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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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In case you missed our Wonderful launch gig at the Barfly last Monday, you can watch loads of it online! substandardnerd posted this YouTube playlist with four of our songs and three by support band Black Casino and the Ghost.
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Little Fish - Wonderful (by Little Fish)
Just added this beautiful work of art to the top of the Wonderful page.
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Playing the iPad, singing songs, selling badges
We played another acoustic gig at the Drawing Room in Chesham on Saturday. It was a long night, but worth every minute. We played a good mix of songs, and I played iPad on a few as well as the usual harmonica. On Better Tell God I used the Polychord app (a digital version of the old Omnichord synth) and on Too Late and Wonderful I used the flute and strings sounds on the M3000, a Mellotron app. The M3000 is sampled from the original Mellotron tapes and sounds beautiful…
But mostly it was a good old fashioned rock’n’roll acoustic set. We had been rehearsing with Nez all morning so there was a bit of Bonnie Tyler in some of Juju’s high notes (which just makes them sound even better ;). Petrus took some great photos and a cool video of Morning Call (thanks, Petrus!).
We took along the new badges too, and sold them five at a time in little bags (you can get them in the shop too). There are twenty different designs, and at the moment you can only buy a bag of five random ones. Already people are asking how they can get all twenty, so we’ve added that option to the shop today. Aren’t we thoughtful?!
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Little Fish - Old Fashioned Morphine (acoustic)
“I drink alone like an insomniac, instead of sleeping there next to you, if I said, that I loved you too much, it would send a shiver right through me, so I wonder what I’m doing here….”
Juju’s recording a weekly series of new songs, and calling it the Fish Bowl Sessions. Old Fashioned Morphine is a new song that we hope to record for the second record. In Juju’s ideal world, she would record this song live in someone’s living room full of people singing along. This was her intention when she wrote it.
The song was recorded very quickly as Juju and Ben got asked to play an acoustic show at the last minute in a small local pub that night (check out this great video of Only A Game from that gig!). They took this opportunity to take their Flip cameras along with them to the show and get the audience involved in some of the singalong action.
Juju and Ben have been doing a run of low key acoustic shows recently for fun. Ben has started to bring the harmonica into the set as it sounds great and is a light instrument to travel with. In this recording, the key of the song was lowered, as Juju and Ben haven’t yet managed to get themselves a harmonica in Bb (the key that the song should be played in!).
People have been asking us to post the lyrics for the Fish Bowl sessions too, so here are the lyrics to Old Fashioned Morphine! We’ll put the rest up when we get a chance…
We’ll be posting a new song every week(ish), so make sure you’re subscribed to something (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or our mailing list) and we’ll let you know when they’re up… ;-)
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Little Fish - Morning Call (acoustic)
“Morning call, telephone ring, why does it keep on ringing…?”
Juju’s recording a weekly series of new songs, and calling it the Fish Bowl Sessions. Morning Call is another new song, “an ode, an anthemic call that questions the very nature of our existence and our quest for survival.” Juju may have been watching too much Human Planet, but she has made an awesome an epic video to go with this tune. Ben plays his trusty red Farfisa Compact (“The Rocket”).
We’ll be posting a new song every week (probably on a Sunday or Monday), so make sure you’re subscribed to something (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or our mailing list) and we’ll let you know when they’re up… ;-)
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Little Fish - Disco Feet (acoustic)
“Lone wanderer, beat by a shooting star”
Juju’s recording a weekly series of new songs, and calling it the Fish Bowl Sessions. The last couple of sessions have been quite serious so Juju’s made a more light-hearted video for her new song Disco Feet. Recorded live in the kitchen with Ben on acoustic guitar and one extra vocal track for the chorus. Simples.
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