Upcoming Gig @ The Ark Music Cafe at NEW *SCAPE

继续。摇滚 Rock' On with The Azure Band

The band's very 1st gig at the new Ark Music Cafe @ new *SCAPE building.

Cover charge: $15 with TWO drinks
Special Guest Vocalist: Clara

Door opens 8pm, talented Ark performers Shaw & Daxin will be performing from 8pm before the band...

Why this gig?

To celebrate the 17th Anniversary of The Ark Music Cafe...
To celebrate Leon's 10th year with The Ark Music Cafe...
To celebrate The Azure Band's 7th anniversary...
To celebrate life...
To Rock' On...

P/S: To let YOU know where the new Ark Music Cafe is situated now lah!
I know we been sailing around... We are ship mah...=P

It's our very own concert! Hope to see u! =)

For more info:www.theark.com.sghttp://azure2007.tripod.com/

To make your reservations, call 6337 8226 :)

XXth Birthday Celebrations

Well... I think I had a blast celebrating my birthday the whole weekend... =)

Big thanx to all my friends and colleagues for all the wonderful gifts...破费了！Thx for 破费 though! Pls continue to 破费! LOL

One of my fave presents was this though...












This is my surprise cake...











I made a very special wish that nite before I blew the candles on my surprise cake ( didn't wanna get a cake, cos I tot I'm too old for all that birthday song singing etc), and I really really hope it can come true...



Lucky Draw prizes I prepared for my guests...
















Anyway, check out my performance for the guests with the band.
Very happy to have Chan Min on the guitar as well... haven't jam with him for so long! Check out some videos here:





Not forgetting my performance during the school official opening on the eve of my bdae:

Life's been good...

Been a long time since I last blogged...
Gigs aren't alot recently, but glad to be doing a few wedding gigs in the coming months, and of cos one of the big gig of the year, tomorrow evening's School Official Opening. I will be performing 3 songs... Been coughing for past 4 weeks or so! Of cos, partly my own fault of not cutting down on cold drinks as pointed out by someone... =P

Life has been good to me all this while I guessed...or should I say, God has been good to me!
That's why I had more time to be troubled over some stuff, while many pple are struggling with their jobs etc...

Having said that, time to really sit down and write some serious music for the band...
We do have plans for end of this years... gigs don't come all the time... We need to make things happen, and that is to write more music that belong to ourselves so that we can share with others!

Birthday is round the corner again... celebrations aside, it's time to think about what lies ahead... =)

Sharing some videos taken from gig at the new The Ark @ King Louis Grill & Bar at Vivocity. I realised I haven't gig for such a long time...=(

1st time performing with a Big Band

Thx to a colleague Anne, I had my very 1st experience of performing with a Big Band...
The band was made up of Swedishs and Russians...It was my honour to perform with them.

Anne was a very old friend of the Swedish Conductor of the band, Mr Jangtun... ( who looked very much like our KFC Colonel...tsk tsk)

Sang the song 《童话》for somebody in mind...hope she likes it. -_-"

Wedding gig @ Marriott for Alywin & Charmaine

I was invited to perform by the bride Charmaine thru her mom who's a "colleague" of mine... It's always a great honour and pleasure to perform at wedding banquets...

It was a great collaboration with Peter Huang, a veteran performer in the Chinese music scene... It was my honour to perform with him...especially when he started doing his amazing beatbox...

He started out performing at Music Dreamer (爱琴海) at the same time when I started out performing at The Ark (木船).
We didn't really practice the songs together before last nite's gig, but all went well...

The many years of training we had at the Chinese music cafes, provided us the ability to adapt and perform with any musician at any time...

And thanx to Peter for providing the monitor speaker and his own mixer board on stage for the gig( something most hotel ballrooms would not be able to provide ) , thus we were able to hear ourselves well on stage...

Check out some videos taken last nite...

Our 1st song was the "national anthemn" in 民歌餐厅s.











I love performing for weddings...
Anyone needs a wedding singer?
My charges are very affordable! lol.

Jay Chou The Era 2010 World Tour

I watched the 1st show on last friday...
I still prefer the last show in 2007 actually...lol
But this one is still fantastic nonetheless... cos I watched with someone special...


I realised the acoustic guitar finger plucking solo in the his new song《免费教学录影带》was really played by himself, or at least, he really know how to do it... Amazing...











As usual, Jay will make sure his artistes get some limelight...The Drifters here...











and Cindy Yen...












A clever move by Jay!! This is the 1st time I see such a big lyrics board at the back... how to forget lyrics with it???

Say bye bye to the conventional Grand Piano... Now we have weird looking "grand pianos" in all shape and sizes... Just slot in a good 88keys digital piano and there u go....











Oh yes...did I mention Jay has fantasy about flight attendants? Jay performing《嘻哈空姐》with the sexy "flight attendants"...












The 3D screen...actually got 3D meh?



































Last but not least... a video!!! =P



Come back soon Jay... looking forward to your 11th album...

张惠妹《人质》

Naang Fa Kon Derm ( My Angel )

The 2nd Thai song I learnt...A song by Thai Pop/Rock Band Clash...Pardon my Thai... I'm a Chinese... =P

The Ark Cafe Movie Theme Song Concert

And YES... We finally get to gig after a long break, as our drummer Liang just celebrated his 1st Fathers' Day today... His daughter Roxette Tan was finally born on 1st June 2010!

It was a nite of fun and lame jokes from yours truly... 10 rock songs in a row isn't something easy, hoped I pulled it off!
I was on 3 different instruments that nite as well...
Been a long time since I performed on the guitar as well as my beloved (digital) piano...

Some highlights of last nite's gig...


My fave song from Jay Chou's new album...


We performed a new song written by me for the band that nite as well...It's also the 1st time we performed this particular song inspired by a special someone...some glitches here and there...I forgot to bring the lyrics, got to depend on my phone! But the screen is too small, thus sang a few words wrongly. ( Of cos, I wrote the lyrics, I could memorise most of the lyrics...)
Hope the next time it will be much better!



We invited Seto, keyboardist of LGF band to play the piano for us!!!
Thx bro! =)


One of my fave song from Sky Wu...


My fave song of the nite... Mayday's 《温柔》还你自由版。
It's one of the songs that I always perform when I 1st joined The Ark Cafe 10 years ago as a vocalist... Time flies... but I'm still young... =P

Looking forward to the next gig... =)

Aaron Kwok De Show Reel World Tour Encore 2010

This is a late entry! Aaron came to Singapore again with his rotating stage for an Encore concert just last month... I went to watch with my primary school friend who missed his concert last year... She's a die hard fan of Aaron as well!

I was glad that the song list was a bit different... more than 70% of the songs were his Mandarin songs... There was even a medley of his popular mandarin songs from his 1st 10 yrs of stardom...( Aaron's been in showbiz for 20 yrs already btw...)

But he decided to speak more cantonese instead this time round... I still prefer him speaking in Mandarin... it's more entertaining for me... whahaha!~

《说了再见》

Yes! I'm a big fan of Jay Chou...
This is my fave song from Jay Chou's new album...
Hope you like this song as well! =)

金船奖颁奖典礼 之 最佳电影歌曲

Come support The Ark Singers and The Azure Band...

Come dressed up as your fave movie characters! =P

Interview by Play Guitar Singapore

Big thanx to Pier of Play Guitar Singapore who interviewed The Azure Band!

Check out the interview:
http://www.play-guitar.sg/index.php/members/98-azure

第12届心情溶剂

Clash!!!

Never knew that I would be into Thai music one day... and even performed a Thai song recently... look out for my next Thai song in Azure's gigs! =P

Clash, a Thai rock band that has been around for some time already...Didn't know about them until a few days ago, a dear friend introduced one of their songs to me...

I'm not a gay, but I actually find the lead vocalist Bank very hot!!! He has a good voice...

I like these 2 songs very much...





Enjoy!

五月天 - 变形DNA*无限放大版* 新加坡演唱会

A last minute decision to watch the concert... My bassist Aloy called me around 1pm asking me if wanna go watch... Thx Bro!

It was a great experience... my 1st Mayday concert, also Mayday's 1st outdoor show in Singapore...

Check out this 2 videos... they were the 2 main highlights of the concert! =)

A Visit to The Singapore Flyer

Brought parents to visit The Singapore Flyer last Sunday during the long weekend...
It was drizzling, thus the raindrops on the glass panels of the capsule...

The Flyer nothing much la... LOL.

I guess the view in the night would be nicer...

摇滚木船 @ *SCAPE Youth Centre: Lab (27th March 2010)

A Rock Concert featuring 5 local Chinese rock bands in Singapore.
Azure, Ah5ive, LGF, Elyzia and Redpoll.

Organised by The Ark Music & *SCAPE.
Proudly presented to you by National Youth Council.

We had great fun performing alongside the other 4 chinese bands...
This is the 5th time The Ark organised this Chinese Rock event, and we certainly hope to do alot more in the future!

We need to create more awareness cos Singapore Chinese Rock bands do exists! We gig and jam as much as our ang mo counterparts! =P

Big thanx to all the bands who performed for 摇滚木船！And also FM100.3 DJs Ken & 阿栋for the radio interview! And of cos not forgetting *SCAPE for their great support!!!

We collaborated with Regine of LGF for 《爱死你》!
We only managed to go thru ONCE b4 the gig, great job Regine! =P

FM100.3 Interview & performance

It was quite a last minute arrangement by FM100.3 DJs Ken & 阿栋. Thanks for having Azure & LGF on air to promote 摇滚木船!
We performed 3 Azure's originals 《心变》，《让你走》& 《没把握》.














We hope to see you at *SCAPE Youth Centre for 摇滚木船！
7:30pm door opens!!!

Sounds Like Saturday Chinese Pop Concert @ Orchard

现在流行“自拍”？

最近大家都爱在房间里拍自己自弹自唱。我也来chupjika (插一脚)...

Upcoming gigs in March!

Sounds Like Saturday Chinese Pop Concert @ Orchard

Time: 8pm - 830pm
Date: 20th March 2010 ( Saturday )
Venue: Open space between Ngee Ann City and Wisma Atria

Azure as the opening act for the concert!

Let's rock Orchard!



摇滚木船 The Ark Chinese Rock Concert

Time: 7:30pm to 10:30pm
Date: 27th March 2010 ( Saturday)
Venue: *SCAPE Youth Centre: Lab

A rock concert featuring 5 local Chinese rock bands - Azure, Ah5ive, LGF, Elyzia & Redpoll!