{"id":3128,"date":"2014-01-29T20:47:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T20:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2014-01-29T20:47:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T20:47:44","slug":"open-mic-the-venue-8-hosted-by-az-samad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=3128","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic @ The Venue #8 – Hosted by Az Samad"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n20th May 2013: Open Mic @ The Venue #8 – Hosted by Az Samad<\/a>! This is the first featured act, Bihzhu<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nContemplative Faz.<\/p>\n


\nTang Chun Cheuh, a fellow photo documentist of the scene.<\/p>\n


\nOmar, a drummer.<\/p>\n


\nAz Samad, the emcee and organizer, off stage in a observant pose.<\/p>\n


\nBling above.<\/p>\n


\nThe Vochale Project<\/b>!<\/p>\n


\nAll-girl harmony septuplet.<\/p>\n


\nBrendan Aloysius Adwien<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nBullet Murugan on kajon, djembe and cymbal! A fusion!<\/p>\n


\nI like his hip hop style.<\/p>\n


\nJosiah Tay<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nPeter & Markiza Brown<\/b>. Here’s Peter.<\/p>\n


\nMarkiza.<\/p>\n


\nPeter, sporting a fresher hairstyle.<\/p>\n


\nSu Fern (left) and Pin Pin (right).<\/p>\n


\nA. Samad Said and wife.<\/p>\n


\nKhaimano<\/b>, second featured act! He played his classics like Eating Peaches<\/i>, This Is So Hipster<\/i> (a retooled This Is Black Metal, to fit with the times), Cannot Get It Up<\/i>, and a cover of The Ramones – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nBahir on bass.<\/p>\n


\nAriff Aris, stickman back then, drummer today.<\/p>\n


\nAyuni Wahab<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nThe T-shirt from This Year’s Final Threat<\/a>, the Paul’s Place gig that got raided on New Year’s Eve (31st December 2005).<\/p>\n


\nPinPin, Su Fern, Az Samad, A. Samad Said and his wife (clockwise from top-left).<\/p>\n


\nBig & Small<\/b>!<\/p>\n


\nKrystal, a.k.a. Small.<\/p>\n


\nDaryll, a.k.a. Big.<\/p>\n


\nIan, his brother.<\/p>\n


\nThey’d also gotten a drummer and guitarist, with Daryll shifting to bass.<\/p>\n


\nEverybody get on up!<\/p>\n


\nIdzwan<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nAice<\/b> with Matthew McKelson on guitar.<\/p>\n


\nBig & Small flanking Nicole Foo Bihzhu and Khai!<\/p>\n


\nFolk rocker Kien Lim<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nBoy Castro<\/b> did The Eagles – Hotel California<\/i>, tweaked to become Hotel Puduraya.<\/p>\n


\nSulaiman Azhar<\/b>, a stand-up comedian to end the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

20th May 2013: Open Mic @ The Venue #8 – Hosted by Az Samad! This is the first featured act, Bihzhu. Contemplative Faz. Tang Chun Cheuh, a fellow photo documentist of the scene. Omar, a drummer. Az Samad, the emcee and organizer, off stage in a observant pose. Bling above. The Vochale Project! All-girl harmony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}