Why Would I Write

Category: 2storeyheart

  • Gig #25

    To everyone who came to support me on wednesday night, thank you very much. I love you all <3 I made it to the finals, so see you guys on June 3rd! Tonight (saturday) at 11pm, Urban Attic, Capsquare KL I'll be performing again. Luna, the organizer, sent me a message saying that they were going to promote the finalists by letting them play 3 songs and get interviewed. So yeah, if you happen to be in the area tomorrow or you have nothing to do, just drop by! I'll promise I'll do my best to put on a good show 😀

  • 2storey(bad)news/Gig #24

    Alright, I have some bad news.

    I’m not going to be releasing my EP anytime soon. Nope. The reason due to the sudden outburst of bullshit all over my life recently, I don’t have the money to finish recording all my songs- not anytime soon anyway. But not all is lost- I’m going to finish recording at least 1 or 2 songs, and release them as singles. Probably through radio stations (if they pick them up), the internet and maybe CDs at shows.

    So in the meantime, I’ll concentrate on performing (hopefully getting more paid gigs) and demoing/writing new songs. It wasn’t my choice, I know I’ve been hyping and talking a lot about my upcoming EP, but I didn’t ask for shit to happen and so here I am just dealing with it.

    Which brings me to my next point-

    Gig #24
    Urban Attic’s Acoustic Showdown
    Urban Attic, Cap Square KL
    10pm onwards

    I’ll be playing on the 20th of May (heats), so bring all your friends and buy loads of drinks and vote for me! (even if I play badly!)
    There’s a grand prize of 1k (solo act), so if I win that, that would be awesome. I can buy you back the drink that you bought to vote for me. But if I don’t win.. oh well 😛 Anyway, hope to see you guys there!

    It’s been ages since I’ve played. I’m gonna try get as many shows as I can. If you guys have any contacts or want me to play for a show, just hit me up on facebook (oh I have an official facebook page now!) or drop me a comment here, or send me an email- geowongyt@hotmail.com.

    btw regular blogging will resume soon. I’m pretty sure most of you guys are tired of just reading song lyrics by now haha. I have loads of things to share, my phone is filled with random thoughts 😀

  • 2storeytreat #6: A Million Different Weddings

    In the second last part of this 2storeytreat series, here is the title track off my upcoming EP. I took a break this week to practice the vocals- I went in to the studio last week pretty unprepared and wasted quite a lot of time trying to nail Paperback Romance, so I figured I should practice at home before I go in to the studio and finish the rest of the vocals.

    So this is the latest song I’ve written and I’ve been performing it at every gig since then, cos it will be the first song I intend to send out to radio/wherever to promote this EP. Hopefully it gets picked up. Haha

    A Million Different Weddings

    A million different weddings
    Happening all over again
    Let’s break up and do it again!
    Let’s break up and do it again!

    Here comes the sweetest part
    The honeymoon get away and after that
    It’s “Fly me to the moon,
    Just fly me to the moon!
    To get away from you honey!”

    She puts on her make up
    She puts on that dress
    She puts the veil over her head

    He puts on his bow-tie
    He pins his corsage
    He downs another shot

    How many does he need to go through
    Before he finds the one?

    She puts on light make up
    She wears that suit
    She puts her name on the line

    He puts on his best smile
    He holds his head high
    He downs another shot

    AMDW. I wrote this song awhile ago when my parents were going through a separation (they are unofficially divorced) and I realized that failed marriages weren’t as rare as I thought they were. I discovered that a number of my friends had separated/divorced parents as well, and I felt like writing a song about it.

    Originally the song was going to be about how marriages not lasting forever. And that the gold ring might as well be a piece of paper. I wasn’t going anywhere with the song so I left it alone at that. Many months later, I came up with a chord progression on the guitar and tried to see if I could sing anything over it. I picked up my lyric book, randomly flipped to this song and sang along to it. I was one line short and decided to repeat the “let’s break up and do it again” line and realized that it was pretty catchy. So I picked up the song from where I left off and rewrote the verses.

    It basically talks about a bride and groom getting ready to walk down the aisle and after that, the same couple getting ready to go to court. The chorus is about how marriages are so casual (let’s break up and do it again!) and the best part of it is the honeymoon.

    Why the title track of my EP? Well it was the coolest title I had from the list of songs I chose and I actually titled my EP AMDW before I even finished writing the song. And the imagery I had in mind for the album cover that came from the title seemed really cool as well.

    And thanks a lot to everyone who has submitted their drawings so far, I’m still accepting them! Refer to my previous post if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

    Happy labor day, kids! Have a great weekend.