Singapore International Schools Rock Band Festival 2010
Take Cover, an Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) International rock band took top honors winning the prestigious Platinum Award for the inaugural Singapore International Schools Rock Band Festival 2010.
The young ACSI students ranging from 13 to 16 years formed the band a year ago and were generally considered rookies in the music contest where the other contestants were older, more experienced expatriate students from Canada, UK and USA. But they did impress the crowd with their showmanship and strong stage presence. The band comprise students of different nationalities ie one each from Singapore, USA, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Their hard rocking set got the crowd cheering and stomping from the onset. Technically, they were one of the strongest bands on stage particularly, their lead guitarist, Elwin Lim (who we understand started playing the guitar only recently - for 2 years, we think). His delicate guitar licks is reminiscent of guitar heroes like Paul Gilbert - though we thought that his excellent , delicate guitar work could have got a better showing if the sound engineers had done a better job at the mixer console and he had been assigned to a better amplifier. Certainly, he is a Singapore guitarists to watch. He plays the guitar with the maturity of many older musicians.
The judges were from leading music departments of higher educational institutions in Singapore.
The young ACSI students ranging from 13 to 16 years formed the band a year ago and were generally considered rookies in the music contest where the other contestants were older, more experienced expatriate students from Canada, UK and USA. But they did impress the crowd with their showmanship and strong stage presence. The band comprise students of different nationalities ie one each from Singapore, USA, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Their hard rocking set got the crowd cheering and stomping from the onset. Technically, they were one of the strongest bands on stage particularly, their lead guitarist, Elwin Lim (who we understand started playing the guitar only recently - for 2 years, we think). His delicate guitar licks is reminiscent of guitar heroes like Paul Gilbert - though we thought that his excellent , delicate guitar work could have got a better showing if the sound engineers had done a better job at the mixer console and he had been assigned to a better amplifier. Certainly, he is a Singapore guitarists to watch. He plays the guitar with the maturity of many older musicians.
The judges were from leading music departments of higher educational institutions in Singapore.
Catch the band in action here:
We look forward to great rocking things from him on stage in the future.
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Thanks for sharing nice piece of music. Video that you have shared in it having a rocking music which really make audience very excited and full of energy. I also working with band named studio72 in Singapore http://www.studio72.com.sg which have energetic beats and guitar play they make fire on stage as you are doing the same in the video Keep rocking
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