The man and I met at the 4th Edition of Baybeats. The festival is now in its 23rd edition. Wow. It has been 20 years of attending Baybeats for us (definitely all 23 for the man), skipping a few years in between because we weren't in town.
The man and I watched some gigs together on Day 1 of Baybeats. Then we took the Smol Girl to Day 2, and tag-teamed dog-sitting duty. Teeheheheheeh. There were Jay Chou shows and I think Andy Lau concerts in town; and some musical at Marina Bay Sands? Of course I wouldn't care. Not my kind of music. The bands at Baybeats were what I wanted to watch.
There were plenty of tech glitches. Esplanade uses SISTIC as a ticketing platform. SISTIC couldn't cope with the initial priority booking, and they had to hang that for days before getting it back online. Then the ticket confirmation emails came in without the promised attached PDF copy of the tickets. And of course the one time I didn't download the confirmation into my own PDF copies; SISTIC had a total system outage on the opening night of Baybeats, rendering all of us stranded and unable to open the link (gateway failed) and get our tickets and barcodes. Anyway, the front-of-house sorted it out fine and there weren't chaos at the venue.
This year, the programming team worked really hard to have some of the bands slated at the ticketed venues also perform a set at the other non-ticketed venues (be it totally outdoors or in air-conditioning at the Concourse). That allowed all of us to have a chance to catch the shows in between every other demand on our time this weekend.
Ahhhhh, Caracal, LITE (JP), Tokyo Shoegazer (JP), YONLAPA (TH), KIKI (TH), FUGŌ (Msia), Hands Like Houses (Canberra, AU), Berlin Psycho Nurses (Changsha, CH), B-Quartet, Sub-Shaman, et cetera. Loved hearing them all!
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