" Hard rock music spoils your eardrums, lol "
I was invited by Cheng several weeks ago to go for Taylors' Musical Madness, its a band performances thingy, where bands battle it out for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. and of course, that several weeks ago, i also found out that Ee Leen's gonna perform as well =O
Melissa (lead vocalist), Cheng (back up vocalist), Ee Leen (pianist), Jon Loh (drummer), Xue Jieh (guitarist) and Tze Yang (bassist) had set up a band to join in the challenge. 3 days ago, they passed the auditions and therefore were one of the performers yesterday night.
i reached the SS15 area at about 6.30pm, as Cheng had asked me to go earlier. i was lost due to the 'new' environment, ok maybe not new xD just because i aint a student of taylors nor inti, so yea i dont appear there very often. anyway, i hung around Asia Cafe to wait for Jessica, who was carrying my ticket. so basically, without her, i cant enter Taylors lol.
Jess arrived at approx. 6.45pm. we then proceeded towards the main gate, saw Edmund en route to Taylors College. he was heading over to Asia Cafe with his friend, Kah Keat to have his dinner.
Jess and I were like blind bats, well ok not completely blind =p more like strangers to the environment, though i already know where Taylors Multi Purpose Hall is, since we have visited the place during one of the college tours our former high school had. and yea this was the place where I was once called a school kid by the 'college students' -.-" since i was in school uniform when i visited the place last year.
somehow i knew Sabrina's gonna be there xD since Melissa's gonna perform. and i hit the jackpot, she was there alrite hahaha. She came along with Hooi Leng and a few of her friends, Ken Joe and the other guy i couldn't recall his name.
Bands battled it out hard, by jamming out loud with drums, guitars, bass, whatever things they could thought of, along with *ahem* several beautiful voices. most gave out a spectacular performances, while some are just plain screaming. gosh ~ i could swear i saw the judges having a hard time surviving the ongoing interference.
anyway, after a hardly fought 2 hours performance. the results were out.
1st Place - Half Boiled Egg
the lead vocalist, Sara is fantastic with her awesome voice. she practically took the crowd by storm with her powerful yet pleasant voice. her band were producing one of the most solid performances. Sara was performing as if it was her concert, she made an effort to get the crowd on their feet and sing along with her, though ... malaysians -.- anyway, fans of her displayed their loyalty alrite. they stood and chant along.
all i could say was, they deserved 1st place.
2nd Place - Verbal Calling
honestly, first thing that came to my mind was. I didnt know Melissa could sing this well! Jon was fantastic with the drums, while both Tze Yang and Xue Jieh were great. of course not forgetting Cheng as the back-up singer, she was actually quite ok u know =p and of course Ee Leen who was on the piano managed to rhyme along with the rest although there was abit of a mistake at the start, but it didn't gave much of an impact to the whole performance.
a very well done to Verball Calling, surely i didn't wasted my RM10 to go all the way to support you guys! =D
and to tell you the truth, after all bands were done with the performance, i had a hunch u guys will get a placing. nevertheless, a job well done!
3rd Place - Evermore
guess what, Edmund's friend Noel's band got on the placing as well. Noel sang the first song, and i thought he wasn't bad. the pianist was simply astounding! Edmund told me in college today, that he was very famous with his piano skills back in Klang.
the event wrapped up at 9.45pm.
Also, i managed to take the video of Verball Calling's performance. Although its only the last 2 minutes of their performance as my camera's memory wasnt enough to cater to the whole performance, but it should be sufficient to serve as a review of their performance.
alrite guys, i m over and out.
