THE LOVE BUS FESTIVAL: Gypsy musicians from und the world come together as  art of a collective called Love Bus. A diverse rang of smiling faces and musical stylings including; Root, Reggae, Folk, Blues, Flamenco and World Music. 

WHAT TO EXPECT: 2 days of guitar, drumming and song-writing workshops; Dance, improvisation, fire twirling, massage, healing, yoga and meditation classes;  Bubble blowing, mud dancing and a range of creative actives and of course non-stop-music.  

DATE/TIME: 10am, 10th July 2010 see http://listn.to/lovebus for updates

LOCATION: Sea Culture Resort AKA Serenity, on the beautiful island of koh lanta (ko lanta), Thailand

ADDRESS: 17 Saladan, phra-ae, koh lanta, krabi

See link to map: Google Map

The Little Penang Street Market in April will feature Dina Zaman, a multiple award winner, writer & social activist. She will be reading from her book: “I am a Muslim” and excerpts from her other works, followed by a Q&A session. Please see attachment for more info on Dina Zaman. The book reading session is as follows:

Date: 26 April 2009
Place: The Garage – Little Penang Street Market (Upper Pg Road)
Time: 2.30pm
Participation is FREE!

Do pass this information to others who might be interested. Lend your support to Malaysian literature. So, see you there for a stimulating afternoon! For more information on the above reading, please call Lucille (019 4162443) or the Little Penang Street Market coordinator, Ady (016 4883632) or visit their website: www.littlepenang.com.my

<REMINDER!!! Mogwai is in town, the “this is a party gig” is happenin soon and there are various art, photography as well as plays happening in the next few months. Remember to check out Events column on the top right of indiegoat!>

It’s been awhile since I have posted at Indiegoat and I think a post is certainly long over due.

Bands have come and gone to Penang (97 Shiki, My Disco,DDA etc) and we are now nine years into the new millennium. The local indie scene is surviving.

So my question to all you Indiegoat readers out there (very very faithful indeed) is “What would you like to see happening in the Penang Arts and Music scene?”

I think we would love to hear what you all would love to see in Penang. I am not sure whether will it bring any impact or changes but HEY, you never know. Plus it would be great that we could get feedback from you. Let us know that you’re out there!!

I have started my little wishlist below at the comments section.

Hope you guys fill it up….

P.S Pixel art chunnnnn

Metal KFC???? LOL

Gein – Super DNB!
Thanks to Omesh, I love this stuff! Super beats with super psychedelic /atmospheric energy!

Due to many ‘halangan’, we have no choice but to change our route for the trip.. and have to skip Ipoh because of the very super high charges of venue (1k for venue only!!!) and restrictions here and there like u cant use their P.A. even if they have one or u must pay 50% deposit (not even 1 cent less) and must pay up the rest before even setup ur equipments. Then u can’t use the venue for long, only like 4pm til 9pm and thats it, u can’t go in earlier and must finish ur show before 9pm. Equipment wise, we’re not able to a cheaper set which means its gonna costs RM5-800!! wowwww… I wonder why Ipoh has became like such?

Maybe I’m too used to my comfort zone Soundmaker.. things are so easy if you wana organise a gig. Book the venue, pay deposit and thats it.

To the bands and the ppl who support HSDD in Ipoh, here I must say THANK YOU and i APOLOGY for the dissapointing decision.

Special thanks to Am, Mathari and Minie, the most helpful Ipoh mali musicians that I’ve ever met, helping us running here and there dealing with the bloody fuzzy boss and all… Salute!

Nevermind, we have set our net target.
We will route to Ipoh, JB and Melaka in the year of 2009, we promise!!!!

p/s: to all the bands, pls contact me if anything for the update  016 445 8980

Cheong

if too much rules and regulations and restrictions just to make like a clean magazine, i rather go buy junk and read..
indiegoat might be special, a special freedom blog-mag which is special in its way, an unformal crappy mag, no one has done that before, so we’re the damn ppl who dare to be that way.. cant we?

Over the past few months, we’ve realised that we’d do much better covering more than just music. Therefore, we’re now going to write about film and visual arts.

So here you go. A brand new Indiegoat, with a new design and more content to come.