Mayday concert updates

There's been a bit of Mayday news today.

Mayday will be performing at a charity event [Best World's 20th Anniversary Celebration] in Singapore on Saturday 12 June 2010 at the Indoor Stadium. Event starts at 6:00pm and I've been told Mayday will be performing for at least an hour. For more information on how to get tickets to the event, surf on here.

Moving on to KL, 988, the official radio station for the DNA KL concert have announced on their website that Mayday will be in KL to promote the KL concert on Sunday 18 April, the day after the Singapore concert. No further details have been announced as yet.

HK fans will be delighted to know that Mayday have added a third night to their HK DNA tour on Sun 30 May 2010. Ticket sales will commence on 13 April for the HK concerts.

And last but not least, tickets for the Sydney DNA concert at Sydney Entertainment Centre on Sunday 16 May 2010 will commence tomorrow (Thursday 1 April 2010) at 9:00am local Oz time. Surf on to ticketmaster for ticket purchase

329 五月天生日快樂！

Happy birthday to Mayday celebrating their 11th birthday!

Fans who are attending the Singapore DNA Unlimited concert on 417 should take note of the venue change. The concert is no longer held at Padang. It has been moved to the National Stadium and showtime has been brought forward to 7:30PM

KL DNA Unlimited concert news

I've received several questions regarding the 變形DNA[無限放大版] concert on 5 June 2010. Just so everyone knows, no further information have been released about the concert except for the venue, date & time.

I do have a little bit more information to share which has not been released to the public. The reason no further announcement have been made is because till today the organiser have yet to finalise the seating plan! And what I've been told is there might be a standing section in front of the stage. Good news? Until they finalise the seating plan etc there won't be any further announcement. We're looking at an early April announcement

DNA San Jose Meet & Greet VIP party

Those of you who have purchased the VIP $188 tickets for the San Jose concert on 11 April 2010 would have received an email from the organiser informing of the meet and greet party which will happen after the concert at the San Jose Event Center Aerobics Room.

Aerobics room you say? Will a member of Mayday be showcasing his aerobics skills for us? I would love to see Monster in tights doing aerobics workout. Or maybe not haha

I've been told by the organiser that the Meet & Greet party is actually an autograph party. I don't know why they did not announce the details cos a lot of fans are left in the dark wondering what on earth is this meet & greet party. So it's a post-concert signing session (hey Leehom had a similar post-concert signing in the States and it was, if I recalled correctly, announced at the very last minute) The organiser also informed me that each fan is allowed to bring ONE item along for signing. So there you go folks. That should clear things up about the San Jose Meet & Greet VIP party.

Mayday World Tour [2010 Unlimited Edition] 五月天變形DNA[無限放大版] 演唱會 tour dates as at 20 March 2010

Mayday World Tour [2010 Unlimited Edition] 五月天變形DNA[無限放大版] 演唱會 tour dates so far. It appears that the North American tour are also part of the new Unlimited Edition DNA tour :)

●2010/04/04 Connecticut, USA
Time: 2:00am and 2:00pm
Venue: Mohegan Sun Arena
Ticket price: US$58、US$88、US$128、US$168VIP
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/04/10 Los Angeles, USA
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Gibson Ampitheatre
Ticket price: US$48、US$68、US$98、US$148、US$188
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/04/11 San Jose, USA
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: San Jose State University Event Center
Ticket price: US$58、US$68、US$78、US$88、US$98、US$128、US$188VIP
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/04/17 新加坡 Singapore
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Padang
Ticket price: S$88、S$118、S$138、S$168
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/04/24 廈門 Xiamen, China
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: [厦门体育中心体育场] Xiamen Sport Centre Stadium
Ticket price: 155元、255元、355元、455元、555元、755元、955元
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/05/02 北京 Beijing, China
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: [工人体育场] Beijing Workers' Stadium
Ticket price: 255元、355元、555元、655元、855元、1155元、1355元
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/05/22 武漢 Wuhan, China
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: [武汉汉口文化体育中心] Wuhan Hankou Cultural Sports Centre
Ticket price: 155元、255元、355元、455元、555元、655元、855元
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/05/28、29 香港 Hong Kong
Time: 8:15pm
Venue: Hong Kong Coliseum
Ticket price: HK$680、HK$480、HK$280、HK$180
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/06/05 吉隆坡 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Putra Indoor Stadium
Ticket price: TBA
For ticket purchase click here

NFL Blitz - the end

I was right about episode 15 not being the final episode of NFL Blitz. Episode 16 - the finale was aired last night and finally brought an end to the series. No more late Friday nights waiting hours for episodes of NFL Blitz to stream.

Mayday were introduced to the game of football flag in the last episode, which actually looks pretty fun. Almost like actual football game, minus the body contact. Which makes the game a lot safer.. hence it's only played by kids. How pitiful watching Mayday being pitted against kids - at least Ashin saved face by sitting out of the game and took on the commentator role haha! Did anyone else notice one of his co-commentator appeared in an earlier episode as a supposed "Mayday fan" who had bumped into them outside a library? What a poser

Mayday huddling up with their coach

the A-Team

LA contest winner!

A pleasant surprise awaited me this morning. I had gone to Starzone's website to check the list of the LA contest winners and lo & behold I saw my name on last week's winner list! :D

What did I win? A Los Angeles edition DNA concert tee.

But wait a minute... I am already getting a free DNA concert tee with my pre-book purchase of the VIP concert ticket (though Starzone didn't specifically say it's a LA edition tee but they might just be the same tee) Guess I'll wait to find out on Sat 10 April 2010

This week's new contest question is now up. Good luck!

Star pass

This came in the mail yesterday. Star Pass from Singapore Indoor Stadium. It's a privilege card and I'm suppose to wear it when attending concert(s) held at the Indoor Stadium. If I get spotted wearing it I get a freebie or something like that (they could've at least provided a lanyard) It's no AAA pass for sure LOL

I don't even remember when and why I signed up for the pass

KL DNA update (of sort)

There really isn't much to update. But first up, a big shoutout to Mrs BJ :p who's friend's friend is working in Marctensia, the organiser of the KL DNA concert. I called the organiser dude today hoping to be able to at least get more details on the upcoming concert, only to be told that they haven't even finalised the seating plan! @.@

I asked why did they announce the concert in the media so early and he said that they didn't have a choice cos the announcement was due. Hmmm. Anyway he said he'd call me when tickets are out

The only thing I got from him was they are trying to finalise everything by early April. or maybe sooner I hope (before my trip)

NFL Blitz finale

After a 2 week absence during CNY, NFL Blitz finally completed its run last week (i think? I could've sworn the media reported there would be 16 episodes in total but last week's Episode 15 look like it was the finale?)

Episode 14 saw Mayday and Ding Dang visiting a Mainland student's (lucky duck!) flat at Virginia Tech, pitting their gaming skills against each other. And because this is a NFL program, naturally the band would be playing a NFL game [Madden NFL] No surprise which team lost (again)

round 1 - Stone vs Masa

losers end up cooking dumplings

KL DNA concert 2010

News was released this morning on the KL DNA concert. It will be held at Bukit Jalil (Putra Indoor Stadium) on Saturday 5 June 2010, which is the weekend after the DNA Unlimited HK concerts on 28 and 29 May 2010. No official announcement yet on the HK DNA Unlimited gigs though. My friend in HK told me Mayday may add 3 shows for the HK stop, but that's just a rumour.

As for the KL DNA concert, I've been told ticket sales will start this month end.

For more info/ updates, surf on to Marctensia

Mayday X Wynners

I had no idea The Wynners were still around and touring. I have vague memories of them from the 80's. I can only remember Kenny Bee from the Wynners cos mom is always talking about his problems with his ex-wife LOL

They had a concert at Taipei Arena last night and Mayday made a special appearance onstage performing 愛情陷阱 and 溫柔. 

DNA tickets in the mail

My US DNA concert tickets have arrived safely in England :) Thanks sunset2712 for the below photo. I finally have a snapshot of all the tickets together. I shall have my hands on them soon.. on 2 April when I get to New York city haha!

Complicated arrangement eh? The ticket bookings were all done by Elly, my homie in Boston and mailed to sunset2712, my homie in Sheffield because Elly couldn't meet up in Mohegan to pass me the tickets and I figured it'd be safer to have the tickets mailed to sunset2712 in England (since sunset2712 is meeting me in NYC to embark on the US DNA concert tour together) than have them mailed halfway round the world here. Not that I don't have faith in our local postal service, but with concert tickets, one can't be too careful.

Mohegan Sun, San Jose and LA DNA concert tickets! That's a total of 6 First Row and 1 Third Row tickets ^__^

Ash live at Santos Party House - New York

Just my darn luck. I flipped out when I saw DMH's post in Facebook: Ash's gig at Santos Party House, NYC on Saturday 3 April 2010. Why is the Ash NYC gig on the night that I'm catching a bus to Mohegan Sun? Fate is so cruel.

It's such a rare opportunity for me to be in a city halfway round the world where one of my favourite Britpop band is having a gig. At a small venue no less, and to rub salt into the wound, the gig ticket costs only US$8. (!!!!!!) That's dirt cheap!!

For those of you who are able to make it, tickets can be purchased from ticketmaster

Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go crawl up in a ball and cry :(

Mayday LA concert contest

I just came to know two nights ago that StarZone are running a raffle/lucky draw on their website. The bad news is, it appears to be open only to fans who have purchased a concert ticket to the LA concert at Gibson Amphitheater on 10 April 2010.

I will be submitting an entry as soon as I get my concert ticket # (as I'm typing this, my ticket is in a UPS package somewhere crossing the North Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Sheffield, England)

On the news front, the past week saw Mayday performed in Kaohsiung at a lantern festival (click here for photos) and the release of the song SHERO by S.H.E written by Ashin.

The band will be attending the Wynners' concert in Taipei Arena this Saturday 13 March 2010. This is one concert my folks would love to see.

五月天 at Fish's Taipei wedding.. but where's Masa?

Fish Leung had her wedding in Taipei yesterday which was attended by some of her famous friends including Michael Wong, Penny Tai, Ping Guan, Fan Fan, and Mayday who were represented by Ashin, Guan You and Stone who had brought along a big red packet for her. Ex-boyfriend Masa was noticeably absent (haha) and is reportedly travelling in France (is that a convenient excuse? XD)

the 3 stooges XD

Papa Ryan and Stone had brought their little kiddies along to the wedding. Aww so cute!

Papa Ryan & Little Rose, Papa Stone & Baby Rock and Uncle Shin LOL

the Stone family with the newly weds

DNA San Jose ticket

The final piece of the American DNA concert ticket have finally arrived! That's the San Jose concert on 11 April, which is the last of the four American concert, though it was the first to be announced. And funnily enough, the last of the ticket to arrive in the mail. Whatever took them so long. And they've yet to announce the signing session, which I'm told is tentatively on 7 or 8 April.

hooray my first row middle section ticket :)

2010 DNA World Tour update

A couple more Mainland dates have been added to the 2010 五月天 D.N.A [創造] 演唱會 World Tour:

●2010/04/04 Connecticut, USA
Time: 2:00am and 2:00pm
Venue: Mohegan Sun Arena
Ticket price: US$58、US$88、US$128、US$168VIP
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/04/10 Los Angeles, USA
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Gibson Ampitheatre
Ticket price: US$48、US$68、US$98、US$148、US$188
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/04/11 San Jose, USA
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: San Jose State University Event Center
Ticket price: US$58、US$68、US$78、US$88、US$98、US$128、US$188VIP
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/04/17 Singapore
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Padang
Ticket price: S$88、S$118、S$138、S$168
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/04/24 廈門 Xiamen, China
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: [厦门体育中心体育场] Xiamen Sport Centre Stadium
Ticket price: 155元、255元、355元、455元、555元、755元、955元
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/05/02 北京 Beijing, China
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: [工人体育场] Beijing Workers' Stadium
Ticket price: 255元、355元、555元、655元、855元、1155元、1355元
For ticket purchase click here

●2010/05/22 武漢 Wuhan, China
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: [武汉汉口文化体育中心] Wuhan Hankou Cultural Sports Centre
Ticket price: 155元、255元、355元、455元、555元、655元、855元
For ticket purchase click here

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

It's been such a long while since I last played the DS. I dusted off the ol' DS (which isn't even mine haha) and got cracking on the newly released Ace Attorney Investigation. Looking back, I had been anticipating this game since October 2008. Back then they had used the working title "Perfect Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth" for the Edgey spin-off, which I like better than the current one.

It was good to see so many familiar loveable characters - from Franziska von Karma, Larry Butz to Wendy Oldbag etc. I was half expecting to see Phoenix Wright, but I suppose there was no reason for him to appear in it. Edgey-poo even has a sidekick now, like how Phoenix had Maya.

The basis of the game is similar to the Ace Attorney series, minus the courtroom action. The biggest difference is that there are now 'miniature' versions of the characters that the player is able to move about in the game during "Investigation". Gameplay feels longer than the last Apollo game I played (or maybe cos I haven't played an Ace Attorney game in ages..) Episode 5 felt like it was neverending LOL but it was a great complicated plot that stretched through 3 episodes. All in all this is a good play and one not to be missed by fans of the series