Showing posts with label band. Show all posts
Showing posts with label band. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 July 2008

I MET UTT.........












Had a totally awesome day today with Sonia, Yap and Ryan (Sonia's brother) @ Orchard after Band today.

Oh and er,

I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.
I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT. I MET UTT.

Enough said.

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Ka-ze-no-mai.

Dancing In The Wind ~ Kaze No Mai ~ - Yodogawa Technical High School Band

Here is the piece we played.
Okay but this wasn't played by us, this was by another band,
Playing the same song as us for NBC.
"ka-ze-no-mai" or Dancing in the Wind.

Enjoy!
(don't worry, i will try asap to get my school's one up...)

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Musique française..../ NBC

I was watching Mr Bean's Holiday and interestingly,
I am starting to develop an interest in French music.
Somehow it gives you a pleasant ambiance feeling to it,
its the care-free-ness, relaxed, laidback sound that i love.

Anyways, NBC (National Band Competition) is exactly 21 more days away.
Yup, NBC's on the 13th July, Sunday.
We will be playing 2 songs, Ka ze no mai (Dance of the wind) and United Nations March.
For Ka ze no mai, i am playing the claves, suspendered cymbal and the sleigh bells.
For the United Nations March, i am playing the TIMPANI! (This i find quite exciting...)

Heres the full Ka ze no mai song, i recorded using my mobile phone.
Its all of 5 min 32 sec.
However, the whole trumpet section was missing, hence the 'emptiness'

(Oopsy, i am sorry, the imeem website is currently down by when its fixed i'll upload the song right here.)

How quick the days come and go...
Tomorrow is monday.
Monday = To school.
SIGH.
I am sure i am not the only one who feels this way.
But at the same time, i have a little excitement brewing in me.
The kind that looks forward to calling your classmates those silly names you have for em.

Oh well, i guess all good things have to come to an end, whether we like it or not.
But i have one thing to be thankful for, this holiday was fun.
Oh yes, indeed it was, a good time of relaxing and at the same time, many of my days were
often packed with activities so as to keep me as far from this horrid 'thing' called "BOREDOM".

Alrighty, off to do other stuff now,
Cheerio!

Monday, 16 June 2008

ALPHABEAT: retro pop with a bang!



Don't you just love em?
I know i do.

This is by the up and coming "ALPHABEAT".
I love the way they bring back retro chic, not just in their upbeat tunes but also in their dressing.
How awesome is that eh?

I don't know about you, but somehow when i listen to em more and more they remind me of mika, a bright, fresh, new sound.

Go check em out for yourself!
www.thisisalphabeat.com

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

NPV, the next BIG thing.

Today was exceptionally, strangely, unexpectedly, FUN.

It all started.......
When i met Nat, at the habour front bus terminal at about 1130pm....
After walking round vivo for about 5 mins, we settled down for a little meal at the King of the Burgers, or better known as Burger King. I ate this Hersey's chocolate pie thing and barley (oh no i didn't eat barley, barley was my drink..) , while nat ate onion rings with ice milo.

Than after that we finished eating and than walked around somemore, went into a few shops like pull and bear, esprit, topshop and blah blah blah... But we always came out empty handed. =) Wondering if we had good self control? nah, we just didnt have money..... heheh.

Alright so at about 1.30pm we returned to church, sat on the office couch, listened to some music, while not to mention, embarrassing ourselves in the process by talking VERY LOUDLY because we couldnt hear ourselves. Oh well, it was all done in good will, and fun.

After waiting for what seemed like an eternity..... It was finally 2pm.
Just after 2pm, we than received a call from Mervin to head down to the studio because he was already there. We excitedly left the building and went to the studio.

At first, things were a bit you know static, very stale because everyone was like adjusting to the whole jamming, expressing-your-self-on-instrument, thing. But after Mervin and Willie left, we went absolutely, NUTS. Maybe it was because of the pressure of 2 great, phenomenal players that we didnt dare do anything...

To be honest, i thought when we jammed it was gonna be boring and Nat would get left out, but lo and behold, the exact opposite happened! We jammed most bonkers-ly (in a good way, of course...) and nat was SO involved. From oldies like shi-boom shi-boom,to the electrifying sound of coldplay's clocks. We jammed alright. We even recorded always various times using each others phone and what was cool was that our positions in the 'band' changed quite constantly, like nat would sometimes play the piano or sing, and....we took turns i guess to produce the best sound possible for the 'band'. Oh and the 'band' i am referring to is THE NEXT BIG THING CALLED, NPV (which basically stands for Nat,Pris,Vera.) How cool is that right? Oh yeah, cool alright.

Oh and than, what was even cooler was that me and nat being the 'main songwriters' of the 'band', we changed the lyrics to clocks. Interesting really, it is. You should hear it, in fact you shall.

NPV- 5th attempt!.avi - NPV


Oh but this isnt a video, its just purely audio and raw.

Nat: Vocals
Pris: Piano (me)
Vera: Drums.

And... Viola!
There you have it!
A 3 piece, future grammy award winning band, called the NPV.


Don't you dare forget the name.....

Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Sunday frisbee/today's band/Switchfoot concert
















On sunday, after church, the girls (which included, nat,sarah,juni,vera) went to play frisbee @ sentosa with our teachers, gracie, azmi and justin (our P6 teacher). The surprising thing was, that no boys from our class went. Yes, and its kinda ironic, or weird because well normally boys take part in sports more actively than girls, but in this case its the exact opposite! It really breaks the stereotype of girls. Which is good of course. =) i guess. but bad for boys.

Anyways, the day went great. We played. We had fun. We were happy.
Oh yes, thank God for the awesome weather. Yes, i said awesome.
Because these few days, it has been raining quite a bit. But not on sunday.
Not on that particular sunday.
In fact, the weather was so good, that the sun wasn't too hot, and there was a little drizzle,
but than again, it was a little drizzle.
The whole day was kept cool.
Because God answered my prayers.
Yes, prayer works.
You better believe it. ;)

We did have a bit of problem going there at first though.
After eating at Seah Im, we headed to vivo.
Unfortunately, the queue for the train to sentosa was longer than long.

It was VERY VERY VERY x a googolplex long. Yes, it was that long.

After much deliberation, we decided to take the bus there.
Which was a good idea, because the bus didn't take long to arrive.

And so, we were on our way to sentosa.
To what would be a very frisbee-filled afternoon!

When we got there, the weather was awesome like i said.
Not too hot, not too cold.
Just nice.

So than we played.
and played.
and played.
and played.

We swooped teams occasionally.

Juniper always marked me, and i always marked her.
I think she did a much better job if you minus the fact that she was holding my hand when i was trying to get the frisbee. (FYI, this is not allowed if you play properly, not that we weren't but you get what i mean.)

But than again i did that to her too. (;
So it was all in good will and fun.

Azmi tried to play, to the delight of my friends.
We found him, well, 'cute'.
If you might say. Yes, but that cute, the other cute.
We appreciated that at least he tried.
Thats what counts ;)
And also he took glorious shots with his canon camera.

I was competing with him.
He won only because he was using a canon camera (which could select colours to emphasize on... and a WHOLE lot of other stuff..)

After frisbee, we headed back to mainland Singapore to eat.
We unanimously decided to eat @ vivo after i finally managed to convince juni.

We ate downstairs at kopitiam because it was cheaper comparatively to the other hawker centers in vivo.

Justin, our ex-teacher, was well, lets just say i got to see the true side of him.
Endless chatter, comments, re-enactments of the day all done by him.
Yup, i didn't know he talk that much either.

So, after dinner we split or splited (if there is such a word) up.
Well, mostly justin, cause nat's mom was kind enough to send me home, and we decided to walk juni to the bus-stop. To make sure she was safe and sound. :)
Sigh what can i say? We are good friends. Or reliable friends. haha.

As we walked we talked.
And as we did that, we attracted quite a bit of attention.
But it wasn't intentional.
We were laughing and just being silly.
Which of course attracts attention.
Mainly because,
1. people are curious (kay-poh, singaporean way of saying curious)
2. people envy us.

I mean who doesn't like to laugh right???
Maybe their thinking, "sigh, i wish i were like that too.."
You know how i know?
I get that feeling too when i see people laugh.
Its a natural reaction.
Because naturally people want to be happy.
Who wants to be sad??

Anyways, after we sent juni to the bus stop, her bus soon arrived and we left. (nat and i)

That was sunday.

Today. Wednesday. 1 day after christmas.

I had to wake up at an unearthly hour (7 40am) for band.
The symphonic band in which is my Co-Curriculum activity aka CCA.
But, band wasn't all that bad after you get over the fact that you have to wake up at an unearthly hour for it.

I got to play the timpani!
Yup, i had to read a musical score.
For real.
It was challenging but fun.

In case you are not sure what timpani's are, there are these huge looking drums,
that are actually tuned to notes like (eg:G,F,B-flat,C)

It was good.
Band was.
Except for the part where we had to 'exercise'.

Anyways, enough on band.
Today, is the first day sistic has put switchfoot's concert on their website!!

Check it out! Here. Link on the 'here'.
Booking starts on the 31st Dec.
Good yet bad.
Good because we can start ordering.
Bad because it's the last day of the year. (as well as holidays, which signify the start of school)

bummer.

Oh well, lets be thankful eh?
At least there was a break :)

Oh and if you know me and want to come for the switchfoot concert, pls comment or email me @ priscillacomiccooper@msn.com so that we can buy as a big o group which means more discounts. :)


Peace,
pris.