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At the first cutting light of August, many years ago, the world got the first glimpse of the entity known henceforth as
Leon Yip. It decided to douse the aforesaid with sunshine, sweets, and loads of love.
Legend has it, so convicting were his words, that upon his request, the world agreed to revolve around him, forever, and ever, and ever.
Redeemed the Riot
Posted on: Sunday, March 09, 2008
Posted at: 1:10 PM
Well, so, Redeeming the Riot won Band(age), the MGS band competition. [Insert smiley here].
The feeling of winning a competition, although on a relatively small scale is still, well, brilliant.
Its a team effort, i'll keep telling myself that.
Nick was scared to wits before the performance, I think the judge's comments really gave him a great confidence boost!
Really pleased with winning. It all still seems so surrepstitiously surreal (Yes, I have a personal liking for alliterations).
From just missing out in a place at Battle of the Bands II to winning in Band(age)albeit being a smaller scale event, at least we've shown that we are capable of upstaging some of the fiercest competition (namely, Hwa Chong and NJ. You guys were sensational, really).
Since we weren't allowed to watch the other band's performances, let me use my amateurish perception to dissect our (Redeeming the Riot, for those who hasn't figured yet) performance.
Six Feet Under The Stars- I really think we smashed that song. Owned it flat. Though I was really disappointed that I didn't do the roll/jump part on the keyboard as well as I did during the rehearsals. Ouch. My main part totally obliterated. Oh well. We did slip up a tad after the first chorus (as usual), but I must say, nice cover up guys. On the jump, I really really really thought that it made the difference. The judges did comment on stage presence, without the jump, we wouldn't have had been much different from our now-seemingly-mediocre performance as entrance bands at BoB2. The jump was, barring my screw up, magnificent. It really brought us on an unprecedented stage level. Literally, because y'know, jumping, makes you go slightly higher than you usually do, therefore, you are raised up when you jump. Oh dear. Once again, I don't think I could have been heard during the song. Bah. That had better not be an unconcious habit of mine. I was unheard during BoB2, and now.. when we as a band gelled together to give the best performance we've given, ever, I learnt that I was mostly inaudible. Sigh. Oh well. That just proves how good everyone on stage was I guess. At least I enjoyed myself.
Jenny- Really really think Conrad shone through here. He had rave remarks too. Kudos to Nate too, for all their effort and thought. This one, I really feel lousy about. Keyboards for the song is a vital vital role, and, I was totally non-existent. Many of the people I asked couldn't even hear me. I blame the amplifier. Really. I wouldn't have cared if I made any mistakes (though I was confident that I did not slip up), but all I wanted was to be heard when I needed to be heard. And I think the amplifier didn't do me any justice at all. But the feeling of the crowd singing along, was sensational. Nick wasn't static, which was of course, genius of him to figure out why we didn't get into BoB2 last year. Nate was having so much fun. E-jin was rocking, Hong Yi was being terrible superb, Conrad was just priceless, and Gab was biting his lip and smiling at me occasionally. But, but but but, wow. Just, wow.
We won. It feels good, though for me, it could have felt better.
Thanks to the MGS crew, I think they did a fantastic job with the equipment and stuff. Thanks to all the people who came down to peek at us, we love y'all.
Thanks god. For giving us all the icing on the cake.
Go, 4.4!
