Posted in Colin's Blog, NEW YORK, MUSIC on August 15th, 2007 No Comments »
The following was published in the Sunday Times on 12 August 2007:
Sunday Times 12 August 2007
That Old Time Rock and Roll
by Colin Goh
So the nation’s another year older, and being an August baby, so am I. And nothing drove home that point more than attending the recent Police reunion tour. (For readers even older […]
Posted in Colin's Blog, NEW YORK, MUSIC on August 6th, 2007 No Comments »
So as a birthday gift, Yen blanja’d me tickets for the Police reunion tour - which our music maven buddy George had somehow managed to find. It was at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, the last stop of their US leg. So Yen, George, Eddie and I went. (I guess we Singaporeans like the […]
Posted in FILM, Colin's Blog, Singapore Dreaming, SINGAPORE, MUSIC on June 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
We were shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the sudden and inexplicable passing of Wayne ‘Thunder’ Seah of the rock group The Suns (formerly the Boredphucks).
Wayne, San and J-Boss have been great friends and supporters of TalkingCock and Singapore Dreaming over the years.
They composed and performed the hit song, ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’ for […]
Posted in Colin's Blog, Singapore Dreaming, NEW YORK, SINGAPORE, MUSIC on March 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
The following piece was published in the Sunday Times on 11 March 2007:
Sunday Times 7 March 2007
Sounding the same is unsound
by Colin Goh
In a few weeks’ time, our film ‘Singapore Dreaming’ will be premiering in the US, in Philadelphia, San Francisco and later in the year, New York. My cheerfulness was dampened, however, when a […]
Posted in Colin's Blog, NEW YORK, MUSIC on February 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Damn!
Missed the Police reunion on the Grammys on Sunday.
I’m absolutely the biggest Police fan in the world - I have all their albums, even weird bootlegs, and this really takes me back to when I was 13 years old.
Even now, when I’m down, nothing cures the blues better than blasting Zenyatta Mondatta at top volume.
But […]
Posted in FILM, WRITING, Colin's Blog, Singapore Dreaming, SINGAPORE, MUSIC on January 9th, 2007 4 Comments »
I was recently asked by a JC student for the lyrics to ‘Bong Chun Hong’, the theme song for ‘Singapore Dreaming’. (The song can be downloaded here.)
Most of us know it as a hoary old Hokkien karaoke favourite or the unofficial Taiwanese national anthem (kind of like what ‘Waltzing Matilda’ is to Australia), but the […]
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