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Somehow only just realized I could actually use my twitter to introduce people to Singaporean music!!! Being a part of the SG music scene in the late 2000s was a *huge* part of my identity – I'm writing a novel about it. Yes – I'm one of those "music saved my life" guys
This is Electrico's Love In The New Wave, from their 2006 album Hip City I'm friends with all of them on FB 🤓 I don't know why I just said that. 😅 OK, I do know why. 😂 When I was 16, I thought they were cool as hell, accomplished, and out of my league https://t.co/ENSywLhM3R https://t.co/fDMkL4xEgp
And this is me covering another one of their songs, Only Where I'm Going, in my parent's office in 2012 with a crappy webcam. Whenever I'm feeling lonely, isolated, etc, I tend to go back to SG music – I have strong memories of it, and it felt so *personal* and intimate https://t.co/jk7rDdPbQO
This was Ronin, who were the 1st of guys I met who Truly Did Not Give A Fuck. I'm friends with all of them too 😂 Sean's lead playing was really expressive, Derryn was just cool af with his Rickenbacker, and Levan gave me a model for "how to live when you're larger than life" https://t.co/gqdUPNYC6F
I kinda idolized Levan as a teenager, which probably wasn't good for either of us. But we're good friends now still, and very open with each other about our feelings and experiences. Getting a sense of him is a pretty good proxy for getting a sense of me https://t.co/GQEW36EpN0 https://t.co/nCciofCkAL
this was probably the highlight of my band scene life. i remember going onstage and there were so many people and so many lights I felt like throwing up. it's been over 10 years now, wow https://t.co/UNN7AMCn0q
😂 this was a lot of fun https://t.co/CqdRxcqGyZ
Audiocean is a band I'm referencing a lot when I'm writing my novel – I'm childhood friends with the singer, and I love how charismatic and fun she's always been. IMO she was a real diamond in the rough (She also looks a *lot* like my wife 😂 My wife is like her grumpy twin) https://t.co/fnRYUV3iCR
The Great Spy Experiment was a band made up entirely of schoolteachers! When they burst onto the scene they seemed to just 'appear' out of the blue (to me, at least) with a very well-put-together sound and aesthetic all at once, which was wild. They were polished and professional https://t.co/rSB9Gdwwuu
This band M1LDL1FE is much more recent (2017 video) – definitely getting a sense that the scene today is less scrappy – people have a lot more domain knowledge about sound engineering, videography and so on. It's very heartening to witness. https://t.co/4JDg69LxyT
Charlie Lim https://t.co/SvmGQgaLrn
OH! This cover of Wonderwall by Sezairi and Shun is my *favorite* cover of Wonderwall. Like, ever. https://t.co/24x5cJM29E
Really like this song by Allura, called Closure. (Inch is now a solo artist!) Lots of Singaporean bands tend to be formed when members are around age 17-19, and many of them start to fall apart when guys have to do their NS (military, or police, or civil) https://t.co/NZ8J7ipDtR
Caracal in 2007! This band has grown and changed a lot over the years https://t.co/H3FmgdhT2h
