bersama:

GRAVE DANCERS (JKT) - here
KRASSKEPALA (BDG) - here
DISCONTRAK (BDG) - here
GLADIATOR - here
SPEEDKILL (JKT) - here
REVOLT (Bogor) - here

bersama:

KRISISIDENTITAS - here
HELLBOMBS - here
ERRORBRAIN - here
MAWAR BERDURI - here
D’PONIS - here
BLEEDING CORPSE - here
THE END 32 - here
TCUKIMAY - here

Carburetor Dung’s West Java Tour 2008 starts with this show and goes on for 12 days.

dates:

02nd May - @Club Racun, Bandung - confirmed
03rd May - (Hanging out in Bandung)
04th May - @IdeGila, Bogor - confirmed
05th May - @IKJ, Jakarta Gig CANCELLED
06th May - @Perigi-Bintaro, Road-Side Gig - confirmed
07th May - Jakarta / Yogja (we may be taking the train to Yogja at this point)
08th May - Yogja
09th May - @Gampingan, Yogja - confirmed
10th May - Yogja to Jakarta | @Studio Bonda, Jakarta - confirmed
11th May - @Pondok Cabe - confirmed | @Eastern Promise - confirmed
12th May - Fly back from Jakarta

We were supposed to rehearse yesterday but everyone just gone off the rails basically, but today it finally happened! Yup, we were jamming right in The Ricecooker Shop!

Bullet brought in half a drum set from the ol’ Dreamwalk Studio (with no pedal just yet!), Fendi got a nice bass stack from our old rocker friend Mus May, Tom brought in a nice guitar amp from the studio he’s working with (the studio owner and my old flatmate, Eugene Novocaine came to watch) and I brought in my battered practice amp.

The three tables right in the middle of the shop were pushed to the wall and that created a nice space for us to whack through the tunes. We went through 21 songs, concentrating mainly on the ones we haven’t jammed together before. It was cool! It will save us hundreds of ringgits from going to a jam studio!

Today we also managed to get the remastered and extra-tracked The Allure of Manure rerelease to the press (thanks, Gulam!). This time we are just pressing 200 cassettes to bring with us to Indonesia, but we’ll get the CD version done once we got back.

“It’s like you’re having a baby”, said Bullet on my anxiety over the mix we did last night.

Me, Fendi and him spent the Friday night and the whole of Saturday morning mixing the new recordings at our recently departed friend’s studio; a small room at the side of the AVXS office on Robson Heights.

Usually used for vocal recording/dubbing and video editing, it’s adequate for simple mixing sessions but too small to fit in a drum set to do a proper live recording. However, the room’s properly sound-proofed and features a decent pair of monitoring speakers and a small powered-mixer.

It’s a bit strange to be there without Jalil. But his legacy is all over the place. The left-handed Epiphone guitar he used to strum is still there, his reading glasses, his treasured Sony 3CCD video cam and banks of DV tapes and I bet there are his songs in the hard disk on that PC he always used.
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I’m invited to talk in a conference themed Commercialization, Constestation and Creative Culture, basically a talk with a critical perspective on culture. “There’ll be concurrent discussions going on and one of them is about music (topic title - Popular Music: Commercialization, Cooptation and Consumption) blah, blah..

Anyway, I’m hoping for Dung to have a gig there during the talk.

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