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November 4th, 2011
04:29 pm - Etc in 3-Way on Firework Night
Unexpected appearance of the mugs of 'tuneful... noisesmiths' Etc in the paper! Foreign 3-Way :: Bottlesmoker + Etc + Free Deserters is the week's top gig pick in today's Straits Times. And what an honour: it was chosen by Dino from beloved national treasures of Singapore: Force Vomit (and 1234X and The Guilt). Surprised we More details: Foreign 3-Way :: Bottlesmoker + Etc + Free Deserters
The Pigeon Hole - Saturday, 5th November 2011 - 7:30pm
Entry: $10
Facebook invite: here
P.S. Not only is it nice to be in the paper today, but it’s also not every day that one gets to be under a hairy crab and on top of Hatsune Miku:
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September 26th, 2011
02:34 pm - Etc :: Big Girl's Blouse
Etc :: Big Girl's Blouse by Etc.
Written by Ben Harrison / Etc
Played by Etc :: Ben Harrison + Harvey Chamberlain
Recorded by Ah Boy
Recorded at TNT Music Studio, Singapore (2011)
Unmixed
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May 20th, 2011
05:33 pm - Apocalypse Now Then
Apocalypse when?!
This Saturday apparently. 6pm. Just before Etc has a solo gig scheduled (9pm at Prince of Wales, 101 Dunlop Street, Little India, Singapore it says here).
And thus I curse that the BBC item about the End of the World came on *after* I’d spent a hot day doing housework - mere days before it’s all rendered even more insignificant than it already is. Had I known about this impending doom: I might’ve done something else (or nothing at all). MaybeI I would have turfed Kelvin Tan out of the studio after Etc had too many of my bookings go awry -repeatedly- to accommodate his current recording (amongst which are his *100th* album).
So anyway, according 89-year-old Preacher Harold Camping: “It’s getting real close. It’s really getting pretty awesome, when you think about it… We’re not talking about a ball game, or a marriage, or graduating from college. We’re talking about the end of the world, a matter of being eternally dead, or being eternally alive, and it’s all coming to a head right now.”
Camping has been studying Bible for 70 years - which is longer than Prince had spent on it before writing “1999” (but that’s ok b/c it’s bitchin’) - and he reckons to have sussed mathematical system to interpret prophesies hidden in it. Not sure if that’s the Bible in English he’s referring to. Could be. He’s a Baptist. So, never mind the anti-abortion stance, he also doesn’t believe in evolution. And takes the Bible literal like.
Predictably enough he cites earthquakes in Japan, New Zealand and Haiti as harbingers of impending doom, says The Independent. And then there’s: “All the stealing, and the lying, and the wickedness and the sexual perversion that is going on in society is telling us something… The gay pride movement… was sent by God as a sign of the end.”
And “Party over / Oops - out of time” time (as Prince put it)? 21 May dude. At 6pm. That’s 6pm “when the clock says about 6 pm” according to Camping. So the party starts somewhere in the Pacific. “The whole world will be alerted that Judgment Day has begun. And then it will follow the sun for 24 hours… As each area of the world gets to that point of 6 pm on May 21… it will happen there, and until it happens, the rest of the world will be standing far off and witnessing the horrible thing that is happening.”
So if Camping is in his base in Oakland, he gets to spunk up for several hours watching heathens fry before he gets his Rapture-ride. Handy. The BBC mentioned that Camping predicted something like this before that was meant to happen in 1994. “At that time there was a lot of the Bible I had not really researched very carefully… But now, we’ve had the chance to do just an enormous amount of additional study and God has given us outstanding proofs that it really is going to happen.”
Outstanding. And as for his working: It’s May 21st because it’s 722,500 days from 1 April AD33, which he reckons was the day of the Crucifixion. Uh-huh. Apparently 722,500 “is important” because one gets it by multiplying three holy numbers (5, 10, 17) together twice. “When I found this out, I tell you, it blew my mind.” Oh. Now I fear I might be slightly more sceptical than I was. But don’t mind me. Maths and me… Not my strong point.
Anyway, this is just the beginning of the end. According to the International Business Times: “Months of torturous devastation is promised to follow, with the actual end date for earth is Oct. 21, 2011.” Hey! So this could be a prediction as to when Etc’s scheduled recordings might be done. Note: the studio *is* booked for 2pm this Saturday (Singapore time - about the time the apocollapse will be starting further east), and the rate I go, plus my propensity for “torturous devastation”: October could be when Etc’s album starts to take some sort of form. Just in time for the end of the world.
So now I’m not sure about if I should prep for my gig scheduled for after the Ratpure this weekend. Come showtime, there might not be a venue. Nor a me. Nor a you. And I already decided a few years ago how I’d like to spend my time when faced with such an occasion - so now I just have to find a shiteload of morphine and a dirty nurse to administer it when I begin to fade, hours before our doom, after a marathon session of activity that will make me shagged out. Literally.
Either way, the way things are going, it looks like I’m gonna die a virgin after all. Maybe that’ll be what gets me into heaven.
It was nice knowing you.
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March 31st, 2011
07:52 pm - Etc :: Movie Music for SLOW BURN
Etc :: Movie Music from "Slow Burn" by Etc.
Etc music for SLOW BURN.
Recorded by Ah Boy Wong at TNT Studios, Singapore. 2011.
SLOW BURN is a Winter Western, starring Bebe Templeton, Kat Letwin, Cat Oliver and Renita Fillatre. Directed by Christine Chew.
See the trailer at http://tinyurl.com/sburn
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March 1st, 2011
08:03 pm - Etc :: March On
 And here's their schedule :
Thurs, 3 March:
Etc is one of the bands playing as their Malaysian pals, Free Deserters launch their new album LAUNDRY The Curve, Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Etc opens for Japanese girl-rock band, Pinky Piglets at their first Singapore gig PRINCE OF WALES 101 Dunlop Street, Little India, Singapore Etc, Kevin Mathews and others play at the 'Open House' of this new venue THE PIGEONHOLE The Pigeonhole, 52 & 53 Duxton Road, Singapore Etc joins Typewriter, Basement In My Loft, Pinholes, King Kong Jane and others at a free festival LOVE-IN Hong Lim Park, Singapore
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February 1st, 2011
05:59 pm
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January 28th, 2011
04:55 pm - Etc :: Krème Bulé di Indonesia
Etc plays Indonesia.
Thursday, Feb 3. 2011: 30 Rocks at Eastern Promise, Jakarta.
Facebook event page here.
Friday, Feb 4. 2011: Sans Titre at Potluck Cafe, Bandung.
Facebook event page here.
Happy Lunar New Year!
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January 21st, 2011
December 16th, 2010
05:55 pm - Etc :: Superhero Incognito (Free Download)
Etc wandered into the studio last weekend and re-emerged two hours later with Superhero, Incognito.
Didn't have time to add the intended seasonal seasoning and gift-wrap (to see what a 'Christmas Single' would be like) - but hey, it's the thought that counts. Besides, Etc is for life, not just for Christmas.
And a Happy Neu Year.
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