A nice review can be read at jiboneus.com

Clips uploaded by Yus (YouTube page here)

LABOUR OF HATE:

UGLY, UGLY, UGLY (a Shitworkers song resurrected):

GIBRAN SONG (old Dung song, never recorded):

PUING II (Iwan Fals cover):

We had good fun but the waiting was quite an ordeal.

Manan drove us down to JB with his spacious and uber-comfy Estima van. Fits eight people with tonnes of legroom. The airconditioning requires a good day-jacket to warm you up sufficiently, but that’s what made it so comfy. Bebe, Shammir & Atia tagged along with us.

This is the scene at about 3pm on the 4th floor (AKA the “3A Floor”) of the City Plaza, in JB. The gang sat at the middle table. All around us there were merch tables. On the left side (out of the pix), inside the recesses in the wall was the stage. The stage area filled up at anytime. Kids in JB supports whatever band playing!

[Read more]

We had a great time playing at the WWF’s Art For Nature 2008 Fund Raising which took place at the unlikely venue (for punk rock); the spread-mungous Rimbun Dahan estate in Kuang, Selangor last night.

The show took place at the ground floor of one of the houses there. The space looks out into the open, surrounded by man-made water catchment with the audience sitting pretty far out on the landings and stairs.

The night started with tonnes of food, drinks and good company. At around 10pm, Gasoline Grenade started the show, followed with Alak and Ikin’s acoustic trio The Pip (with Farhana on vocals). After which we played, ending with a jam with our favourite skronk-people; Ah Tham & Yandsen – doing our Stooges version AKu Mau Jadi Anjing Mu!

Both Ah Tham & Yandsen continued on as EMACM with Azmyl Yunor on drums and Siew-Wai on pipes. The night ended with the crazy antics of Ciplak, with Aziz wading the water trying revive his fire-starter stick. Yeah, he was spitting fire all over the place.

Here are some pictures taken by Farhana:

[Read more]

This will be updated when we have time, but here’s a pix of The Dung that night.

We played last, probably round 1.45 am. It was horrible! We didn’t rehearse proper so it sucked! We played songs we haven’t played for ages, all from the 1993 album:

Don’t Know
Labour of Hate
Liar (skipped, can’t remember the chords!)
Jump Down Lemonade
Farewell

There are tonnes of pics out there. The show was pretty crazy.

more pixs here soon

First of all, much thanks and big love for the CIJ gang and Sei Hon (Troubadours KL) for the show. We had massive fun that night, and we could have gone on for a few more songs if the bass drum was not tuned so low (more on that later).

There was a sizable crowd, with good friends right at the stage front, but not as many as last year though. This could be because there were 3 other gigs going on the same night all around KL and also the timing. 10pm is a bit too late for our Mat Rempit friends who need to wreck havoc on some highways somewhere. A large section of the people decided to stand far into the night instead of the stage front and that dampened the spirit a bit.

The highly enthusiastic (and drunken) Indonesian workers who went wild last year were also absent, or maybe because of our style of music (if you can call it that) is out of favour with the kids who prefer muted post-rock rather than well-worn punk rock agit-prop!

But hey! Who cares? It was fun, and I think we haven’t had a gig with a good sound setup for, hell!, I can’t even remember! The stage felt really alien to us though. It was way too big and I’m too old to run around berserk like Angus Young.

We had to cut out a few songs out of the set-list as our drummer was nearing his final breath. The bass drum was re-tuned after our soundcheck by Paul Millot (who was playing for Kamasutra) and it was way too low for proper punk rock kicks, so Bullet had to muster a hell lot more energy than usual to thump the hell out of it! Lesson learned: If you play after Kamasutra, retune the drums!

The bass amp was also acting up, refusing to work intermittently through out the set, this is due to the lower stacked speakers not being amped-up proper. Another lesson learned there. We also called up our good friend Batak (18SGG) to take care of the overall sound for us and it worked well. I think we will be using Batak a lot from now on, like the 5th member of the band, only out there in the soundscape department. That’s another lesson!

I-Lann took a lot of footages on DV, Fendi had one DV cam perched on his bass amp and I think CIJ had a video guy covering the show, so maybe we can put it all together one day.

Thanks to all of you who were there. And our gratitude to Jeff Ooi (jeffooi.com) and his LensaMalaysia (lensamalaysia.com) friends who snapped a lot of great pictures.

You can check out the pixs here: LensaMalaysia: World Press Freedom Day events at Central Market, May 5-6

more pixs: elleipsisimages.com. Thanks to Kevin Lee.

We played earlier than sheduled and as a result a lot of our friends who came late missed the set. We played all the 5 songs as planned: Potong Nama, Hanturaya Putrajaya, Mata Buta, Macam Celaka & Mari Nyanyi Menjilat.

My guitar went outta tune midway through but I was too fired up to fix that! Anyway, Yandsen, Ah Tham & Aziz joined us for Menjilat and they continued on as we finished the song. However some kids started to ask us to play one more song. Zul Akta Angkasa asked for the Central Market anthem, Payday, but we didn’t rehearse the song so we did half of Boo Hoo, before the guitar gone completely dead!

It was a nice venue, about 90 feet long and 20 feet wide. The stage was about 3 inch high! Many people complained they can’t see us play due to the height. The sound system was alright, but Fendi complained my guitar was a bit too “thick sounding”, and not clear. Hmmm. We had good fun though.

Thanks to all who were there. We’ll post up some video clips later.

more pixs below:
[Read more]

We had a good time playing at the WPFD at Central Market. The first time we have ever played at CM too. Me, Fendi and our new drummer Bullet are all regular lepakers at the Central Market back in the late 80s and early 90s. The band was basically formed there! There’s so much memories and it would be too sentimental for me to write all of that and bore you people.

[Read more]

from: star-ecentral.com

Making inroads

By DARYL GOH

As far as music policy is concerned, there have been accusations that the KLPac in Sentul West in Kuala Lumpur is nothing more than a upper middle class preserve for schmaltzy musicals and sponsored piano recitals. You probably needed to own Versace stitches, and not a ratty Dinosaur Jr T-shirt to feel a sense of belonging there.

No disrespect to these high brow entertainment genres, but the nation’s fully dedicated performance arts venue did promise to make things accessible for the masses. On the agenda was a mission to adopt an inclusive outlook to embrace all kinds of Malaysian music.

To some extent, the venue did live up to its word last Saturday when it hosted the first full-scale indie rock gig indoors at the Pentas 2 hall. Organised by the Ipoh-based independent outfit BodySurf Music, the show unleashed 15 bands to coincide with the launch of the label’s Radio Malaya compilation.

[Read more]

The Star
Monday February 6, 2006

Various Artistes
Radio Malaya
(Bodysurf Music)

A DISC compiling the definitive sounds from the Malaysian indie resurgence of the last couple of years? Sure, why not? It’s actually much more exciting than whatever the kitsch reality TV establishments are passing off for quality entertainment these days.

Radio Malaya has a list of celebratory instances. The unveiling of rare recorded material by the now-defunct Sgt Weener Arms (sounding every bit like Malaysia’s reply to Australia’s My Disco with their contribution, Trago) opens the curtains of insight into what could have been for one of the circuit’s most exciting live outfits in recent memory.

[Read more]