The Azure Band 'Live' @ Se7en

The Azure Band's annual concert... This time at Se7en@ Iluma Bugis!
A humble show to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the band with old and new members as well as great friends...Presenting the band's originals & covers we loved...

Date: 30th Sept 2011 (Friday)
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Se7en @ Iluma, Bugis (7th floor)
Entry: $16 with 1 drink ( non-alcoholic/alcoholic)

Se7en serves alcohol & finger food!


Special line up!!

Featuring Alfe Kim on drums & Mervyn Kong on bass!!!

Special guest: Jia Min of Campus Superstar

We hope to see you on 30th Sept evening!
Let's Rock!!! \m/

For Reservations:
Call 6337 8226 or Email thearkclub@gmail.com

Ah Gal

After 3 years of wonderful ( & sad memories ) with Ah Boy... I decided to part with him and reward myself with Ah Gal...

Ah Gal is a wonderful drive... but a chore to maintain her white body though...

Enjoying every moment with her... =)

The Azure Band @ Broun Sessions Thursdays!

The Azure Band will be back in action after a long break!

I will be sharing my songwriting experiences with everyone & of cos, presenting the band's humble originals... with the band!

Come & hear about the stories behind each of the songs! =P

Broun Cafe serves great food too! Check out the photos below!

Space limited, thus make your reservations with any of the band members now!


For more info:
http://www.broun.sg/

13th XQRJ Regional Chinese Songwriting Competition Grand Finals...

第十三届《心情溶剂》新马中文词曲创作比赛大决赛！

The Azure Band is very honoured to be invited to perform as guest performers again for the 7th consecutive time!

See u there at the 13th XQRJ Grand Finals @ NUS University Cultural Centre coming Sunday 6:30pm!!!

Meanwhile... check out my latest video! =P

New addition to my White (musical instruments) Family!

It's a humble Washburn White Acoustic Electric Guitar shipped from the US... Something to reward myself for all the hard work with my new job!

Looking forward to the Lunar New Year! May all good things come falling in place for me! =)

By the way, do check out videos taken of our M.I.S concert!

Interview and write up on Omy:



http://yzone.omy.sg/index.php?articleID=19092&&option=com_article&task=detail&type

Upcoming gigs in Jan 2011!!!

Happy 2011 to everyone!!!

Many things happened after the last gig...

Liang decided to leave the band...
I appreciate him alot for his efforts and contribution for the past 3 years in the band... May we gig again one day!!! Thanx Bro!

Also, someone woke me up from my laid back lifestyle...
It hit me so hard that I made a career switch in Dec 2010 without much hesitation...
Something totally new to me...
Life has changed totally... I learn new things everyday...
More fufilling I must say, I work very hard now...
And I'm really proud of the results I've achieved for the very 1st month...
It's really amazing... Thank God for everything! I thank you as well... seriously. =)

Music, though still can't be my rice bowl... BUT, I will rock on no matter what...
I thank God for this passion and interest He has given me... I may not be the best musician and singer around, but this little talent is something nobody can ever take away from me...( except the Lord )

Band members changed and changed throughout the many years, but the only member that remain is still me...=P
I ain't gonna give up!!!


Therefore...




13th Xin Qing Rong Ji Regional Songwriting Competition Road Show


Date: 7th Jan 2011 (Friday)
Time: 5pm Venue: Lot One Shoppers' Mall ,Choa Chu Kang
Admission Free!!!

Azure will be performing as guest performers for the road show! We support XQRJ all the way!!!



Music In Singapore ( M.I.S ) Concert

Date: 16th Jan 2011 ( Sunday )
Time: 8pm to 11pm
Venue: Warehouse @ new *SCAPE
Tickets: $25 ( Includes 1 CD of your choice )
$15 ( Ticket only )

Book your tickets here:
http://www.theark.com.sg/mis.html

The Azure Band will be performing along side local bands Ah5ive, Elyzia and Redpoll!!!

I be showcasing my own originals that nite... Hope to see you!!! =)

2011 is gonna be a very good year for me...
It's only gonna get better...

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