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A taste of church in jusco

Thursday, June 28, 2007

After keeping all readers in suspense for such a long time. Finally, the highly anticipated, sought after, most talked-about post is finally here. Give it up for..

Straight Street Band
performance in Jusco Tebrau City
17 June 07

*claps and cheers, balloons over our heads, fireworks over our roofs and some birds got fried* =D

A minute with some true facts.

- A roadshow organised by Yamaha.
- SSB got invited to perform after being recognised from the Asean Beats Competition.
- SSB feels it's a great opportunity to share the love of God in public.

Sincere apologies for those who thought it was at 2pm & kept waiting till 5pm for the presentation, it was due to schedule problems and miscommunication with the yamaha organisers.

So after the the long wait in jusco, the people got excited when straight street band went on stage. hee.. what a long time it took to setup & get ready, cos need to move the keyboard on stage n setup.. vic & peter started to play some cool grooves & licks to fill the awkward silence till the band is ready. and later on..

angela: "hello people in jusco!". woohoo.. guitar intro, drums.. they played "your love is beautiful" by hillsong. It simpler rendition and quick ending to get the crowd heated. i opened my small eyes n looked, left, right, up.. woa ha, so many ppl from FGC! but also got many other ppl too. :)

while i'm excited standing wif fellow church friends n waiting for the next song to start, Caleb walked to the front of the stage and to my surprise, goes rapping wor!! "yo..yo..." yay~!!

"Father God i am clay in your hands.."
me: "yeh man, that's it yo.. rap on!"
friend: "oi, quiet la, he rap, not you rap"

terence sang the chorus, with anne (from TnT) & nicole singing the bridge..

sorry, it's been quite some time after jusco performance, i can't remember the sequence of the songs. i'll just describe the songs that came in mind. Hot, rock songs - "Dare you to move" and "Live This Life", nice! I could feel the energy bursting to life while listening n mouthing the words.

Fu Yao sang the unplugged version of "zai xin zhong" (loosely translated as 'In My Heart'). wow, it's so nice.. haha, pardon my lack of vocabs, like everything is "nice.." only, but it is! :P

did i mention that Su Kang is using church's professional camcorder to record the performance? that guy is appearing from everywhere, taking daring shots & being 'pro'. hee..

Angela also gave a beautiful solo of "Small" by Amanda Falk. It's those kind of songs that can calm my heart in the storm, and quiet down the whole world to listen to that still small voice in my heart. Kudos to her soothing voice too! "i wanna be small~, i wanna be just like a child, i wanna be quiet in your arms~ "

Titus led the band in the familiar song, "Mighty To Save" by hillsong. the atmosphere in Jusco became similar to church, and we worshiped God, in public.

At the end, the band sang a reprise of "your love is beautiful" again, now with instrument solos!

drums! "tak-tak tak-tak-dong dong~"..
bass guitar! dum dum dum-pak!~
guitar! tiao lo lo~ twee tweek twee!~~
another guitar! trum-trum-trum~~
keyboard! pam-pam pak pam-pam~~

haha :)

So it ends, so quickly, though it was a good 45 minutes..
We went nearer to congratulate the band for a wonderful presentation for the people & for God's glory. It was a good one, and not only that, it also established better grounds with Yamaha Music and Jusco management.
Who knows, they might invite the church again for future performance! :)

~lala, don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul~~

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