what : be!dazzled a cappella concert
who : various a cappella artistes
when : 16/9/06 , 7.30pm
where : victoria concert hall
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okay, admittedly, i went for only one reason the main reason why i went : to see Juz-B live.
and of course to support local artistes lah. 8 days said that there most probably won’t be another SI due to lack of talent. there ISN’T a lack of talent. its just that these people can’t be bothered with commercial fame!
first half of the concert was like NUS+Amateurs. it was okay.
however i was impressed by temasek sec’s group. even though they were only 13-15 years old, they were very good. the lead singer spoke like a girl(can’t be helped anyway) but his voice was not bad.
the 2nd half was fantastic. it was like they were saving the best for last.
it kicked off with this guy who beat-boxed. since i hardly hear beat-boxing i was impressed. on the website the fella was supposed to be Ryan Chan but i think the fella onstage was malay cos after that this malay rap group came on and called him ‘Zul’. i think. but regardless of moniker or race, he was excellent. the rap group did give me a shock when they started rapping to a tune from Les Choristes.hmm.
after that came singapore’s only female acappella band called Nanu. they had a token guy there for beats. their banter with the audience was rather ’PG’ and one of them was especially funny, joking about the ’smoke’ that the crew kept going on.
verve enharmonics and key elements revved the crowd up into loud cheers and clapping that sustained thru out their songs. what to do, they were the best.
juz-b was last. wah…i waited so long leh. haha. their beat-boxer guy, in their own words, was “somewhere in the sea lah, south china sea” doing coast guard duty so they had one fella from Mi Lu Bing(at the very sight of him, some girls kept screaming his name WeiQi(thanks to davina from verve enharmonics. i don’t know why i remembered his name as shao wei.really -_-”). he looked suitably embarassed. lol) to replace him. yes i’m very biased i think that other than verve+key, juz-b brought the house down and even prompted a male member of the audience to proclaim his love for them really loudly.
it ended at 10pm ++, after an encore of ‘qing fei de yi’.
i give it a 8.5/10
(minus 1.5 for certain members of the audience who 1) clapped randomly to make the song clap-along sound stupid 2) sing along to the song ‘my immortal’ like they were part of the group 3) screaming like crazy and standing up, effectively blocking the people behind them…)
