Live 'n' Loaded Episode 8 - 19 Mar 11pm

[dearxarson]

wow

oh well


"Girl, you know it's true.
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh I love you.
Yes, you know it's true.
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh I love you."

love that song

 

[chewy]

Thanks to all at Mediacorp. The sound was awesome! So much better than before and vocals can be heard so well! Everything was clearly heard and with effects as well! Esp the horn and snare drum! Woot! Nice.....

 

[1mband]

Quantum Revival!

Robert singing "Rehab", nice.

 

[chewy]

Quantum Revival!

Robert singing "Rehab", nice.

Thank you! We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! Thanks to all who wanted to bring Robert home that night! LOL!!!

 

[pinkbox]

it wasn't just you.

you guys aren't the only ones thinking it.

 

[dearxarson]

hhmm.
it would be nice to have a confirmation on this
and an answer to the question "why?"

 

[srxt]

a little bird told me that his handlers wanted his band (who were present at soundcheck) to play along to the full backing track. obviously didn't work, so it was one or the other..

 

[soulalt]

was paul twohill lip synching?

Does it really matter? It's Paul Twohill, y'know. He was on SINGAPORE IDOL.

Nuff said.

 

[dearxarson]

fair enough sir
btw wasnt Joakim an alumni as well?

 

[LiveNLoaded]

Paul actually brought his band to the rehearsals that day, they sounded good enough to go on live TV in my opinion.

But his minder insisted on having a backing track played back along with the live band's mix, which ended up sounding really out of sync. Honestly, if his minder really considered his live band and wanted a backing music (i.e. synths or backing vox) to layer or compliment their playing, that's fine. But it was like an entire fully mixed broadcast track that the live band had to follow to. Which ANYONE who knows music will know it's just not the way to do it.

In the end, the minder decided to go with the backing track, bye bye live band, and there we have it, taaa daaahhh... another fantastic Singapore Idol performance.

My heart goes out to Paul who had put in so much effort to get the band together, and also to the band members who took time off to do this, but in the end, went home with nothing.

 

[dearxarson]

so he did an ashley simpson at the end of the day
now thats sad.

but i certainly enjoyed the rest of the show.
epecially the firefight's set.

 

[Pipeline]

twohill was definitely lip syncing! it's way too obvious...

 

[Donaldsps]

paranoid vision was torture.

Haha,but at least they tried their best,imagine just recovering from a sore throat and trying to sing...Paranoid Vision came a really long way,since 2006 they just started till now I seen them improve alot.

Cardinal Avenue was good too,same for Fire Fight who were full of energy.Sad thing to say,Leeson didn't bring their trademark powerpuff girl soft toy.Hahaha,but Leeson still did a good show.

But I find that almost every live n loaded at mediacorp,there will be one unlucky band that had to re perform their set because of probs with their guitar...

Photos are up.So sorry for the delay.Haven't been coming to soft for like a few days or weeks.Keep forgetting to post links to my photos.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68916&id=624094314&l=537545d5ef
Leeson

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68920&id=624094314&l=7871b5b6fc
Paranoid Vision

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68922&id=624094314&l=ed6f9e5d1c
Sleeq

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68933&id=624094314&l=264d2a9628
Cardinal Avenue

 

[Pipeline]

If you already have a band, why would you want to sing with a backing track and a "live band"? just doesn't make sense..? Just go with the live band. I think the backing track already has vocals in it, that's why paul twohill seems like in lip-sync.

 

[wyldeboon]

y must lip-sync sia... si beh malu man

 

[theblueark]

When forced to play to recorded track, might as well have some fun.

Pull a Muse.

Muse makes a joke out of live tv when forced to play to recorded track

 

[someone]

hardly a first

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNUIt5Hc0Y

 

[tajmall]

When forced to play to recorded track, might as well have some fun.

... I like Nirvana on top of the pops myself,


but seriously folks: if that's what it takes to keep the show alive, why not?

I'd rather see mime-alongs to nicely done pre-recorded tracks than be reminded how shoddy some bands are even if their hair is perfect (oh hazard a guess), and then viewers might flock to it too to see the pop type variety stuff . and as long as some rock bands and rappers and such like get on too, everybody's happy.

Not to encourage a wave of Singapore boybands, but if the songs are good maybe that'd beat last night's 'Rehab' cover (not quite up there w/ Douglas O doing 'Rape Me' - which i once saw!) non?

 

[theblueark]

hardly a first

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNUIt5Hc0Y

I can't watch videos where I am, but is that the one where Kurt Cobain was giving the mic a BJ near the end? That's a famous, classic one, but I felt the Muse one was funnier although they didn't think of it first.

Would have been hilarious if twohill and band did it. For us musicians at least. Oh well too bad.

I'd rather see mime-alongs to nicely done pre-recorded tracks than be reminded how shoddy some bands are even if their hair is perfect (oh hazard a guess), and then viewers might flock to it too to see the pop type variety stuff . and as long as some rock bands and rappers and such like get on too, everybody's happy

That's true too, but only cos there's some rather low quality control on the show. Dilemma dilemma, do we forsake artistic integrity to push local music to the masses thereby increasing support in the big picture, or do we uphold our beliefs thereby pushing ourselves further away from the mass media but increasing support from the dedicated, but few.

 

[dearxarson]

rubbish.
id walk out, if forced to mime.
have some integrity