The song we wrote and recorded on the spot a month ago is now called “No One Gets Out Alive!”. At the point of writing this it has gone through two different mixes; one by Bullet and the other by Tom. It will undergo a few more tweaks before release but here’s the advert for it.
The first NOTAFEST’s HOWLING MOUNTAINS DIY FEST! Featuring bands from both the Peninsular and Borneo, along with more bands from Indonesia and Singapore.
*this is will be DUNG’s one and only show for the year end. Do come and join us!
Joe got back to KL late September and we decided to record an EP. Quite an ambitious project since we haven’t jammed for a long time! Anyway, we all gathered at The Greenhouse Studio where our guitarist Tom works as a sound-engineer late-evening Sunday 29th September and wrote a brand new song. Right there and then we straight-away recorded the basic tracks with Joe, Fendi and Bullet. As the night wore on, we decided to ditch writing more songs and just stick to the one captured.
The next night (Monday) we adjourned to our own studio KerbauWorks and had Alak recorded his vocals. The work continued the next Thursday when Joe came back to KL after briefly visiting his family in Terengganu and that night we again recorded Alak and also had our on/off saxophonist Yandsen putting in his contribution.
Round the afternoon of Friday the 4th October, Joe and Tom worked on getting Tom’s guitar parts in. After which we did a rough mix and sent to all the band members. The song is now done!
The song is titled “None Gets Out Alive”, it’s about the cyclic and endless striving embarked by all trapped in the rat-race; constantly in pursuit of trivial concerns, guided by skewed values which discarded personal liberty and empathy towards the other.
None Gets Out Alive!
Down in downer city,
Forsaken sons,
Pale daughters of misery,
Hidden from the sun
The sun, the sun
The sun, the sun
(Solo)
Runaround these sewers,
Ladders to nowhere,
Headless chickens in a vice,
Worshipping the one
The one, the one
The one, no one
(bridge)
Chorus:
Downer city 2x
Downer city 2x
No one gets out alive!
The recorded track is awaiting proper mixing. Once done we’ll make it available on-line.
our man Choi took some pixs of us playing with MARJINAL in KL
Choi’s FB page: https://www.facebook.com/brrrrrrssssher
Yes, we’re playing the show. Include the recently revitalised THE BOLLOCKS’ our guitarist Tom’s old band!!
THE SHITWORKERS rehearsal recording from 2000.
One of the four songs we are working on for a new EP. A not-so-rough-play-play-mix version – recorded at KerbauWorks throughout Jan & Feb and loudly mixed by our drummer Bullet when one of his ears was blocked shut one late night Feb. 13th.
Yr Righteous Fukk!
Fire, fire, hell awaits!
This flesh and bones are mine to bake,
Skin me, skin me body bare,
Don’t you dare avert your stare.
Hoist me high your judgement stake,
Fling me down your depths of hate,
I will always be awake,
This the bed which I have made.
Damn your fire and damn your brimstones,
Fuck your judgement, to hell your dictum,
None of mine is yours for tender,
This is mine,
This is mine,
This is mine!
Alak – vocals, Fendi – bass, Joe – guitar, Tom – guitar, Bullet – drums, Manan – coffee, cigarettes & mempelam.
*song was written by Joe somewhere in May 2009
check the band out here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Orkes-Rakyat-Tertindas/376595822433962
We are getting into the second month of the new year and DUNG are facing quite a downtime for the next few months. First, our bassist Fendi is working on a TV shoot which would take him out of KL for every weekend from now til August! Secondly, Joe will prolly be off traveling around the region for his book research starting from July, while Bullet may intermittently go to a neighbouring country for months at a time for his new job.
All these personal projects left us with not much time to do DUNG stuff as needed. That said, we are now working on a four-song EP, trying to grab as much free time as we collectively have. At the point of noting this entry, we are almost done writing a new tune called Yr Righteous Fukk, a song about standing up for personal choices and freedoms in the face of intense dogmatic pressures and coercion.
The other three songs are (working titles): Big Dick Pete (about casual sexism in the real world), Nag (something about those conflicting voices in our head) and Take It How It Will (which shall be something about leaving clues and breadcrumbs for the curious to find out and chew for themselves).
The setting-up of KerbauWorks Studio by Manan, Bullet and Joe have been helping out DUNG a lot in our workings and plans. That said we still end up jamming at Tom’s workplace (The Greenhouse Studio) since it really does have a big room for us to rehearse.
Besides the EP (currently being called as “The Moolah EP”), there’s a plan to do a commemorative re-recording of our first album Songs For Friends, this is because 2013 is the 20th anniversary of that debut album of ours. Yes, it has been 20 years since we put out our first collection of songs. The project also suggested having bands we like covering the songs selected from the album, and we have asked a few close friends if they would be interested.
Other than that the band would love it if we could do a tour before July; but looking at the schedules everyone have for their personal projects, the chances are looking pretty slim. That said, we’ll work for it the best we can and see what will transpire.
