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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.
