I wouldn’t say that Maroon 5 is near the top of my list of favourite bands, but it’s definitely one of those bands that I’d pay to watch in a concert.
I like Maroon 5 for the singability of their songs, and Memories is one such song.
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You may not know – if you did not read this blog from the first blog post – that Blur is one of my favourite bands ever. My love for Blur naturally extended to frontman Damon Albarn’s side project, Gorillaz.
I got reminded of Gorillaz yesterday when I chanced upon an ad for their one night only screening of their documentary, “Reject False Icons”, that will take place on 16 December 2019 (17 December 2019 in Singapore).
I was inspired to work on the guitar tab for this song, 나침반 (romanised: Namchimban; translated: Compass), when I watched Guckkasten’s ONSTAGE performance.
This song is one of the tracks on Guckkasten’s latest EP, Stranger. But did you know that 나침반 was not originally a Guckkasten song?
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Stranger, or 이방인 (romanised: Ibang-in), is the title track from Guckkasten’s second EP of the same title. It was released on 15 November. That was not the first time the song was heard in public though; back in July 2017, Guckkasten performed the song for the first time at their Squall concerts in Seoul.
I was again reminded of this song recently when I saw a clip of their performance on Onstage Plus – as usual, a tight performance from Guckkasten (complemented with a beautiful stage setup).
I’ve finally experienced this myself. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it was an out of this world experience listening to Guckkasten’s front man, Ha Hyunwoo, sing live.
Team Guckkasten doing their soundcheck for their performance at the “Trigger the Fever FIFA U-21 World Cup Street Support Concert” at Gwanghwamun. (Seoul, South Korea, 23 May 2017)
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