FBI: 2010

FBI: 2010

It's been awhile now since I have updated our blog. Sorry to everyone out there that it has been so long. For me personally (Cain), I have been very busy, having performed two plays in the last couple of months. Then, of course there was Christmas and then Chinese New Year. So all of us guys have been very busy. Not much time to practice together as we would like. But, it seems that things are picking up again. Hopefully we can get back into a good routine and start working on some new songs.

So what have we done in the past couple of months?

We played the Guns & Ammunition partyat BACKSTAGE with Logo and Good Fellas on the 4th of December 2009. That show was alot of fun.  We collaborated with Good Fellas to spice the night up and I ended up singing their song 'Be with me' with the Good Fellas supporting me. Then, Po Kei came over and helped to sing along to 'Man Love!'. It was a sight to be seen. Wish someone had have recorded it. Maybe someone did, we will never know. Anyway, the collaboration was successful and it made the night that much more special.

Our first show for the year was at The Vine for RockStar United 2010  on the 22nd of January. It was an amazing show as always. Can't believe I forgot to tell you about it when I first wrote this blog. Totally slipped my mind. So many shows lately that they are all melding into one. I always love the energy and perserverence of these youths. They are always great to play for. Look at these kids rock out! For this show I even had a previous student (ex-primary school student) come and watch me. His name is Lujen and is a little legend. I rocked especially hard this night for him. Wish more of my students were as cool as him. ;)

The next show that we did was at  THE HANG OUT for theRock to Gather Music Festival  on the  30th of January.It would be our second show for 2010 and it was going to be a big one. This show was also sponsored by alivenotdead! We were joined by Family, Grin, Shepherds the Weak,  Velvette Vendetta and 門生.

There was a tv crew from TVB and apparantley they brought with them an audience. They were shooting an episode for a tv series. We even had an interview before the show. I am not sure if the 'fake' audience were just supposed to be there for the sound checking (which I wasn't at anyway, so I might not be on tv... doh) or for the whole night. I had never heard of it before. In any case, many of them stayed, which didn't bother me, but maybe to organisers?

Anyway, it was a good chance to show off our music to some people who have never heard of us before. It turned out to be a really great show and we were very confident in our performance. The audience seemed to get more enthusiasm and energy when we began our set. We all got a really good feeling from that show. At times it got crazy in the moshpit, I even jumped in and pushed a few people around during one of the songs. LOL!

Rock to Gather Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_1gmPJe_B4

We performed our latest show last night ( 26th Feb) outside the HK ARTS CENTRE in Wanchai for STREET MUSIC. Thanks to Kung for inviting us to play at this show. It was lots of fun. Damn hot though!

The audience were much more relaxed as it was outdoors and the crowd seemed to swell up as we started our set. I could see people who were just walking past that area, just stop, and start watching us. The crowd really enjoyed it when I played a cover of one of Paul Wong's songs: Chai Gai. People love it when I try to sing in Cantonese. Something I am looking at working on even further in the future.

Gonna Make Love + Chai Gai 踩界 (cover 黃貫中)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2jZUGxsLo

Haunted & Loneliness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0WbWWGSVQI

Man Love! & Ghouls 'n' Ghosts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qCMM9dmIog

The Masquerade & FU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mePBQVfJ8u8

So, that's what we have been up to in the last couple of months (minus all the shit I have been doing on the side... if you want to know more about that go towww.alivenotdead.com/cainmcinerney, though that site is also in need of updating... maybe another day)

What's coming up next for FBI?

 So many shows....

M1 Bar in TST for the Respect on the 3rd of March

The Melting Pot in Central for Underground 95 on the 6th of March

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=373780294174&ref=mf

Some gig in Yuen Long? on the 14th of March (I don't have much details about that yet, but be sure that we will be playing a show there. My old stomping grounds)

Macau Underground on the 27th of March

that's just for March. We have been asked to do some other shows too, but we have decided that four shows in March is more than enough. Not much time to learn new songs, but good practice performing in front of a live audience.

Hopefully we will see you soon at one of our next gigs! ;)

Cain

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