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C4 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020 | Eddino Abdul Hadi Music Correspondent recommends SINGAPORE COMMUNITY RADIO Picks Online music platform Singapore Community Radio has gone through a major revamp and now champions an even wider range of Singapore creatives. New programmes include bi-weekly show The Potluck Music Club, which features guests such as design collective Tell Your Children and carpentry studio Roger&Sons; High Tide, which focuses on Mandarin indie music; and 10 Tracks, where artists, producers and personalities each share 10 songs that define him or her. Besides its regular roster of DJs such as DJ Itch and Kim Wong, the platform will invite musicians such as ambient artist Kin Leonn and electronic artist The Analog Girl to curate and present their mix of music. Other new offerings include The Same Page, a podcast by local bookstore The Moon; and The Squelch Zinecast, a podcast that spotlights the local zine community. Tomorrow and next Saturday, the platform will celebrate the fifth anniversary of local record store The Analog Vault with live-streamed performances by home-grown acts such as .gif, Intriguant, Hanging Up The Moon and Rah. WHERE: Various online platforms including Twitch (www.twitch.tv/sgcommunityradio) and Spotify (spoti.fi/3cJIz1w) The people behind online music platform Singapore Community Radio: (from far left) creative director Darren Tan, managing editor Daniel Peters and producer Hwee En Tan. MUSIC AT MONUMENTS Museum – in conjunction with the This new series features four Chongyang Festival. The Chinese home-grown acts from various holiday to celebrate senior citizens genres whose festive-themed falls on Oct 25 this year. music videos were filmed at Contemporary Chinese musical national monuments. The videos group Musa will sing Deepavali tune are released monthly. Unnaikkandu Naan Aada (As I Dance A cappella quintet The Apex Project Upon Seeing You). The video, filmed at (left) sang an English/Chinese Jurong Town Hall, will be released next medley of tunes associated with month. Deepavali is on Nov 14. the moon in the first video that was December’s video will feature recently launched. Shot at the R&B/hip-hop quartet Fingerfunk Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, belting out Yuletide staple All I Want the video is released to coincide with For Christmas Is You at Goodwood the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was Park Hotel. yesterday. The series is a collaboration The medley features the group’s between the National Heritage Board interpretation of classics such as and Singapore Chinese Cultural jazz standard Fly Me To The Moon and Centre, and part of arts and cultural The Moon Represents My Heart, the sector initiative #SGCultureAnywhere. song made famous by late Taiwanese WHERE: National Heritage Board and singer Teresa Teng in 1977. Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre’s FLOCK AT THE NEST This month, Mandopop singer social media channels Here is a ticketed online concert Derrick Hoh’s video will see him sing (bit.ly/30kLB7G and bit.ly/2Gk1ap5) with a difference – viewers can Liang Wern Fook’s xinyao classic Write WHEN: A new video is released have cocktails or mocktails You A Song at the Asian Civilisations monthly until December delivered to them so they can enjoy a drink or two while watching the show. The first instalment of this new BTS: TINY DESK (HOME) CONCERT series, Flock At The Nest, features The Tiny Desk online concert series by American media a home-grown line-up that organisation NPR Music has long been acclaimed by music includes singer, songwriter and aficionados for its eclectic mix of feted artists from actor Benjamin Kheng (above). The various genres. member of pop quartet The Sam It recently featured K-pop megastars BTS (right), who Willows put out his debut solo EP, A broke its first-day viewership record just 25 minutes after Sea That Never Stops, in June. the video was released. Also on the bill are singer- Before Covid-19, Tiny Desk performances were filmed at songwriters lewloh, who formerly the desk of NPR host Bob Boilen in Washington, D.C. The performed as Lew, and Marian guest artists now perform from various locations. Carmel. BTS recorded theirs in a record store in Seoul. Backed by The hour-long concert was a live band, the seven-member group sang hits including filmed at The Nest, a cosy new Dynamite, their first song to hit No. 1 on the US charts. venue within Pasir Panjang WHERE: bit.ly/36onoRB Power Station A. The series is put together by 24Owls, the organisers behind indie music festivals Laneway Singapore and Alex Blake Charlie Sessions. The drinks are from local cocktail brand Gudsht. WHERE: www.24owls.sg WHEN: Available for streaming POST-PUNK/ROCK caustic wit. Guitars squeal incessantly and the drums from Oct 9, 8pm to Oct 11, 11.59pm ULTRA MONO pummel as frontman Joe Talbot rails against socio- ADMISSION: From $15. Go to Idles economic inequalities and struggles with inner conflict. www.24owls.sg/tickets The track Model Villages takes on racists and homophobes, and Ne Touche Pas Moi, with guest vocals by Ultra Mono reflects a band coming to Jehnny Beth of English rock band Savages, celebrates safe terms with success and grappling spaces in the mosh pit and dance floor. with their growing prominence. Tunes such as Anxiety and A Hymn deal with fear, regret British group Idles (right) saw their popularity soar and and insecurity. On Mr Motivator, Talbot displays his acerbic received plenty of plaudits for their first two albums, sense of humour, picturing Public Enemy rapper Flavor PHOTOS: 24OWLS, Brutalism (2017) and Joy As An Act Of Resistance (2018). Flav riding on the back of Hollywood cowboy John Wayne NPR MUSIC/YOUTUBE, Neither critical nor commercial success has dulled the and nature documentary icon David Attenborough SINGAPORE band’s edge. clubbing seal clubbers with basketball star LeBron James. COMMUNITY RADIO, In fact, the Bristol punk quintet seem to have ramped up The band’s raucous energy is infectious and you cannot THE APEX PROJECT, their politically charged missives without losing their turn away. TOM HAM GIGS CHARITY TALKS ADMISSION: Free with registration find out about fermentation and FESTIVALS INFO: sites.google.com/das.org.sg/ storage. Organised by Gardens with Caribbean Soul wdaw2020/talks Purpose, which holds French-born composer and HeARTS In ACTion Virtual Event The Heart Of Mental Well-Being gardening-related courses such as Asian Festival Of Children’s Content 2020 singer-songwriter Andayoma, who This two-day event celebrates World This self-discovery webinar is held in CLASSES growing organic vegetables at home moved to Singapore in 2001 and is Hospice and Palliative Care Day, which conjunction with World Mental Health and terrarium-making. The 11th edition of the festival moves inspired by her Creole roots and falls on Oct 10. On the first day, there Day, which falls on Oct 10. Learn how to WHERE: Toh Orchids, Sungei Tengah online with the theme of Voyages. The Caribbean rhythms, will perform her will be performances by artists, uncover your motivations and Estill Voice Training Agrotechnology Park, 84 Sungei more than 40 local and international brand of joyful, nostalgic jazz. healthcare workers and volunteers, aspirations and bring out your best Introductory Online Workshop Tengah Road speakers include writers Mariko WHERE: Esplanade Offstage as well as conversations on palliative self. Organised by the Asia Institute of This virtual workshop offers an MRT: Choa Chu Kang Nagai, Minh Le and Trevor Lai, WHEN: Till Wed, noon care. The second day will feature a Mentoring, a non-profit with a mission introduction to Estill Voice Training, WHEN: Tomorrow, 9.30am - 5pm illustrator Robert Alejandro, ADMISSION: Free INFO: bit.ly/3iclXbi panel discussion with palliative care to bring mentoring to the fore in Asia. which teaches people how to use ADMISSION: $280 educators Junko Yokota and Rushton professionals and two film WHEN: Oct 10, 11.45am - 12.45pm their voices better by controlling INFO: bit.ly/3jiRFF9 Hurley, as well as key figures in the Mexican Mariachi ‘Viva Mexico’ screenings. The first is Oscar- ADMISSION: Free with registration things like pitch, diction and voice media content and literary industry. The trio of Mariachi Viva Mexico got nominated documentary End Game INFO: bit.ly/3inlG5b quality. Organised by Intune Music Introduction To Brush Pen They will share their experiences and together in 2017 with the aim of (2018), about terminally ill patients in School, which offers pop and Copperplate Calligraphy efforts in responding to the playing authentic mariachi, a genre of a San Francisco hospital seeking to Learning Amid A Pandemic classical/Broadway singing, In this virtual workshop, learn how to pandemic. The annual festival Mexican music. When they perform, change the perception of life and As part of World Dyslexia Awareness songwriting and music courses. use a brush pen through warm-up promotes and advocates the they use original folk instruments and death. The second screening is The Week, which starts on Monday, WHEN: Tomorrow, 2 - 5pm drills and practice strokes. All creation, development and dress in elaborate charro costumes. Sketchbook, a short film by event industry experts from Singapore, ADMISSION: $50 materials are included and are yours appreciation of quality Asian stories The band have performed at major organiser Singapore Hospice Council Indonesia, India and Australia will INFO: fb.me/e/5uXUlroVa to keep. No prior experience is for children and young adults. Latin American events in Singapore, about an artistic boy suffering from share insights into the response to required. Conducted by Ms Marilyn Organised by the Singapore Book including the gala ball of the Latin cancer who strikes up a friendship Covid-19 and how different countries Make Fruity Probiotic Chew, calligrapher, designer and Council.