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TTNG Prank // Bandwagon

What started as an innocent hoax played on my former fiancé — now wife, don’t worry — turned into a pretty amazing post-wedding gift when British math-rock band TTNG dedicated a song on stage to us newlyweds.

Lemme explain. A week or so in the lead-up to the wedding, it was announced that two of Sargent House’s math-iest acts — TTNG and one-man project Mylets — would be playing in Singapore come May 6th, as part of KittyWu Records' 10th-anniversary festivities. As a passing jest, I told my former-girlfriend/fiancé-now-missus that its unfortunate that the lads will be playing on the same day of our wedding.

In her infinite wisdom (and boundless stress from arranging a DIY wedding reception) she didn’t check their concert date. Even Daniel Peters, editor of this site, got in on the joke, prompting her to go into the deep end. Deep enough for her to seriously concoct plans to ditch our reception at night AND send out a tweet to TTNG that hey, they should totally come by our wedding to play a song or two.

That was a signal that the joke went way too far, and she reacted in an appropriately displeased manner once I told her about that we were just pulling her leg. She broke off the wedding soon after, and I regret everything.

I kid; we had a nice enough ceremony by the sea with lots of our favourites from TTNG’s Animals. All was eventually forgiven (I think), but the whole prank got the attention of the Oxford lads, who then made a proper shout out to us during their show at Esplanade’s Annexe Studio.

Full article Here.

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TTNG Prank // Bandwagon

What started as an innocent hoax played on my former fiancé — now wife, don’t worry — turned into a pretty amazing post-wedding gift when British math-rock band TTNG dedicated a song on stage to us newlyweds.

Lemme explain. A week or so in the lead-up to the wedding, it was announced that two of Sargent House’s math-iest acts — TTNG and one-man project Mylets — would be playing in Singapore come May 6th, as part of KittyWu Records' 10th-anniversary festivities. As a passing jest, I told my former-girlfriend/fiancé-now-missus that its unfortunate that the lads will be playing on the same day of our wedding.

In her infinite wisdom (and boundless stress from arranging a DIY wedding reception) she didn’t check their concert date. Even Daniel Peters, editor of this site, got in on the joke, prompting her to go into the deep end. Deep enough for her to seriously concoct plans to ditch our reception at night AND send out a tweet to TTNG that hey, they should totally come by our wedding to play a song or two.

That was a signal that the joke went way too far, and she reacted in an appropriately displeased manner once I told her about that we were just pulling her leg. She broke off the wedding soon after, and I regret everything.

I kid; we had a nice enough ceremony by the sea with lots of our favourites from TTNG’s Animals. All was eventually forgiven (I think), but the whole prank got the attention of the Oxford lads, who then made a proper shout out to us during their show at Esplanade’s Annexe Studio.

Full article Here.

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Hailing from San Francisco, California of USA, Deafheaven played a crushingly tight cacophony of blisteringly music that has been recently minted as a new offshoot genre called “Post-Black Metal” or even “Blackgaze”.

I witnessed a literal and live translation of their intense music onto the arena over at Beep Studios last Saturday evening, organised by KittyWu Records.

Although I only had just been introduced to this band and this is the first time I attended a band’s concert before actually owning any of their records (which is still enroute from Amazon as I type), I exited the intimate settings of the gig venue thoroughly satisfied and convinced of my last minute decision to attend this said gig.

Why thoroughly satisfied? Deafheaven treated us to the whole live experience of their latest sophomore studio effort – Sunbather. Dream House exploded on the get-go, relentless and loud. The warm wall of sound instantaneously engulfed the intimate venue and the 200-300 strong audience. Speaking of the audience, this must be the first time I’ve seen such diversity amongst the crowd with easily half of them indie kids and a good amount of Caucasian expats.

Frontman George Clarke’s energetic stage behaviourism was admirable and infectious, repeatedly edging towards the front row audience with his microphone, sharing the vocal space with the crowd. Dream House led on to a respite interval of brief solace with Irresistible. I say “brief” because the heavy-hitting songs of Deafheaven’s usually spans comfortably around the 10 minute mark.

The title track of the album – Sunbather followed suit. From my short encounter with their material, this song rapidly became my favourite of theirs. What struck me most impressively was how they are able to replicate the crushing ambience of their studio recordings very well onstage. I think partially to thank was the excellent sound system over at Beep Studios which handled this genre of sound just right. Sunbather ravages on, pushing the wall of sound even denser, then finally relented to a parse of melodic guitarwork by Kerry McCoy, as if allowing us a moment to breathe, before finishing us off.

Please Remember is a recording played in the style of backmasking with spoken word segment done by Stephane Paut “Neige” of Alcest fame on George Clarke’s favourite quotation from Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”. Which happens to be one of my favourite novels too, haha.

Vertigo resumed the battery of the night in a slow but sure steady manner, the guitars, drums and bass cascading onwards to a collective mass before Clarke’s black metal shrieks joined in the full madness.  Clarke mentioned his vocal style was inspired by Emperor’s Ihsahn’s style, especially from In The Nightside Eclipse album. It is mildly amusing to note that indie kids who probably have zero inkling about the genre of “Black Metal” are actually enjoying this…  Anyhow! Vertigo belted out a colossal duration of 14 minute and half of Deafheaven-esque goodness. George Clarke’s bountiful supply of energy was evident once more as he bodysurfed himself out onto the sea of audience’s hands as he continued the onslaught.

The band and audience were again given a moment of recollection with the interlude of Windows as per the album tracklisting, before yet another barrage of a swansong – The Pecan Tree plagued the ears of the audience in similar crushing fashion. The band clearly knew this wasn’t quite finished for the night, and returned onstage for an encore with a song from their debut album Roads to Judah – Unrequited. The crowded was treated to the final assault of aural chaos from Deafheaven, fully satiated but with the incessant ringing of the eardrums, in a good way though!

It was a Saturday well spent.

Thank you, Deafheaven! Thank you, KittyWu Records!

Views From The Pit: Deafheaven Live in Singapore 3/5/2014 Hailing from San Francisco, California of USA, Deafheaven played a crushingly tight cacophony of blisteringly music that has been recently minted as a new offshoot genre called "Post-Black Metal" or even "Blackgaze".

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Amberhaze - From Foxpoint to Vermont Square

Hauntingly beautiful time-lapse music video from Singapore's favourite Italian living in Canada. Download the Raleigh EP for free here »

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The long story… KittyWu Records started out in 2007 in a small bedroom in Portsdown, on the western part of Singapore. The Wu’s include creative and musically inclined individuals with backgrounds in advertising, events management and public relations/marketing. Being the music loving individuals they are, they realised that “supporting” the scene shouldn’t only be attending gigs. Thus it was decided that it was time they channeled their professional experiences to give back to the local music community and the label was formed. The focus has been on providing forward-thinking and innovative musicians/artists with a cooperative, hands-on, DIY-rooted method of getting their music heard.

And the short story is… we can’t play musical instruments.

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Deafheaven live in Singapore on May 3, 2014,  all photos by Aloysius Lim. Thank you to our friends at Kitty Wu Records for hosting them. Don't miss Deafheaven on tour now - See all dates HERE

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Russian Circles Live Videos of "Mladek" & "309" from Singapore

Russian Circles videos shot live on October 13, 2012 at TAB in Singapore. featuring the songs 'Mladek' & '309' from their album 'Empros' Filmed and edited by the FilmBros and special thanks to our friends Lesley & Errol at KittyWu Records for putting the whole Asian tour together for us. We love You! DON'T MISS RUSSIAN CIRCLES ON TOUR - SEE ALL DATES HERE