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Wot : The Observatory
Date : 20/8/2004 (Fry-day)
Venue : Esplanade Theater By the Bay
Admiccion : FREE!

Found out abt this performance via radio while i was sitting there at my puny cubicle all stressed up from work and busy doing the work of my supervisor, who wasnt listening to her daily dose of techno kia. Of course, i told the 1/3 of the Thy Rabbit Runneth Over crew, and it was a date.

It was supposed to start at 7.30pm, but due to the torrential rain (drama-mama). So they were supposed to play 8.45pm.

8.45 came and they were still having sound-check and supposed to start at 9.

9 o'crock came and they were still doing soundcheck. Well it wasnt their fault. As it was raining, and the venue being outdoors, they couldnt have it earlier. And with such an intricate set-up (Yun reckoned if we stole all the equipments there, we can buy our way out of NS), obviously it was gonna take a while. And the guys do seem to know the exact sounds that they want. To me, as long you know what exactly you want in order to get the utmost and best possible sound, you can take as long as you want. As long as you know what you are doing. Not act as if you very professional like that, want this want that, want this to sound like this lah, when in actual fact, you know zilch. Well this band sure knew their stuff.

So finally they started at 9.15pm and with the first few notes played, all the waiting was forgiven. Their vocals are so in tune, in harmonic and complement one another very well. Leslie's voice was oh so pleasant. He definitely used it to his advantage and sang in a style very much suitable for his voice, unlike someoe who has a squeaky voice and trying to sound like Kurdt Kobain or Trent Reznor. Vivian too sang well with her echoing the lines, making the whole vocal affair a strong plus point for the band.

One song i stuck in my head, A Sea of Doubt (i think so hor this the title), the line Leslie sings, "I know..... He's using me" over and over again. So strong this line, that it applies to us almost in our daily lives.

Even the last song, The Finch song (aka cat song), the music composition was very good, lyrics were very good. I just felt it had potential to be a much better song if had more lyrics instead of the usual repetitive lines. But it was an excellent song.

It all ended at 10.10pm. Too bad the soundmen had to screw it all up in between the set (in between the third song to be precise). Does this not sound oh-too-familiar?

All in all, it was good, to hear leslie, to see the band perform, to see Vivian play the keyboard (woohoooooooooo). I'd say The Observatory is what you get when you marry Coldplay and Radiohead. A blissful marriage that will last happily ever after.