SCHOOPER TWOOPER

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow
All I do is eat and sleep and sing
Wishing every show was the last show
So imagine I was glad to hear you’re coming
Suddenly I feel all right
And it’s gonna be so different
When I’m on the stage tonight
Super Trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun
Smiling, having fun
Feeling like a number one
Super Trouper (dreams) beams are gonna blind me
But I won’t feel blue
Like I always do
‘Cause somewhere in the crowd there’s you

Facing twenty thousand of your friends
How can anyone be so lonely
Part of a success that never ends
Still I’m thinking about you only
There are moments when I think I’m going crazy
But it’s gonna be alright
Everything will be so different
When I’m on the stage tonight

Razzle Dazzle Rose

Ripped them wholesale off mr. photographer’s album. Something nice to remember Camera Obscura’s gig by:D

thanks chieh! Will be posting photos from the autograph session soon!

Why so quiet

CAMERA OBSCURA

Gig kicked off with Come Back Margaret, Tracyanne Campbell’s ethereal vocals and the rest of the band’s wonderful playing had us cheering and chill.

Come back Margaret he wants to adore you
Come back Margaret I’d like to explore you
Can’t you see the tears in my eyes
With love for him I disguise

I like the free days with no expectations
I like it my way with no limitation
Still you see there are tears in my eyes
With love for him I despise

I totally love the last 2 lines of the two verses. They captured the two very ironical yet so perfectly complementary & intertwined emotions. Clever. Camera Obscura’s defintely got to me when it comes to the sheer brilliance of their lyrics.

From circle 3 we could only see specks of figures swaying on the stage. It wasn’t as bad as I had expected. But binoculars would have really come in handy. Stilll, camera obscura playing live, omg. Campbell & Carey Lander in what I called chic granny fashion, decked in white stockings, mod cut and tailored dresses. Kenny McKeeve & Gavin Dunbar wore suits & looked more in place as my lecturers than musicians. I made a ball I threw it at Gavin because he’s tall.

The Glasgow band performed many numbers from Let’s Get Out This Country. Following Come Back Margaret, there were Sister Social Agony, Country Mile, If Look Could Kill, False Contender, Llyod, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken, Suspended From Class, Keep It Clean, Super Trooper, Tears For Affairs, Let’s Get Out of This Country, Teenager & new tracks. It ended in spectacular style with Razzle Dazzle Rose; the final part truly magical. I was super darned excited when Suspended From Class & False Contender came on.

Suspended From Class

You’re such a beautiful writer
that’s not all you are
I’m sorry about making a pass
it was subtle but I think that you guess
the meaning intended

I can be a friend to you
I won’t pretend
I’m not interested in breaking your heart
it’s not love no it’s nothing like that
I’ll leave that to .. like him
oh, he’s such a delicate thing
now it’s such a fragile thing that we have

I should be suspended from class
I don’t know my elbow from my arse
I should be suspended from class

The concert ended so abrupt. For a moment I thought mr. technician was going to tune their strings but no, they were really gone. We made a madcap dash downstairs to queue for the autograph session. Quite disappointed when the tee shirts merchandise sold out. Times like this make me wished I’m plus size. No one would be hankering after size XL with me. Bought pretty badges & stickers I can’t bear to paste. It’s those things I would nursed carefully in the safe haverns of my drawers and occasionally take it out to stroke & admire.

When it finally got to us, throat ran dry & whatever I wanted to tell them slipped quietly as hisses through my teeth. Campbell stood up and placed her arm on my back as we took a photo. All I could mustered was a “helloooo” when I met every single one of them. I asked McKeeve if they would come back to singapore.

“We would love to.”

Camera Obscura we can’t get enough of you!

The Ghost that carried us away

Icelandic music with its eclectic & diverse style would probably ring a bell with names such as Bjork, Sigur Ros & Mum (at least to me)

Seabear’s one such indie-folk band to join the ranks of indie artistes from lesser known countries in my itunes. And glad to say it’s here to stay. I Sing I Swim blew me off my feet completely. And then there were Libraries, Hospital Bed, Arms, Sailor Blues, Hands Remember & Seashell. There’s this very distinctive pining, melancholic quality to their songs I can’t place but love it all the same. Overplaying can be an overkill, since after all they do tend to sound the same. However Good Morning Scarecrow was a clear miss for me, sounding like a deviated oriental Monkey majik than their usual style.

And this may sound odd but seabear brings to mind animals. It felt like if elephants & lions could sing they would sound like seabear. Songs of animals. SPCA you know what jingle to use for tv ads.

Hello seabear could you come & perform here in singapore.

?Friends

Way past overdue but yes, DO YOU TRUST YOUR FRIENDS? is surprisingly lovely!

Because it was nevertheless a remix of set yourself on fire, I was hesitant to sample the tracks. But bully for me. cuz their friends at Arts & Craft Co did a great job with a refreshing spin to the songs. The style that i so adore was now left with a trace and replaced by an alternate perspective, a revamp to something already so good they surprsingly pulled it off well.

My favourites<3

1. Your Ex-Lover is Dead (Final Fantasy)
2. Ageless Beauty (The Most Serene Republic)
3. Set Yourself On Fire (Montag)
4. Reunion (Jason Collett)

Some that I kinda prefer the original ones. Like Soft Revolution (The Stills) The hurried whisper conveyed this sense of urgency that so completes the song. I totally love the song.

Everyone loves stars. They just don’t know it yet.

Ten thousand drunken kids in a field can’t be wrong
The song must be beautiful or they wouldn’t sing along
And if sometimes the kids all seem a little sad,
it’s ’cause they’re saying goodbye to the youth they think they had

songstolove

For the Boys, The Cardigans

Kimi Station, Orange Range

Sax Rohmer 1, The Mountain Goats

Mr Understanding, Pete & the Pirates

Paper Aeroplane, KT Turstall

Lifetime Forever, RSP

Undertow, Stars

Please Say Yes, Yes, Yes, Porno Graffitee

Beware Our Nubile Miscreants, Of Montreal

I Hate the Place But I Go There To See You, Moi Caprice

KISSshite, Shibasaki Kou

Wayward & Parliament, Amy Milan

Mango Tree, Angus & Julia Stone

meaningless lists like this,i like.

Wah lau. Last night felt something amiss and i thought of the Ash gig that was happening at Fort Canning Park. Must have been real fun. Ash’s my regular dose of mainstream rock. Okay, donch think they’re well-known here. Discovered Ash through this fan video someone make of this jdrama One Million Stars Falling from the Sky. Takuya Kimura fans would have recognise it in an instant. With the song “Lost In You.”

If you listened to the song it sounds at first of some teenager boys jamming at the garage, a stab at emo/lovelorn. But then i saw the comments and for some reason tug at the heartstrings. People wrote about how they grew up listening to Ash, that they cried when they listened to this song, that they were so shaken when they splitsplat. (but they’re back together again.) And that got me liking their stuff thereafter. If they performed evil eye, polaris, starcrossed, lost in you, uncle pat. I know i made a bad decision

Co-rumination is detrimental if you dwell about Op-tech.