Naughty Noor Nice: a great Holiday warm up!!

It’s holiday season…again, and that means I could look forward to another episode of Naughty Noor Nice!

NNN is a lovely collaboration of people that seriously enjoy music and want to have fun playing it.

It is about a little bit R rated, humoristic view on Christmas. Although I guess that the rules of the venue, my trusted Blu Jaz café 3^rd floor, already take care of the R restriction.

Naughty Aya Sekine

Noor Mohammed Noor

Nice Joanna Dong

Or is it

Naughty Joanna

Noor Noor

Nice Aya

I never remember. I was even more confused with who was being who, that evening because Joanna and Aya looked like the embodiment of Yin and Yang. 

Anyway Noor, though very nice is always Noor, or is he…?

For more good looks and a bit of a serious note the band had added Hiro Maekawa on Bass.

Though even he could not always keep a straight face.

NNN + Hiro presented a long list of songs with cleverly altered or fully rewritten lyrics, and a large number of guests, to put up an entertaining Christmas show, that will be number one on my list for a long time to come

The show started off with a blizzard visit (apologies for the Dutchism) of James Flynn, 

who, together with Joanna, aside from promoting his show for this evening at the Sultan, set the tone for the rest of the evening; naughty on a slippery slope!

To the level where Joanna had to step in

 and step up! 

After quite a bit of fun we were surprised with a visit of the man himself.

I don’t want this to be a gossip column but I got the impression that Santa and Joanna had spent quite a bit of time together this past year.

Santa was only the introduction to more guests, Lily Anna Nuris came to decorate the stage with color. 

Noor received assistance from “drummer boy”  Teo Jia Rong.

 

Leonardo Mendoza stopped by for some of his cool solos on his Electronic Winter Instrument,

as Sebastian Ho (3x) stepped up the stage to add more cheer.

As said an awesome holiday show, which make you wonder, wouldn’t the rest of Singapore want to see this too. It’s a perfect way to warm up some of these cold faces.

 

 

 

 

MAAD rush for Mars and the United Nations

 eclipse - the dark side of Mars

Marcel had told me it was only going to be 30 minutes, but I did not expect it would start that timely. So we arrived probably 10 minutes into the set at the Red Dot museum, where Mars and the United Nations:

Thorsten Vieth on keyboards, 

Shahferi Ahpek on drums, 

Roman Tarassov on lead guitar, 

Michael Avery on bass, 

Marcel Heijnen on vocals and guitar.

 They were playing a half hour gig as part of the regularly returning MAAD Pyjamas arts and crafts fair.

So with 20 minutes left there was just enough time to rig up the monopod and take a few photo’s and listen to the band perform some real fun covers and originals. Not a lot of time for even a short story, but I hope you enjoy the shots.