During this precious Public Holiday.......we're back in PRINSEP!

halo...halooo....

Wondering why there's an entry here???? Think I sooo 'good-luck' (hokkien for hardworking) to write this entry from my house during a public holiday??? hahaa...NO!!

Now, I am right in the office, at Prinsep Street, writing this!

WHY???
Hahaa....Cause, we are back in office as we are re-configuring our recording studio with new equipments, new recording softwares!!!

Initially, the sound-engineer guy who is helping us out for the new purchases and set-up, said he would be coming in probably around this Saturday....however, I guess things went smoothly, and he called to said he can come today~~~ well, so here we are! :)

GREAT news anyway, so we've got new sounds, new equipments for great sounding songs! Wah-HA!

So, who's here on this precious Public Holiday??? (well, ya know, the next PH is more than 2 months away......)

Amos, Xinyun, Jane, Shawn and Philip '大哥' (;P) was all here.....
Haha...but after a few hours, Jane, Shawn and Philip started jamming in our Performing Studio....Wah-Ha.....Great... probably, they are practicing to form a band....but guess what?!????

Shawn was playing the drums (instead of guitar), Jane was playing the guitar (instead of piano) and singing; Philip was playing the piano (instead of singing!).....

Oohhh...so, now we know they 'cross-play'......Kekeeee....

And me??? Writing the BLOG loh~~~ Kekeeeee......

And...who's me???? Kekeeeee..........

;P

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Okay...gonna let you know our June Live Shows Line-up...Sorrie, the posters are not ready yet....next week, ba.... ;P Meanwhile, shall just use text!

Our Performers and Artistes-In-Progress will be having their photo-taking session this weekend.

For June and July, FRIDAY shows will be our
Hark Student 歌唱比赛 Preliminary Rounds, Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and FINALS!

Initially, we only planned to have quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals....but due to the enthusiatic response from our students, we should be having Preliminary Rounds. We want our students to gain as much exposures as possible through this event. YES!

Participants will be singing with Live Band from Semi-Finals onwards. An additional 考验 for them!

So, as 'part of the trend' (hahaa...), other than the judges' grading on their vocal techniques and performing skills, audience will be invited to vote for their favourite singers! And give them your constructive comments to them.....yes, I meant constructive comments, and not to demoralise the singers, ok?......you think singing is sooo easy, meh???

And~~~Judges will also comment and 'teach' them on the spot to let them 'see their room for improvement'.

Good, right???

So, you guys and gals who are taking part in this competition....don't freak out, ok? Practice hard on your pieces and deliver them with confidence! Take all performing opportunity as a learning process, don't give yourself too much pressure..
Remember, just enjoy~~~~ That's when you can perform best!

After this weekend's audition, we will then allocate the dates accordingly. The FINAL may be held in August. We will update everyone again, after the scheduling.

Those who wants to watch the competition, feel free....of course, you are welcome! :)
This coming Friday is the audition. Hmm...probably, nothing much to watch....Hahaa....
You can come on next Friday onwards, ba.... It will be the start of the Preliminary Rounds.

Come and give encouragement for our students!


SATURDAY show will remains as usual for our 实在歌手大考验.
Nothing new, just as usual, come and vote for your favourite Artistes-In-Progress (AIP) to keep them in the running!

Now, from 12 AIPs at the start of the show, we have left 9 AIPs....
If their performances are still not up to standard.....we will cut, cut, cut the numbers again....
So, all AIPs....please buck up!

For special performances:
Philip, Xinyun and Maggie may be performing.....We are still trying to confirm their schedules with them, so I couldn't give you the dates now.
Well, ya know...they are 大忙人 what....what to do??

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Oh yeah!!! Tomorrow is a public holiday!
We can all take some short break! Long awaited break!

I've just viewed our new website from our web developers....
There's still some small little alterations to be done. I think everything should be ready and up at our servers by end of this week. That will be the beta version. Changes and improvements will still be needed.

For those who are still waiting for our new videos.... yes, we will be slowly churning out them..
I'm really sorry for the long wait...soo, many things are back-loading....my back is getting heavier and heavier everyday......oOhh~~~

I will be back later in the day to update you on the June Live Shows.
There will be some small little changes.....especially to the FRI.Open Mic as we will be conducting the little exciting event... I know many of you are eager to know, right? Ok..Promise...promise... :)

p/s: The response from our students are over-whelming for the Hark Student Singing Competition. Instead of the scheduled audition on FRI evening (1st Jun), we have opened another day on SAT afternoon (2nd Jun)! Over hundreds have registered to be part of the fun! And who knows, you may be spotted to be the next Hark Artiste! Exciting...exciting....

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Dream On~~~~~

Hey hey!!!! So far, like our new blog??

I kinda like it more and more everyday!!!
I think it looks much much better than the previous one. I love the RED!
It shows our passion, it shows our dynamism and our creativity too!

LuV' iT!!!!

Recently, Mediacorp called us up to arrange auditions for the new reality singing competition - Live the Dream! They may do their shooting here at Hark if we've got some students or members who like to audition for this new competition.

Let you something in case you don't know, this competition can let you 'earn' alots man......

The SOLO Champion get $40K in cash....and the GROUP will get $60K in cash!!! Woah!!!!!!! You will be b*****y RICH if you win! (sorry for the word....I'm really sooo excited over the cash money...haha...me really 见钱眼开 orh.... :p )

But the sad thing is that.......you gotta be ABOVE 25 years old (mind you, that means it's not for young people like you and me...).....and gonna sing English songs(!!!??!!)....

AiYO~~~~ most of our students and members are more into Chinese Pop...and most of our students/instructors are still young leh (...ha.haha....).....hmmm.....how leh???


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Anyway, if you guys hope to audition for this competition, and think you have the flair to take home the whole lot of CASH.....maybe you can email us, and we can gather all together, and probably hold the audition at the 'comfort of our own home'..RIGHT?? Whatcha think?




For more information, you guys can go to their website at http://www.livethedream.com.sg

Dream ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hark Student's Singing Competition - Great Enthusiasm

Barely a week, the response from our Hark Students are 'overpowering'! Hahaa...What I meant was.....Aiya...you all know lah! LOL..

Almost 100 students registered for the competition in just 1 week's time.... It's great to see such enthusiasm (aiya...I always can't spell this right..:(( )!

That's the right attitude, guys!

We organised this 'internal' competition is to let our students interact and gain as many performing experiences and exposures! This is going to be a friendly competition for everyone to learn and improve.. This is definitely unlike commerical singing competition that you find elsewhere where some participants are soooooo experienced that they joined for the sake of $$$$....... (tsk...tsk....tsk....)

So....this competition is strictly for Hark Students ONLY!!! All active and former students are welcome!

Through this competition, we are also looking for our next potential HARK ARTISTE/s.

In these coming few months, we are going to be really buzyzzzzzz.......still busyzzzz churning out and working for the new HARK ARTISTE's productions....

Hopefully in AUG/SEP, we will be able to hear the songs in national RADIO!!!!

p/s: yeah...Hark's new website still not ready yet...next wk..next wk....promise..promise....once the new site is ready, this blog will be integrated into one of the categories.....

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Oh yeah...Our new post at our new BLOG!!!

I have been procrastinating for the past week to shift to another BLOG address.....
It's been 'vely' long already....cause Hark Cafe has already transformed to our current Performing Studio@ HARK for 1 month already but we are still using the harkmusicafebar.blogspot.com address......

SIGH~~~ But thank god I finally get it done nowzzzz......

Well well....the template looks different from the prev one...A bit more plain...maybe....

I will try to improve it soon...any ideas guys, can just throw it to us!

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