80s Night and Guitar Clinic

Our next performance is on 30th April 2008 (ignore the earlier mentioned date on the 18th). It’s a Wednesday, but the next day is Labour day so it's a holiday! This time we are going back…way back, to a time of big hair and bigger earrings. A time of tight gaudy pants, carrot cuts and even more ridiculous hairstyles. Thankfully we are musicians and not a fashion school.

Come listen to your favourite 80s hits like Sweet Dreams, Every Breath You Take, Pour Some Sugar On Me and more.

So remember to make a date with us.

Then in order to celebrate Labour day, we are having a guitar clinic on 1st May from 2pm-4pm conducted by a guitar master from Ipoh who was the teacher of one of our very own guitar masters. Call us for more details.

We're Back!

Hi there fellow musicians, rockers and fellow students, sorry for our amazing dissappearing act for the past 2 months. :) Did not get to greet anyone during the recent festive season and the calendar new year so here it is .... drum snare..........HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAVE A ROCKING YEAR be it in your work, relationship, social but most of all d music.
The Album which Kit talked about The Year of the Rat will be in motion this year as we will start the work this March. For those of you that's interested to know more about it please talk to Kit and he'll be unloading the goods on ya!
Also we are now working on getting the next performance ready for April which, will be dubbed 80's night. As we found out, there's a large number of 80's lovers in the school so we will be organizing this performance specially for you. Have a good rocking time and we'll see you soon. :)

Some more got pictures : )

Our back up singers. First time got sing in parts all...dun play play


All the girls went crazy when Azim crooned. He sang "Janganlah ucap selamat tinggal" and they cried when he finally "ucap selamat tinggal"


The guy basking in Masjid Jamek. We gave him a job and now he is a punk rocker


"I See Her Dance" Siew Yee playing her keyboard solo


The Green Lantern moonlights as a singer

Even more pics from the party!

Lin Kit singing with a whole lotta love


Sekhar (or rather "the Shaker") caught eating when he was specifically told not to by vocal teacher Michele cos it'll affect his voice. Naughty boy


The Green Lantern and his Green Buddy trying to camouflage in front of the Green Wall. Not very successful.


The Rock City Chick band


Yummy! This Nasi Briyani vely vely good. From where? I heard it's from Chennai

More pics from the Rock City Christmas Party

One of our youngest students Wai Sheng on stage


Emcee: Nervous kah?
Afendi: Tak ada lah
Fauzan: Saya dengar Siti Nurhaliza pun nervous bila naik stage


Our lovely and fabulous emcee Ms.Esther Lim


Zeal's performance was so electrifying even the camera was a blur...hehe


Our friends Project Rush

The Christmas Party Report

Hui Min: You look so cool on the guitar but I look cooler on bass.
Wendy: Who say??? I look cooler! Guitar got 6 strings. Bass only got 4!


Wah! So many cymbals! Which should I hit first ah?


Irene rocking on the guitar


Jude showing the Korg who is boss.


Part of the cheering crowd...ok they have not start cheering yet becos the show not yet start


What a blast everyone had in Rockcity's Christmas Party. The students gave their 150% on stage much to the delight of everyone that was there and the atmosphere was simply electrifying.



It's not easy going on stage to perform before an audience due to the agonizing personal preparations you put yourself through and the many, many rehearsals to get your act right and the infamous "butterflies in the stomach" syndrome which even seasoned artists experiences as well. So we would like to acknowledge the passion, courage and determination of the students that took to the stage and delivered a fantastic show in style that I'm sure will remain in our thoughts for a very long time. Thank you. :)



You are only as good as the teacher that teaches you but every teacher in Rockcity prefers to see their students better than them at least by a country mile wide difference. Hence to my fellow co-workers, I would like to say well done and keep on rocking! A big round of applause also to the emcee, the fabulous Esther Lim of IBM for doing such a fine job in getting the crowd over and in stitches often. I didn't know IBM employ humour in their software. :)



(Update: The guy that Esther introduced as the wanderer from Masjid Jamek is actually our keyboard teacher David)



Finally to everyone that showed up, we love you and we would like to see you return the favour by signing up at our school once the new semester start next year January. I'm sure it's going to be a lovely year next year with you in it. :) To our special invited guest Project Rush, you guys do deserve to win an award for the excellent showmanship. We appreciate your presence and hope to see you again soon. Since many of you commented that the nasi briyani is good we'll keep them in our good books for our next function. Thats all for now.



Thank you.







Tony







P.S. Laffy, thank you for taking over the left wing of the hall....you and your enthusiastic gang are hired for the next show. :)







Videos from the show.

Rockcity School of Music Performance on Dec 13

Great to be back posting in the Rockcity blog after a month's hiatus. We are proud to announce that the next upcoming Music Performance by the students will be held on December the 13th which is a Thursday at the school itself. Since we are a generous bunch, dinner will be provided. :)
About 7 student bands that will be showcased in this performance plus a special performance by the rock band ZEAL. All in all there will be loads of music mayhem comes the 13th of Dec and yes the entrance is free. :)

Update: Pictures from some of the upcoming performers. (Dec 3rd)