As promised, here is the video of the TV show where I got to session for Rosli Mansor, along with Addy Rasidi and Alvin Tan. Enjoy!
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The Anugerah Band 2008 gig went really great! Rosli Mansor was being featured as guest artist and I had the good opportunity to session for him on bass along with Addy Rasidi (guitar) and Alvin Tan (drums) and it sure was great to play alongside such awesome musicians! Seems like a family gathering at the Suria TV show, with friends from all over the music scene meeting each other at the Mediacorp studio. It was also great to see my friends from Tribe who were featured as guest artists too, Anis from Ministry Of Rock was also there with another project band, and of course Jatt himself of Black Dog Bone fame was featured as judge for the show strapped in jacket and all. Anways…A video will be uploaded soon but meanwhile here is a picture from the show.
Here’s a video of a performance on “Pakoo Boomi” by Rosli Mansor where I sessioned for him on bass. The video features Addy Rasidi on guitar and Rahman from Bushman on drums. Filmed @ Fretboard Frenzy: Rise of the Stringers on 3 May 2008 at National Youth Council. enjoy!
I’ll be sessioning for guitarist Rosli Mansor at the Anugerah Band 2008 TV program on 6th May ‘08, so if your at home, in the office or at Harvey Norman, tune your TV sets to Suria channel this Tuesday (6 May), 8.30pm as and catch the Rosli Mansor Band take centrestage to open for Anugerah Band 2008. Band members are Rosli Mansor (guitar) Addy Rasidi (guitar), Wendy Phua (bass) and Alvin Tan (drums). Information are found at the following websites:- Rosli Mansor - http://www.room354.com
Some pictures taken from a gig I played with Walking On Water (WOW) at Suntec City’s Balaclava on 4 April 2008. Being a specially themed gig called Sugar & Spice that features especially female musos that night, we were playing alongside other wonderful musicians the likes of Shirlyn (IMHO she’s Singapore’s equivalent of Robert Plant ) and Joan (her virtuosic violin playing will rip you apart) in The Unexpected Band, Alemay Fernandez (great singer), Bong (such awesome swagger on the bass! cool!) etc. Hope there’ll be another at Balaclava someday Heads up folks, I’ll be playing alongside FRETBOARD FRENZY mastermind and solo guitarist Rosli Mansor on 3rd May 2008 at *scape Youth Centre. The second installment of FRETBOARD FRENZY: RISE OF THE STRINGERS 2, this event will be focusing on the guitar works of Shern Wong + Malik + Addy Rasidi + Rosli Mansor. For those not in the know, Rosli last released a full-length instrumental guitar album called Dragged and is currently playing with a self-custom made double neck guitar with a wonderful fretless board on the 2nd neck. I will be playing 3 songs with Rosli and Raman (veteran Bushmen percussionist) including a latest cool new number form Rosli that is not featured in Dragged. See ya’ll there! FRETBOARD FRENZY: RISE OF THE STRINGERS 2 FRETBOARD FRENZY, the brainchild of instrumentalist Rosli Mansor and produced by terraBox, aims to provide a platform to showcase local experienced and aspiring musicians with a common factor: their unbridled passion for the fretboard. MySpace.com - Fretboard Frenzy - All - Rock - MySpace.com - Fretboard Frenzy - All - Rock - MySpace.com - Fretboard Frenzy - All - Rock - www.myspace.com/fretboardfrenzzy Finally I got hold of the pictures taken at a gig I performed in Bar CoCoon, Forbidden City by Indochine recently. It was a party organised by the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations to celebrate Women’s Day 2008. Here they are
You got the EP and now you can also get to hear an interview done at Lush 99.5FM on “Between Here And Then”. Thanks Asha! hooray I finally got videos out on my performance at bass day. Here are the songs I played and my rig on that day is as follows: 4-string Tobias Classic > GT6B > L/R out to Line 6 DL4 > L/R out to 2 Line 6 Bass Amps (1 EQ to focus on highs and one EQ to focus on lows). “Between Here And Then” included use of a violin half-bow. Where The River Flows Stormy Weather
Someone once said to me that I was one of his favourite FEMALE bassist. It took me abit of of effort to refrain from asking him who was then his favourite MALE bassist. Ever since the Suffragettes took to the streets burning bras in protest against gender discrimination, females across the world finally felt it their due right cast aside the gender labels and fight for their basic self-worth. I am most definitely not a bra-burning Suffragette but I must admit I did used to get rankled when someone points out that I was a FEMALE bassist. I mean like, do we have to point out the OBVIOUS? But you know what, I’ve gotten past the prickly stage of being too conscious of being a female bassist and never getting full credit for the bass playing itself. Anyway in this post-modern word now, it’s always best to laugh it off and throw a sock in its face. It rocks being a female bassist in Singapore, and I’m not ashamed to say that. So in the spirit of this post, I’ll be performing at an event held to celebrate being a woman. Details are as below and I hope to see you there! In-Gear Party – Celebrating women and being a woman! Bar CoCoon, Forbidden City by IndoChine ( 3A River Valley Road, Singapore, 179020) In-Gear Party – Celebrating women and being a woman, an event hosted as part of Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) International Women’s Day celebrations. I’ll be performing solo bass songs from “Between here And Then” and selling the album at the venue itself. I will also be playing guitar and singing on original songs with talented singer-songwriter Yani in a duo outfit called Skin. Other artists featured are: Ginette Chittick, Neomi Ogo, PopMyCherry!, Nicole V., and Prema Sommaya. |
