{"id":5193,"date":"2014-04-11T18:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:57:34","slug":"dotters-division-multiplied-by-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=5193","title":{"rendered":"Dotters’ Division Multiplied By Two!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n29th March 2014: I was down in Publika for Earth Hour 2014. No, not really. Here’s a picture of wayang kulit<\/i> being staged anyway!<\/p>\n


\nThe real reason, of course, was to catch The Bee’s Lot 36 series – Saturday night gigs with bands of high caliber. That night? Dotters’ Division<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nThey’re an all-girl band, fronted by Melissa, who is also in another all-girl band called Crinkle Cut that plays electro-acoustic stuff.<\/p>\n


\nDotters’ Division, however, are a gigging band that plays covers. What makes their sound different, though, I’d point at the keyboardist and band leader Linet Goh, and the saxophonist Audrey Then.<\/p>\n


\nRebecca on drums.<\/p>\n


\nJie Er on bass. This beautiful bass is a Traben.<\/p>\n


\nLinet. I like that the band has a consistent theme each time – here, they’re all decked in denim!<\/p>\n


\nTheir repertoire spans approximately the 70s to modern day hits, with a tendency for music with a big groove, examples being Michael Jackson<\/i> (and his second coming, Bruno Mars<\/i>). The saxophone is used to great effect where you may expect it e.g. George Michael – I’m Never Gonna Dance Again<\/i> and where you may not e.g. an instrumental version of Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music<\/i> where the saxophone sings the lead vocals.<\/p>\n


\nThe band pimps Jie Er.<\/p>\n


\nThey did Pharrell Williams – Happy<\/i>, from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack. I think these glasses make her look like a minion.<\/p>\n


\nFast forward to next week, 5th April 2014, for yet another Lot 36 night. Oh it’s Jie Er again, thinking it’s me again.<\/p>\n


\nSo yes, Dotters’ Division again!<\/p>\n


\nOne thing I really like about this band, is the vocal harmony – it’s not overdone like how some girl bands do it, as if to be saccharine sweet, as if to win merit by just having sweet feminine vocals.<\/p>\n

They just sing and do the song justice. Like their Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit<\/i> cover – when it hits the chorus, the vocals just double, instead of harmonizing, giving it literally the chorus effect that a chorus pedal would give you.<\/p>\n


\nThis time, the theme was leather. Leather looks really nice when colored light reflects off it!<\/p>\n


\nMore groove.<\/p>\n


\nThe only two-instrument-player for the night.<\/p>\n


\nOh damn.<\/p>\n


\nSee what see hah?<\/p>\n


\nI think they were covering Kool & The Gang – Celebration<\/i>!<\/p>\n


\nI am jealous of Melissa’s dyed red streaks.<\/p>\n


\nMeanwhile, guess who’s back! This teddy bear disappeared from this exact location a while ago. I just noticed that it had reappeared. Previously it was holding a can of beer; now, a can of Pepsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

29th March 2014: I was down in Publika for Earth Hour 2014. No, not really. Here’s a picture of wayang kulit being staged anyway! The real reason, of course, was to catch The Bee’s Lot 36 series – Saturday night gigs with bands of high caliber. That night? Dotters’ Division. They’re an all-girl band, fronted […]<\/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-5193","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\/5193","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=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}