The Post-POW Syndrome.

Friday was SUPERB, pals. Really. (: We played beside a fantastic band, to a fantastic crowd, at a fantastic venue. We couldn't ask for a better experience.

People to thank!Samanta - Terence, Hilmi, Helmi, Nas. Dorothy, Thelma, leon, Jem, Mint, Rico, Hans, Khien, Jia Hao, Jeremy, Isaac, Ah Neh, Carmie, Shun Foong, Terri, Aaron, Sam, Nick, Tristan, Joanne, Colin, Xuan, Ricky, and last but not least Malcolm, owner of the Prince Of Wales. And to all the new friends we made that night - We love what we're doing and it's because of you.

Our next gig will be at Marine Parade, this coming Sunday (that's the 26th June), from 8 to 9pm. We have yet to know the full details so keep visiting this site for updates, please!

Love (: ,
ArPee.

Catch ArPee with Samanta on the 17th June, Friday. 2130hrs to 2330hrs. See you there and we love you all. :)

As The Story Unfolds

Ok people, if you have been checking out our purevolume site religiously for the past week, you'd have noticed that we have a show slated this coming 17th June. So.... come catch us at the Prince of Wales pub on the 17th June @ 9.30 PM (Singapore Local Time). If you do not know where the Prince of Wales, then to be honest, it's really hard to describe it to you. Ok here's how. You take any bus that goes to Little India. Any bus service that actually plies the little india route with the least amount of decency ought to stop in front of Tekka Mall. Ok so now you stop right in front of Tekka Mall right.. you go into the Foodmore Foodcourt. DO NOT BE DISTRACTED BY THE FOOD. Getting to ArPee's show is the priority here remember? So, ok once you've infiltrated the place, head for the exit door behind. It's a glass door. You would not miss it. Cause if you do, you'd know it cause you'd feel a sharp pain either in the nose, forehead, chest or crotch. Depending on your sex, physical properties and walking posture. You might hit your knee first too. Ok, so once you get out of that door, you'd strafe right abit. And you'd then notice the Prince of Wales banner right in front of you. Then, you know you are nearing the Rendezvous Point already. So knowing full well of where the pub is, you ought to make a mad dash for the nearest money changer, change all of your money to five dollar notes and then rush to the pub and catch ArPee live. Yeap! Hope that was helpful!

One helpful thing in turn could be, can someone please recommend me places where i can send my bass guitar for a quick repair at a reasonable price? Thanks.

We're In Talks People!!

The band is currently in talks with a few people. namely their family and friends. We're still alive. And we're excitingly waiting for Ihsan's return from the States so that we can work on whatever we've already worked on. So hope to see you guys at our next show.

Meanwhile, 3 months ago, we set up a purevolume site to load up songs for our own referencing. And 3 months on, we've already had more than 800 views and more than 400 play clicks. This is very encouraging indeed and we hope to add more stuff that you guys can listen to. So keep on clicking even if its for no good reason and if you have alot of time to burn. And remember to throw at us five dollar notes if u see us play next time round.

With Love and without wax,
Arpee-The Band.

My flowering laptop broke down but it's finally fixed, so I figure I'll do a post before it cranks up again.

A band update: Ihsan has flown to Atlanta for a month, so there'll be no gigging until June. The rest of the Pointes miss him dearly, but it's a good chance for the band to work on new material and we promise you all that we'll keep going on. This can only get better! :)

Love,
ArPee

2nd National Epilepsy Awareness Day Charity Bazaar 2005

aRPee's in love ...

(not in order)

Double yellow line crew (ever grateful to you guys),"Rare copper coin", Organizers and helpers of the Epilepsy awareness, the dude that was promoting the $20 bikini's (ure awesome), Juan (Get the RAFE cd!), Benita, Faye ,Mora and Eunice, Lloyd.. (the latest Parousia cd is out!)woo..oo , sazali "kio-sai",Third place dudes and chicks (their seriously hot), "Caracal" (hardcore crew), Sameer, Neek and friends, Dorothy (arpee's badge designer~), Shelly and Cheryl ,"heroic no avail" khien and hans, Mint (someone's interstellar), Lou and san's secret hot chick( that's if u did come and we're not just disillusional), Eunice no.2 and Andrea, Renny, family! Aunties and uncles that could not stand the noise, Friends of friends of people i did not mention or don't know. Im sorry. (Ur name here) __________ , ure hot, we love you!

i hope i did this right.
well. Thank you!!!. We screwed up.
but man, you guys are one hell of a group.
what a night.

Here's a link to pictures of that night and other bands.
http://thepaininmearse-photos.blogspot.com

to arpee. we have got to stop touching each other.


Water is good ain't it?

Again again again

HOWDY HO PALS!

Okay. We've hit a park, a school and a lounge. Well this time we're hitting the SHOPPING CENTRE! Plus it's all for a good cause so it's just way neat. We've got a good sound system, good event, good bands performing and it's all thanks to the good people from Double Yellow Line.

Do come down to catch this event yeah. We appreciate you guys tagging our board and spurring us on and stuff; it'd be great if you could say hi after our performance!

Plaza Singapura (nearest train stop is Dhoby Ghaut)
24th April 2005, Sunday
8pm

We're creating a mailing list so we can update you on how we've been. So if you'd like to be included, leave a link on our tagboard and we'll add you yeah? Niiiice. :D Okay enough mushy crap, here's the RAW STUFF MAAAAN!


2nd National Epilepsy Awareness Day Charity Bazaar 2005
Plaza Singapura (sheltered stage outside starbucks)

Admission is free.

22nd April 2005, Friday
1900-1945 Underedge
2000-2045 RAFE

23rd April 2005, Saturday
1900-1945 The Subway Stars
2000-2045 Barrecoda

24th April 2005, Sunday
1900-1945 Rare Copper Coin
2000-2045 ARPEE

[SMP] The Belladonna Document

It's Easter sunday today and since i'm free i thought i'd post a blog thanking all you guys and girls who came to watch us perform at the 3rd place on 25th March. For those of you who watched us for the second time at the 3rd place, thanks for supporting us through and through and as corny as it sounds maybe you can hope to see us again for the third time at the 3rd place. It was simply awesome to have performed infront of you guys. Especially with all the catcalling and screaming. You guys are certainly the liveliest crowd we've ever played to. Thanks!

Also, I would like to thank everybody who has come to this blogsite through the purevolume site that we have set up. The last I checked, 199 people went to that website. And it certainly is encouraging to find the numbers growing! Appreciate it!

Right now, the band is working on its various projects(like how to throw the guitar around and around and around while playing...) and so we hope to see you guys at our next show! So keep on rocking! Walk within beauty, dream within grace.

p/s: you can support local music by throwing at ArPee loads of money the next time you see us. Honestly, we need the money. In order to improve ourselves we need stuff like Lays BBQ flavoured chips. So empty yer swiss bank accounts and throw it all at us!

GIG ALERT GIG ALERT GIG ALERT GIG ALERT

Venue: The Third Place (Click for directions)
Date: This Friday, March 25

Bands performing:
1. Parousia (acoustic) 8pm
2. Unforgotten Memories 8:30pm
3. Arpee 9:00pm
4. Pinnacle of My Vanity 9:30pm

GIG ALERT GIG ALERT GIG ALERT GIG ALERT

We're Not Done Yet PEOPLE!!!

Wokay people! Ihsan got us a gig at The Third Place so please please please keep visiting this site for more information. :)

[SMP] Why ArPee?

Because ArPee, is complicated enough. That's why it's ArPee.

College Rock was great, thanks you all. :)

Time Slot Has Been Changed.

Hey pals we're performing at 5.30pm.



NUS Centre for the Arts (CFA) and Original Music Society (OMS),
together with NUS Sheares Hall presents:

College Rockfest 2005
A Celebration of college-based bands in Singapore

Date: 05/03/2005 Saturday
Time: 4pm - late
Location: Youth Park Orchard

FREE!!!!

Bands:
Arpee (emotive pop-punk)
Stereo Superstars (ol skool rock)
Scar Driven (hard rock)
Bathroom Acoustics (alternative rock)
Documentary in Amber (avant-garde soundscapes)

NUS hall bands:
Sheares Hall
Kent Ridge Hall
Temasek Hall
Eusoff Hall
King Edward VII Hall

Guest Bands:
USV (emoskapunk rock - come skank with us!)
RAFE (power pop-rock, WINNER of Power98 POWERJAM)

For upcoming information on OMS gigs:
visit www.geocities.com/omsnus
Correspondence: omslovesyou@gmail.com
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Rock On!

[SMP] Sad

It's sad day for us all. Blink 182 has announced their indefinite hiatus. I was worried about this. There were rumours that cracks were appearing in the band. Haiz.. i hope that they will decide to keep on playing and i'll be able to catch at least one of their shows before i die. Gone are the days when talking about blowjobs and paedophiles on stage was an ok thing to do. Gone are the days when cussing and dissing on stage was an ok thing to do. It's a very sad day for us all. And to think they decided to take it sometime near my birthday. haiz.. sad day. if only someone got me the urethra chronicles, everything would be fine right now. Blink 182 saw me thru lots of stuff. i still remember practising songs by them. working hard on them. I still remember watching their videos and analysing their songs. I still remember watching them run around naked in the what's my age again video over and over again. i still remember, telling myself that someday, i'll be just like mark hoppus. i still remember spending hours and days reading up stories about them. i still remember spending time to write songs just like they did only to fail miserably. i still remember arguing with someone just caused he said that anybody could play like blink 182 and nothing went into their songs.

It's been more than a decade since they've been together. I just hope that they will stay together for the fans. Here's to my hero, Mark Hoppus! Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, fart, turd and twat. Salutations!

To be honest with you guys, I've always thought that ArPee wouldn't be here if i didn't get obsessed with Blink-182 and trying to be just like em. ArPee wouldn't be here if i always felt like putting up performance just like they did. ArPee wouldn't be here if i wasn't into Blink-182 and rose above the initial feelings of being rejected from a band and meeting evelyn outside the toilet and forming a band with her. So yeap, it's a sad day for me, for us all.

College Rock Fest

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! College Rock Fest is soooo gonna rock your asses. Join in the fun, pals. We're going to make much more noise, cause you're going to catch the FULL BAND. :) Spread the word!



Ready, get set, go.

YIPPEE!!

THANKS, YOU GUYS! Inhabitant was really a blast. We're so thankful, we're gonna kiss all of you one by one.

Double Yellow Line
Ave, Ben, Roslan, Fairoz, KC, Mudz, Lin, Eugene, Mr Soundman, Mr Ticketman, Mr Cinematographer and everyone else from DYL whom we didn't get acquainted with, thank you. The industry definitely needs more people like you guys.

People who came down
Alex, Isaac, Ching Hong, Azman, Abalone and Zhang 'Macau' Xi, Mint, Juan, Benita, Serene, Isaac, Yuhan, Faizal, Johan, Fizhah, Carmen, Matthew, Eric, Khien, Hans, and supporters of other bands. We wouldn't be what we are now without all of you.

Bands
Ace Troubadour, Lunarin, Pale Pretense, Dreams of Day Architecture, Lunchbox - It was our privilege playing alongside all of you. Thanks for the good music!

Arpee
Thanks Ari for wanting to do this, and for sacrificing time for all the practise sessions. Louey, for being there all the way and for drawing on Ais's face. And of course the birthday dood Ais, for being the best lead guitarist, mentor and band leader the band will ever have. :)

aRpEe pOwEr sIaHxZ! hEHex.. ^_^

[SMP] Gates of Fire

Tell the people, strangers passing by.

Here we lie, true to their laws.

Anyways, i've updated the music zone, you can hear a new song instead of boring plastic skies. so here you go interstellar love song. i dun approve ot this at all.

Directions

Okay I referred to my handy dandy bus guide and realised one can get to the Yusof Ishak Hall (that's where doubleyellowline:inhabitant, our gig, will be held at) by 3 buses:

95: Loop service between North Buona Vista Terminal and Kent Ridge Terminal.

96: Loop service from Clementi Interchange. Personally I feel this is the easiest route to take, cause it's near Clementi MRT Station.

• Upon your exit from the ticketing machines, turn left and board the escalator.
• Follow the sheltered pathway; it'll lead you to the interchange.
• Alight at the 9th stop, which is the stop after the chinese library bus stop (the interchange being the first stop).
• Cross the road and whoopadeedoo, the Yusof Ishak House should be within walking distance. That's what the map tells me lah at least

151: Hougang Central and Kent Ridge. For NP students you can board it from the bus stop opposite NP and alight at the 10th stop. Don't have to cross the road.

Quite boringly comprehensive I know. I don't know how to get there myself actually, haha! Shall ask the organisers for directions. Hope this helps man. :)

stuffed crust chicken ice cream

ArPee

eh mannnnn...

I found the next best thing!!!!
some band called 'aisen' from the east indies in sri lanka.
HIs song is awesome man. Its bloody 6 mins long.
The whole band is one person.
he just runs from the base to the drums to the guits. crazee cow.
its called "SP0000"... or " what we have in common"
We got to learn it. its a must. must must must.
we got to save his prata shop. aid the tsnami victims!
best thing is. we can even call it arpee's own.
coz noe 1 will eva noe. NO ONE!!!!!

well. Hope u have it alr. if not. ask ihsan or me for it.
its about time for me to notice hot Mcm gurls.

Louwee

[SMP] Question The Answer

Finally got this opportunity to blog/log into this blog. Ok let me see where do we begin? Well the band has been progressing that's something. We've come up with pretty neat new material that somehow we're not interested on working on. Seems to me we're all caught up covering than focussing on our originals as we had proposed a few weeks back. So that's something. I have no idea what's gonna happen next, but i assure u, it'll be an exciting chapter for ArPee and i'm sure you guys can't wait! cause whatever is gonna happen, is going to be a bang for ArPee!

Hahaz! Ok, so i really do hope to see you guys at our acoustic set this 12th feb. so..yeap.. it'll be great to see some familiar faces there! aha! so yeap.

This is a note to the band:

Hmm, ok i'm really cool with us covering. As it does help us to destress. so dun take me wrong here k? but i'm seriously more enthusiastic about us doing our originals. i'm serious. like growing in harmony. how about we give Reinventing Yourself a try? Maybe the tune is not right, maybe this maybe that but we can work it out right? how about Different Worlds? are we ever going to do that or not? and how about aisen's new song? how about eve's new song? are we ever going to work on them or just let them be? if we're going to make it, let's mighty well act like we're gonna make it. and while we're at it, why dun we not only act but actually believe that we will make it and give it that extra push. i know we're all caught up academically but really, we can do it if we put our hearts and minds to it! i believe we can. I believe in ArPee.

On that note i would like to propose we design new band shirts!! how about that eh? i really think we should all sit down sometime soon and discuss our band materials. i'm serious about this. but on taht note i would also like to say i'm glad that we're doing screamo covers somehow! hahaz! so what we should do is actually do both. covers and yet focus on originals. it's no use covering if u're never going to feed off the influences. if u're never going to feed off the influences i suggest we don't listen to any music besides ours. i'm serious. so yeap. this is ari signing off.