Before & After Stars: Etc free 'semi-acoustic' shows at Esplanade Concourse

[tajmall]

Etc's #09 Dreams

Having played some of the loudest gigs of 2008, Etc ushers in '09 by turning down the volume to explore their unique songbook with a sequence of rare unplugged sets at the Esplanade Concourse. Touted by local media as being the most literate act playing in the region, Etc will draw from their extensive catalogue to play 'semi-acoustic' versions and ambient reinterpretations of their witty bittersweets across a series of intimate sets.

7 Jan 09 (Wed) "Before Stars": 7:15-7.45pm
7 Jan 09 (Wed) "Before Stars": 8.15-8.45pm
8 Jan 09 (Thur) "After Stars": 7:15-7.45pm
8 Jan 09 (Thur) "After Stars": 8.15-8.45pm

Each set will feature different songs from the other. Depends. Probably solo.
May all your nicest #9 Dreams come true.

Esplanade Concourse, 1 Esplanade Dr.
FREE

 

[tajmall]

...in case you're into this sort of thing

Before & After Stars: Etc free 'semi-acoustic' shows at Esplanade Concourse: the Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51483961494


HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

[tajmall]

Etc's sets Before Stars

What Etc played "Before Stars"

PADLESS (for Lea Cinderella Salonga)
FARE DODGER
BRING ME MY DUNCE'S CAP
PRETTY FALL
(BITCHING IN THE KITCHEN) SHELVES
BIG GIRL'S BLOUSE (in D)
EX'S CASSETTES

I WANNA BE YOUR DOG (Stooges cover in memory of Ron Asheton)
JUST A DREAM
DUMB WAITER (dedicated to Harold Pinter?)
HANDPHONES ON THE DANCEFLOOR (request)
DANCING TO THE SMITHS (request)
PETER PANIC
<Encore> NOTHING LIKE EXPECTATION (request)
THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING (excerpt)

 

[tajmall]

Etc's sets After Stars

What Etc played "After Stars"

BUNGALOW
TRANS*END / BOW END
SUPERHERO, INCOGNITO
(ERECT) SHELVES (request)
FUNNY BONES

BI(G) GIRL'S BLOUSE + the Release Form Blues (in G)
LAIRY CANARY
WILL UNTIL (request)
MALAYSIAN TRUCKS (request)
GUILTY PARTY
ASTROGAL
JUST A DREAM / JUST TO DREAM (request)
<Encore> DANCING TO THE SMITHS (request)

 

[tajmall]

nice review here - Etc's second only to the Bee-Gees!

http://pcqq.blogspot.com/2009/01/me-and-my-guitars-series-esplanade.html

pics and stuff and this: "I had the good fortune to meet the Bee Gees back in 2001 in their last ever gig in New York (Live By Request show) , courtesy of Universal Music Singapore before the unfortunate passing on of Maurice Gibb. It was a meet and greet session before the show and I was overawed meeting my idols from way back when I was a schoolboy in shorts! I still had a photo taken with the brothers Gibb but I somehow forgot where I kept them, I still have the pass though.Meeting Ben on 7th Jan comes a close second to that Bee Gees' meeting!"