Werd's first ever gig at the black box on June 14th wasn't all that perfect but it still rocked.

yes well, we all met dhouby ghaut before heading to Plaza Singapura for some last minute errands [camera film, maccas and drumsticks]. we headed to the Black Box and heard the other band [i don't know their name] pumping out Velvet Revolver's "Slither" albeit with much improvisations during the solos. it was no doubt they were good and upon hearing them, i felt a bit dejected as i had a bad feeling that they would out-rock us [if there's such a word].

we were the last performers and i was nervous that we would be the audience's anti-climatic end to a climatic night. you see, the good people who were there to rock out with us had spent the last two days in an anti-smoking awareness camp, co-organised by CJC. some CJC folk were facilitators in the camp and Gao was in charge of getting bands to perform for the finale night. he hence invited Werd. hee.

anyway, as i was saying, i was kind of intimidated by the other bands awesomeness but i decided to go on with the show anyway. "Cigarette" was first, an acoustic song we turned electric. kind of ironic to sing a song called "Cigarette" for an anti-smoking awareness camp, i know but we did it anyway. why you care? it was quite a nightmare debut.

our drummer [no mentioning of names here, right dom? :)], i suspected, had the jitterbugs and went off beat twice during the song but it's understandable. i was nervous too. we were a bit tense for the first chorus and my clip-on microphone [think the gay as sunshine gang of high-5], was too soft to hear the back-up vocals. the cable for the bass was too short too and i accidentally yanked it to far and it came off the jack on the amp but thankfully no one seemed to notice. i guess we all kind of let go when we jumped half way through the song. the crowd kind of enjoyed it.

OH and EUNICE OLSEN and Brother Paul were there too. man! Eunice Olsen!

sorry for that afterthought.

anyway, on to "The Singer". i felt kind of disappointed with "Cigarette" so i thought, 'what the hell, let's give em' all we got with the singer." unfortunately, all we got was quite simply, shit. well, it wasn't anyone's fault and i'm not blaming anyone, just out misfortune. i'd say we worked pretty hard for the gig and are pretty much tighter than before but the worst had to happen. Kelvin took over the clip-on microphone for "The Singer" and still, it wasn't loud enough. so, the entire song did not have the harmonies it was supposed to have. worst of all, the solo at the end was totally NON-EXISTANT because the output on the distortion pedal was too low all of a sudden. quite sad really, and i'm still kind of upset about it.

oh well, at least we weren't booed and people actually liked "The Singer". coolness. oh well, take it one jamming session at a time i guess. hmm, Prince of Wales backpacker's pub next time maybe? mayhap, mayhap.

kudos to the Werd boys, we all did our best. just keep it going yeah? take it one day at a time, and see what happens for us next.

"Faded, like a dream
It faded, like a dream
And maybe, it was just a dream
It faded..."