Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Assalamualaikum. Gobling would like to take this opportunity to wish all readers and fans Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri/Eid Mubarak. May Allah bless us and lead us to the correct path. InsyaAllah.

This Condominium Has Got A Swimming Fool!

Toing toing. We have 99% of our new song, Swimming Fool, ready. Need to iron out the remaining 1%, though. Our friend Bob (Tasyrif) was talking about a condominium - "It was so big, it has got a swimming fool!"

We believed he meant "pool", but we liked the term- and so it became a song.

By the way, drummer Muhairi is currently busy training with a drum machine to familiarize himself with drum clicks which are usually used in professional drum recording. We do upgrade our software, y'know.

Not much activities during Ramadhan (fasting month), except jamming once a week to sustain/improve the chemistry, and practising separately to get better grasp and skill of manipulating our instruments of bOoOm.

Will keep all posted of any updates.

Gobling EP: 65 Copies Sold!

Youw. Gobling would gladly like to thank all the people who had purchased copies of our EP. Our calculations show that from 11-Sept to 12-Oct, we have managed to sell 65 copies. Yes, yes, we know the quantity is small, but it still mirrors the support we received from friends and colleagues. Thanks to you :)

We'll press more copies to see how the EP will fare throughout the year 2005. At RM5 apiece, this is a real bargain to all who would like to know how we sound like. The money obtained from the sales will be used for our second recording session, and hopefully the next one will sound much better, thanks to you :)

Till then, doom on!

Gobling Is On Audiostreet.Net!

Good news. We had just finished setting up our account @ Audiostreet.Net. At the moment, Two Times Late is awaiting approval from Audiostreet.Net before it can be released on the page for streaming and download. Either way, you can check us there at:

http://www.audiostreet.net/gobling

You can also click on Gobling @ Audiostreet.Net under our Gobling Elsewhere links to go the page.

Till next time.

Cheers To Asian Beat 2005!

Youwsome. Gobling had a good time over the last weekend playing in Asian Beat 2005. We did our best, all of us. Fawaz, Muhairi, and Haris enjoyed themselves so much that they got sick- we hope you get well soon, man. You guys did a great job! We all tried to stay as focused as much as possible onstage, and we would also like to thank the panel of juries and the senior musicians who did not hesitate to give us tips to improve the band musically. Not forgetting our small-numbered but faithful crew/friends and family who were present to help and support us, gracias! To the other bands who were very friendly and supportive of each other during the competition yesterday, much respect to you all. The band Horizone played really well, and they deserve to represent Johor to the national level. Good luck you guys!

And of course, a big THANK YOU the crowd! There will be no show without you all.

Okay. The next plan. We are getting ready to go into the studio one more time to record more songs. Will do it v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y but carefully this time. We will set aside one year to work on this next release. We hope things will work out well.

There were also talks last night of doing another self-organized Underground Idol show in Countach Studio. Most likely, Gobling will call this Underground Idol III. We had done I and II earlier this year @ Countach, and although attendance numbers for both shows were not as high as expected, all of us really loved the steamy, foggy, smoky, and energetic atmosphere the bands and the crowd helped to create while the shows lasted. We got bands from KL and JB playing side by side in both earlier shows.

Mourn-io. Thank you again to all.

1st Gobling Anniversary

Gawd time flies so fast. Gobling has been around for exactly 1 year today. Thanks to Allah who has made this possible. Our Lord is Great. Thanks to all the band members, for being able to cohesively form and shape their ideas and capabilities together, and for sacrificing so much for this band.

The band would also like to thank all their family, fans, and friends for helping out and basically supporting us all the way. We are humbled by your support, and we are really grateful for you being there for us. There are too many names to mention, but you know we know who you are.

What a way to celebrate our 1st anniversary- Gobling made it to the Asian Beat 2005 finals for the southern region. Thanks to Allah. As for tomorrow (the finals) we do not expect to win, but rather to play more live shows and gain more exposure. And Gobling excel purely at that. We just want to see people have fun seeing us play live. Ah, by the way, Asian Beat 2005 heats photos of Gobling were just uploaded to our Service Imagery page a few hours ago. Take a look.

Rockstardom shit attitude can kick its ole bucket and die, we are not into it, we are just into making music for those wanting to hear something different. We all have day jobs and/or classes to attend, and we are just poor sorrowful men trying to play what we want. If we play good, there are always better bands out there, so we'll just play the best we can.

Thanks to you too, Gobling is still around today, serving its delicacies. Let's pray that this coming year will be a fruitful one ahead. InsyaAllah.

Post-scriptum: Special thanks to Fendi (super guitar tech), Hassan (the friendliest bear ever), Bob Kulai of Damokis (for all the contributions and half-price otak-otak), and Leleng (for being the best sales spokeperson ever). There are too many to mention, yet all of you are our dear friends. Take care.