new artiste download.
So my advice is, “Be a man! Do the right thing!” You can preview the tracks and if you like them, buy them at three bucks per track. Proceeds from these downloads shall be put to good use, though the concept of ‘good use’ is rather subjective.
Cheers!
(P.S. - Besides that, I should talk to the guys about changing the name of the band to just plain “Super” if we ever get to play in Sabah. I hope our future Sabah fans don’t kill me for saying this coz I’ve got nothing but respect for you guys!!)
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Superbar is a pop rock/power pop band based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Fronted by sometime singer-songwriter Chak with lead guitarist Bala, eclectic rockers Superbar came together in 2004. Read More >> -
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