Crunch week No.1 over!

 (L-R) Peggie Chow, Sandy Chow, Paul Au - First performance at Station 1 @ First Garden

Finally! Crunch week is over! The last several days has been really busy and exciting at the same time! With the new Station 1 Cafe @ First Garden, Ipoh, finally settling down after a hectic 10 days of performing.

The new Station 1 Cafe was up for serving on the  28th of April 2010. Paul and Sandy performed on the next day (with extra guest performer...LOL!!) Peggie. The above photo was posted on the Kwong Wah eNewspaper and also was on print.

The super tight schedule has been taking some damage on some of our most loved performers, most noticeably Sandy and Paul. The former is currently down with sore throat with light coughing and the latter just getting older with a tired voice. Get well soon!

As with any new venues, we need a little bit time to get used to the room's acoustics to finetune the sound system to liking and the past few days is just filled with trials and errors of finetuning. The challenge of performing at new venues is to know what floats the boats and that is what we are doing. Learning and finetuning.

In the coming days, with more venues to play around sing, we will train harder to be able to entertain and fulfill all your song requests. To our junior members, do work hard cos there will be more to go around!

Love,
JL

Crescendo Music CNY Gathering 2010

22nd February, 2010.

We had a fun time gathering at De Garden. There was a lot of great friend and CM supporters who came this time around. Thanks to WatAFrog Kent, Macon Kojima, Winson Yen, Wai Ken, Carmen and Bell for joining us. The night would be so different without you guys!!

Cheese!! Pui Gi!!!!!

We started off with dinner at TOS about 9pm. Well, since most of us went there with empty stomachs so we decided to eat first. There were about 12 of us and we chose to sit outside cos the waitress told us that we could feel the "air conditioner". It turns out to be some cold air fans...damnit. And i unknowingly sat on the hottest position. Literally.

The food was so-so tho. I have no complains about the gravy of "Monster Curry Chicken Rice" but its a bit too small portioned even for an "aerodynamically designed" person like me.LOL!!

As we finish gobbling up what's on our plate, we waited for BN Hugo to arrive and watched some MTV. Well, to be truthful, we were watching Paris Hilton's My New BFF Season 2. I can't figure out much why we were all engrossed watching it. Prolly because:

1. Paris Hilton's in it.
2. One of the contenders look a lot like our former ladyboss. I started yelling "Pay us back!" and the whole group joined in! LOL!!! If she was there, i'd suggest she run. Real fast...
3. There were a lot of bouncing boobs pretty girls in it

Gong Xi Fa Chai!!!!!  

(Top L-R: Winnie Yen, Peggie, Sandy, Bell, Hugo, Josh, Carmen

 Bottom L-R: WatAFrog Kent, Macon Kojima, Mavis, Joans and Wai Ken)

Sure enough, all of us, cam-whores started taking group pictures (which, if you want to see the whole album, click here.). From TOS, we took all the way to the inner part of De Garden. The part where there was a wall, and some big nosed Einstein Hugo suggested that we take photos using poses that would spell out "CRESCENDO". No dignified cam-whores self- loving photo freak CM Crew would back away from a camera challenge! And we dive straight in!

 Girl Power!!! purrrrrrrrrr~~

A lot of people passed by and giggled at us. Maybe even laughed AT us rather than WITH us. But we don't care cause we're having too much fun. And man...posing seriously for a photo shootout is really hard work! We worked out sweats by the time the last picture was taken.

 SNSD inspired shot. Don't ask!

But then, we started taking other kinds of pictures. Some really funny ....

 xxx street?

...and some really scary ones.

 Bell as the RingJuon...

And the night ended, it was already past 1am (boy, does time fly!)!  So there. We had a great time spending together with Crew or non-Crew but to us, we're one big family!

 Lady Gaga pose...yay!!

For those who didn't make it, there will be more of this kind of gatherings! Make sure you join us the next round!!!

Love,
JL

UPDATED 26/10/2010 - thanks to Sandy, we have the final product of the night!!! ^.^ ♥

Happy Chinese New Tiger Year!!!!!!!!!!

We would like to thank everyone that's supporting Crescendo Music all along! We also like to wish everyone a PROSPEROUS and HEALTHY year ahead and HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!!


多谢晒甘多位朋友一路黎对Crescendo Music既支持同鼓励 ，系度祝大家 ，虎年进步， 身体健康 ， 虎虎生威 ！ ！

On behalf of
Paul, Hugo and all the CM Crew!

 

" GONG XI FA CHAI!!!!"

Crescendo Music @ Jason & Agnes Wedding Dinner 2009

Crescendo Music @ Jason & Agnes Wedding Dinner 2009. Taken 15th November
2009 at Restaurant Sin Lee How Fook, Ipoh.

1. 喜欢你 ( Beyond) - Performed by Peggie Chow
2. My Valentine (Martina McBride) - Performed by Sandy Chow
3. 幸福摩天轮 (Eason Chan 陈奕迅) - Performed by Paul Au
4. 写一首歌 (Shun Zi 顺子) - Performed by Sandy Chow

Enjoy!!
JL

Pirate Ahoy~~!!!

So, we went to visit Paul and Peggie’s set at Moon River Cafe on last Thursday, 13^th August 2009, and had a great time acting like ranch monkeys chatting. But i had to really say that Hugo and Mavis really blew the place apart with their attires! Explanation: They just finished singing at another place with Sandy-chan.

We had some really good time with fellow singers and also with the customers! We saw some familiar faces there and made some new friends too! The best laugh of the day goes to Hugo's imitation of the pirate! Only he would come up with that! So, i think he won't mind cross-dressing when he wins the vote! LOL!!!

Below are some of the photos I snapped there. Enjoy!

Peggie and Paul

Peggie and Paul joking with customers


Paul's turn to sing


Sandy as guest!!!


Hugo's turn as guest of the night!


Hugo and Paul explaining why the cowboy look!


Mavis and Hugo


Hugo...again....


Err...don't even ask....


The reason why he's the best....to cross dress! LOL!!!

That's all for this post! Keep following for more!!!!!

Cameraman of the night,
JL

SANDY!! Confidence!!!

Well, today's show with Sandy was good despite not working with her for some time now. But a lot of customers mistook Sandy for Peggie!!! LOL!!! This is the first time! But any how, it seems like we still have that partnership chemistry! LOL!! As usual, we started with our own selected songs as opening and then proceeded to singing requests.

Well...nothing much special happen during our sets actually. Well, apart from good interaction from a few tables. What i wanted to blog about was the feedback we got from the customers that i get to see almost every week. One particular customer who turns out to be Sandy’s fans supportive customer, complimented on Sandy’s vocals. He has been supporting Sandy us, on and off, for the past 2 years. Thanks for following us for so long!!! Its hard to find these days…LOL!!! But to be honest, Sandy’s improvement is noticeable. How else would a customer whom we last saw was several months back, could have ever notice that?! Sandy, GAMBATTE!!!!! CONFIDENCE!!!!

After the end of the show, we sat down with some customers who are still there. One group of familiar faces came almost every time we have a show there. We had a drink and got to know each other much better. And they told us the reason they come every time is because they feel that the songs we play is very easy on the ears and they really enjoy themselves there.We wanna say thank you for supporting Crescendo Music for the music we play! Thank you so much! This means so much to us! We hope to be able to entertain all of you in a very special and unplugged way!

Till the next post!!

Love,

JL

Oh Noes!! Sandy is down!!

Sandy has not been feeling too well since coming back from holiday in Hatyai last month! Its been a whole month and she is still not up to par yet. We are missing you on stage!!!

Its the hot season now (its always summer all year round...). A lot of people is down with illness due to the heat. But worry not. Drink more water and rest more will return your health back to you in no time!!! LOL!!

On behalf of the CM Crew....we wish Sandy a speedy recovery and return to perform with us!! GAMBATTE!!! p(^_^)q

~Josh~