Did a gig in March~ J-obsession 2012, it is an event that consisted of 3 days and we played on the last day~~ Finally, performing J-music in a Jap event, hahaha..Made acouple of new friends and fans, hahahaha~~~ It was a very fun and good learning experience. And we have much to learn~ Keep pushing ourselves to a higher level.
Of course, there's ups and downs..We were scheduled to perform on sunday 4.30pm, which is the 1st slot of the day. Then the organisers were asking if we could switch to saturday instead. With one of us working, we were not able to make the switch and we remained on sunday, same slot..That's when some steep learning curve surfaced.
We jammed every week as usual, then i received an email from the organisers that we have 2 songs in our setlist clash with another band one week before the performance, and they proposed that which band play 1 of the songs and come up with another song to replace the one that were not played. Given the amount of time we were notified, i replied that we might not be able to come up with a replacement song, and the organisers replied with they have to remove us if we were playing 3 songs only. Each band was given a 30 min timeslot, which definitely can't tank with 3 songs only. So everyone was feeling down and stuff, mainly the reason because the other band was supposed to play on saturday then they switched to sunday. Thinking of all the possiblities i could come up, i don't see a clean solution. On the verge of giving up, i came across the videos of the BBQ 2yrs back, with the acoustic setlist, and suggested to the rest to play an acoustic song for the replacement song. Which they agreed and Luke arranged it to be a full band song over the week. To be honest, he really surpised me with his rendition, hahaha..Well, as for the drums, he just told me to come up with something simple, basket, hahaha..Then we practiced it for 2 hours, acouple of hours before the actual performance!! We managed to pull it off!! and got the most praises for that song from friends, audiences and even the other performers!!
Went down the stage happily though there were acouple of flaws, we're still happy that we can get up on stage, given the circumstances for that past week. Then the other band went on stage. They were engertic, enjoying their time to the max, then till the last song, the bassist told the band to play the song that we played. And they "apologised" to us on stage, and played it..The agreement we, that band and the organiser had was each of us played 1 of the clash song, yet they played all of them, that's outright disrespect, it's freaking bullshit, dude..Given that they know almost everyone there, it's pointless to agrue, so gotta swallow pride.
Well, all in all, I won't say it's a bad experience but a good learning experience. I'm gald that there's audiences and performers that liked our performance despite all the screw-ups and stuff, hahaha..And heard from some of them, we halted the most by-standers in their steps to listen while walking past the stage compared to other bands, hahaha..I think it's because we have a wonderful vocals on our side~~ hahahaa Not gona get carried away, now we're getting back in the studio, keep practicing, keep improving and keep bringing the audiences more wonderful songs that touched our hearts to touch their's, hahaha
A big Thank You goes out to all our friends and family went to support us!!! It really meant alot to us. *90 degree bow* We'll get better and better!!!
Here's the video of the performance that day~~
Peace!!
DC, Drummer@LiAR
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