International Night & Battle of the Bands 08

Seems like I'm doing a monthly blog post here. The truth is I'm a really lazy writer. I don't really like penning down thoughts and most of the time my thoughts seemed to consist of nonsense all together. Anyway I'm back for another review on Lincoln's 2 best events, International Night and Battle of the Bands.

International Night is the time when all international students rejoice and party at the dining hall while being entertained by their fellow musically inclined friends. Now this a very overdue post since International Night happened on the 17th of May but I'll still write about it anyway. So at 7 pm, the curtains come down and the night begins. The weird thing about this year's international night is the dominating indian dances which for the first time managed to beat the number of jap/chinese events (and this probably because of the large number of Indians in college this year. I feel like a minority). So this year's International Night would also be known as the Curries Night 08. There were a few notable events but I volunteered as a w aiter this time so I missed out on a few events and food. Oh another change in this year's international night is the food because for the first time in many years (according to seniors), the kitchen handled the food preparation and considering how tasty and orgasmic Lincoln pasta is, I don't have my hopes very high.

So aside from the large number of Indian dances, there were a few vi deos and 2 bands which performed that night. I was in both the bands which was named Koala and the Sunshine Band and Kwok's Yok Shi Lam Fung(very hot in canto) Band. I played Crumbs by Disagree in my band and for the Kwok's band I was lead guitar for Link, a jap song. Personally I screwed up Crumbs pretty much with misplucks and really bad timing. So overall, it was a bad performance and I would really like to apologize to both Johnny and Madeline for their time up on stage.

Johnny on vocals and rhythm, Koala on Lead and Madeline on drums

Kwok's band- Lynn on violin, Ryo on piano, Koala on Lead, Madeline on Drums, Johnny on Bass and Kwok on Vocals

For the jap song, it went pretty well except for a short period of time when the guitar amp screwed up, producing some choking sound. Besides that the solo was pretty good and I pretty much hit the right notes. Well I'm not much of a musician but at least I tried and this being my second time on stage gave me a very valuable experience. There's much more room for improvement and I look forward to performing more when I have the chance.

I also starred in one of the videos produced by Sean Ashari and I have to say, he has talent for comedy scripts. The video was pretty darn good and enjoyed by everybody so I'm not going to talk much about it but instead let you guys judge for yourself. Click away:

Well that was pretty much International Night and the stuff that I've done. Next comes battle of the band which occured on the 24th of May. Tickets costs 15 bucks and I have to say it was pretty worth it since it also comes with 2 free schooners. There were 5 bands so minus the 2 schooners, we paid around 2 bucks for each band to perform. I watched 4 bands performed including Lincoln's band and they did rocked the night. The first 2 bands had so much energy that they had me jumping around especially 'When my heart stops beating' by plus 44 was played. Plus the vocals for the first band had a cape. Beat that superman.

Lincoln band was pretty good and the 4 songs played by them was The Middle by Jimmy Eat World, Learn To Fly by Foo Fighters, Torn by Natalie Imbruglie(now this song really stands out because it's a pop song) and Sweet Child O Mine by Guns and Roses. The song choices made it seem like Lincoln was heading towards the classic rock genre. Among the 4 numbers, Sweet Child O Mine was my personal favourite and the lead guitarist did a great job on his solos. In fact I felt that all 4 songs played was pretty authentic, staying close to the original song (Well done Lincoln Band). After Lincoln's band was Flinders which won Battle of The Bands (Lincoln came second) and although they came first, I felt that they don't really deserved it considering how much time they wasted getting the crowd going. I don't really give a shit about communicating with the crowd. All I want is good music and they wasted too much time during their song intervals, feeding my brain with crap and thus making me lazy to jump around anymore.

With exams looming forward I guess there isn't much time for fun anymore in the coming weeks. I wish everyone all the best for their exams especially the A-lvls people who are sitting for them at this moment. Until next month, or earlier hopefully, see you folks.

PS: I'll be doing a review on my Melbourne trip next. Sorry for it's long overdue post.