{"id":442,"date":"2005-09-03T06:42:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T06:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2014-06-08T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:53:09","slug":"picture-this-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Picture This August"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s to August 2005. Yeah. Tales with pictures. Obscene amounts of them.<\/p>\n

4th August 2005<\/b><\/p>\n

I headed to Hartamas Square for the first ever We Are One<\/b> gig, held every Thursday. The grand openers were Soft Touch<\/a>, who wasn’t soft or acoustic enough for what was presumed to be an acoustic set.<\/p>\n


\nThis picture was taken moments before all electricity in Hartamas Square was gone.<\/p>\n

Soft Touch, I realized, was the missing half of a fully produced rock band – they were the falsetto, the organ, the light rhythm guitar in the background. Take three raw rockers to collaborate, and you have a full-sounding album.<\/p>\n


\nAn hour later, power was restored, and Broken Scar<\/a> played his last gig before going on a month-long hiatus.<\/p>\n


\nFlatline<\/b> had some interesting effects added to their melodic rock mix – the guitar synth (far left) was one of them.<\/p>\n


\nQuizzicals<\/b>, an up and coming vocal harmony band, sounded good. They had good originals and very good stage presence, but for some reason, I lost a bit of respect when they decided to cover their mentor’s song to the dot (V.E. – Pop Ye Ye).<\/p>\n

6th August 2005<\/b><\/p>\n


\nI headed to UiTM to be a guest judge at the “At 19 Records & Xfresh presents Battle It Out<\/a>“. I even wrote a review<\/a> with my rants on emo bands. But hey, check out the 27 fret Samick electric guitar I was drooling over at Do Re Mi Music. Sure, you can’t really have any precision up there, and there’s only space for two pickups, but there’s a coil tap switch so you have more options.<\/p>\n

I wandered around town aimlessly after that, landing in KLCC Convention Centre for the PIKOM PC Fair 2005. I bumped into Loco<\/a>, who was emceeing at the Samsung booth.<\/p>\n

“The Samsung booth? Damn, that’s the one with the most chicks!<\/i>”
\n“Eh yeah! When I came in the morning, I was thinking they were like normal only, but I walked around, and thus concluded that yes, my Samsung booth had the most chicks.<\/i>”<\/p>\n


\nWe then went to Avenue K (next to KLCC), and checked out the haze. He sat down outside Avenue K and lit a cigarette when a security guard came up to him. “No sitting here.<\/i>” Uh, right… we were outside his turf, yo.<\/p>\n

7th August 2005<\/b><\/p>\n


\nEverybody recognizes and blogs about Friendster Cafe. What about the Zouk reflexology center nearby?<\/p>\n

I went for the Spirit Of Independence<\/b> gig. (Alright, you’ve seen enough pictures of these bands plus there will be nicer shots later in this entry.) Anyway, who played?<\/p>\n

Y2K, Tempered Mental<\/a>, Dragon Red<\/a>, Az Samad<\/a> (in Paul’s New Place for the very first time!), Cosmic Funk Express<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Okay so my excuse is that I forgot to bring extra extra<\/i> batteries. My extras were already flat!<\/p>\n

So anyway, there was Jasemaine Gan<\/a>, Nao (the Chinese version of seminal rojak-core band LYME. DAMN CHUN!) Then came Soft Touch, Furniture<\/a> and X-cited Screamers.<\/p>\n


\nSo yes, I did take some pictures; Nao is in top-left; X-cited Screamers top-right, and Soft Touch with a kickass bassist with ALL the energy and the lower rock vocals (the raw half I was talking about!), with Jack of 360DHR on guitar!<\/p>\n

12th August 2005<\/b><\/p>\n


\nSee? I told you that there would be good pictures. Zack rips out a classical piece.
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\nAlda elbows his bass.
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\nThat night at the Sunrise Mont Kiara Jazz Fest, it was Cosmic Funk Express and an outrageous(ly) bad Outrageous (better pub bands should be playing!)<\/p>\n

18th August 2005
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\nI went to the Lost Generation Space<\/a> for the Not That Balai<\/b> art exhibition.<\/p>\n


\nCreepy indeed was the refurbished house atop Robson Heights, near Seputeh.<\/p>\n


\nCreepy indeed was the art, too. Yes the computer on the right actually works.<\/p>\n


\nFrom left, Photoshopped badly: Wolf of Spungy Funggy, Lissa, James of Fallen Leaves, and Izuan Shah of Auburn.<\/p>\n


\nFrom left to right, top to bottom:<\/p>\n