{"id":6658,"date":"2014-07-13T16:44:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2014-07-13T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:44:32","slug":"feedback-open-mic-ft-ida-mariana-quirky-qwerty-the-bee-publika-june-2014-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=6658","title":{"rendered":"Feedback Open Mic ft Ida Mariana & Quirky Qwerty @ The Bee Publika \/ June 2014 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n24th June 2014: Feedback Open Mic ft Ida Mariana & Quirky Qwerty @ The Bee Publika \/ June 2014 Edition<\/a>. Here’s emcee and organizer Reza Salleh introducing Flip The Table<\/b>. Check out that nifty Traveler Escape headless guitar!<\/p>\n


\nTriblues<\/b>. Three dudes playing the blues.<\/p>\n


\nHe sings Pink Floyd – Money<\/i> and Wolfmother – Dimension<\/i>!<\/p>\n


\nSolid solos. The theme for the night was Singing The Blues<\/i> – you don’t have to follow the theme, but the one who follows it best, and stays to the end when the results are announced, wins a prize.<\/p>\n


\nI bumped into Robin Wong<\/a> and Jackie Loi<\/a> there (I’ve linked to their pictures from this same night), both fans of the Micro Four-Thirds camera system.<\/p>\n

Above is my Sony Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 24mm F2.0 ZA SSM next to a Panasonic Leica 25mm F1.4. My Sony Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM is the same size as my 24mm, so it gives you a good idea my full-frame lenses scale to Micro Four-Thirds lenses. (Of course, my Minolta 50mm F1.4 Original, with a 49mm filter thread, is closer to the same size as the Panasonic, but its optical quality is probably nowhere near when shot wide open compared to my Carl Zeiss.)<\/p>\n

Below is my Sony Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm F1.8 ZA next to the Olympus 75mm f1.8. Ironically, the Olympus gives a bit more reach!<\/p>\n


\nAnd now, for the homecoming Ariff AB<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nSharon Chong chilling on the sofa.<\/p>\n


\nEwaz<\/b>? I didn’t get his name.<\/p>\n


\nAwesome, awesome singing and loops and ambient wizardry.<\/p>\n


\nTowards the end he suddenly brought this out!<\/p>\n


\nBlack & White<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nShe sang Elton John – Your Song<\/i> while he sang Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe<\/i>. Yup, Hey Joe, a classic blues song.<\/p>\n


\nSaturday Afternoon<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nDanish & Natalie<\/b> with a cover of John Mayer – Slow Dancing In A Burning Room<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nInstrumental progressive rock band Black Lightbulb<\/b>! Raja Farouque on millions of notes.<\/p>\n


\nSimmy, on millions of notes, too.<\/p>\n


\nZaim keeping it cool. Interesting that the number of knobs matches the number of strings.<\/p>\n


\nAsh on the beat.<\/p>\n


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


\nYou’d normally see her on the other end of The Bee, at the sound engineer’s console.<\/p>\n


\nIda Mariana<\/b>, first featured act.<\/p>\n


\nShe was backed by the legendary Wan Gigi of Alcentric and John Thomas And The Phunk Mob Experience.<\/p>\n


\nQuirky Qwerty<\/b>, second featured act.<\/p>\n


\nOne interesting cover was that of Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nSo yeah.<\/p>\n


\nThey normally dress up as a polka band, but in conjunction with World Cup they wore jerseys instead.<\/p>\n


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


\nDisco rock!<\/p>\n


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


\nChairs crowning the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

24th June 2014: Feedback Open Mic ft Ida Mariana & Quirky Qwerty @ The Bee Publika \/ June 2014 Edition. Here’s emcee and organizer Reza Salleh introducing Flip The Table. Check out that nifty Traveler Escape headless guitar! Triblues. Three dudes playing the blues. He sings Pink Floyd – Money and Wolfmother – Dimension! Solid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","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=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6659,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}