Band: The Padres
Formed in 1991, Padres is Joe Ng's vehicle to realise his musical ambitions. Comprising of friends from other bands, Padres remains more as an ad hoc rock outfit. Previous members include Abdul Nizam and Jong Aik (The Nonames), Patrick Chng and Vincent Lee (The Oddfellows), Francis Frightful and Ray Aziz (Opposition Party), Ben Harrison (Electric Penguin ETC), Adam Yusop (Global Chaos) and Idham 'Budi' Budiman (Cracked Healer), amongst others. Even the moniker was a case of last minute name picking. During their first gig at Marina Village four years ago.Joe chose 'Padres' simply because that's the first thing he saw - drummer Abdul Nizam t-shirt of the US baseball team.
Since then, Padres have released one mini album, What's Your Story (1994), one single, Radio Station (1993) and they have contributed tracks to a few compilation albums (two of which were played by legendary UK DJ John Peel on his BBC World Service, John Peel Show). Joe Ng has even found time to dabble in some acting, landing the lead role in Eric Khoo's highly acclaimed movie, Mee Pok Man.
The current line up of Nigel Hogan (ex-The Mother), Evan Tan (ex-Opposition Party) and Dean Aziz (ex-Silent Sorrow) was partly a result of a need to nurture a cohesive permanence; an element that was lacking in Padres' earlier line ups. As Joe puts it," All the previous members have an understanding with me that their primary band have the priority over Padres. In that sense, I could maintain a very creative unit with all the different influences coming in to shape the music". With Nigel (who fronted and co-wrote for his former band) in the team, the new game plan will feature more collaborative songwriting.
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Band: THE LIZARD'S CONVENTION
Souce: http://rockinthefinecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/lizards-convention-heres-funny-fish.html
An instant favourite in the local music scene back in the mid 90s, this group makes pleasant and carefree happy-go-lucky music at a time when bands were busy professing how much they hated themselves. Lizard's Convention sounds like the nature loving pixie smoking dandelion and daffodils playing irresistable bright pleasant pop rock music, appearing both innocuous and quirky, down-to-earth and surreal, honest and ironic. Led by four good looking graduates (with Kristin Oehlers and Sol Foo being centre of attraction), the band put out their highly acclaimed debut album “Here's a Funny Fish, Hurrah!” which garners them fame as amiable hippies, charming silly smiling besotted fans. The debut album has been heavily featured in the media, even winning themselves a top place, ironically on the Philippines radio charts with an Elvis cover called “Wooden Heart”. The heartfelt, rustic delivery of this version tastes like aromatic coffee set in the dusk of tropical beaches.
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Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/humpback-oak
Humpback Oak are Singapore's best-known rock band, playing indie guitar-pop reminiscent of R.E.M. or Crowded House. Comprised of schoolmates Leslie Low (vocals and guitars), Vincent Chin (guitars), Daniel Wee (bass) and Stanley Teo (drums), Humpback Oak formed in late 1990. In the first few years they released a number of demo tapes (The Mojo Sessions, The Songs Will Always Be There, and Moth and Bagpipes), but it wasn't until 1994 that their debut album, Pain-Stained Morning, appeared.
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Band: Concave Scream
Formed in 1991, Padres is Joe Ng's vehicle to realise his musical ambitions. Comprising of friends from other bands, Padres remains more as an ad hoc rock outfit. Previous members include Abdul Nizam and Jong Aik (The Nonames), Patrick Chng and Vincent Lee (The Oddfellows), Francis Frightful and Ray Aziz (Opposition Party), Ben Harrison (Electric Penguin ETC), Adam Yusop (Global Chaos) and Idham 'Budi' Budiman (Cracked Healer), amongst others. Even the moniker was a case of last minute name picking. During their first gig at Marina Village four years ago.Joe chose 'Padres' simply because that's the first thing he saw - drummer Abdul Nizam t-shirt of the US baseball team.
Since then, Padres have released one mini album, What's Your Story (1994), one single, Radio Station (1993) and they have contributed tracks to a few compilation albums (two of which were played by legendary UK DJ John Peel on his BBC World Service, John Peel Show). Joe Ng has even found time to dabble in some acting, landing the lead role in Eric Khoo's highly acclaimed movie, Mee Pok Man.
The current line up of Nigel Hogan (ex-The Mother), Evan Tan (ex-Opposition Party) and Dean Aziz (ex-Silent Sorrow) was partly a result of a need to nurture a cohesive permanence; an element that was lacking in Padres' earlier line ups. As Joe puts it," All the previous members have an understanding with me that their primary band have the priority over Padres. In that sense, I could maintain a very creative unit with all the different influences coming in to shape the music". With Nigel (who fronted and co-wrote for his former band) in the team, the new game plan will feature more collaborative songwriting.
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Band: THE LIZARD'S CONVENTION
Souce: http://rockinthefinecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/lizards-convention-heres-funny-fish.html
An instant favourite in the local music scene back in the mid 90s, this group makes pleasant and carefree happy-go-lucky music at a time when bands were busy professing how much they hated themselves. Lizard's Convention sounds like the nature loving pixie smoking dandelion and daffodils playing irresistable bright pleasant pop rock music, appearing both innocuous and quirky, down-to-earth and surreal, honest and ironic. Led by four good looking graduates (with Kristin Oehlers and Sol Foo being centre of attraction), the band put out their highly acclaimed debut album “Here's a Funny Fish, Hurrah!” which garners them fame as amiable hippies, charming silly smiling besotted fans. The debut album has been heavily featured in the media, even winning themselves a top place, ironically on the Philippines radio charts with an Elvis cover called “Wooden Heart”. The heartfelt, rustic delivery of this version tastes like aromatic coffee set in the dusk of tropical beaches.
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Band : HumpBack Oak
Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/humpback-oak
Humpback Oak are Singapore's best-known rock band, playing indie guitar-pop reminiscent of R.E.M. or Crowded House. Comprised of schoolmates Leslie Low (vocals and guitars), Vincent Chin (guitars), Daniel Wee (bass) and Stanley Teo (drums), Humpback Oak formed in late 1990. In the first few years they released a number of demo tapes (The Mojo Sessions, The Songs Will Always Be There, and Moth and Bagpipes), but it wasn't until 1994 that their debut album, Pain-Stained Morning, appeared.
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Band: Concave Scream
Source: http://www.last.fm/music/concave+scream
The band was formed in Dec ‘94 by Sean and Pann. At that time, both members were serving NS. The two have known each other since junior college and both have a common interest in music. It was this common interest that bonded them even though both of them have different musical tastes. Pann for one, likes death metal and he was originally from the local death band Silent Sorrow.
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