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| Sweet fantasy at the 13th Global Chinese Music Awards Posted: 988 pulls out all the stops for the 13th Global Chinese Music Awards. IT was a night of glitz and glamour at Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium on Saturday as the 13th Global Chinese Music Awards (GCMA) kept audiences enthralled with an unending parade of pop stars. Celebrities arrived at the awards show in style courtesy of the event's official car Peugeot.  Joey Yung and Raymond Lam (second from right) arriving in style in a Peugeot. The biggest winner of the night was Hong Kong's statuesque Kay Tse who swept six awards: Outstanding Regional Singer (Hong Kong), Best Dressed, Most Popular Duet (with William So), Charismatic Voice, Top 5 Most Popular Female Singers, Top 20 Hits Of The Year. Homegrown stars Gary Chaw, Penny Tai, Michael Wong, Gin Lee and Issac Dang grabbed the top awards of Best Male and Female Singers, Most Popular Male Singer, Outstanding Regional Singer and Most Popular Newcomer respectively.  Kay Tse, the biggest winner of the night, took home six awards. Most Popular Female Singer went to Hong Kong's Joey Yung, who also won for Best Album. The audience were wowed by the likes of talented young Malaysian artistes including Shila Amzah, Crystal Lee and Dennis Lau who performed at start of the show.  Shila Amzah (right) and Crystal Lee (accompanied by her father David Lee) thrill fans at the red carpet. That's a tall hairdo for a petite girl like Crystal! Apart from Kay Tse, Malaysia's Isaac Dang was also the recipient of the Best Dressed awards. Both Tse and Dang were attired in outfits which reflected the event's dress code - Punk Fantasy. The theme for this year's GCMA was "Play. Music. Hard", and a total of 74 awards were given out in 24 different categories. The event was hosted by local Chinese radio station 988. This is the second time the station hosted the show; it first hosted the GCMA in 2005.  988 programme manager Lim Tock Peng presenting a souvenir to Peugeot car distributor Nasim Sdn Bhd's chief operating officer Datuk Samson Anand George. Originally derived from a weekly radio chart show, the GCMA's main objective is to promote the development of Chinese music and reward outstanding contributions in the Chinese music industry. Established in 2000, the annual GCMA is organised by seven affiliate Asian radio stations from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia which take turns to host the awards ceremony. The seven radio stations are Beijing Music Radio, Shanghai Dong Gan 101, Music FM Radio Guang Dong, Hong Kong's RTHK, Taipei Pop Radio, Singapore's YES 933 and Malaysia's own 988. > The Star operates 988. For more on GCMA, visit 988.com.my or gcma2013.com. Related story: |
| Francis Wolf delivers first book Posted: Francis Wolf chronicles punk life on the road in his first book project. Francis Wolf will not pretend to have penned a literary classic. But the independent singer-songwriter takes immense pride in finishing off a piece of work that has nagged him for the past 12 years. His first book Social Carbon Copy: Stories From The Road 2000-2002, which is self-published by the Doyerown Books imprint, is out this Wednesday. "All I can say is it wasn't an easy book to write, but it had to be written," reveals Wolf about this "tour diary" that chronicles his touring (mis)adventures with his band Spunky Funggy. Social Carbon Copy: Stories From The Road 2000-2002, according to the 40-year-old musician, is an honest account of an underground Malaysian band aiming to take on the world on its own terms – struggling, succeeding, crashing spectacularly and rising again with colourful stories to be told.  Francis Wolf's Social Carbon Copy is a behind-the-scenes account of the career struggles and endless disorientations in the touring life of Malaysian independent band Spunky Funggy. Amazon, which released a Kindle edition of the book last month, describes it as: "Spunky Funggy's account of their disastrous attempt to tour Australia and how they bounced back to an eventful follow-up tour of Thailand a mere year later." Back in 2000, Spunky Funggy, which featured frontman/guitarist Wolf, bassist Lan and drummer Chong, released its debut album Smile For The Revolution. The album laid the groundwork for bigger things ahead for the punk rock-inspired trio, which had earned its stripes in the 1990s underground scene. It went on to sell 18,000 copies. "It was a heady time for Spunky Funggy – we were positively sparking from all the attention. Then we suddenly disappeared without a trace. This book picks up the pieces," he adds. For his book, Wolf also rescues a previously released chapter featured in his fanzine Take Your Sh** And Walk (2002) and carries the story on with his reflections from the road, rock 'n' roll dreams and fractured friendships. In his foreword, Wolf nails the spirit of this book by writing: "Reading the manuscript as I was transcribing this book made me realise where I was and where I am right now. How I view the world and how being a punk was important to being me. Sometimes we forget the plot and it's very awesome when your younger self reminds you of what is important." A nationwide busking tour to promote the book is on the cards. Social Carbon Copy: Stories From The Road 2000-2002 will be released first in English this Wednesday, while a Malay edition arrives in November. The book costs RM12 (post paid). More details at www.facebook.com/socialcarboncopy. E-mail: doyerown@yahoo.com. |
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