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June 27th, 2008
04:18 pm - Deserters June Jaunts #5 & 6
Etc June Jaunt #1
Alright for some. While tomorrow's long-planned Annexe Street Preachers show got canned, 3/4 of the scheduled bands managed to get other shows. Pinholes: sorted. Lightcraft and Deserters: both scored TWO for tomorrow. Even Annexe show instigator, Joe Kidd, played two sets in the last week - one with the esteemed Carburetor Dung (hoorah) and apparently another improv with Zai Kuning and a badly-disguised Chris Ho at the show named Vomit Blood.
Etc meanwhile has had to turn down two shows on account of previous commitments with Deserters in K.L. on the understanding that we had recording too and I was needed since other guitarist Bo was on call elsewhere. Now though, he'll be around since his other band, Seven, are on the Urbanscapes bill. I sighed when I typed that. Oh and recording is postponed. But at least I get to see what it's like to be in a band who get top Photoshop treatment for tomorrow's festival. Ugh.
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05:29 pm - True North
Deserters Concert Schedule for Sat, June 28th 2006
2pm: Urbanscapes Festival, Sentul Park
9pm: Soho K.L, Mount Kiara
Who knows where North is on the map below? I left my (annotated) usual at home. Generally not a problem since I tend to know my way around in central K.L. (and what I like to eat/drink I.T.A), and anywhere else: it's way off the map anyway and others just know how to get there. Tomorrow night I stay at Faizal's. Spartan bassist. When he stayed at mine he opted to sleep on titled floor -no bed sheet- with my chunky phone as a pillow.
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05:45 pm - Going North as My Hearing Goes South
The aforementioned bad ear days persist. So this weekend might be an interesting experiment in the aural research dept. Recent Etc sessions have shown that at least playing loud (not the cause of my symptoms I am told) evens things out. This way I drown out the interference that's created irksome whistles and clangs in my right ear over the last few days.
What I currently get through my right ear:
* a harmonized and pitched-up version of all I hear. It gets disorientating especially with all the high frequencies plastered across the most polished and radio-played pop hit ballads. These create an internal mad Free Jazz whistling accompaniment that's potentially tortuous.
* heightened hearing of high-frequencies FAR AWAY - even at low volumes. One of my colleague's is unaware that whistles under his breath. I've only just discovered he does because I hear it from about 20m away! He sits in his own office two partitions and one wall away from me. How's this possible possible? Last night, Whitney Houston on the radio at a Bkt Merah Lane stall drowned out the clatter, chat and radios of at least FIVE other stalls separating.
All this provides more evidence for my theory that there's a scientific reason why cynically-engineered SHRILL music is popular with the crass masses. MARIAH CAREY at a normal volume on colleague's radio: stood out a mile. Like dog whistles.
You want people to buy trash? Load the recording with jarring 1khz bits to wake their brains into temporarily paying attention to the white noise of the radio. Better still if you can get it a nano-tone out of tone (as shown by Kenny G, Celine Dion and the like). These little pokes prompt insensitive drones into briefly noticing music for a moment - and thus it is logged as being "memorable". It's a good trick.
Pity the effect tends to make me want to vomit, and thus incapable of enjoying many of the most massive selling records of our times.
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06:47 pm - "Punks will never death"*
Punk? Not dead after all. Apparently the festival we're playing at has it sorted. That's a relief. I was worried there for a moment... except I'm curious about the Nazi the connection to it all.
* : adapted from a favourite piece of Singapore bus-seat graffiti that said: "HARDCORE WILL NEVER DEATH!"
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