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Wow. We met so many great people tonight at the Substation gig. Roughly in order of appearance:
- Two girls whose names we didn’t catch but who were the nicest people ever
- Seow Yee (“S.Y.”), the Timbre promoter who’s been sorting everything out for us
- Shaun Taylor, who got us over here in the first place
- Leo, who is building a studio to record local bands in exchange for session time
- A dude from Seattle
- Gloria, Angelina (?), Moustachio Man and Nigel
- Two more guys (Keiran?) and a girl whose names we never asked
- Gavin AshBlack, who designed the awesome poster
- Danny Loong, co-owner of Timbre, all-round guitar legend and leader of Raw Earth, who played after us tonight
Before each gig, we get fed by Timbre (they have the same menu at each venue). Juju has settled on the Italian sausage fusilli, and I’m favouring the “Classic Italian” super-slim based pizza. It’s heavily loaded with cheese, but I can handle it.
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We played to a full house, we did a storming version of The Umbilical Chord, we got two German kids to form a mosh pit and we caused such a stir that we were warned the police might show up tomorrow to make sure things don’t get out of hand.
Like the man said, “the deeply rooted band has total disregard for musical rules, doing only what matters to them.” This came as quite a shock to Juju, who didn’t realise there were musical rules. Time for an awkward conversation…
People keep telling us that the Singaporeans are shy, as if that would make us take it easy on them. Juju launched straight onto the front of the stage and told them all to stand up, link arms, sing along, clap and join the Cult of the Fish. It turns out Singaporeans are quite shy, but if you ignore that and talk to them anyway they’re all happy to chat. Especially if you’re on stage with a microphone and you’ve stopped half way through a song to wait for someone to take a phone call.
Warning: The band at the end of this video is not Little Fish. It’s Goodfellas, a local cover band. They asked me to jam with them on Superstition and I couldn’t refuse. ;)
— Ben
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Hoorah! We managed to wake up today with plenty of time to spare before going to Bar Timbre for the first show of our tour (okay, well maybe not that much time…). The weather routine here seems to go as follows; very hot and sunny in the morning and early lunch followed at about 2pm with some sort of tropical force rainfall that might or might not clear up come the evening. Needless to say that it is very humid.
Today, we went for lunch in the mall next door and then headed to The Arts House for our first show. We arrived at around 5pm, did a soundcheck and then ate pizza. The pizzas here are pretty ace if you like the dough to be super skinny. We played for an hour in front of a whole new audience. The Singaporeans apparently are more used to cover bands playing in bars where they don’t have to pay much attention and treat live music more as a soundtrack that they can talk along to. But, hey, not with us. By the end of the show we had the front row clapping along to Darling Dear.
P.S. Just remember Singapore, we are a cult. Please join us.
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Top 10 Things To Do This Week (in Singapore) - Kiss My Culture →
And hey - what do you know? We’re in there!
We were also surprised to spot Mélanie Pain in there too. Mélanie is the original singer of Nouvelle Vague, and we met her when we played with them in Turkey a few months ago. She’s over here playing her solo stuff, and it’s awesome that we get to see it.
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For the second time in our lives we managed to leave Oxford on time (after rushing around all day to finish off the things we hadn’t done) and got to Heathrow early. There was another time, but we can’t remember when. Oh, and the time we arrived at the 12-Bar in Swindon ten minutes early for soundcheck and were so freaked out that we sat in the car for 15 minutes before knocking on the door.
It’s a long way to Singapore. It took about 18 hours. We didn’t film the whole thing, but Juju caught a few moments on camera and here they are. The most interesting thing about flying in to Singapore was seeing all the cargo ships filling up the sea. You can catch a glimpse of them in the video, I think.
We screwed up the jetlag strategy by sleeping until 4pm today (16 hours), so now it’s midnight and we’re wide awake. Our host has every single Carry On film ever made, so don’t worry – we’ll be OK. He even has some 3D films and 3D glasses so if we really can’t sleep we’ll be watching How To Train Your Dragon in 3D at 5am. Rock and roll.
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We are flying to Singapore tomorrow to play some shows in Singapore. Here is the site where you can find our some information about the shows should you happen to be in the area. We are very excited. Traveling and meeting new people is what being in a band is all about.
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Little Fish World Tour of Singapore poster on Flickr.
We’re going to Singapore in November to play a few gigs.
Timbre Music put together this great poster using Johnny’s photo and Miranda’s words.
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Gigs! Gigs! Gigs!
After a quiet week in the French countryside, it’s back to work with a bang here at Fish HQ. And we have some exciting gigs coming up…
8th October: Brighton
Bob Harris has invited us to play the Old Grey Whistle Test stage at retroculturefest Generation Expo. We’ll be playing at 6pm on Saturday 8th October, supporting Squeeze! It’s £12 to get in, but you can get in for £6 if you print this flyer and take it with you… Just click the picture to open a PDF that you can easily print:
10th October: London
Next Monday is the launch gig for Wonderful at the Barfly in Camden. We’re super-excited about having our friends Black Casino & the Ghost and George Chopping (and maybe even someone else if we have time!) supporting, and we’re going to make it an awesome gig.
Needless to say we would love you all to come, and if you want to bring a hundred friends we won’t stop you. ;)
Click the poster for details:
November: Singapore
We’re going East! The Little Fish Global World Tour of Singapore is confirmed for November. The dates are on our gigs page, and there are more details on the Timbre Music site.
