Jensing with the Lekmans

For the past few weeks I’ve been scouring the net trying to find some sort of indie scene in Singapore. I looked through MySpace and blogspot and other sources of hipsterness. Low and behold a scene exists. I emailed every label and promotions group and person I could find which ended up being one for each category. They all pointed me to the Jens Lekman concert but said it was sold out. Then they warned me that the scene is very underground and very small and that the show was sold out because the venue only holds like 50 people, but I’d be able to make it to the after party.

So I went, and took the team. The after party was made up of my team, and two other teams of about the same size and then Jens and his girl on the decks, so not many people. My first taste of Singapore’s indie scene left me pretty unsatisfied. I mean the music was great and the people were cool, but there weren’t many of them. I did get to meet some real deal Singaporeans who enjoy indie music. When I told them I was from Canada they quickly asked if I had ever seen an Arcade Fire show. I said ‘yes, many times’ and they were all like ‘wow.’

Click the picture to see some shots from the night and some pictures from my trip to KL. The monkeys in KL are totally civilized. The monkey on the trashcan from one of the pictures only climbed on the can to take a dump, then smiled for pictures and ran back up his tree.