Saturday, March 14, 2009

Spring! Live Mine Concert 春天!小型现场音乐会

With 3 month of preparation, and we need to sustain a 2 hour gig. Oh man.

let say 1 song 3-4 mins (which will not usually be the case as we tend to be nervous and junKie will tend to speed up everything to almost double...)

we need more than 7 songs...

Song List:

离开地球表面-五月天 (Concert opening song)
逍遥风-逍遥风(XYF
Boulevard of the broken dreams-Greenday
Wake me up when september ends-Greenday
What I've done-LP
Shadow of the day-LP
海阔天空-Beyond (Closing)

MIND YOU! 3 MONTH NOT INCLUDING 2 WEEKS CNY BREAKS!

Obviously not enough even for someone to go for a toilet break and come back.... so...we invited..X-Clef..Thanks dudes. You made my show.

X-Clef became the guest band of the day, performing some of their originals as well.

How the event went:

8am-Wake up check weather forecast, hopefully don't rain. (Jalan besar shophouses are the last place you can hide under when heavy rain comes.)

9am-Mint sms "Weather is sunny!"

2pm-Meet up, as expected, all late. lol

3pm-Makan, rest

3.30pm-Meeting some of the audiences at Bugis MRT.

4pm-Supposedly we should have started by then, but somehow the guy using the big room only came out 10 mins after that. X-Clef also arrived about the same time. Kelvin came around 4pm. So started to panic a bit, gotta do PR, tuning, sound test and settle everything down, with our audience watching us..=.=. How unprofessional... Sorry Guys

For those who came down and show your support, thanks a bunch.

Hopefully we can organise one more again, when we're more prepared. And last but not least.

all the XYF family, we dont care what ppl say(constructive criticism must take lah). For the past 3 month we have been putting a lot of effort for this gig, 7 songs in 3 month is not easy. End of the day i am satisfied with myself. I thought after we all come back from CNY holidays we would have gone rusty, but we didn't, in fact, we played better after the CNY. Salute to Mint, junKie, Junjo, Allen. However we still got alot of things to do. junKie your shiny shirt won the day. lols


Special Thanks: Jing (our band of brothers), Ruka and Ika, Shiro, Alan (from the SGClub) for coming, all the X-Clef members (See right side photo).

and...so many of you out there..from X-clef's fans to Ja Yang's Friends, Ye Ming's Friends..Thank you all.


SPRING! LIVE MINI CONCERT
OVERALL SCORE:

Gig Management: 4/10 =first time hosting we too nervous..pls forgive us T.T
Performance: 7/10 =those who watched the show must been wondering... how come so high? the XYF vocalist is like...sooo off..., but hey, dont forget X-Clef man.
Crowd Attendance :6/10= 40-50, a few of them last minute "ps".
HIGH"ness":5/10= Only managed to get the crowd to clap abit...and mostly from X-Clef..=.=

22/40=Just Pass

Score not important, just hope all of you enjoyed the gig.

Bye~


XYF History 逍遥风 成立史


逍遥风,Xiao Yao Feng or simply XYF, is an underground band in Singapore. It's members came from various background, with only one thing in common, we like to play music together.


Officially formed since January 2009, XYF's formation does not come easy at all. It took us 1 year to get each and every piece of the puzzle together. For those who know us, and for those who don't, do listen to our songs if you feel like.



Formation Since: 2009

Genre : Chinese, English Rock/Pop, Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock


The XYF family (逍遥派)


Guitar : Kien aka Perc, Vocalist Wannabe

Lead Guitar : Mint aka Ming Ming

Bass : Kelvin aka Junjo

Keyboard : Allen aka Cat

Drum : Ja Yang aka junKie


逍遥means freedom, our way, our attitude, our spirits which cannot be seen, but to only feel it yourself...


逍遥乃自由也,俺之方法,俺之态度,俺之精神。看不了,只能感受到...


Introduction...


First of all, the so called "front man" or "vocal" or whatsoever you call it.


Kien, 20, not handsome not talented but a die hard musician wannabe. Can't sing can't dance but loves to play Guitar. Playing Er-Hu since 9 to 14, and Chinese Percussion from 15 to 17. Electric Guitar since 18 till now. Played a short period with J-rock Cover band as guitarist. One of the founding member of XYF since 2007. Adores Jay Chou very much. This is one average guy that you can see everyday in the MRT. :)


The Lead Guitarist...


Mint, 16, a secondary school student having his O level this year, wish him all the best thou. Played an important role in revitalising the band. How we met each other? Well, we're type of people that will carry our guitars all the way down to Bedok Park and play like we knew each other for 20 years already.


The Bassist...


Kelvin, 19, better known as Junjo. The bassist have an interesting affair with XYF, also having associated act with the "Paper Penguin", and ex-bassist/backup vocalist for "Vertico". One of the Founding member of the XYF since 2007. Creates bass lines for the band's originals.


The Keyboardist...


Allen, 19, also known as Cat (for his affection towards Cat). Secondary school buddy with Kelvin and Kien since 2005. A self-learn bassist as well a a pianist. Prefer jazz more than anything else. A reliable source of music-theory related stuff in the band, acting as co-composer and consultant to the "limited music theory" Kien in composing. He do it the Suzuki's way.


The Drummer...


Ja Yang, 19, aka junKie (you will know why when you pronounce his name quickly). The band was officially formed soon after he hop on to this pirate ship. The newest member of the XYF Family. Without him, XYF can never come to life again. 2 years of drumming. A very friendly guy, and he is still single. ;)


I don't believe it myself, but our formation comes like those Soap Opera in the TV, unbelievable.



We are still improvising our original and will post here as soon as we finished it.