- Ep88: Lion City Rock turns two!
Can you believe this podcast is Two Years Old? We certainly can't. That's because our memories aren't what they used to be. Nevertheless, we decided to recall the highlights of Year Two in the life of Lion City Rock and ask ourselves these questions:
What were the biggest learnings we had? (OK, we had more questions but we could only get to this one...) But hey, we never let an occasion like this go to waste, so join the conversation as we look back at the year that was...
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations42m | Sep 24, 2023 - Ep87: Bumper episode with Krysta Joy
It's a fantastic bumper episode featuring musician and Saylah Studios founder Krysta Joy! When it comes to music, she's a real trooper in every sense of the word: whether it's making sure she can spend time to write one song a day, or helping others achieve their goals (musical or otherwise).
Her tale is an inspiring one, and it's right here on Lion City Rock!
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Listen to Kevin Mathews' music:
New remixes for My One And Only
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations1h 24m | Sep 15, 2023 - Ep86: Gone, but not forgotten - Jimmy Appudurai-Chua & Peter Thomas
Here's our humble tribute of sorts as we look at the music journeys of two pioneer musicians who recently left this realm to join the great gig in the sky: Jimmy Appudurai-Chua (Meltones, Straydogs) and Peter Thomas (Naomi & The Boys). Both were instrumental in shaping the Singapore music scene of the Sixties and though they're gone, the legacy will not be forgotten.
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Listen to the Straydogs' Freedom and Cold Morning (featuring Jimmy on guitar)
Watch excerpt from Jimmy's gig at Artistry
Plymouth Herald 2020 interview with Jimmy
Listen to Naomi & The Boys' As Life Goes On (co-written by Peter Thomas)
Singapore60sMusic piece on Peter Thomas
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations35m | Sep 3, 2023 - Ep85: New School Rock III (Part 2)
We continue our re-listening party with the bands featured in New School Rock III (pronounced "three" ... or "ai ai ai"), the compilation album that was given free with BigO magazine. This time round Kevin and Chris share their thoughts about Pillars of Faith, Swirling Madness, Rocket Scientists and Watchmen - with a bonus tacked at the end too!
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Listen to New School Rock III
Listen to Kevin's music:
New remixes for My One And Only
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations44m | Aug 28, 2023 - Ep84: Playback - New School Rock III (Pt1)
In 1993, BigO magazine released New School Rock III, the third volume in their music compilation series. Comprising 17 songs (including one hidden track) from bands like ESP, Band of Slaves, Silent Sorrow and more, this album was a microcosm of the music scene at the time. Or was it? Thirty years after its release, Chris and Kevin hit the playback button and give their reaction to the compilation. ("Ooh!" "Wah!" "Eh?")
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New remixes for My One And Only
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations41m | Aug 21, 2023 - Ep83: Rewind Episode feat. Pain-Stained Morning
Singer-songwriter Leslie Low (Humpback Oak, The Observatory) has come a long way since he started making music as a teen with Twang Bar Kings. He'll be doing live performances of his music journey at The Esplanade Concourse on 17 and 18 Aug (see link below). This rewind episode sees Kevin and Chris review one of the key offerings in the Lion City's music canon: Pain-Stained Morning the debut album by Humpback Oak, Leslie's band back in the 1990s.
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Links
Pain-Stained Morning on YouTube.
Leslie Low's solo music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Leslie Low on Instagram
Also, listen to Kevin's music:
New remixes for My One And Only
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations57m | Aug 11, 2023 - Ep82: Big Bumper Episode with Sanny Veloo!
We’re back with a SPECIAL EPISODE featuring the one and only Sanny Veloo (Boredphucks, The Suns, EMPRA). He's been making music not only in the Lion City but also Down Under, with fans from all over the world. The vocalist and guitarist takes a walk down memory lane and recounts how Boredphucks got banned in da Singapura, how they rose again as The Suns, the tragic death of drummer Wayne Thunder, Sanny's own resurgence with EMPRA and how that affected his decision to go solo.
Along the way, Sanny gives us not one, but TWO acoustic performances (did someone say “World Premiere”?) and we also examine…
… the consequences of slagging off the Backstreet Boys
… the life-changing things that happen in biker bars
… and why hasn’t anyone done a biopic of his life yet? (casting requirement: “handsome Indian actors who can sing”)
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Get more info about Sanny Veloo
Listen to KayMac's music
Groove with Rondo Vitale
New remixes for My One And Only
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations1h 23m | Aug 5, 2023 - Ep81: Rewind Episode feat. Force Vomit
2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Force Vomit, the band that gave the world songs like "Siti" and "Spaceman Over Malaysia". With new reissues of their hit album, Give It Up For The Trust Fund Rockers, there's no better time to get into the punk-power-pop-surf these guys produced. But just how did friends from school who liked music become returning fixtures in the Lion City's music calendar? Listen to this classic chat with founders Dino and Alvin to find out
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20th anniversary album reissue of Give It Up For The Trust Fund Rockers
Listen to KayMac's music
Groove with Rondo Vitale
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations1h 15m | Jul 28, 2023 - Ep80: Rewind Episode feat. The Analog Girl
If you were at Guan Chuan Street @ Tiong Bahru last night (21 July 2023), you would have been awash with the sounds of The Analog Girl, who reworked her tracks for the Your Neighbourhood Artist Exhibition 3. It's not the first time she has let her music set the scene for various art forms. Her latest projects include remixing Roberto Montoya's "Polybius" and doing the vocals for There Is Another System's new track, "No One Is Coming For Us", which drops 4 Aug. But hear all about her music journey in this classic conversation from Lion City Rock Year One.
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Wormrot's Singapore gig in September - as part of the Burning Desire Asia Tour - is as highly anticipated by their fans as Tay-Tay's is by her fans or Coldplay's by their fans, but Wormrot has the distinction of being the one who was featured on Lion City Rock!
We spoke to drummer Vijesh back when the band was putting the final touches to their latest album, Hiss. Hear about the highs and lows of being in one of Singapore's hardest rockin' and hardest-working bands! Hiss was voted by Rolling Stone as one of the Top 10 Best Metal Albums and peaked at #2 on the BBC's Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart.
Their Burning Desire Asia Tour sees them covering dates in Asia, New Zealand and Australia, so if you're in the area, don't miss their gigs!
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Check out Hiss by Wormrot
Listen to KayMac's music
Groove with Rondo Vitale
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations56m | Jul 14, 2023 - Ep78: Rewind Episode feat. Dru Chen
Not many people know this, but though Dru Chen's latest release, Slower Life, may only be a few weeks old, the idea for it was birthed when he first appeared on Lion City Rock ("that's not true" - ed. "That's our story and we're sticking to it!" - Chris)
Find out what Dru said about the album in this rewind episode, and hear about his music journey, from learning to play and his early influences to blagging his way into joining a band, before finally emerging as a solo artist in his own right.
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Links
Listen to Dru Chen's Slower Life album
Listen to KayMac's music
Groove with Rondo Vitale
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations52m | Jul 7, 2023 - Ep77: The long and winding chat with Patrick Chng
Our very first guest returns for a chat! Patrick Chng (The Oddfellows, Typewriter) is back to answer questions about how the Lion City is rockin' these days:
... we've had the Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age of local music – is it time for the Ironic Age?
... the underground live scene today recalls the live scene from 30 years ago, with pockets of gigs all over the island (if you know where to look), but is this sustainable?
... and will Pat survive the home improvement renovations?
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Links
Check out The Oddfellows and Patrick's recommendations: Cactus Cactus, Curb, Microchip Terror
Listen to KayMac's music
Groove with Rondo Vitale
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations59m | Jun 30, 2023 - Ep76: Rewind Episode with Ginette Chittick
This rewind episode features one of our earliest guests: Ginette Chittick, whom we think is an artist in every sense of the word.
She joined the all-girl punk band Psycho Sonique without really how to play bass. But isn't what punk is all about? Psycho Sonique was a key band of Singapore's then-fledgling indie scene in the 1990s, and they made young hormonal teens drool with their spitfire shows on stages in Singapore and Malaysia.
Their performances, along with an EP, We Can Do It, showcased a "just do it" attitude better than any shoe with a swoosh. Ginette later joined Astreal, a band whose ethereal music was a full one-eighty from the frenzied sounds of Psycho Sonique. Since then, she has done everything and anything: from starting her own fashion label to publishing a zine; to becoming an educator, working with textile art, and spinning tracks as a DJ, most recently at the Daydream Nation gig earlier in June '23.
Is there nothing she won't do? Well...
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Check out Ginette's music with Psycho Sonique and Astreal
Listen to KayMac's music
Groove with Rondo Vitale
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations1h 1m | Jun 24, 2023 - Ep75: Looking back at Red Hot & Skin (disc 2)
Kevin and Chris conclude their journey through Red Hot & Skin, the double-album that was released to create more awareness about Aids. While the premise for the album is a good one, does the "rojak-ness" of the tracks (yes, that's the technical term) put a spanner in the works? Along the way, they ponder Singapore's alternative music scene (Chris: "alternative to what?") and whether this album stands the test of time.
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations43m | Jun 17, 2023 - Ep74: Looking back at Red Hot & Skin (disc 1)
In 1993, one album tried to encapsulate the wide world of music from the Lion City: Red Hot & Skin, the double-CD various artistes compilation album by Pony Canyon. Comprising 30 songs by 22 artistes, it was a genre-bending collection of songs that went from outrageous to meh. Kevin and Chris hit rewind on this album and along the way, they ask all-important questions like:
- Why do people say AI is stealing but they don't mind buying cover versions?
- Who thought adding a Bel Biv Devoe beat automatically made a 70s classic "modern"?
- How is Maizurah linked to Alyssa Milano?
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations1h 1m | Jun 10, 2023 - Ep73: Got gig? (with Bas Linders)
If you love going to gigs, you've probably seen our guest, Bas Linders, who has been checking every single concert on our shores (so it seems) ever since he landed on our shores all those years ago. He shares why he is a fan of local music, even as Kevin and Chris grill him about why he's always the tallest guy in the room.
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Check out the Lo-Cal chat for SG gigs
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations1h 10m | Jun 2, 2023 - Ep72: Looking back at Flower Show Riots
This week, Kevin and Chris go back in time as they react to Flower Show Riots, the debut album by Great Spy Experiment. It received rave reviews when it was first released, but what do they think of it now? Along the way, they also discuss hard-hitting issues like: What if Siti in Siti In The City was related somehow to Siti in the Force Vomit song? And what would the album sound like if Chris had his way?
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations54m | May 28, 2023 - Ep71: Rewind Episode - Isaac Chiew of Cactus Cactus
Rock trio Cactus Cactus dropped their new EP, Life Is Short, this weekend, so we thought we'd revisit our conversation with singer Isaac Chiew, who's surely one of the brighter sparks in the music scene today.
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This podcast series isn't only about musos of the past – this week, we talk to young Isaac Chiew, a music lover and musician who's taking things into his own hands with his band Cactus Cactus and his company, Big Duck Music. How did he get started? What made him decide to stage Naybeats – his version of Baybeats? And why did he risk getting charged by his army commander just so he could do a gig?
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Get tickets for their EP launch on 28 May
Isaac’s company, Big Duck Music
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations53m | May 19, 2023 - Ep70: We chat with Cosmic Armchair's Ben Ang
Our special guest this week has a resume that's as impressive as it is long: he's one-half of the electronic music duo, Cosmic Armchair; he's the Abyss Simian; he's the principal tutor at the NUS' Electronic Music Lab; he's also a certified Ableton tutor; he's a devoted dad; he's a loving husband; he's... Ben Ang!
Join Kevin and Chris as they delve into electronic music with Ben, and discover why, for Ben, Music really is Life.
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lion-city-rock/donations1h 6m | May 13, 2023 - Ep69: Rewind Episode - RENE
In this rewind episode, we look back in on our conversation with singer-songwriter RENE, who has a new EP out: Slipped Through My Fingers.
RENE started piano lessons when she was only four, and since then, she has taken on the world with her unique blend of pop-punk. Even the pandemic didn't stop her musical journey. In 2021, she released her debut EP, Something To Hide, and rocked the Baybeats stage at the end of the year. Here, she shares...
...about her time in The Lonely Hearts Club Band (yes, it was a thing)
...how she develops her songs and why she hates people pigeonholing her music into "genres"
...the biggest lessons she's learnt along the way
(original airdate: 25.2.22)
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Listen to RENE's Slipped Through My Fingers
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