TULANMEN - 4 UGAYMEN, WE R VERY TULAN

i should have updated more frequent but i guess i am bogged down with work. our brother fleaman screwed me today for not updating the website often. what he meant by update was to read about our little band news. i think he got a point when he said that cause it’s been a while since we shared anything about our band development.

1st, our t-shirts are selling well without much pushing. i sold one. LOL! i think ah hooi sold none. there’s another design but we gotta until the time is right to release it.

over these 3 months, we have been and are playing in some pre-merdeka gigs around northern malaysia. the gigs were a blast — they were jointly organized by SIN CHEW PRESS and MAXIS HOTLINK. we have performed in TAIPING, TELUK ANSON, SUNGAI PETANI and the last two gigs in august will be:

18-august: KAMPAR, perak
25-august: BUKIT MERTAJAM, penang

on 29-august, we are heading to alor setar, kedah to perform at the 7th month ghost festival at jalan putra starting 7.30pm with lots of local bands namely HAI LANG, WOLF TEETH, PROLOGUE, BEGINNER, X MALAYSIA etc (not sure about the rest of the bands). wolf teeth is previously known as signature and they are our close friends. their band line-up is the TALL ah yen on guitar, ah foong the guitar shredder, ah chen the long and thick hair guy, teik hong the jazz drummer and chee wei the baritone singer. p/s: they are all good looking than uglymen… bwahahaha

we have been on a side project playing with a bunch of virgin girls in x malaysia band. this is a side band consisting michael’s sacred little naive girls playing guitars and singing JAPANESE POP/ROCK songs. we haven’t been practising as much as we hope so because ah hooi and myself need to go back to alor setar to practise with these girls. strangely enough, i dont even know some of these girls name. if u ask me if they are cute… well… come on 29-august and see for yourself how they wail the guitars. michael is their teacher and they have been shredding the guitar for a few years and this is a big outdoor stage for them.

the side band is taking a toll on our new song writing. we have spoken too many times on how we are going to write new songs but everytime we gave lame excuses. ah hooi is forever working and working until at late at nite. when i called him the other nite…

me: @#$%^&* hooi, where r u?
hooi: what? can’t hear u… wait wait wait…
me: u got practise your songs or not?
hooi: no time la… working man… a lot of work
me: aiya… spend some time catching those songs la…
hooi: ok ok, later i catch
me: sure or not?
hooi: sure la… now no time, i at pub drinking
me: @#$%^&*@#$%^&*

the pre-merdeka gigs are cool tour for us. we got cool friends following us there: ric ah long, silverisle, chearh, ah yin, ah yang, fleaman, uncle beh beh, ah cheah (fleaman colleague), chun wei, khim yun, kelvyn, ah ching (metal sow sister) etc

after we have gone three piece, we never EVER perform in penang island. we hope one day to get into a gig here.

by the way, more gigs coming in — hooi’s friend wedding in september, a gig in nibong tebal in october. we are planning for an oversea gig… but its all in the planning. let’s see what we can come up with.

in the mean time, any street fighter fans out there? pls go to www.ggpo.net and download the software and i’ll wait for you!

p/s: thanks fleaman for posting this.