Monday, July 18, 2005
Baybeats
Baybeats 2005 - Singapore Biggest Alternative Music Gathering@EsplanadeYesterday's Baybeats was awesome. It was my first, and the mood of the entire event was just overwhelming. I never expected bass drums to sound that good, vocalists to cut through the band so well, guitars to whine through all that jazz, never expected that I'll miss you so much that I didn't know what to say to you.
I went with Grace, and now I'd say that I don't regret turning up for this kick ass event. First band I caught was Denouia at the Arena, where they had stringent security checks, and I wasn't even allowed to bring in my drink WTF man... It was a little too noisy, too cliche for me, but we stayed till the end. I couldn't hear the vocalist carefully, which is one major fault of the band. Lead Guitarist was on a Fender Telecaster, which was black and had Silver Metal thingies. Rythmn Guitarist was on a Gibson SG. Nevertheless their instruments sounded great. It's Baybeats, you know.
And after that we went over to The Chillout Stage to catch this really cool Old School Pop-Rock band called The Serenaide. They're damn cool!!! And their songs were so cool and catchy, largely influenced by the 70s Pop and bands like The Cure. They were all so cute, and wore thematic clothes of a Pink color. Well it made Grace super exhilarated cause it was kinda like her favourite color. I headed straight over to The Village after their set to get their CD heh...
Bought some shirts and other mechandises, then around 7.30pm it was Copeland at The Village. They were like the only band from USA so Grace said they MUST BE GOOD. They were performing on accoustic guitars, and their performance blew me over. So touching, so emo, so fucking good. They just reminded me of her. At moments I looked at Grace, and wondered why it was Grace and not her. I felt really nostalgic. I just miss her badly, and I was really sure at that time, and even so now, that she'd love the accoustic performance by Copeland. I really was at the loss of words for what to say, but managed to squeese out an SMS to her.
I left shortly after Copeland's accoustic performance because I was not feeling too good. Not that I was ill or something, but I just didn't have the mood to catch Electrico. I also wanted to punctuate the entire event with a more memorable performance, a memory of you.
posted@2:51 AM