We're in today's papers for Baybeats!

See you tonight at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre at 9pm!

New article: Baybeats 2012 - King Kong Jane

We recently spoke to Hanis Ahmad, one of six young scribes being mentored by established local music writer Kevin Mathews as part of the Esplanade Youths-Baybeats Budding Music Writers Mentoring Programme 2012.
Here's the article she wrote, which documents what we're cooking up for our upcoming set at Baybeats:
http://www.esplanadeyouths.com/?p=743

We're on Life!

We're proud to be on the cover of today's Life! newspaper, along with new acts who are performing for this year's Baybeats, namely The Rejeks and Seyra!



We can't get our hands on an online version of the accompanying article, but here's the portion where we're mentioned:

"Some local bands who performed at Baybeats in previous years, like indie rockers King Kong Jane, have gone on to launch full-length albums and even tour overseas."

Fever Avenue presents Homegrown

National Day is around the corner, and so the people from FeverAvenue got us to express our feelings about Singapore in a pretty fun way. Check out the online feature below!



http://www.feveravenue.com/homegrown-featuring-king-kong-jane/

Pocket Magazine

We're honored to be featured on the cover of Pocket Magazine in their latest issue!

Read the online magazine to find out what we really think about Rebecca Black and being an indie band in Singapore: http://www.pocketsg.com

Republic of POP

Republic of POP is a website dedicated to homegrown music.

Check out our profile! http://www.rop.com.sg/talents/talents-profile/?user_id=161

Album reviews

The first review of our album appeared in TODAY a couple of weeks ago, courtesy of Kevin Mathews and Christopher Toh:




To our surprise, we woke up to news this morning that there's a review in today's issue of The Straits Times too. It still feels a little strange to read professional reviews of our album, but we're really thankful for all the support from local newspapers so far.

Many thanks to Kai Chai and Eddino for the following review:

Boys Friday

We managed to scan the article about us in last Friday's issue of The Straits Times!

Look Ma, we're in the papers!

Namely on page D5 of the Life! section in The Straits Times:



and page T6 of today's TODAY:


which can also be read online here:
http://www.todayonline.com/Entertainment/EDC110318-0000305/The-experienced-newcomers

Many thanks to Eddino, Kevin and Chris for the coverage, and we really hope that both articles will help to shed more light on us and our debut album.

TGIF!

Yahooooooooo!

Sometimes it feels really good to know that there are media channels out there that make the effort to feature indie bands like us.

Yahoo! Singapore's website has a great section called Music Scene, which has featured homegrown acts like Ling Kai and Shirlyn Tan.

Thanks to writer Ewen Boey, we're featured in Music Scene's latest post, which details our journey so far:


Click here to read the full article:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/musicscene/king-kong-jane-juggles-music-life-20110315-110323-979.html

Walk On Music: King Kong Jane album out in March

Our upcoming gigs and album have been featured in music blog Walk On Music!

Click here to read the post:

http://www.walkonmusic.net/2011/02/king-kong-jane-album-out-in-march.html

More about the album on RCGNTN

RCGNTN is an awesome website dedicated to local talent, and we're thrilled to be featured in one of their latest posts.

To find out the inspiration for the album cover and what to expect from Waiting For Friday, check this out: http://www.rcgntn.org/2011/01/king-kong-jane-waiting-for-friday-debut-album/

We also unveiled the following photos, which illustrate how the album cover was put together by Xander and his team:







Speaking of unveiling, Friday is just around the corner...

We've only just begun

Our upcoming album Waiting For Friday is featured in today's TODAY newspaper, courtesy of Kevin Mathews.



Read the full article here:

http://www.todayonline.com/Entertainment/Music/EDC110120-0000154/Indie-mini-miney-mo-

Yes, the album will be released to coincide with our gig at the Esplanade's Mosaic Music Festival on 19th March, Saturday.

Tomorrow, we unveil the album cover =)

InSing.com: Up Close with King Kong Jane

Tonight's gonna be a good good night! See you at 7.30pm in the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre!

We're starting the 45min set with "If It Wasn't For You", and will also debut our new song titled "How Could You?"

In the meantime, check out this interview that Colin did with the awesome Patrick Chng, that has been uploaded to InSing.com:

King Kong Jane was formed in late 2005 when the guys were studying at NTU. Singer Colin Lim was invited by guitarist Ian Ho to sing for his hall’s jam band and he decided to ‘give it a shot’. Since then, the five of them have been playing as King Kong Jane.

Flash forward to 2010, the group is now established as one of the most exciting live acts in Singapore. They started as one of the new bands at Baybeats in 2007, and later took part and won Power98’s Powerjam band competition in 2008. Later that year, they were also accepted into Noise Singapore’s Apprenticeship Programme and were mentored by The Observatory’s Vivian Wang.

Their power-packed melodic songs, unpretentious aura and Colin’s charismatic stage presence have won them lots of admirers, me included. The band is currently in the mixing stage for their debut album with Leonard Soosay and will be hitting the Esplanade outdoor stage on Sunday in the weekend titled Rockin’ the Region: Singapore.

I caught up with front man Colin to talk about their upcoming album and more.

Read the full interview here: http://www.insing.com/news/up-close-with-king-kong-jane/id-937f1e00?nav=41000

We heart Chinese dailies

Hi guys, we're on the front page of the entertainment section in today's Lianhe Zaobao.

Do pick up a copy of the paper to find out more about NOISE, an apprenticeship programme that we were involved in a couple of years ago.

Kudos to Glenn and Melvin!

In today's TODAY

We're mentioned in an article titled "Singapore's got talent" by Christopher Toh of TODAY newspaper.

Said Kevin: "I've always believed that the one thing that is lacking in the Singapore music scene is not talent, but proper guidance, support and encouragement.

"TAP fits the bill by providing this to our young, talented apprentices. Young artists like King Kong Jane, Rachael Teo, Freaky Z and Nick Tan have certainly benefited from this."

Read the full article here:
http://www.todayonline.com/Plus/Music/EDC090917-0000038/Singapores-got-talent

inSing.com

inSing.com is a new portal by SingTel, and here's an interview of us on it:

http://www.insing.com/things-to-do/music/article/47/01/00/00/King-Kong-Jane

Blog watch

2 prominent bloggers wrote about us recently, which was pretty cool, considering how I myself visit their websites once in a while.

One goes by the name of Cowboy Caleb, while the other is known as alvinologoy, and both are worth some of your time online.

It's NME, baby

We're not sure how they got there, but some of our YouTube videos have actually been posted on NME's website: http://www.nme.com/video/id/kv82zw23ub0/search/soosay

Sweet.

Indie Hotseat

Speaking of articles, here's what came out of our first interview with MTV Asia, which took place moments before our WeekendTRIP gig: http://www.mtvasia.com/News/200903/31017817.html