to all you rockers out there!!! have a nice week ahead and drive safely. if you are driving on a long journey, please put on UGLYMEN CD and you won't feel asleep!!! your family and UGLYMEN still need you to attend our gigs!!! rock on!!!
mark from soundscape has contacted us to play in the regional prelude to the “street roar” festival next january. the street roar is going to feature bands/musicians coming from japan, china, hong kong, taiwan, singapore etc. the street roar festival is organized by soundscape records and sponsored by TIGER beer. this concert is going to be held at KLPAC – a place a sentul. date is 7-january 2006. some heads up that i got from mark, a few bands are going to be fronted by girl(s). yeap, we'll get girl rockers this time. ah hooi and i will be there to setup a little mat selling our CDs, posters/stickers and t-shirts.
as for the prelude gig on 16-december, friday, 5 bands are going to be performing at the prai gig – to promote the upcoming street roar event next year. some bands that are chosen to perform that nite: swearwood, whitelight, days, a few other bands and uglymen. it's going to be one of the nite spot in prai, check here often for updates. performance time is 8.30pm onwards. each band playing around 4 to 5 songs. we are going to street rock prai this time. yahoo…
again, a BIG thank you ah mark!!!
YOU GUYS ROCK!!! last nite at chill out bistro was one of our greatest moments. the screams were deafening our little ears. we started to perform as the last band at around 1am. thanks to all the friends who have been patiently waiting for us since 11.30pm (knowing that our site put up 11.30pm showtime). before the show starts, we had a small table selling our CDs, posters, stickers and t-shirts. we sold 7 CDs, 3 posters/stickers and no t-shirt. thanks to ah beh, christine and paul for helping out to man the sales booth/table. we like to thank them for chatting with us while waiting for our turn to play.
house band, common culture played 2 sets before we took the stage at around 1am with songs list below:
1. sin – beyond song being played instrumental
2. robot is me & u
3. sor low (fool)
4. missing you
5. super horse (sam hui’s song – kwai ma seong seng)
6. love bubble tea
7. domido (this song is only 3 words long)
8. beyond medley (4 beyond songs being cut, pasted and performed)
9. phak chui cheng (ah, ah, ahhh~~~)
10. si ai bin (a romantic love song)
the sound was good last nite BUT the soundcheck(rerhearsal) in the afternoon from 3pm to 6pm was an incident we rather forget. one of the MOST challenging soundcheck that we had done for our last 12 years of playing. you’ll get to know a few funny character people. our metal sow gay hooi suddenly wanted to be a man to bantai one of the fellows during soundcheck. that guy was and is a real prick, kanasai. not only he was rude, he was sarcastic and a snob. and during our trip back from soundcheck at chill out (6pm), everyone on the road was rushing back to their home/hometown (for deepavali/hari raya). the city was jammed and we stucked for 1.5 hours before reaching taman pekaka where kaijiunn was scheduled to conduct drums lesson. the experience was not only horrible but exhausted driving from bumper to bumper.
the show at nite at least extinguished our fire to bantai that guy when we saw him at nite. luckily “someone” (only those at the sales booth will understand what i mean) was keeping ah hooi busy chatting or else ah hooi might probably bantai him for no apparent reason. 
when we were about to start on stage, everyone was starting to pack the front stage. when the first song kicked in, it was rocking all the way through out the nite. most people enjoyed the performance. our gig might not be ideal for matured audience (40′s and above) cause we dont play many cover songs. but when we did played beyond medley, everyone was cheering and singing along… and i felt that we are actually playing in uptown pub with people singing along. well, it was nice to know that people STILL love beyond songs after all these years. we played only the old songs. those from year 1990 and before. it’s more than 15 years already. and to our astonishment, requests came to us in small bits of papers. we even sang a birthday dedication to carol from james. luckily, at least we played one beyond medley song with 4 short songs. michael suggested that we should play another beyond song – “chan teik oi nei”, but we didn’t proceed for a few reasons, there’s not much time (we performed for an hour before we knew — a few of our friends said the show was TOO short however), we wanted to make this album launch event a proper one where we concentrate on our songs and played 2 cover songs our own style. sorry if we disappointed you guys… but nevermind lah… still got other time… all you guys need to do is to wait from 11.30pm to 1am… bwahahaha…
special thanks to zack and selva for the courtesy and opportunity to let us play at chill out!
extra special thanks to these lovely people: ah beh, christine, paul, nicole, hoo khai chiat, glacius (we love u man!), schizzow (we love u too!), alex tan (our ex-bassist, now a full time drinker), ming sern, another guy with alex with spiky hair (forgot his name), ah chua (snake), ah ghee and all those friends whom i may have missed your names.
the house band (common culture) was truly nice indeed. they came and spoke with us. we spoke a little about music and life in penang. they are traveling around the world playing. they loved it so much, they seldom go back to USA. yes, they are from the USA. their site: www.commonculture.com – real pro with down to earth attitude. i spoke to toby, the bassist most. and he told me that he just bought a portable PS2 game console, ha! my favourite game console.
selva introduced me to haris – the guy from baze pub. he said our band can discuss to play at the place over there. selva also said that we can come to play again at their chill out in a month or two. he added that he has known uptown pub for many years and would introduce our band to him. man, we love selva like ah hooi love guys. it’s so strange to find selva having a very different character – he’s down to earth, nice, courteous, humble and helpful. he even offered us drinks and spent time to chat with us. he liked our show, songs and performance. it’s nice to receive a compliment from a man who has been in the show business for so many years.
remember to memorize the lyrics so that we can sing together… i’m depending on you guys to rock the house down!!!
shout and scream with us!!! make this a memorable album launch!!!
guys, if the friday nite show am not at my best, sorry ye please forgive me:
Tuesday
2pm drive to penang from alor setar
5pm -8pm teach music
8.45pm-10.30pm jemming
11pm drive back to alor setar
1am-3am rush music project
Wednesday
11am computer work
3pm-10pm teach music
10pm-10.30pm management meeting
11pm-3am continue music project
Thursday
12pm coputer work
3pm-10pm teach music
10.15pm -11.30pm teachers' meeting
Friday
10am-7.30pm teach music
8pm-10pm teach english dialogue
10.30pm drive my Kancil at 150kmh from alor setar rush to Chill Out Penang
12.30am Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Uglymen!!
Michael ~ ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
we just can't wait until friday nite… here's the deal:
8 UGLY album songs going to be played… well, at least 7 songs will be played, depending how intense and loud you guys shout and scream at us.
2 cover songs (being modified) will be played. showtime gonna be 45 minutes to 55 minutes. if the atmosphere is right, ah hooi will go naked, wear a bow tie, strap a pair of black net panty hose and fully equipped with gay-inducing merchandise and accessories while playing a 30-minute bass solo. yes yes yes ah hooi boleh.
booth selling CD, posters/stickers and t-shirts.
in the meantime, we are going to sleep first… even performing also sleeping.
RM35 cover charge entitles you to not only first drink but drinks worth RM35 in amount. if 1 glass of soft drink is around RM10, you'll get 3.5 glasses of that 
see you guys around. we'll be setting up an EXTREMELY small booth outside the entrance to sell CDs, T-shirts, Posters/Stickers. by the way, buy spare yoko-yoko cause you'll need to exercise your necks with us. see ya!!!
yo guys!!! finally, an album launch in penang. at long last, we have managed to negotiate with chill out bistro to hold our launch this coming friday nite (28-oct, 11:30pm).
we are gonna play one full set of 45 minutes. 8 of our album songs and 2 covers. those who are familiar with us should be able to discover the songs. if there's an encore, we might be able to slot in our new-to-be-recorded-song-in-november at the launch party.
special thanks to chill out, selva and zack for giving us an opportunity to perform at their outlet. so guys and girls, please bring along your halloween clothes and ugly self with u. we are going to rock the place down, not tearing the place else we have to pay the damages… 
the house band gonna play for 2 sets of 45 minutes pop/rnd/hot tunes. then uglymen will take over.
we will be having a small booth to solicit u guys to support our CDs, posters/stickers and t-shirts.
bring all your friends. the crazier the better.
if you guys wanna thank chill out, bring some $dough$ to support their drinks/minuman.
there will be cover charge for entrance, i think it's around RM25 to RM35 per entry.
we are excited cause this is gonna be the first official launch of our album. merdeka! merdeka! merdeka!
malaysia prime minister, pak lah's wife, datin endon passed away at their residence in putrajaya this morning – 7.55am. more news at www.bernama.com
condolences to pak lah and family.
I recorded this short video clip via my si pek lao ia resolution handphone…
The song Amani which was choir-ed by the entire stadium crowd, i think this was the coolest moment as Paul Wong said, no matter what race, what religion, what purpose, WAR is destructive and bring no benefit to any party…
Go to my yahoo briefcase, sorry i dun have multiply account.
http://briefcase.yahoo.com
user name: michael_is_very_ugly
password: uglymen
File Name: Amani Chorus
File length: 2.7Mb
Duration: 30 second
Format: MP4, playable in Qucik Time, not sure on other software
I found out that ah fook ko also has cool videos kekeke…. go here:
http://thiamfook.multiply.com/video
Photo Source: Glacius Friendster Photo Album
Actually i wanted to post this two days later, but i seldom online and as u can see, when i update this website, it is heavily updated as i post a lot in a single session, cos i duno when i am gonna online again.
2 days from now, yes, its 20th October, is our friend @ supporter Glacius's birthday,
Happy Birthday and hope u play better than Steve Vai
and thanks for supporting us always.
Although the concert has ended, most of the crowd refused to leave and shouted for encore.
Beyond never encore for the Beyond The Story Live World Tour through out the whole campaign. As always, they have their own character and unique style and attitude: no need dancers, no need very fancy costumes, no need special guest, and this time no need encore, simply because they are who they are…
I love Beyond 4ever.