Jason Mraz LIVE in Malaysia 2012

Venue: Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur
Date: 19th June 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm
Ticketing: TBA

David Choi LIVE in Malaysia 2012

Venue: Bentley Music Auditorium, Mutiara Damansara
Date: 20th May 2012 (Sunday)
Time: 7pm
Ticketing: RM89 (10% student discount applicable) & RM169 (VIP with Meet & Greet)

Head over to any Rock Corner outlet to purchase your ticket. Alternatively, you can also purchase your tickets online, http://www.tickethotline.com.my/featured/david-choi-foreverever-asia-pacific-tour-live-in-kl/

Amy Lee of Evanescence interview

4 year hiatus, how come?

Well erm we toured the open door for over a year and I actually got married when still on tour. By the time we got to the end of it I wanted to take a break from Evanescence and you know be normal, be married, work on my house, being in new York with my husband and just sort of living off the road. I’ve been fully entrenched with Evanescence since I was very young, I was 14 years old, so it’s the first time I really stop writing and creating and took a break. So for a while I wasn’t writing at all and then it started happening naturally, after a couple of years away  I just missed it really bad and I was ready to make another album and it became a full on obsession and then 2 years later here we are with our album. 

Write own music all the time? What inspires your song writing?

Yes, it really can be anything erm for me its on a pretty deep level its not always very specific I write about my feelings sometimes more than actual. So when we write the lyrics don’t come first that’s usually afterwards, you just feel it you put your hands on the piano and start playing what you feel like. After we have a song I take it and be on my own and start singing and see what comes out, you kind of surprise yourself sometimes with what comes out of your subconscious for me that’s how it goes and then really hone in on what I’m writing about emotionally and then you know finish the song.

What are your songs about mainly?

Mainly? Errm wow that’s an interesting question. I guess it’s about my deepest feelings. I guess when I think about this album a lot of times I hear myself singing about like a quest for freedom, I’m always trying to hear myself and fix my problems. I’m in a great place in my life but the music for me has always been an outlet for all the difficult things that I go through. So that I’m able to sort of get it out and then like the therapy session, you know get on with my life. So I think in the music there’s a lot of me processing my experiences and my emotions. 

Has your marriage life affected your song writing?

I don’t know people ask me that a lot, “now that you’re happy how do you still write sad songs?” well life is complicated there is no such thing as happily ever after, there are always things to feel and things to go through, things that will be hard and things that will be wonderful. I like that lyrically our music has become more and more dynamic and it’s easier to describe the first album then the second and third because it was the same kind of feelings over and over. And now we’ll have a song like coming home and the emotion is at its peak and you know there’s a little bit of everything I think that’s what makes it very cool it’s like a whole person not just bits and pieces. 

What instruments do you play?

I play the piano that’s my primary instrument, I play the harp there’s a little bit of that on the album. I play the guitar but not for the band, just for myself sometimes while writing.

 How was working with your producer? He is really well known and has worked with many artists, how does that make you feel?

Absolutely, Nick was wonderful. Immediately when we met, we clicked him his personality really fit with ours. Err I think we’d be friends even if we hadn’t been working together. Honestly he’s pushed every one of us in really good ways which is something a great producer would do. I would love to work with Nick again.

Evanescence has been touring for a long time – many concerts, does it ever get boring?

Boring? Ahaha its hard for it to get boring because its really challenging. When I’m on stage its hard to completely zone out because I have to concentrate and focus on all the difficult vocal parts and difficult piano parts as well. There’s kind of a lot of think about on stage, so yea no never boring. Sometimes its difficult, sometimes we’ll have a show that’s really difficult, because whatever the monitors aren’t working you know I don’t know just not having a good night. But the most part, the crowd really fuels us especially how they all listen to your music too, I think that really helps.  I  think maybe in a year maybe it’ll be a little more boring, hehe. Right now there’s still a lot love for new music and a lot of thinking going on so we don’t mess up.

What have been some of the highlights of your career?

Err over the course of my whole career? Good one. Actually I have to say that playing at the noble peace prize last month was a huge highlight. Definitely something that we’ll never forget.  It was based in Oslo and after the ceremony they have a big concert and everyone comes, the winners of the prizes are there it’s kind of a performance in honour of them. Which is a lot of pressure because there are people in beautiful gowns and suits and very formal and very different from the usual rock show type? It was a big deal and we just felt completely humbled and honoured. It felt so much more important than our regular rock shows, its about people that are changing the world and we felt completely honoured to be apart of that so that was a huge highlight and it just happened.

How did you get invited to play at the noble peace prize awards?

Hehe they called! I know it’s crazy. It’s crazy I wouldn’t even know how to have the guts to reach out and do something like that. We got invited they called for us and I immediately just like “Oh, yea! How did this happen.” 

Any favourite places to perform?

Erm I’ve had some really good experiences in Athens, Greece that’s a favourite. Brazil we love playing in Brazil we have a special connection with the fans there. Erm Japan we love going there, we’ve been outside Japan in Asia so this whole tour we’re getting to visit Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan its very very exciting to us it’s going to be a whole new experience. Honestly this whole tour, we’re going to be touring throughout this year, and the plan at the beginning of this year was “ok I want to go the all the countries that we haven’t been to, especially the ones where the fans are active on the internet” that’s the fun part of us, getting to experience a new adventure.

Do you prefer performing live or in the studio?

That a difficult one we were talking about it that day in the van, its hard whatever you are doing you miss the other thing.  We’re here in Nashville rehearsing for the tour and this is where we recorded the album. A few months ago I was like I kind of miss the studio I want us to go back to Blackbird and they were like yea and I was like but I remember when was I was in Blackbird all I wanted to do was go on tour. So they are both completely different things and they are both awesome in different ways. I love creating I love being in the studio and recording something for the first time but there’s also a very special magic about playing live, the energy of the crowd changes the music from night to night. I don’t know that’s an impossible question. 

Evanescence is at the top of the Billboard charts, how does that make you feel?

Incredible, we didn’t expect that. Especially after all the time away, we were coming into this with a very humble attitude. We loved our music, erm we thought we made the best album we have ever made, and that was good enough for us. Whatever that meant in today’s market, we just didn’t want to get out hopes up. And see to go to #1 was incredible, incredible feeling and I’m still very proud of us and I don’t know what else to say other than positive feelings.

Mark Pontius of Foster the People interview

How and when did you guys start the band?

Errm we started about two years ago, erm really just as friends er I mean I met mark foster through another music friend of mine and we kinda just at the beginning played music together with no real intentions or being a band or anything, we both had a project and had some free time and started fooling around and we did that for about a year or two years just as friends and we met Cubbie through that and finally in our free time we just kinda opened up and decided quick other projects and to take the band seriously and that was right around the time pumped up kicks was written and that kinda took us into the next level as a band.

Can you describe Foster the People’s music?

Err can I describe it, err well yea the best way we hoped to describe it is kinda quirky pop we like to call it, its got the catchiness of a pop song but we try to keep it really pretty and electronic in a way that its still pretty interesting.

Is the whole band involved in the music making process?

Err Mark Foster usually brings like how those last records work is how he has a solo career that he’d been working on for like 8 years so we had a lot of songs from that but most of the record was previously written songs and then the rest of it was kinda worked out like he would bring a demo kinda a song to us and we kinda discussed it and go over it and in the studio kinda work out some ideas, its kind of a mix match of both. The rest is kind of done in pretty short time we had to do it in like 5 minutes so theres a lot of, Foster’s really involved.

What were you doing before you joined the band?

Err I was in another band, for about 6 years called Malbec, M-A-L-B-E-C and er not much I was just working freelance. I was home schooled so I was editing films and shooting films on a free lance basis from week to week and pursuing the other band and err til finally I just quit it and we made Foster the People a serious project.

Do you know where your music is most popular?

Err its hard to say, Australia was one of the first places that picked up the music I’m not really sure how I think just throught the blogsphere or somewhere on the internet. I would say either there or the states, erm  cause they’re probably the biggest now.

Have you ever been to Asia before?

I have actually never been to asia before, yea it’ll be all our first time.

Christmas and new years are coming up soon, do you have any plans?

Yea I’m actually at home right now in Orlando, Florida where I grew up and with my family and I just got in today so I’m gonna spend about a week and a half and erm do the whole Christmas thing and then for new years I’m gonna to Costa Rica and err surf and live in the hot for about a week.

Do you have any new years resolutions?

Erm yea I think probably to, it would sound kind of funny but to journal more. Like write day to day in a journal and just kind of write thoughts down. I feel like this past year, it feels like 10 years crammed into one yea you know and I can remember most of it but I really wish I’d been writing things down more often so I could really have like a clearer story to tell you know later in my life cause this is one of the best years of my life and I don’t know if I can remember every single part of it, so from here on out I would really like to be able to journal a bit.

What’s your favourite song on the album?

Err I think my favourite song is “Call it What You Want”, erm we recorded that in London it was our first real big trip together as a band and err yea everytime I hear that song I get that feeling of the whole London trip and what the positive atmosphere we had at that time and so err yup.

Any drum inspirations?

Err like drummer’s that I like? Yea erm I’m actually a really big fan of a I actually don’t remember his name, but he’s the drummer to this band called little dragon. They’re a band from Sweden and err the drummer is just he’s so amazing he’s such a talented dude. He almost sounds like a computer playing the drums, he’s so solid. Recently I got into that stuff but I grew up listening to a lot of Funk and 80’s stuff so err James something the old funk drummer is an inspiration of mine, something from the roots the hip hop drummer that I’ve loved forever. I’ve got a lot of different angles on inspiration.

What type of music do you listen to?

I like a lot of 80’s stuff I grew up with an older sister and ah so when I was younger she kind of influenced with me with her kind of music, I always tooks her cds from her and listened to them. I like a lot of something a genesis, a lot of the cheesy 80’s stuff that I’ve always taken a liking to and I listen to that even today still.

What should Malaysian fans expect at your concert?

Erm they should expect a massive dance party hehe.

Can you describe one foster the people’s live performances?

Erm yea we’re we its pretty err its pretty percussive I think we have a lot of, we have two other guys playing with us live so erm there’s a lot, it’s a bigger the sound it’s a really big sound live and we have a lot of precussion and drums being passed around and so we’ve developed it into this kind of thing that is very percussive and very rhythmic which makes it kind of dancing.. you know? So its really fun for us to play live we bring a lot of energy to it and it’s a pretty good dance party for us.

How are you dealing with all the fame?

Fame I don’t like to call it fame, its good we’ve been working for this for a long time. The band is still a young band we’re only 2 years old, we all have been working on music for the past 6 or 7 years of our lives so on one hand we welcome that part of this job, with the other hand it is abit weird when people look at you and put you on a pedestal for on real reason and that’s kind of odd like giving autographs to people that I don’t know is sometimes a little bit weird for me. Its all very new to us and we like that part of it its all very enduring as well.

Did you always want to be in a band when you were younger?

No err I actually, I grew up playing music in my church and I always loved it but I never, I am actually really into films and movie making and so that’s the real reason I came to LA to pursue that and erm drumming was just kind of be like a thing on the side. Through film school I just kind of realised my passion was more into music, I like fitting films and music and the passion was just really driven into the music part of it so I kind of realised that later in life I was like 18 I went back to LA and that year I realised that I wanted to pursue music, so as a kid playing drums it was just kind of a thing to do like a hobby it wasn’t some that I like aspired to be.

Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody

RuFu and i got to meet Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody yesterday, they were not how we expected them to be.

 

Adrien Brody was nice to us he stopped and took 2 pictures with RuFu and talked to us a bit.

When we asked for a video though for one of our friends he said

"No i don't do that, its too much to ask for."

 
Owen Wilson, stopped and started thinking whether or not he should take a picture with us!

YESTERDAY I LEARNT, 

Actors don't want to be famous. They don't want fans running up to them and gushing about how much we love them.

Musicians on the other hand love fans gushing about how much we love them and always say yes to pictures without hesitation.

F1 Rocks Malaysia 2012 ( Confirmed )

Australian pop diva Kylie is a no show following an alleged contractual dispute between Petronas, the chief Organiser of the Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix, and Enterprise Entertainment Ltd, the London-based company who owns the F1 Rocks franchise.

Girls Generation (A nine-member South Korean pop girl group), Orianthi and  Nicole Scherzinger (Former Pussycat doll member) are set to perform for a concert at the Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix 2012 this weekend.

The event will also feature Malaysian acts James Baum, Reshmonu, Faizal Tahir among others.


 More details will be released soon.

F1 rocks live in Malaysia CANCELLED

CONFIRMED: Kylie and Kelis in Malaysia cancelled 'due to unforeseen circumstances'.

F1 Rocks to be replaced with a free concert at the Twin Towers. More info soon!

Sapura & Kencana Petroleum Red Ribbon GP Ball 2012

The event will  feature a charity auction, proceeds from which will also be divided among Malaysian AIDS Foundation and the Global Poverty Project.


This is the 14th edition of the Grand Prix gala that regularly preludes the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix race.

List of Celebrities : 

Leona Lewis

Adrien Brody

Owen Wilson

Camilla Belle

Fernando Morientes

Michel Salgado

Fabio Cannavaro

David Haye


For those who are interested, you can actually buy tables and seats.

 TABLES

Celebrity Table are limited to 6 tables only – RM200,000 per table

Platinum Table are limited to 9 tables only – RM100,000 per table

Gold Table are limited to 33 tables only – RM50,000 per table

Silver Table are limited to 22 tables only – RM35,000 per table




 SEATS 

Gold Seat - RM5,000 per seat

Silver Seat - RM3,500 per seat

LMFAO LIVE in Malaysia 2012 POSTPONED

JS: "LMFAO live in Malaysia" has been postponed to 9th April 2012 due to unforeseen circumstances. Let all party rockers know!

The Cab LIVE in Singapore 2012

Just came back from Singapore!


I was supposed to watch The Foo Fighters but they recently cancelled their show, so I decided to stay an extra few days to watch the cab! It was great!

For those who don't know who they are, go check them out now!


Date: 10th March 2012 (Saturday)
Venue: TAB @ Orchard, Singapore


The venue was really small, it's like a pub/restaurant. It's too small for a concert!

Due to overwhelming response from the fans, a second show was even added.
One at 5pm and another at 8pm.


I didn't know what to expect from the Singaporean fans so I got to the venue around 2pm for the 5pm show and the line was already super long. There were fans already lining up for the 8pm show!


Somehow I managed to squeeze through to the 3rd row.

The cab was AMAZING live.
The concert was about an hour only as they didn't sing much, but they sang songs from both their albums which the fans were really happy about.
They ended the show with their hit song " La la " from Symphony Soldier.


Whisper War ( 2008 )
Symphony Soldier ( 2011 )




Apparently they're going back to singapore soon. Hopefully they'll stop by Malaysia.

We the Kings and We are the in Crowd in Malaysia

hey guys for more updates about WTK & WATIC please check out  

http://www.facebook.com/TalentHarvest

ARE YOU AS EXCITED AS WE ARE? (;

Joe Brooks LIVE in Malaysia 2012

 Got back from Joe Brooks' concert here in KL a few hours ago, damn it was fun.

There were tons of girls in the crowd constantly screaming. They all knew almost all the words to the songs he sang.

It was a good concert. 

If you haven't heard of him i seriously think you should youtube him.

 he sang about 13 songs? i think?

they even signed merchandise after the concert, how cool is that?

Matt de la Garza

i didin't get a picture with Joe Brooks or Clinton Babers.

But RuFu did! (:

I gave him the iPhone cover, cause he wanted one.

 

and he gave me this <3