5th June 2014: Moonshine: Upcoming / June 2014, at Laundry Bar, The Curve!

First act: The snarly, but not too serious Dzamira Dzafri.

Songs that stick in your head.

Refreshing to see her reading from paper – as if it was the same notepad that she first penned the lyrics and chords on.

Then came Rizla Lynam, who is more than excited to be sharing the stage with Reza Salleh, emcee and organizer.

He’s got some very fresh-sounding tunes.

Stuff that sticks in your head.

Interesting fashion sense, too!

This was the first time I’d see him with a second guitarist, who’d put in some licks.

Outside, the Moonshine CD booth.

Reza and the ocean of disco balls.

Sulyn and the jazz-pop ballad.

Raja Farouque adds color with tasteful guitar solos.

Areef (bassist for Damn Dirty Apes) sessions for her regular bassist, currently on honeymoon.

Eng Hooi on drums and iPad.

The night in particular was full of cool backlighting.

This app helps you count to 4.

The last act for the night…

Cats In Love!

They bring good ol’ rock and roll…

…with a touch of rock keyboard.

Rama Lohan, ever the jumpy rock-and-rolling guitarist/vocalist, whose on-stage antics remind me a lot of Pete Townshend of The Who.

Cool-looking bass.

Ash is the center of the beat.

Cool shoes.

In-between song exchange.

Lohan picks up the blues harp and reeds us the blues.

Ash sings, too.

Shooting riffage!

Here’s them performing Fool’s Log. (Thanks to the band for helping me out with the title!)

Apparently, I was there at their very first gig, at Paul’s (New) Place, for the Too Far Gone gig. This was on the 22nd of April 2005!

Pardon the low image quality – these were all shot with a Canon Powershot A400, a little point-and-shoot at ISO400, I think. Here’s them trying a ambitious keyboard-heavy song with melodion. Never again, Lohan said!