Event: Belajar Sama-Sama 2, 27th June 2009, Likas, Sabah.

Click on the flyer/map for bigger view.

Gig: Sickening Art Part 2: Metalfest

Erm, as usual I don’t know how to read the fonts. Go figure yourself.

Sickening Art 2: Metal Fest gig

Date: 13 June 2009
Venue: Razz Ma Tazz, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Time: 1pm Till DEATH!
Admission: RM 20.00

Organised by:
Derangement Project, Mobsterfest and Evildead Production.

Featuring (I am trying my best reading here):

Innabus Decay
Mortuary Ancestor
&*^%$# Brood of Carnage (thank you Karlos!)
Hereafter
(Star with Goat)
Majestic East?
Hatred Creation
Drunk
Moduric Suicide
(Furry Spaghetti)

Enjoiss…

Gig: Borneo’s Compulsion to Kill at Ampang,KL!

A little update..

Hello there good people.

I, Agent Asparagus Alfalfa, who have been running this blog, would have to take a short break (about 2 years) from fulltime running this blog.  This is because I will be away from the beloved Motherland Borneo.  During my departure, Mr Nicefryday would take over as the Editor of this blog, while I take a backseat updating any flyers/events that I stumbled upon.  Mr Nicefryday, as you know, has been hardworking in documenting the Kuching scene all this while.  I thank him whole heartedly for willing to contribute to the scene. Pok, kau tulis jak papa bahasa kau mok, aku sikda hal.

I am still looking for a contributor from Sabah who could become a correspondent for the scene there on this blog.  Other than my longterm plans for Kalimantan as well- I have been sending few emails to the contacts that I have get from friends but have not been getting any reply so far.  This community-based blog welcomes any sort of contribution from all of you with the ground rules of no sexism, no racism and no whatever form of discrimination. Already the scene has been discriminated enough that we don’t need to do the same thing among ourselves.

So please continue your support for this blog, for it is meant for ‘our scene’, whatever that means.  I will still be writing, hopefully contributing articles and other sorts of discoveries (downloads etc etc) that I would stumble upon.

In the mean time, if you are interested to be a contributor, please feel free to do so. It is not obligatory- we would not force you at knifepoint to write- but even sending us a flyer of a gig would be great and very much appreciated.  Feel free to email me at agentprovo@gmail.com and my Myspace account, if you know me personally or added me in your friend list.

I have many ideas and great plans years ahead and I can’t wait to come back and continue all the works.

Cheers!

Uploaded! Bear Brigade Borneo Tour videos!

Taken from Man Beranak and Ismailkamus channel.  I believe that they are still uploading, check it out later for more videos!

Wan Hazril: Land Below the Wind- Bear Brigade Tour Report

Taken from Wan Hazril’s Facebook notes:

Having a bad flu after 4 days trip was a blessed. Its purely satisfaction without any regret. A self meditation after day by day blast. And I feel great.

Strong will to leaving a while the love one and all friends from this city of urgency, heading to somewhere unexpected, we are 14 person in 4 different bands with random different soul, characteristics and feelings but having the same motivation, to meet a new people, love, community and culture.

The sun always shine bright down there in the land below the wind and of course the wind always blow. Thats make the first city we arrived, labuan, different from this city of urgency. And of course everything considered alcohol, and tobacco are superbly fucking cheap. We grab 3 bottles with sum of less than RM 120. And in other part of Malaysia, that will cost more than RM 400. Save up a sum lotsa money and we know its the right places for the people who worship the alcohol.

Then, we heading to kota kinabalu by boat. The fare is quite expensive, RM 34, but cheaper than the aircraft. It feel mysterious using the water lane, when all you can see is the blue blue crystal water. The beer always been there by our side. And to break the boredom, we drink and some were sleeping. And 1 hour before arrive, the excitement begin and we never stop cheering up ourselves with stupid jokes.

We arrived there. And riq and eko greeted us with a smile. They are awesome, both studying in K.K but living in other city, Sandakan. Kota kinabalu is the city of restless. Its like the United States and new york, kuala lumpur and semenanjung or indonesia and jakarta. Its the centre of everything. Everybody move there to find a job, study or to move from quiet city. But honestly, it feel more relaxing being in Kota kinabalu rather than this city of urgency. We crammed ourselves inside one room, that is not that big and not that small, just nice. Spent some hours in the big mall, nothing much differ from other mall i’d been before. But one thing that excite me, the meal. The chicken rice is only cost RM 2.80 and that’s like having a breakfast in the east coast penisular, or buying a bombay sapphire in Labuan. Thats fucking nasty!!

Some really close friends and us, heading to Moes studio to rip it out. 2 hours, 4 bands and we having a cool jamming session. It’s a quite well-feeling to blast the tunes in another places far far away from home and its like a practicing mix with finding a warm comfort. And its great to see many friends back again like Agus, Ian, Yuen, Rico that use to stay and meet us before at apartment 104. Not to forget, the menu that day: 1 litre of Bicardi!

Then the best part after the show, we heading to “pasar Phillipines”. And we passing by a load of expensive restaurant, and some bar that exclusively belong to other side of human division. And right beside it was the pasar. It look like a pasar malam but really big pasar malam. The food were cheap. 1 feet ikan tongkol only cost you RM 7. And we eat like cat.

Went back to the hotel, the ritual begin. Some friends bring tanduay and F.Y.I, tanduay is a homebrew local wine that made by the grape if im not mistaken. It taste like malaga or anggur merah. And i have this really fasten blood rush syndrome by drinking this kind of alcohol. And yeah. it works. Its a moment of tense, happiness and everything that nite. Naked is necessity and expressing everything was the real moment. Unless i feel like all the tiredness, in the city of urgency had been released. And meeting other guy like keith, ivan, vojtek, shaun, along, and many more to say was like a gathering of hindu in allah abad or muslim in mecca, or whatever!. But it taste different. This is real deal to my life.

Next morning we heading to Keningau. RM 13. Taking this mini bus. and all crammed inside. Off we go! The perfect soundtrack for this time should be 70’s psychedelic rock, and late 60’s folk rock. Maybe the whole bob dylan songs. But i nearly forget all those good artist, as in my mind only one song can beat em all, SAYANG SAYANG KINABALU. The trip was up and down thru the hillside. This part, I miss my love one the most. And this part I feel like human being always belong to the nature. And the scenery, resting all my tiredness. And when the tiredness gone, I capture the whole perfect and good life. It feel like cumming while drinking!

And halfway the trip, the drive stop us at the source of water from the hill. And we taste the water. Its naturally pure. And all those mineral water that been sell like RM 1.50 per bottle is not natural. Trust me!

We arrived Keningau at the noon. 2 hours something journey. Its not that long. But keningau was really a small town. We having a meal and RM 8 tiger beer also was a real deal. It was fantastic. Some small kids selling cheap cigarettes, I grab surya that only cost me RM 3. We headed to the venue after having the meal and it is located at the hillside. The scenery was great as you can see the whole Keningau town from the places. It was a semi abandoned resort but there is still people around that place. But I guess, it used to be a best places to chill and stayed.

The show started and at first we merely cant see many peoples coming. But after two bands played, the venue was packed. And the vibe was very alive. One things about the community and scene. The scene was fresh and not jaded. Many kids willing to share moment and idea and having things to talk about. Compare to the scene in this land of urgency. And I had a chance to meet many new friends sharing idea and story. About culture and setting up community and it feel so electric. Beside having a good time, I can see that they have a strong motivation to set up this break free community at their local town. And, upon my repentance, I should bring more zines and spread more literature to them. This is the things that i felt way back then and it slowly gone in this city of urgency!

We drink some beer, Absolute Vodka and Langkau. That was the king! It turn my set when playing with crimescene so fucking heaven. Seeing many great bands like face of decay, and red revolvers and feeling the aura when playing and watching the intense vibe make the whole show tremendous! Plus the sound system was perfect and great. They have this monitor and full set PA making the whole room blast!

One thing, they dont have much show happen in Sabah. So when it happens. It will be the best moment to the kids around! In this city of urgency, there is too much show and too much bands playing in one show! So yeah, we lost the beauty of the show. Its not all about quantity. Its always about quality.

We leave the places with thousand of happiness. And heading to the hotel in downtown keningau, we are superbly tired.
After meal. We decided to rest. But its like a halfway mission when friends want to continue drinking tanduay till morning. I ended up very drunk. Some guy going to local friends house to drink long house (traditional game) and playing this enjoyable buffalo game, that will end up many people getting naked. And yeah! They are naked!

Pretty bad hangover that morning we catch the van back to kota kinabalu. And this gonna be the bad part coz we leaving keningau. And we always want to come back again. We thanks to zul for organizing the show and of course he pay all the tanduay that night.

We leave keningau around 1 pm and have to catch the ferry at jesselton port at 3 pm. So the driver speeding up. It was a roller coaster trip. Thrilling and i still keep singing the sayang sayang kinabalu song to the love one!

We arrived the jetty around 2.30 pm and having a meal and meet all the friends back! It was the farewell that we wish not happen. But we have to leave! This is the time when we think that the connection of DIY will never break forever. The willing to help each other, sharing space, sharing energy and many other things!

And off we go to labuan!

Labuan, the last night, thanks to keju for the great hospitality and belanja makan. We ended up buying stack of alcohol, vomit, drunk to the max, Hippies, and i shit while sleeping. ahahah! That was great. Heading back to this city of urgency with shitty pants and the greatest hangover of the year. It was all the representation of the fast modern world that we living in. And people was too depress with their life, work, tiredness, fake, capitalism control and so many other things. In the land below the wind, people still having a faith on culture, breaking free from the setup of the Americana, and speaking upon their own selves. We lack of this in this land of urgency! This is the beginning of all the good feelings!

Thanks to other guys like rizo, comel (dont remember his name), billie, asrul, mi, reza, and so many other person.
ALCOHOL = LOVE!

“The answer my friends,
Is blowing in the wind,
The answer is blowing in the wind.”
- bob dylan

Crimescene posse for URTV

after show pics!

Farewell, Port Jesselton!

at hillside view, keningau. The venue of the show!

Taken from here.

Gig: Mobsterfest Jeriiitan Hari Pekerja #2

I have only manage to get my hands on this small flyer.

In case you have problem reading:

Mobsterfest Jeriiitan Hari Pekerja #2

Moduric Suicide
Stepdown
Scold
Second Suicide
Sweet Mary Jane
Uncensored
Morra
Knuckles & Shovel
Hey Ho Lets Roll!
The Fortress of Discord
Killacore

Date: 2nd May 2009
Venue: Kundasang Hall, Sabah.
Time: 12 pm till end
Admission: RM 10 (inlcuding H20 and Mee Goreng) [Good deal!]

Contact: Gadie: 0148559013 // Bink: 0168174609

Strictly NO Violence, No Racism, NO Alcohol and NO Drug

(I can’t see the logo on who’s organising this)

Mayday!: Anti-Trash Gotong-Royong, Tanjung Aru beach, Kota Kinabalu.

Jumaat ini!

Gotong royong+piknik+makan-makan+sesi akustik di Tanjung Aru!

Info mengenai direct action ini boleh di dapati di sini.

This Weekend! Gig: Sehati Sejiwa, 2nd May 2009

Sehati Sejiwa Gig

The first collaboration between all the collectives in Kuching, though I couldn’t say that Midin Distro did much (anything).

The touring band headlining this gig: A Million Evil Faces from Sabah.

Supporting bands:

Happily Ever After
N.O.T.E.S.
United Kids of Oi!
Tricks4Kids
Traitor
Escape the Plainview
Kurasakuasa
Restart
Destruction Zero
Mayze

Date: 2nd May 2009
Time: 2 p.m. onwards
Venue: Disharmonic Studio, Kuching Centerpoint
Admission: RM 5.00

Could not get the formatting that I want in this post as I am updating from a noisy cyber cafe at Papar. Will do the tweaking on this post soon once I reach Kuching. The Bear Brigade tour gig was awesome, will do a report on it, if I feel like it.

Laters bros and sis.

UPDATED Gig: Unholy Bear Brigade Borneo Tour 2009, 25th April 2009

Flyers out!

I don’t know about all of you, but this is the event I am looking forward to:

Are You Ready to Rock presents: Unholy Bear Brigade Borneo Tour

Date: 25th April 2009
Time: 4pm onwards
Venue: Hillview Garden Resort, Keningau, Sabah
Admission: RM 13.00

Featuring Bear Brigadeers:
Sophie Sweet Fuck (Bandar Sunway Blues Punk)
Sarjan Hassan (Port Klang Thrashcore)
Crimescene (Bandar Sunway Powerviolence)
Suara Anak Muda (Bandar Sunway Violence to the Core)

And local hospitality of:
Kill Our Leader
Arahkiri
Face of Decay
Red Revolver

For more info/direction/ speculations: Zul 012 8269244

Argghh! Two dumbfucks from Mutasi Distro and Midin Distro would also make their unwelcomed appearance. Just ignore them.

UPDATE: Additional info from Cyryl (taken ad verbatim):

“…tambang bus rm2.00..teksi rm10..kalau pandai berKATA2 sure tambang teksi jadi murah..hehhe….naik bus terminal kg menawo berdekatan kedai rakyat aka kedai kuning…kalau nek teksi mana2 sj..yg penting ada cakap pg hillview garden.…..apa2 pun kalau mau lebih detail…dtg keningau..atau pun cntct urg keningau.…btw tu tmpt best..hahahah..“

Taken from here.

UPDATE 2: Additional info from Akhdan (ad verbatim):

Kepada mereka yang tidak ada kenderaan atau tidak tau bagaimana cara untuk sampai ke lokasi (Hillview Garden), kawan2 di keningau akan menyediakan bas tambang ke lokasi. Sila tunggu di Terminal Bas Tung Ma Keningau. Lokasi Terminal Bas Tung Ma Keningau ialah bersebelahan dengan Masjid Pekan Keningau (sebelah Kiri), masjid pula berhadapan dengan padang bandaran keningau. Rajin2 lah bertanya pada org yang rasanya boleh dipercayai.

Mereka yang hadir juga dinasihatkan supaya adalah lebih baik kalau membawa bekalan makanan atau makan terlebih dahulu di Pekan Keningau sebelum bergerak ke Hillview Garden. Kalau pun ada penjual makanan di hillview mungkin agak mahal atau menunya terhad lagipun adalah agak menyusahkan kalau mau berulang alik ke pekan jika terasa lapar nanti, apa lagi kalau tidak ada kenderaan sendiri.

Apa-apa pun jika ada sebarang masalah seperti sesat atau sekadar mau bertanya apa-apa info sila lah jangan miskol atau sms tapi terus kol no berikut:

RICHIE – 016 8206 865
MIMIN – 016 8481 896
ZUL – 012 8231 615

Tolong kongsi cadangan ini.
terima kasih

Taken from HERE.