just came back from the gig....at esplanade it's called the flipside..and we were there (me, my two sisters and my sis fiance's band "mathilda and the montherfunkeys" well it was a good performance....although they performed songs i am not such a big fan of....the musicianship was there....i mean seriously...mathilda's vocals are awesome....powerful at the range of aretha...but i mean of course not that pro....but still at that range...and i mean if u used to watch singapore idol u would know her...but she hates the programme....and she even said in the day before that she hates ken lim...the others were awesome too....the bassist i don't know his name but he's quite good...the songs looked a breeze for him...and well he had to run the show a bit more than the usual bass players coz there weren't any guitarists...so yeah he was good...saravana my sis fiance was good too... his fills are good and the rhytm was there....i liked the bass drum pedaling...czo u could really feel it under ur seat and it gave an impact and an extra whip cream there....and i mean his strokes are good and he looks like a natural..he should look natural coz he's been drumming for many years already..since he was in secondary school at least and he's like 27 yearts old now ..aybe 28 can't rmbr...and the keyboards were good too.... i liked his bass solo when he did crazy by gnarls barkley...i think it was his own coz i dont really listen to gnarls...i only like their cover of gone daddy gone by the violent femmes.... they did about 6 songs...gnarls barkley, "the one",keane,get your sexy on,inside out - bee gees (i liked this one more...coz i like bee gees and it was their best to me) then there was one more ....dang..i forgot...it was a good gig and there was one part in crazy... mathilda wanted to do a solo...and u wouldn't beluieve what solo.....it was a highlighter solo..!!! haha ...she used the highlighter and put it against her lips and vibratted it against it and made a kind of voice box solo...cheap budgeted creative and cool...and the one before them were pretty entertaining...they were called the big nazo...they were basically ppl wo played in their big sea monster costumes....and musically they were good too..i only saw them do i feel good by james brown....and there was one part they asked the audience for one guy to dress up as a sea monster...lol! you wouldn't believe they chose soem guy from india! and the guy was like carrying a bag (like a construction worker) and they were like what's you name? and he was like "siniwas" lol!!!! (it was suppose to be "srinivas") and the best was that the guy who asked was an ang moh and he said it in an accent... lol! i wanted to laugh but i controlled it....oh yeah and i finally got drum brushes!!!! Pro mark drum brushes that are made in usa and cost 40 bucks.... they were given to me by saravanan...he had like 2 sets of brushes in his drum bag and other varieties of brushes... yeah it was a pleasant surprise............