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I WENT TO SEE THE CIRCUS, IT WAS AWESOME.

(Okay that's a bit misleading- it was more of a musical/circus thing. Voyage de la Vie at Resorts World Sentosa. It was brilliant.)

Fields of Gold

Pictures! Jessica's (or Yuhua's, I'm not quite sure), because mine are terrible and need copious amounts of editing which I'm too lazy to do/not sure I can fix.

Pretty lights!

Singapore flag. (:

Yuhua's signed setlist!!

♥

My birthday dress from Natalie and Yuhua and Jasmine!

HONEY LOVING YOU IS THE GREATEST THING

I GET TO BE MYSELF, AND I GET TO SING.

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN AHHHHHHHHHH. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

That is all.

All the pictures I took are terrible, there is maybe one photo that turned out well.

BUT I DON'T CAREEEEEEEE B&S B&S B&S!

Take a look at me now,

So, there was a concert.

Pretty lights!

Hello, Kelly Jones.

Very Matt Bellamy, no?

Unfortunately, I have no good pictures of the shirtless drummer. He was grinning and looked like he was having fun. ♥

Concert was good, though the bass was a bit too loud and thumpy I think? The audience was pretty tame, no shoving to get to the front or anything. Though I heard one lady say the crowd in front was pretty wild.

Someone threw a slipper at Kelly Jones! It was pretty bad but also quite amusing. The band left the stage and there was a lot of name calling but when they came back on the energy level of the crowd suddenly shot up hahaha. Like seriously, everyone started dancing/jumping/singing and it got a lot more fun.

Pity I didn't know many of their songs, but they played Maybe Tomorrow, Innocent, Mr. Writer and Dakota. I was disappointed that Maybe Tomorrow wasn't acoustic, and that they didn't play I'm Alright. But it was awesome nonetheless!

At the end of the concert we were standing around talking, then suddenly this guy walked up to us and picked something up from the grass near our feet. YEAH THERE WAS A PICK ON THE GROUND AND WE DID NOT SEE IT. Oh, the tragedy.

I've uploaded the videos here, sound isn't the best because of the bass (WATCH ME ALLITERATE), but I like the Dakota one because you can see/hear the crowd singing and having fun. (:

I ATE PINEAPPLE AND NOW MY TONGUE FEELS SO, SO STRANGE.

Ninjas! Prove it!

I'm doing the stock taking now, and making shit up. Heh.

(I am totally changing the numbers so they tally.)

Also, I wore slippers to work yesterday.

Ten days more!!

I have to go to work later. ):

Padma and Hamsty, get yourselves excited!!

Hellooooooo, Kelly Jones.

Happier than a bird with a french fry

Kings of Convenience was brilliant.

I haven't heard very much of their songs, I based my decision to go almost solely on my love for I'd Rather Dance With You. They're acoustic live though, and I was worried I might get a little bored but noooo was I ever wrong.

The music was gorgeous and captivating all through, when they first started I was like, what is this. They are so awesome live. And so adorable! Hamsty and I are kind of in love, we were walking around after the concert with stupid grins on our faces.

Gorgeous music + adorable musicians and their interactions + their evident enjoyment in their music = awesome. Seriously, gorgeous music. Their two voices together are stunning, as are some guitar and guitar/piano parts. If you were on stage you'd probably see a sea of happy, blissed out faces. (Or perhaps just inky blackness.)

I was in the first row, it was the best idea ever. Although I had to crane my neck a little to see, it was totally worth it. Was only a metre or two away from them, the view was awesome. You could the way Eirik kept turning to Erlend, their quirky antics on stage, how into their music they were. Could even hear them talking to each other between songs/during instrumentals. In Norweigian, but still. They're so brilliant together, and Erlend is off the scales levels of adorableness. His hat! His glasses! His dance during I'd Rather Dance With You!

And I swear Erlend met my eyes, maybe Eirik too. I know as performers it's something they try to do to everyone, but it still makes me super happy. I didn't know what to do when our eyes met though, I kind of shiftily looked away.

They invited the audience to stand at some point, and being in the first row i ended up right in front of the stage, with my elbows on it. When Erlend was dancing around during I'd Rather Dance With You, I could totally reach out and touch his shoes. Was very tempted to actually. He was seriously right in front of me, I had to tilt my camera to the ceiling in order to get his head in the shot. Also was rather surprised that no one ruffled their hair when they bowed to the audience, heh.

Okay I'm very tired and can't be bothered to record every single detail. Suffice to say that it was awesome and I didn't even know the songs and I'd definitely go again. Wish I could be there tomorrow! (To be continued with pictures.)

I'd rather dance with you,

PART II

Okay I fell asleep while I was typing that last night.

So anyway, we eventually found our way to the front, on the left. It was pretty close to the stage but surprisingly not crowded. And they played Map of the Problematique, which was brilliant. I think I almost cried. Didn't manage to get it on video though.

At some point Amanda wanted to go to the toilet and when we left they were playing United States of Eurasia. When we came back in, Matt was just starting on the intro to Sunburn. I went OHMYGOD SUNBURN and started running to the front and trying to drag Amanda with me. And I was videoing while I ran, I think all those standing-still people I ran past thought I was crazy. But I was really happy! It's not a very popular song, and they don't play it so often I think.

Where we were standing (front left), the people were really... sparse. And quite dead. I think the only people who were actually jumping were me and Amanda and the Caucasian guy next to us. He was really nice too, because I carried her so that she could look for Shawn and Tian and he turned to me and said Do you need help with that? (Got to practice carrying my sister... It wasn't difficult when she was still, but when she started trying to mosh I kind of staggered under the weight.)

They played Uprising, Supermassive Black Hole, Map, Starlight, Stockholm Syndrome, Hysteria, Sunburn, Time is Running Out, Resistance, Undisclosed Desires, KoC. Plus stuff I can't remember/wasn't familiar with. I got quite a few videos, but I stupidly covered the mike with my hand a lot, so the audio's pretty bad in parts. And I think I deleted Time is Running Out by accident during the concert when I was frantically trying to clear space for KoC. Darn. Also, the zoom function on my camera is awesome. (: As I will demonstrate in the next post or so.

Actually there's a lot to say but can't be bothered to write it all. It was brilliant and fantastic and bloody awesome and I hope I never forget it and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Memory is so fickle.

They'll keep us apart and they won't stop breaking us down,

LOVE IS OUR RESISTANCE

I'm partially deaf and my ears are ringing and I probably won't be able to talk tomorrow but I! don't! care! because OMG MUSE.

There was this bit where my sister and I were walking back to the queue and we heard Muse doing their soundcheck and I couldn't stop grinning.

Also, I am not touching alcohol for a long time. It all started when Padma asked if I wanted to go for drinks after the show, but I said no because I had to work the next day. And so I brilliantly suggested that we buy drinks there. (It is a very noob thing to do- please if you queue for a concert try to bring as little as possible.) And then we thought we had to go in already (false alarm) so Padma and I downed our Barcardis really quickly, and I made Jocelyn rush over to join us. I ran to get Jocelyn and then back to join the queue, I was really hyped up and my heart was racing and it wouldn't stop. And my face was really red, apparently. So I sat down and thought of slow, peaceful songs- Azure Ray's These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue and This Place is a Prison by The Postal Service- but it didn't help. So I went to sleep. And when I woke up my face was a normal colour but I was a bit lightheaded but I thought it was fine. When we had to stand up to go in though, my vision got spotted black and my ears were ringing, the way it does when you're going to faint. I was really freaked out and kept telling myself that I refused to faint so I kept walking (focussing on Angelia's blue shirt and Padma's grey one) but it got really bad at the bag check area, I couldn't see at all so I leaned against the wall and called for Padma. After that I got escorted away to a room and two paramedic people came to see me hahaha. I felt super bad though because I was rushing Jocelyn to be early and telling Angelia not to faint during the concert and here I was nearly fainting before the concert even started. And by the time we got in we'd be at the back. But thankfully it was alright because they let us straight into the standing area.

Saosin and Rise Against are not too bad live, but I still don't like them. It was pretty sad, because most of the crowd was only there for Muse. I was standing right behind where the hardcore moshers ended, people beside and behind me were mostly keeping still, maybe bopping a little. Heh.

During the interval right before Muse Amanda and Tian decided to go to the back to get water, so Shawn, Amanda, Tian and I went to the back. And of course, Muse came onstage. Uprising, and I was jumping like crazy and I was the only one, the back people were seriously just standing around. The view wasn't bad, it was just a bit far away.

And you will be changed,

Cat Power pictures!

It seems like a long time ago now. I do so love Chan Marshall, she is brilliant and her voice is so beautiful and flawless. Or perhaps perfectly flawed? Anyhow, I had goosebumps throughout the first five minutes of the concert, from the moment she started singing. It was a bit surreal, to know that that was the same person I've watched repeatedly on Youtube in the same room as I and oh look Gregg Foreman with his stupid hair!

I was pleased that I knew most of the songs from the first bit, quite a few of them were from Jukebox. There were my favourites: Silver Stallion, Metal Heart and Don't Explain. Don't Explain was absolutely gorgeous- my favourite of all she performed that night. Oddly enough, when she started on her more popular songs nearer to the end, they were unfamiliar to me.

My sad view of the stage.














Why are my eyes so squinty?






Padma says this shot looks like some Taiwanese star trying to evade reporters. Heh. I like it.

I am so sleepy there were other things I was going to blog about but g'night, folks.

Ohno!

Crap! Kings of Convenience tickets sold out before I even knew they were coming.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Moose!

I am so happy. (:

Unicorns and rainbows!

Today was a pretty emotional experience. Muse tickets- went to Vivo with my sister but the lady at the Sistic counter said all standing tickets were sold out. This was at 1pm, three hours after they started the sale of tickets. I think my sister and I were pretty comical, my jaw literally dropped and we started freaking out. We were really upset, but we got the next best seats available.

So we went home and checked online, they said tickets were still available. We got our mum to try to buy them online, and she said she could. We were pretty frantic, and at that point we were totally prepared to buy standing tickets and try to sell our five extra tickets off. Then I called Padma, and she provided the extremely reasonable, rational solution of calling the Sistic hotline to see if we could change/refund the tickets. (My sister and I were pretty much like chickens with our heads cut off at that point... No rational thinking for us.)

So I did, and I could upgrade the tickets, but I had to go to the Indoor Stadium to do it. My mum volunteered to do it for me tomorrow, but my sister and I wanted to go right away in case they sold out before then. And I have a paper tomorrow morning, which I need to study for, so it would be a pretty stupid thing to spend four hours trying to get tickets to Muse.

But my mum is awesome because she called Sistic and apparently we can just go to Vivo to upgrade so yay!! Still have one extra ticket though, does anyone want it? Yuhua? Alpha?

So in conclusion: My mum and Padma are awesome, I am useless in a crisis, and I need to find someone else to go for Muse with us.

Muuuuuuuuuuse! \o/

I Am The Walrus

Okay, pictures!

Oasis live in Singapore, 5th April 2009.

Oasis on stage.

Liam Gallagher! And Andy Bell I think, please correct if wrong.

Noel!

Yuhua and me during the concert. :D

Tonight, I'm a rock 'n' roll star

Drummer, Chris Sharrock I think.

Last desperate picture of Noel as they left the stage.

Hamsty, me and Padma, after the concert.

I made a mistake, I Am The Walrus (Beatles cover) was the last song. It's so awesome, I was trying to find out what it was. Everyone went Whoo! during the chorus. :D

Click here to download all the photos. You have to download them separately though, so it's pretty tedious. I'm sorry. :/

I am the eggman (Whoo!)

They are the eggmen (Whoo!)

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob

Morning Glory

I am back from Oasis!!

My shirt/ dress and bag were soaked, and not all the sweat was mine. Heh. I went into a mosh pit with slippers and survived! Though remind me never to do that again. It was a bit intense at first, and I was worrying about squashing Padma's poster and my toe (which I injured this morning). But in the end I just stuffed the poster in my bag (It got majorly squished, which I will never stop apologising for, but at least it's an authentic squashed-by-maniac-Oasis-fans Oasis poster!) and gave up not trying to get my feet stepped on. The crowd was crazy at first, and there was a whole bunch of jumping and pushing, and I almost fell over but there were just more people to fall onto. But everyone got tired or something after a bit, and there was considerably less jumping and stuff. And everyone got completely drenched in sweat and nobody really cared about whose sweat they were getting on them or whose hair was in their face it was just OASIS OASIS OASIS. (:

We started out pretty far behind, feeling extremely short. Couldn't really see the stage, and most people were taller than even Padma. Hamsty and I had no chance at all. But then the Awesome Hamster pulled me to the front during the concert! Haha. We lost Padma for a bit, but then she found her way in front and we ended up being not five metres away from Liam Gallagher. :D :D :D Thank you to the Extremely Nice People who let me in front of them!! Because Hamsty would be in front of me with people in between, and we would be holding hands and then when they saw us they would just let me cut in front of them. This happened with a few different people. One guy even pushed me in front of him. So thank you!! As Padma said, people are pretty nice at concerts.

They played a lot of songs I didn't know though, which was sad. (Hardcore Oasis fan I apparently am not.) But there was Morning Glory, Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger, I'm Outta Time and Champagne Supernova. So awesome. (: People behind me were shouting for them to play Wonderwall, and before they did Liam introduced it as Some Might Say and they played Wonderwall instead, and everyone just went crazy. And they ended with Champagne Supernova which was (: (: (: words cannot describe. I was looking forward to them playing Talk Tonight, but oh well. THIS IS AS ACCURATE AS I CAN MANAGE, I AM SORRY IF THERE IS INCORRECT INFORMATION HERE BUT EVERYTHING IS A LITTLE BLURRY IN RETROSPECT. OH AND THEY PLAYED THE MASTERPLAN TOO HOW COULD I FORGET THAT!! So much awesome in two hours. (:

Liam is such a... rock star. When he wasn't singing, sometimes he'd just stand at the front of the stage and look down at all of us and just sort of revel in the total admiration/ adoration/ worship (I am not kidding when I use this word) of the crowd. Seriously. Oh oh and I thought he was wearing a trench coat, but Padma and Hamsty said it was a jumper! Hahahaha so cute and it had pockets!

And he threw a tambourine, which flew over my head! Sigh.

I am currently half deaf in the right ear which is a little worrisome but I suppose it will recover in time. I had no voice when the concert ended, I was singing/ shouting to the songs that I actually knew and attempting to scream and encore but I abandoned the latter two because my voice sounded so tinny to me that there was no kick to it. Hahaha. But my voice came back. ): I hope I have no voice tomorrow because then I can tell people that I shouted my lungs out for Oasis if they ask. :D

Sadly I cannot find the thing that connects the memory card to the computer and I am just dying to look at the videos but I can't. ): AND THIS DISTURBS ME but there was a guitarist in front of me whom I took the most/ best pictures of and I WAS AT THAT TIME UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT IT WAS NOEL but I think Padma mentioned that it might have been Andy Bell but I actually still think it was Noel!! Because I went to google their images and it's probably either Gem Archer or Noel but neither Gem nor Andy sing (I think) SO I THINK IT IS NOEL.

I am such a bad Oasis fan. ):

Where were you while we were getting high?

I'm Yours

Post 1: Picture!spam- Singfest 2008

Damn you, blogger. I hate uploading pictures.


Losers of the world unite.


Stacie Orrico. Heh.


Drumsets!

Jamie Scott and The Town.

One Republic. Verdict: Pretty good. Okay, really good.

One Republic.

Self explanatory.

Panic at the Disco.

Panic at the Disco.

Jason Mraz! (The one with the white shirt and black hat. But still not distinguishable because BLURRY.)

Jason Mraz!

Jason Mraz! Slighly less blurry. I think I must have been shaking with excitement. Or something. All the Jason Mraz pictures are blurry!

Percussionists/ trumpeter/ trombonist/ saxophonist. (Yes I know I'm in band but I'm sorry if I got any of that wrong.)