Upon recommendation, Corinni had bought the tickets to the concert to watch with Irene. But around last month, Irene informed she could not make it, and offered the ticket to me at a cheaper price. I’m not a super big fan of 陈绮贞, but thought it should be a concert worth going cos even if I don’t know many of her songs, she is still one of the current few female artistes who is lauded for her song-writing talent and good voice.
As suspected, I think I barely recognised 20% of the songs she performed yesterday at the Indoor Stadium. Think the ones which I knew were those frequently played on radio, such as 九份的咖啡店, 躺你的衣櫃, 還是會寂寞, 讓我想一想, 太陽, 告訴我 and my personal favourites, 旅行的意義 and 華麗的冒險. But it was still an enjoyable 3 hour concert (the longest one I’ve attended so far). The encores came again and again, and she accomodated everytime with more songs. I think in the last hour, it was purely just her and her guitar. No other instruments, and very unplugged. She has some very ardent fans in Singapore (which Corinni and I had not expected!). They knew almost all her songs, and some even came prepared in attire which matched hers. Think they must have seen her recent concert in Hong Kong bah.
But her guitar skills are AMAZING…..I must say. Really is 不赖的! Costumes wise, not much to shout about, but I particularly like this rocker babe outfit below. And oh yes…CHECK OUT HER TATTOOS ON HER LEFT ARM (sorry couldn’t find a better pic).
It was nearly 1130pm when the concert ended. And so late that we did not make it for the last train at Kallang station. So had to settle for the cab, which wasn’t easy to flag cos there were also other concert goers who were in the same plight as us. By the time I reached home, it was about 1230am, and I only got to sleep around 1.30am. And this morning still have to wake up at 7.30am for dizi lessons. Really zonked out!
Interestingly, while on the bus 11 to Kallang station (in an attempt to see if we could make it for the last train home), we were actually still unsure if the bus would take us to the station. Corinni then commented that maybe the bus only goes up to Geylang Interchange, or maybe Geylang train station. That’s when we realised we are not really familiar with the east-west line of the MRT, cos SINCE WHEN GOT GEYLANG STATION ONE? And for one moment, I really thought there is, given that Geylang is such a prominent place in the east.
Think we must have been quite tired to think of that!
Posted by snowystars on April 5, 2009 at 9:36 pm
i didn’t intended to go but cos my friend managed to get an extra free tickets, so I went. I was in T32 Row A33. Like you, I don’t know much of her songs but have heard how good she is. I must say those segments with her and her guitar only is the best. She has such good & clear voice. I enjoyed the concert.
Posted by E.T. on April 8, 2009 at 11:16 pm
There is a MRT station in geylang. It’s called Aljunied station. U shd have called Mr B.