Saturday, March 27, 2010

Dredging The Sludge 2010: Melaka (210310) Tour Diary

Assalamualaikum and Good Greetings,

Here goes our additional installment of the DTS2010 tour. Enjoy!

21 March 2010

Left Johor Bahru for Melaka at 10.00 am in 2 cars. Harris, Ajax, Zaihas in one car, and Zam and Yan in another car. Gathered around at Machap R&R to take breakfast and catch up on some funny stories.

Arrived in Melaka at 1.00 pm. As usual, we lost our way around Melaka first before finding the Shell petrol station nearby Melaka Sentral. Judging from the way we drove, we should have ended up at Pantai Klebang. We have superb sense of direction, you see.

Josiah (Maddame...) and our good friend Pemain Tennis (from the band Proclaim My Victory) fetched us from Shell, and we drove to Josiah's house. Fetched some members of Predicate Not Defined (Hilda commented about missing Nasi Ambang- as usual), did two rounds of tawaf around Josiah's neighborhood playground for some unexplainable reasons, and drove off to MMU Melaka to fetch another band member from Proclaim My Victory.

We reached Fayralta at about 2.00 pm. Started show at about 2.30 pm with SAA. Super band with funk, rapcore, and even Fu Manchu influences. Zaihas had to stay outside manning the entry booth, he missed out a lot of the actions in the venue. This venue is quite interesting really- please knock the door if you want to pee. It is not free access. Some of the team members went to a nearby Ikan Bakar restaurant to eat lunch.

We had Refund, Triumph Ov Fire, Controlled Issue, Proclaim My Victory (seperti biasa, mereka bercucuk tanam membuat batas-batas ubi yang baru) play. These are good bands, the crowd was having fun! Clocksticking and Maddame... played next. Clocksticking was playing tight as usual, and we had some Hari Raya songs from Maddame... courtesy of Josiah, even though it was way out of season.

Predicate Not Defined played next, the best show they ever gave from what we have seen so far! Superb!

Wynken Delirium played last to a few loyal friends who were still there. Hehehe. Thank you guys!

Zam and Yan left early but reached home late. Harris, Ajax, Zaihas, and Josiah dropped by Ajax's sister's house, and we were treated to an outdoor dinner of Asam Pedas. Thank you so much!!!

Harris, Ajax, Zaihas left Melaka for JB at about 11.00 pm, reached home at about 1.00 am.

Zaihas @ Wynken Delirium

Monday, March 01, 2010

The Alchemy Of Worlds is finally released!

Assalamualaikum, Good Greetings,

Wynken Delirium has officially released its debut album The Alchemy Of Worlds at limited print, low-priced version.

Imagine getting 11 songs at super low price of just SGD5/MYR10 (excluding postage)! Contact us for a copy! While stocks last.

Wynken Delirium

Dredging The Sludge 2010: Singapore (280210) Showcase/Tour Diary

26th February 2010

Zaihas waited at JB train station at 3.00 pm for Danny and Meme who wanted to join us for the trip to Singapore. Turned up train arrival was delayed to 5.00 pm. Zaihas took the 2 hours gap to send his wife and kids to the zoo to watch tigers, crocodiles, birds, owls, and all sorts of animals. Dropped by the Danga seaside to get some mussels and oysters. Danny and Meme called Zaihas just as Zaihas' wife was about to grab a shopping trolley at Giant Tampoi. Okay, so shopping was cancelled and Zaihas went to grab the 2 boys at the JB train station.

Zaihas got sick that night from the oyster he ate. Luth, Zaihas' son was also down with fever. So Danny and Meme hung around the house watching TV, getting online, and sleeping. Hehehe. Poor guys.

27th February 2010

All woke up a bit late, at about 10.00 am. Sent Luth to clinic and Zaihas + QaQa + Danny + Meme were dropped off at C&M to hang out with Zam by Zaihas' wife. For the next 3 hours, we practically tried every instruments in C&M until we were dead bored. Zaihas' wife arrived at 4.00 pm and we went to Danga Bay. As today was QaQa's birthday, we got her a big cake and a big set of toys of gifts. Went back to Zaihas house at about 7.00 pm, getting ready for jamming session that night. Then came in a call, Aizat, a friend of Danny had taken the "tindakan nekad and naked" by taking a bus to JB from KL at the very last minute to join the guys to go to Singapore. Aparaa punya orang. In the end, we had to wait at Skudai Parade to fetch him right before we went jamming.

Jamming went well.

Maddame...'s Josiah, Ashie, and Art arrived in JB at midnight. After they scarily almost veered off to Senai, they ended up in Zaihas' house all right. All had dinner and chatted overnight (Aizat being the target and victim of conversation) before going to sleep.

28th February 2010

All woke up about 9.30 am, washed, had breakfast, and headed off to Larkin bus terminal. We all reached the place at about 12.00 noon and left JB at 12.30 pm. Thanks to the swift actions of our pretty Malaysian immigration officer Miss Crister, we crossed the causeway in no time and arrived in Queens Street at about 2.00 pm. We walked to 141 Jalan Besar, and did soundcheck. Brader Bo and Hairul were already there, and were joined by the rest of the mighty Kaklupunlaks. Zam became the target of attack with his "white kotak kotak pants" by Hairul. Oh tidak. Kaklupunlaks soundchecked next, and this was followed by Maddame...'. We took turns taking lunch at a nearby mamak stall.

Maddame... started the show with hallucigenic noise and heavy sludgy march beats, stunning all those watching them. Kudos to these guys! Kaklupunlaks played next, a bunch of really seasoned experts. They mangled a bunch of rock kapak songs to the point of oblivion, and drummer Shahril was the highlight of the day with his customized drum setup and superb showmanship! Eerie contact lens lah brader! Tak boleh angs. That was not to say the rest of the band was any less powerful. Super tight ensemble!

Wynken Delirium played last at about 6.30 pm, we practically sludged through a full 10 song set plus drums and guitar solos by Yan and Zam! Brader Bo joined in for a cover of Sepultura's Refuse/Resist, splashing mineral water to the crowd in the process. Hehehe. All soaking wet. After a nice get-to-know-and-hang-out session with all who were present, Maddame... and Wynken Delirium departed from Singapore at about 7.30 pm for JB. Danny, Meme, and Aizat stayed back in Singapore as they have more plans to do in Singapore the next day.

We reached JB at about 8.30 pm. Josiah, Ashie, and Art had Nasi Ayam Penyet with Zaihas and family before leaving for Malacca that evening.

Wynken Delirium would like to thank all the people who attended the shows, and purchased the CDs we had on sale. You guys are the best! Thank you Brader Bo, Hairul, all of Kaklupunlaks, Maddame..., Hadi of Fall of Mirra, Kamar Zaman, all the braders and sisters present. We apologize if we forgot anyone's names, we are simply humbled by your attendance!

Wynken Delirium