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D4 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 | GIGS A Blast From The Past Anjali Raguraman recommends By Choy! (Singapore) Choy! is a Siva Choy tribute band formed by Siraj Aziz, Rajiv Singh, Picks CE LA VI PRESENTS a residency at Ireland’s Kremlin club Don Aaron, Nathanael Nilesh and KRISTIAN NAIRN AKA HODOR for 11 years and also played at famed Akshara Thiru. Coming from diverse Gig It will be a “rave of thrones” at roof-top clubs around the world such as Las backgrounds, the band seek to club lounge Ce La Vi with DJ Kristian Vegas’ Hakkasan and Ibiza’s Amnesia. celebrate the life of the late Nairn (left), who is best known for WHERE: Ce La Vi Club Lounge, Singapore comedian and artists of playing Hodor on award-winning Marina Bay Sands Tower 3, yesteryear by sharing their television show Game Of Thrones. 1 Bayfront Avenue MRT: Bayfront repertoire and musings with fellow The club will be transformed into WHEN: Aug 16, 10pm till late Singaporeans, in the hope of the houses of Westeros, complete ADMISSION: $28, includes one inspiring the next generation. with an Iron Throne. premium pour. For table reservations, WHERE: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre, Expect big room and house tunes call 6508-2188 or e-mail 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ by the Northern Irish DJ, who held [email protected] City Hall WHEN: Sun, 7.15 & 8.30pm ADMISSION: Free INFO: www.esplanade.com YOUTH X WEEKEND FESTIVAL Zrina Two events taking place this weekend Zrina’s music is an invitation to at the Singapore Sports Hub explore her journey of growth – from celebrate youth – the Music For singing cartoon theme tunes and A Cause festival and Shine Live listening to 16-bit music while playing showcase. games as a kid, to discovering music While Shine Live will feature a new apps on the Apple iPad and exploring wave of young home-grown talents and producing music with such as Yung Raja (below), Fariz Jabba music-production software Ableton. and Narelle Kheng, Music For A Cause This year, she released a music video brings together local acts, who will to her single You And I, her first official perform in support of 16 social release as a singer-songwriter and causes. Beneficiaries include the producer. Alzheimer’s Disease Association, MARQUEE SINGAPORE WHERE: Esplanade Theatre Studio Our Singapore Reefs and The Breath PRESENTS LIL JON Concourse, 1 Esplanade Drive Movement. Kick off the National Day weekend MRT: Esplanade/City Hall The festival, which encourages with Grammy Award-winning WHEN: Mon, 7 & 7.45pm giving and volunteerism through American rapper Lil Jon (above). ADMISSION: Free music, will feature singer Joanna Expect hits such as Turn Down For INFO: www.esplanade.com Dong (right), cover bands 53A and What and Yeah! from the king of crunk Happy Perth Day In Singapore Jack & Rai, and trip-hop/chillwave act music, who will be playing a DJ set. Thai singer-actor Perth Tanapon is Houg. WHERE: Marquee Singapore, holding his first solo fan meeting WHERE: OCBC Arena Park (Music For B1-67 The Shoppes At Marina Bay here. He shot to fame after starring in A Cause) and OCBC Square Main Stage Sands, 2 Bayfront Avenue hit TV series Love By Chance (2018). (Shine Live), Singapore Sports Hub MRT: Bayfront WHERE: The Summit Auditorium MRT: Stadium WHEN: Music For WHEN: Thursday, 10pm till late & Studios, 03-04, 115 Eunos Avenue 3 A Cause – tomorrow (4.40 to 10.30pm) ADMISSION: Limited tickets are MRT: Paya Lebar WHEN: Aug 10, and Sunday (2.30 to 9.30pm); Shine available at the door from 1.30pm ADMISSION: $178 - $228 Live: tomorrow (7 to 10.30pm) and $48 (includes one house pour) TEL: 6348-5555 Sunday (6.30 to 10pm) INFO: marqueesingapore.com INFO: www.sistic.com.sg ADMISSION: Free or @MarqueeSingapore INFO: mfac.sg and (Instagram and Facebook) Westlife The Twenty Tour www.facebook.com/nycsg In celebration of their 20th anniversary, Westlife, one of pop music’s most influential boy bands, will return to Singapore for a one-night-only concert. WHERE: National Stadium, 1 Stadium Drive MRT: Stadium WHEN: Aug 10, 8pm ADMISSION: $108 - $248, tickets from Singapore Indoor Stadium box office & SingPost outlets TEL: 3158-7888 INFO: www.sportshubtix.sg The Vamps Four Corners Tour The British pop-rock quartet’s first two albums received gold certification in Britain, with their subsequent breakthrough album, Night And Day, topping the Official UK Albums Chart. The band were then awarded Best British Group at the NO STANDING ONLY DANCING: BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards and are the NOSAJ THING first group to headline London’s Singapore-based gig promoters O2 Arena for five consecutive years. Collective Minds kick off their new WHERE: The Coliseum, Hard Rock party series called No Standing Only Hotel Singapore, Resorts World Dancing with Californian DJ-producer Sentosa MRT: HarbourFront Nosaj Thing (above), who counts WHEN: Aug 15, 8pm rappers Kendrick Lamar and Chance ADMISSION: $128 - $228 The Rapper among his collaborators. TEL: 6348-5555 PHOTOS: He will be joined by music collective INFO: www.sistic.com.sg CE LA VI SINGAPORE, Yeti Out and home-grown DJ Ramesh. MARQUEE WHERE: Tuff Club, 19-01, 138 Robinson Nu’est Concert Segno Road MRT: Tanjong Pagar In Singapore SINGAPORE, MUSIC FOR A CAUSE, WHEN: Aug 16, 10pm to 3am K-pop boy band Nu’est will perform PAAN DELI, ADMISSION: Advance tickets at their first solo concert here. The group $35 from bit.ly/NoStandingTix or debuted in 2012 with members JR, NOSAJ THING $40 at the door Aron, Baekho, Minhyun and Ren. They recently made their comeback with their sixth mini album, Happily Ever After. The release dominated a number of music charts, including Bugs, Mnet, Soribada and Naver in South Korea. in for the concert, promising fans a four-course dinner prepared by the has, since 2015, been investigating 7.30pm ADMISSION: Free, Their current tour also takes them to spectacular performances. resident chefs of The Ritz-Carlton, the dish in cities such as New York, register via the HPB healthy 365 app Bangkok, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Manila, WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, Millenia Singapore, as well as Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and INFO: onerafflesplace.com.sg/ Kuala Lumpur and Taiwan. 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium performances, including one by Singapore. She will share her findings shopping WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, WHEN: Sept 25 - 28, 8pm Dover Park Hospice Gems Show Choir, on the migrations and cross-cultural 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium ADMISSION: $168 - $368, tickets from which is made up of volunteers. culinary exchanges that possibly led Puppetry Masterclass WHEN: Aug 24, 6pm Singapore Indoor Stadium box office WHERE: The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia to the creation of Singapore noodles The Finger Players’ co-founder ADMISSION: $148 - $268, tickets from & SingPost outlets TEL: 3158-7888 Singapore, 7 Raffles Avenue and how its significance has differed Tan Beng Tian runs this week-long Singapore Indoor Stadium box office INFO: www.sportshubtix.sg MRT: Promenade WHEN: Aug 17, across communities, places and puppet-making and manipulation & SingPost outlets TEL: 3158-7888 7 - 10pm ADMISSION: $600 - $3,800 times. workshop. Participants will be INFO: www.sportshubtix.sg CHARITY a person ($6,000 - $38,000 a table) WHERE: The Salon, Level 1 National introduced to the five major types of TEL: 6500-7354 INFO: E-mail Feeder Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford puppets – hand, rod, shadow, object [email protected] or go to Road MRT: Bras Basah/Dhoby Ghaut and contemporary – and taught Welsh rock band Feeder, who are NUSSU Flag Day tinyurl.com/dphsgball the fundamental techniques of releasing their latest album, Tallulah, More than 8,300 National University WHEN: Tomorrow, 2 - 3pm animating a puppet and how it can be this month, are ready to regale of Singapore students will seek ADMISSION: $5 a person, includes best used for storytelling, performing audiences with their snappy and donations from the public, in aid of TALKS light refreshments, tickets from organic songs. 22 beneficiaries under the sgnoodles.peatix.com and communicating. WHERE: The Pavilion @ Far East Community Chest. Herb Growing And INFO: www.nationalmuseum.sg WHERE: Cairnhill Arts Centre, Square, 01-01 Far East Square, WHERE: Islandwide Interesting Plants Of 126 Cairnhill Road MRT: Newton 28 China Street MRT: Telok Ayer WHEN: Mon, 8am - 5pm INFO: E-mail The Healing Garden CLASSES WHEN: Mon - Aug 10 (10am - 6pm), WHEN: Sept 14, 8pm ADMISSION: $118 [email protected] Herbs are important ingredients in Aug 11 (10am - 1pm) ADMISSION: $500 TEL: 6348-5555 cooking as they give dishes their (eligible for SkillsFuture credit) INFO: www.sistic.com.sg Charity Concert – unique aroma and flavours. Some Basic Dhamma & Meditation INFO: E-mail admin@fingerplayers. You Raise Me Up commonly used herbs in Western Class In Mandarin com or go to www.facebook.com/ Dick Lee’s Mad Chinaman Canadian Ryan Wang, 11, returns to cuisine may prove a challenge to grow The weekly classes will be conducted fingerplayers 30th Anniversary Concert Singapore for a charity concert, with in tropical Singapore. In Dr Wilson by Mr Tan Chau Yee, a Buddhist This concert features Dick Lee and full nett proceeds from the ticket Wong’s talk (10 - 11am), participants practitioner active in Dhamma work. Collins’ Marbling Art Workshop the Braddell Heights Symphony sales and sponsorships going to the can find out how to grow and He has held such classes in Buddhist And Bullet Journaling Demo Orchestra, under the baton of music Children’s Cancer Foundation. propagate them. In the second Fellowship/Dhamma Wisdom Centre The events are organised by Scottish director Adrian Tan.