On my previous blog, the local music section garnered so much support and popularity, I’ve decided to make a section of it’s own here.
I was even asked to do a TV talk show … imagine that! But I turned it down as I was in the midst of exams and wouldn’t be in the right mind.
Anyway this 8th December Tuesday is Nokia’s FLOW! http://www.flow.com.sg.
Should I go considering I’m already settled to go for Zoukout. I don’t want to ‘run out of steam’ by the time its Zoukout. It’s 3 days apart only. Hmmm
Nokia’s FLOW!
Expected to be the largest independently organised indoor live music festival in Singapore, Flow, is set to take place across the entire Ministry of Sound Complex come Tuesday December the 5th 2006, ushering in the start of the school holidays. Presented by Nokia and supported by Adidas, Miss Earth Singapore, Whosgoing.sg (official youth Portal), Nightlife.sg (official online media), Exitmusik (underground music partner), Think Magazine (official press media) and Soft (official live music partner), the event is a youth for youth initiative put together by the triumvirate of Gashaus, Play Projekts and the iLLers. Flow was intended to be a voice for independent performers in Singapore as well as a celebration of live music with an underground theme
Well anyway, below is Wiki very own intrepertation of the local music scene. Oh yes people it’s alive, it’s kicking … it’s the local music scene.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Singapore
Singapore’s pop scene began in 1960, when the Blue Diamonds performed, and really launched after Cliff Richard & the Shadows arrived a year later, thus launching the beat boom. Like much of the world, the British Invasion began in 1963, led by The Beatles.
Some bands remained instrumental, while others incorporated singers. Soon, British R&B became popular, and spawned a local Malay variety. Pop stars of the 1960s included Naomi & the Boys, D’4 Ever, Antarctics, Mike Ibrahim & the Nite Walkers, Swallows, Ismail Haron & the Guys and Les Kafila’s.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s saw the rise of rock bands such as The Sweet Charity fronted by the charismatic vocalist Ramli Sarip. The band had such an influence in the Singapore and Malaysia music scene that it later led to a rock explosion in the mid 1980s.
More recently, local bands include Lilac Saints, Teamjs, Ronin, Electrico, Saw Loser(formerly known as Pug Jelly), TypeWriter, heavy metal outfits Psychotherapy, The Observatory, I Hate This Place, The Old Kings, E.P.I.C, Beloved Memory and The Ocean Band.
National songs
Of particular note to the Singaporean music scene is what is often collectively known as National songs. Writtern as part of Singapore’s nation-building efforts, they either incorporate local folk songs (such as “Chan Mali Chan”), contemporary songs (“The Magic Is You”), or were locally composed specifically for this purpose (“We are Singapore”, “Stand up for Singapore”).
Since 1998, theme songs were composed for the annual National Day Parade held in August. These songs were composed for and sung by selected local artists (as opposed to regular national songs, which were not attributed to any one singer), and sometimes included in the albums of these respective singers to be marketed overseas
