Hey all!!! A very Happy New Year to all of you guys!! It's the start of a new year and i'm sure many of us have new goals, plans and good things happening this 2010!!

We are nearing the completion of our album! We're just left with one song to finish mastering and we're good to release our album!! Finally right i know haha. We will definitely keep you guys updated about the album so keep a lookout!!

Secondly Jude is now teaching guitar and bass under the Timbre Music Academy or TMA for short! You can visit the website at www.tma.com.sg for more information on the rates and types of courses you can enroll for! Any inquiries can be directed to Jude at 96174213 or email him at judeisobscure@gmail.com OR you can contact the school's lead instructor Mang Iruma at 9437 4666 or email him at mang@timbre.com.sg as well! I hope to see you guys there!!

Once again wishing all of you a Happy New Year!!

The WGB boys

We've all seen him around...Rockin out all alone...

His name is Philip and he's one of the most awesomest guys around!

You'll see him in front of almost every show and doesn't care about the world. To me, it looks like he only cares about the music...any music...

At most shows, he IS the crowd more than the crowd themselves.

Our teeny little scene need more people like him. It'd be a whole lot better.

He's holding it up alone...we gotta join him.


Here's to you Philip.

Dudes and Dudettes,...

you HAVE to listen to QuickQuickDanger at www.myspace.com/quickquickdanger. I'm blown away by the way these guys, younger than me(...at least one of them is for sure!...), can hit that groove nerve that i thought only people my age or older would appreciate. damn good and damn tight. been listening to them quite a bit...you should too!

look out! QUICKQUICKDANGER!

First off, thanks to the guys who organized the Nudge Show two weeks back and to the people who turned up/stayed through to the end. This may seem a little late for that but i write at the halfway point between what has been/should be two really cool shows.

Nudge rocked not because of the really nice venue...or the cool people who stayed...or the great bands who rocked the stage...or the great sound system provided by Luther Musicworks (Wink!)...or even that great Marshall JVM (...if you weren't there, you wouldn't know why...shame on you! hahaha!)...what made it good was the fact that every band that played was having fun. i try never to judge a show by how good the band plays because so many other bands already do...i judge it by how much they have fun playing. Most played off the great energy provided by the small but great crowd...

...THAT was FUN...

Now Baybeats...well...Baybeats has long been considered THE festival to play. But what bugs me is how Baybeats, despite being a big deal and a huge stepping stone for Singaporean Music, has been looked upon as something bigger than it is...yes, it's a big free event...yes, a lot of people willbe watching...yes, your band should be making an impression. but one thing that i realised a while back is that Baybeats is still just like any other show at the Esplanade. This should not stop you from having fun. And if you don't have fun at Baybeats whether you're playing or not, you have seriously been looking at it wrong...We will be playing at 7pm on Friday the 28th of August to whoever wants/will come. I ,personally, wanna have A LOT of fun. Coem down if you want in on the partay!

speaking of which, you should have seen CARACAL at Nudge...it would have encompassed everything i talked about...

So as i sit at my workplace typing my longest blognote ever BECAUSE i'm bored to my balls and not having fun now(...riding my bike, for example...), i thought about all the people that could flame me for saying what i said because of misinterpretation or because they have yet to remove/notice the stick up their "B-hinds", i pity them for looking at the negative side and not having fun!

have you guys tried Second Life? See the lake? It's flippin' REAL!

was a Michael Jackson one. i grew up listening to Off The Wall and Thriller and Bad. my very first CD was a Dangerous album, my first double CD was the History album. the first concert i remember watching was a Michael Jackson concert in Singapore. and a few months ago, i wrote the song Your Time Is Over, Our Time Is Now as an acknowledgment of MJ's influence on me - i tried to infuse his style of pop with WGB's approach to rock. MJ has been a huge part of my musical life.

RIP MJ. you were, and always will be, the King of Pop.

- d

Hi friends! We have some exciting updates this month!

First off: NEW SONG!!
We have the full-length Beautiful Green Beast (feat. Rozz from 987FM), complete with lyrics! The Beautiful Green Beast music video was a 1-minute cut of the song, and if you enjoyed it, we hope you'll enjoy it at least 3x more with the full version (which is 3x the length)! We hope you like the song!! Check out Rozz's guest vocals, she shines!!

Next: GIGS!!
We've got some really exciting gigs coming up!
- 20th June: 987FM's Life's A Beach party at Siloso Beach, Sentosa!
- 26th June: Singapore River Festival, 9.30pm at Empress Place!
- 28th June: Home Club, 4pm-10pm. Fun lineup including Great Spy Experiment, Plainsunset, and B-Quartet!
- 28th August: BAYBEATS 2009! 'Nuff said!

Keep an eye out for our gig listing for more details!

Finally: SPONSORSHIPS AND ENDORSEMENTS!!
West Grand Boulevard is very pleased to announce that we're proudly sponsored by Macbeth and Klotz Cables! For those of you unfamiliar with them, Macbeth makes awesome shoes and apparel, including vegan-friendly sneakers that don't use glues made from animal substances! Klotz Cables make some of the very best, most transparent, most high-fidelity cables that $$$ can buy, and we're very excited to be using them!
http://macbeth.com
http://www.klotz-ais.com/en_index.html

We're also very excited that our very own bassist Jude, has been endorsed by ESP, one of the world's top manufacturers of guitars and basses. Other ESP artists include Singapore/Japan's own Masashi Kimura from Nothing To Declare, Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom, Willie Adler from Lamb of God, and of course: Kirk Hammet and James Hetfield from Metallica!
www.espguitars.com

Hope to catch you at a gig real soon! Bye for now!
- the WGB Crew

hey everybody we wanna thank all all of you who came down to our shows today, to the Mark Fairwhale show and the Rico Blanco one too, for coming down to support! Y'all are super cool and we love you!

- wgb

hi everybody we're gonna be playing a gig for the MARK FAIRWHALE showcase! Mark Fairwhale is a fashion designer, and fashion designers are rad! wooooooooo!!

The show/showcase is on the 25th of April, THIS SATURDAY at Iluma, an awesome new shopping mall opposite Bugis Junction! Come down at 3pm to catch the MUTTONS, we're playing at 3.15pm, there's GIVEAWAYS and a FASHION SHOW with models and all and to top it off DJ INQUISITIVE will be spinning! it will be full of epic fun so come down with your friends and family and be ready to rock!!

We are also playing for Rico Blanco, a talented Filipino artist who is going to be performing at The Rock at Sunctec city on the same day which is the 25th of April. If you can come for that show as well as it's going to be awesome! Thanks!

Jude

I recently came back from a trip to Japan to play with Nothing to Declare (www.myspace.com/nothingtodeclare) doing bar tours and i'm telling you guys it was the shit! Yes it's expensive and all (parking's like $1.40 per 15 mins) but those who are thinking of going there shouldn't hesitate as it's a whole different world by itself. The people are polite, the bands are SUPER AWESOME and nice as well, food is great and it was cold as shit till i caught a fever (having a fever in 1 deg is not cool). Nonetheless i got to meet new people, listen to new music see how to set up their gigs which is really efficiently done and most bands bring their own amps and stuff. Really really amazing. Took the trains and stuff visited Kyoto's castle, ate raw chicken sashimi and stayed in the capsule hotel for 2 nights, and i'm telling you guys that's one experience you won't forget.

Well there's too much to say so if you do see me or meet me anywhere i'll be happy to tell you everything about my trip to the land of the rising sun. ANYWAYS,  we will be playing at the newly opened shopping mall Iluma (opposite Bugis Junction) on the 25th of April which is a Saturday at 3.15pm! Do come down to catch us we will be promoting this fashion brand called Mark Fairwhale and they have great stuff! See you there!

Jude