Ayuh berdansa !!!

Back in Action!!!

Dah banyak kali jugak terpaksa membatalkan penyertaan dalam event Gegey Music, so kali ini the band akan cuba sedaya-upaya untuk menghadirkan diri. Hopefully, takde aral melintang la. So, see u guys there.. hehehe.. between, Gegey Music rocks!!!!

2crank.com

Hye guys,

We're on the 2crank.com now. Feels free to visit us there through this link :

2crank.com

"Katakan Padaku" which was taken from our e.p "Lifetime Valentine" has been uploaded as well. Come and support us. Thanks.

The Yakkub EP Launching Gig

See you guys there. We might handing out free goodies as well.

Update & New Song : Fertilasi

Band Hujan dijadualkan untuk meneruskan Tour - Mencari Konklusi mereka di Kuala Terengganu. Tarikhnya mungkin pada 31hb Oktober 2009 dan SleepyJeremy will be likely to open for Hujan on that day. Tunggu confirmationlah. Setakat ini, tempat mungkin di Ibai Golf Resort bermula jam 8.00 malam dengan harga tiket RM15.00. Other band would be AwanBand.

Untuk bulan Disember pula, SleepyJeremy might feature dalam satu lagi local gig di Kuala Terengganu. Wait for further updates.

Its been another good week. Satu lagi lagu baru. Sessi merekod new release - EP dengan 7 lagu sedang dirangka dan harapnya the band boleh mengumpul tenaga, material dan semestinya sumber kewangan untuk merealisasikan apa yang dirancang . Ada mana-mana rekod label yang berminat ?

Fertilasi

Bukankah sudah
sampai waktu 'tuk berubah
anak muda
kini mula melangkah

liberasikan diri
suci jiwa dan hati

kerna kita
sasar mudah diperdusta
apa yang benar
tak seperti disangka

liberasikan diri
pandanglah dengan hati
tiba masa
'tuk bangun berdiri

c/o
Hanya kita yang berdaya
'tuk mengubah segalanya
Hanya kita yang berdaya
menghapus ular berbisa
kita masih punya masa
jangan sekali dipersia
hanya kita...

fertilasi
pancaran bongkah besi
berakar umbi (dalam diri)
melumat jati diri

konsumer virus benci
hayat bersumber api
tiba masa
'tuk cuba berhenti

c/o
Hanya kita yang berdaya
'tuk mengubah segalanya
Hanya kita yang berdaya
menghapus ular berbisa
kita masih punya masa
jangan sekali dipersia
hanya kita...

merencana
dongeng massa perdaya
fantasia
kecil hingga dewasa

liberasikan diri
hidup perlu berarti
tiba masa
'tuk cuba berdiri

Out Now ! Senandung Pawer-Kord

Artist(s) Name : Various (Punk rock/Indie)
Release title: Senandung Pawer-Kord
Country: Malaysia
Format: CD
Price: RM15/RM16 by mail
Release Date: 12 September 2009
Length: coming soon
Qty Press: 1000
Status: Available :)

Current Qty: 297

Front cover artwork by: Napi Stick No Bill

Tracks
1. T.I.M - Dia (Sheila Majid)
2. Carbon 4 Teen - Gadis Ayu (Black Dog Bone)
3. Toxictoy - Antara Cinta dan Kasih (Aishah)
4. 679 - Chow Kitt Road (Sudirman)
5. Half-Asleep - Sinaran (Sheila Majid)
6. Skunkfix - Masih Aku Terasa (Gersang)
7. Killing Steward - Basikal Tua (Sudirman)
8. The Liberals - Penganggur (Sudirman)
9. Soul Savior - Khabar Buat Ibu (Alleycats)
10. Stick No Bill - Hanya Di Radio (Headwind)
11. Cock Say Cock Dung - Suratan Takdir (Gersang)
12. Sally Faerie - Wajah Rahsia Hati (Fauziah Ahmad Daud)
13. Always Last - Persamaan (Freedom)
14. Geng Gemok Keji - Hingga Akhir Nanti (Alleycats)
15. Moda Moody - Gadis Dan Bunga (Rahimah Rahim)
16. Sleepyjeremy - Ayahku Dan Angkasawan (Kembara)
17. Dum Dum Tak - Rupa Tanpa Wajah (Kembara)

Notes: This is a compilation of Malaysian 80's pop songs covered and ruined with these bands own styles.

TRIVIA:

-the model on the front cover is Andax of The Liberals
-photography location at Amert's room

Selamat Datang Teman

Ini lagu terbaru daripada kami.

Perkauman adalah kebencian dan keangkuhan. Perkauman adalah prejudis. Prejudis kaum dan bangsa akan membuahkan perlakuan diskriminasi. Sesungguhnya manusia itu satu, walau apa pun warna kulitnya baik hitam, putih, kuning, coklat, biru, merah, kelabu mahupun ungu.

Perkauman hanya merencatkan evolusi manusia.

Selamat Datang Teman

Selamat datang temanku
raih tangan bersamaku
ikut langkah kemana ku tuju

Selamat datang temanku
Tabahkanlah hatimu
kerna disini tak seindah mimpimu

dan takkan
seindah mimpimu

c/o
Di setiap langkahmu
di setiap penjuru
pasti ada
mereka yang buntu

Walau mentari terang
hidup semakin kelam
tertindas
oleh kewarasan yang makin hilang

Selamat datang semua
saksikanlah kisahnya
yang tak punya
pasti saja
kan terus merasa hiba

Usah dipersulitkan
Langkahlah seiringan
ayuh kita
robohkan semua halangan

hulurkan tangan

repeat c/o

Nasik Dagang Raya Gig

Terima kasih tidak terhingga buat semua yang memberi sokongan. Terima kasih juga buat organizer yang sudi menjemput kami untuk memeriahkan suasana. Terengganu's kids memang best. Keep on rockin' ! Stay away from racism shits !

Jom Beraya !

Sleepyjeremy back in action. Eheh.. jom beraya bersama di Dewan Seri Budi, Kuala Terengganu beramai-ramai.

Goodbye Sedang !

Terima Kasih Sedang !

Selepas sekian lama bersama band, Sedang telah mengambil keputusan untuk mengundurkan diri daripada Sleepyjeremy. Pengunduran diri Sedang bukannya adalah disebabkan perbalahan atau pun salah faham. Cuma isu-isu peribadi dan komitmen menjadi faktor utama keputusan ini terpaksa diambil. Sebagai salah seorang founder band, ketiadaan Sedang sudah pasti akan dirasai. Kami tetap menyokong apa sahaja keputusan Sedang dan semoga Sedang akan terus maju jaya dalam apa jua yang dilakukan.

Terima kasih di atas segala-gala.

Berikutan keputusan Sedang ini, band mempunyai kekosongan di posisi vokalis.

Aku dah bosan dengan kestatikan band berikutan masalah kejauhan antara satu sama lain. Aku tak merasakan ia akan berjaya.

Jadi, aku mempunyai keinginan untuk menjadikan Sleepyjeremy kembali sebagai Kuala Terengganu-based band. Sebuah band yang dianggotai oleh semua ahli yang boleh berjamming sekurang-kurangnya seminggu sekali. Untuk show. Untuk gig. Untuk recording. Untuk progress. Bandmates yang boleh duduk berbincang bersama-sama bila-bila masa. Yang boleh petang-petang lepak-lepak minum air.

what do you think?

Turning Point?

Kalau kerajaan, ada rombakan kabinet. Kalau korporat, ada penstrukturan semula. Kalau perkhidmatan awam, ada rombakan jabatan. Terpaksa buat. Dan terpaksa menerima. Dengan berat hati.

Dalam keadaan sekarang, band seperti tersekat. Band perlu progress. Band perlu maju. Band perlu prektis.

10 Julai 2009?

Find A Way by Sleepyjeremy

Thanx to Rizie (Dum Dum Tak) for the cool video.

Plainsunset which hails from Singapore was and still one of our major influences. We open our set at Smash Racism- Peace Gig with "Find A Way" , a cover from the veteran punkrockers. They recently have released their fourth album after a quite some time. Please do listen to them. In the mean time, enjoy this video!!!

Sleepyjeremy@Peace Gig. Little Bali, Cherating 30 May 2009

Human First Collective rocks!!!!

p/s: Wait for the full story

ymerejypeels

clockwise: Awang, Idah, Yo and Izhan

Cool? Well, this is the band's photo we gonna use for the tribute's project. I plan to do something that look old 80s era pic and I guess we did pulled it off. Hell, we really looked like 80's hair band. Even the song we did was arranged and recorded in vein of that era. And I really love the way it was done. Perhaps you guys should check it out. I still considering of appearing on the comp. as some other side project rather than using the band's name as I am the only one from Sleepyjeremy involves in this.

Well, maybe I'm gonna start a project band here in Kuala Terengganu. Anyone interested? That should be fun aight!

Tribute to the 80s : Nervhous Rechords

Mungkin dah ramai yang tahu yang label sahabat kami, Nervhous Rechords yang dioperasi oleh Nizang (DumDumTak) akan merelease satu kompilasi "Tribute to the 80's". Tajuk untuk compilation tu belum confirm lagi dan there will be some interesting names such as The Goodnite Goodies, CockSayCockDang, DumDumTak dan banyak lagi yang turut serta dalam projek ini.

Due date fot the submission adalah 20hb Mac iaitu hari ini. Untuk Sleepyjeremy, lagu sedang berada dalam proses mixing dan akan diemail kepada Nizang later today.

Recording session untuk projek ni dah pun dibuat pada 18hb dan 19hb Mac dengan bantuan rakan-rakan scene dari Terengganu.

By the way, Sleepyjeremy akan mengcover sebuah lagu Kembara bertajuk "Ayahku dan Angkasawan" dipetik dari album "Perjuangan" (1982) yang ditulis oleh Shahlan Tajuddin dan liriknya digubah oleh S. Amin Shahab.

Ayahku Dan Angkasawan

Ada satu cerita dari ayahku
Kisah pengalamannya bertemu dengan
Seorang angkasawan yang baru pulang
Setelah menjelajah bulan dan bintang

Sambil menunjuk ke arah cakerawala
Dan berkata sungguh indah
Tiada hipokrasi tiada korupsi
Tiada peperangan tiada benci

Menurut cerita darinya lagi
Mereka hidup berharmoni
Begitulah dunia di sana
Dan Ayah pun melihat sekitarnya lalu berkata

Sawah ladang ini
Adalah hidup dan milik kita
Di mana-mana sama saja
Kerana kebahagiaan
Letaknya di jiwa sendiri
Oh Angkasawan
Oh Ayahku

la la la la
la la la la la la la la

la la la la
la la la la la la la la

Untuk projek ini, kite try buat sesuatu yang berlainan so korang bley expect not your usual sleepyjeremy stuff here. Kalau berminat nak dengar, kenelah mendapatkan kompilasi ni bile dah release nanti. Tarikh release akan kite war-warkan.

Line Up untuk projek ni:

Vocal , Electric & Acoustic Guitar : Izhan
Bass, Backing Vocal : Awang DullyDog
Drums, Backing Vocal, Tambourine : Yo CockSayCockDang
Backing Vocal : Idah

Dunia - New Song

Dalam kesibukan kehidupan seharian, sempat juga mencuri masa berkunjung ke Studio Azzeem dan merekod demo sebuah lagu baru yang bertajuk "Dunia". Disebabkan ahli band lain yang bertebaran jauh dari kampung halaman, Yo dari band punkrock, Koksaykokdang telah dipanggil untuk menyumbang keringat pada drumset. Thanx Yo. U rocks!

Sebuah lagu moderate rock yang bertempo sederhana.

"DUNIA" berkisar mengenai kebejatan dunia masakini yang terbelenggu dengan peperangan yang tidak berkesudahan. Sampai bila kita harus bergantung kepada hukum rimba untuk menyelesaikan perselisihan pendapat. Sanggupkah kita mengaku bertamadun sedangkan tindak tanduk kita sebagai manusia kadang kala lebih keji dan hina dari haiwan? Bom-bom manusia sekarang bukan sahaja menghancurkan generasi sekarang, malah meninggalkan kesan pada generasi akan datang. Bangkitlah wahai anak muda. Katakan tidak kepada peperangan!

Lirik (Draf pertama):

DUNIA

Apa yang terjadi
tidak ku fahami
sengketa duniawi
yang hanya mengerti
bicara mata yang lirih
air mata bersilih
tubuh menyembah bumi

ohh.. bebaskan dunia ini
ohh.. hentikan korban ini

kerana kita semua
punya akal dan rasa
kerana hanyalah cinta
yang kita tega

segala yang terjadi
gelap satu sisi
perakus duniawi
meledak sang bumi
bicara mata yang lirih
air mata bersilih
darah terus mengalir

ohh.. bebaskan dunia ini
ohh.. hentikan korban ini

kerana kita semua
punya akal dan rasa
kerana hanyalah cinta
yang kita tega

oh dunia
tiada sengketa

oh dunia
untuk kita semua

=Eezmo=

Diskografi

Lagu Tema Telemovie "Radio Ga Ga"

Photo owned by Nizam Zakaria

Ramai yang tak tahu tapi sebenarnya salah satu lagu dari ep pertama kami iaitu Katakan Padaku telah dipilih untuk menjadi lagu tema untuk sebuah telemovie "Radio Ga Ga" terbitan Zeel Production yang telah ke udara di RTM 1 pada penghujung tahun 2007 dan telah diulang tayang pada penghujung tahun 2008. Pengarah telemovie tersebut, saudara Nizam Zakaria secara peribadinya menyukai lagu ini dan telah meminta untuk memasukkan lagu Katakan Padaku sebagai lagu tema. Lagu ini pada asalnya dimuatkan kedalam kompilasi "Bollok Wok 3" yang merupakan himpunan band-band dari Terengganu dan versi yang terdapat didalam kompilasi tersebut adalah versi yang berlainan daripada versi ep kami. Kedua-dua versi tersebut ada dimuatkan didalam telemovie "Radio Ga Ga". Telemovie ini akan disambung menjadi drama bersiri untuk tayangan di RTM dan masih di dalam proses penggambaran.

Review by ROTTW Music Magazine

This review was published in DIY Section, ROTTW Issue 135 March 2008. Thanks to MOE.

Sleepyjeremy
Lifetime Valentine EP

Track 1: Love On The Way Out

Tersenyum seketika apabila mendengar trek, dari bahagian intro sehingga penghabisan. Malah saya ulang dua tiga kali. Sound yang ditonjolkan agak menarik dan seimbang. Overdrive dan crunch gitar juga menjadi soundnya, tidak pecah dan terlalu kering. Secara langsung, tidak menjejaskan flow lagu. Vocal pronounciation boleh tahan, dan penulisan liriknya juga...boleh tahan. Melody line untuk lagu ini juga menarik dan kena dengan flow lagu. Hmm.. saya nak ulang dengar.

Track 2: Mist Afternoon

Trek yang lebih perlahan berbanding trek sebelumnya. Music flow yang kena dengan konsep tajuknya..bagus bagus. Penghayatan lagu juga ok.Cuma vokal agak tenggelam sedikit berbanding sebelumnya. Sound yang seimbang antara semua instrumen. Saya suka efek gitarnya.. tidak kering dan sesuai dengan lagu.

Trek 3: Katakan Padaku

Trek Melayu antara tiga trek Inggeris yang lain. Agak catchy dan upbeat. Seronok betul sound dia. Pun saya ulang juga dua tiga kali. Sayang.. vokalnya kerapkali tenggelam oleh efek gitar. "Kata.. katakan...katakan padaku" line yang menarik, juga korus yang kuat hooknya. Hmm.. punya nilai komersial untuk market tempatan, sejujurnya.

Trek 4: Beware Of Your Heart

Sebuah cover dari The Pilgrims, di bawa dengan gaya tersendiri. Menarik.

CD Lifetime Valentine ini didatangkan dengan packaging yang merisaukan saya. Sampul kertas yang mudah rosak jika tidak dihandle dengan baik. Namun sound dan muzik yang digarap cukup menarik dan impressive, walapun ada ketidakseimbangan di satu-satu bahagian. Biasalah tu.. nobody's perfect. Namun untuk rilisan EP, ini sudah cukup baik. Lagu Katakan Padaku merupakan sebuah trek yang boleh dijadikan single. Cuba master kembali dan hantar ke radio-radio tempatan.. sekadar cadangan. Mana tahu, kot-kot ada yang sangkut? Secara peribadinya CD ini memang menarik. Teringin juga melihat persembahan live mereka. Joinlah Soundstage, ada berani?

Interviewed by Innerview Zine #1

This interview was published on Innerview #2. If you guys dig zine reading, then you guys should grab theirs. Cool contents, great graphic.What more we can ask? Lets fire up zine reading again.


Hi, how are you guys doing? As a starter, a brief introduction about SleepyJeremy and what have you guys been doing lately?

Hi there. It’s really good to know that somewhere here in Malaysia there are still people who still have faith in doing and distributing fanzine. Well, I guess doing a zine is not the “In” thing nowadays. It’s even harder to find the people who actually read it, don’t you think? So, kudos to you guys. I’m Izhan here on behalf of the band and I’ll be glad to answer as much as I can all your queries. It’s important to note here that these answers were from my own perspective and does not reflect the others.

SleepyJeremy started somewhere around 2002 at Kolej Yayasan Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu. We went to the same college where Sedang was my senior and the rest of the bands were my junior. Thanks to Mr. Shahrul, my Marketing Lecturer, he was the one who put us together. A band to represent the college was badly needed back then for a show in Uitm Dungun and he finds Sedang who went and called me. Mr. Shahrul also roped in Ujay who actually knows someone also from the college who can play the drums. So, a “bidan terjun” band was formed with Sedang being the main vocalist, Ujay and I play the guitars, Sekut handles the bass and Iddin hits the sticks. Its quite fun although we barely knew each others. Sort of. Ujay at that time played with JellyBelly while Iddin with E.K.E. Both bands were quite active in the Terengganu’s scene so it was quite helpful. Anyway, we play Shizuka’s Redline 95 and it really been a great night for all of us. So, I think why stops the bonds. I’ve seen enough chemistry between us that the day after I went to Ujay and Sedang and a real band have been formed. The original line up those days were Sedang on vocals, Ujay on drums, Sekut on bass and both Mamat and me on guitars. The band’s moniker however didn’t come until later. We used a few bizarre choices of names I myself couldn’t remember and we did played a few jamm sessions using those names. Later while rehearsing in the infamous Kuyie’s MOM Studio, Sedang suddenly jumping out from nowhere and shouting the name SleepyJeremy. And I don’t really know how, that was the name that we still use till now.

Currently, after a few lineup changes, the band now were made up of Sedang – vocals, Ujay – drums and me on guitars and a few friends who helps during shows and recording sessions. Usually Yazit of the Pushpapura lend us his bass skills and sometimes Kinto also joins in as the guitar player. A quite brief introduction I guess.


Tell us more about your "Lifetime Valentine" EP. (Where was it recorded, how was it recorded, live or track by track, the cost and how many have been sold so far?)

“Lifetime Valentine” EP was a long delayed project of the band. We have planned to move our asses into the studio to have some decent recorded material since as long as 2004 but thanks to our hardship to allocate the time, it was never been materialize until 2007. The 4 songs we recorded were actually composed mostly around 2002 – 2004 and all four songs have already find their way to light through various production by our friends. The first track, Love On The Way Out was already out through a free cd sample by PlanetLove Rechords in 2005 with a much less impressive audio quality. The second track, Mist Afternoon which was one of the earlier stuff that we wrote back in 2002 and have been featured in Bollok Wok 2, a compilation for Terengganu’s bands released by the now defunct Ronin Distro and Nizang’s Nervous Rechords. The third track, Katakan Padaku was actually a song we wrote in English entitled Perfect Deceiver. We changed the lyrics but retain the melodies and manage to put it onto Bollok Wok 3 released by Nervous Rechords together with a bunch of other cool independent labels. While the last track, Beware of Your Heart was already out through “Tribute To The Pilgrims” cd which comes free with The Coalition Zines.

Anyway, most of the songs were ill recorded and definitely deserve a better recoding. So, we thought that this might be the best time to really go and find a decent studio to record these songs.

Yusri of 50 K Promises introduces us to Ejai, the owner cum sound engineer of Prosound Studio and we thanked him for that. Ejai (He was the drummer for Indrani) have done some real good stuff before and we pretty like how his past projects sounds. So we packed our things and headed to Bangi. Ejai is just a brilliant guy, I really like how he handles our songs. I always have. His whole sense of composition is really dense and I like that. He has a very different compositional approach so it is sort of like filling the hole in the band. I enjoy his approach in recording the material we have and for some reason he enjoys hearing our lame songs. All songs were recorded track by track and the whole process took us a couple of long days. The cost? Nearly 1K but I guess that money was worthily spent.

The original plan was to pre release these four songs first as a teaser before we all get together and record maybe another 5 or 6 more songs and release a full fledge album. We have in about 20 songs altogether waiting to be recorded. But Ejai now is in Australia so I guess the plan had to be on hold yet again. Anyway, we press a couple hundred of Lifetime Valentine E.P all being distributed for free through our friends and associates. The response was quite healthy I must say.


I'm impressed with the intro for "Love On The Way Out". It reminds me of the band "Hot Water Music".(Not saying that you guys are copying them). Are you guys into all this emo-rock music /bands. What are the bands that influenced your music?

The only Hot Water Music’s song I ever listen is “Elektra” from the “Don’t Forget To Breath” compilation which ironically the first emo stuff I ever listen to. I do listen and inspired by a lot of emo bands. But not limited to just that. So, safe bet to say is that we are sitting on the fence between the standard driving sounds of punk rock and less spicy mainstream alternative rockers such as Saturnine.

When we write songs, the whole idea was to relate as much as we can to our daily lives. Love On The Way Out for instance is a piece I wrote when I’m actually in verge of a breakup with my girlfriend. The emotions, the hopes and the frustrations were written all over it. So, it would be natural for anyone to put the tag “emo” on us by looking to the lyrics. The way it happened was because I’m quite feel awkward playing or singing about fictitious things. Even if the things are metaphorical, which occasionally it is on this record, I just wanted to be straight and honest about a lot of stuff. For Mist Afternoon, lyrically it is still quite ambiguous and I think that's purposefully done so that people can identify with it in their own way. It can't be so direct that you're spelling it out for them, they really need to get something out of it themselves. And I found a lot of these with emo bands.

By the way, we listen a lot to Jimmy Eat World, Brandtson, Marchtwelve, Plain Sunset, Mineral, The Get Up Kids, Cursive; just to name a few. Tell me, how can you ever resist the poetic lyrics by Mineral or The Get Up Kids? We just can’t.

During the recording session of the Lifetime Valentine, particularly we looked up to Jimmy Eat World because there very colourful, almost poetic writers, but they're also very direct. They won't use a big word if they don't have to and I like that. At the same time though i've been a big fan of Padi for years and there's a cleverness that comes with Piyu's lyrics.


By listening to your song and reading your lyrics, my personal opinion is that you are a radio-friendly kinda band. Any intention of going major? (If not, why?)

In a way yes, I do think the same and I definitely think that most of the listeners would agree as well. But what the heck, the band never experience the fruit of it. Our songs had never been aired as far as I know. And our songs are way too long for radio stations to spin it. Although Katakan Padaku did became a theme song for “Radio Ga Ga”, a telemovie aired on TV1 not a long time ago, we actually never had that chance listening our tunes on air. Some of our friends did send the cds to various radio station but I guess it just fall into deaf ears. Some Punk kids will say SleepyJeremy’s Lifetime Valentine is so mainstream, but, really if you think about it it’s not at all. If you play it for someone who only listens to the radio they’d be like `What is this weird stuff?’.

Radio friendly or not, was never an issue to us. We just playing what we like and writing what’s related to our ups and downs. At the end of the day, what’s really matter is how we enjoys every minutes of it.

On going major, we didn’t take it seriously yet. Self control is something that never should be out of your hand. We think that everyone should see the whole package and make the right choices. If it means you’re getting better, then why not. For the time being, we are not yet there. In the near future who knows?


Your rendition of "Beware of your Heart" from The Pilgrims is also commendable. It's cool that you guys really did it the SleepyJeremy way. Which is better, to cover a song by playing it chord by chord or do it your own style? (Why?)

I’m glad that you guys like it. It’s really up to the band to decide what’s best for them. For some, when doing covers, it is really important to maintain the originality of the songs. But to others and in this case, us, we have tried to really make it into SleepyJeremy mould. For us, the Pilgrims is a band we respect and love very much. We all grow up with Perfumes Gardens and Away From The Number cassettes in our stereo. And I think I need to clarify that our version of the song didn’t in any way mean that the original version is not that good. We just look into it in a different perspective. What it would be like if we add a few licks here and there? What would the song be like when we add these chords and those chords? It’s more like looking into something from a different angle. Should we play it at a faster tempo? Or it would be better slower? These kinds of questions would always pop up in our minds. At the end of the day, we all sit around together and have a listen to it saying “yeahh, that’s cool man”. We all like it and there you have it.

I can assure you how intriguing it would feel to wait and see what would the Pilgrims say when they hear our version. I don’t know if they ever listen to it yet, but one thing for sure, Joe Kidd has put something nice to say about it on the ricecooker blog. By the way, the melodies are still there if you dig deep enough. And the original chords were also there. I did think of doing some other covers. Iris from Spiral Kinetic Circus would be cool. Or perhaps Liquid Love by the Saturnine? What do you think?


Can we attract listeners if we sing in Malay rather than English? Your opinion?

I personally believe that music is a wonderful gift to mankind. It doesn’t really matter if you sings in Tagalog or in Tamil or whatsoever, a good song is a good song and can always attract listeners. It would helps a lot by delivering your material in essence which everyone can chew. Just look at Hujan. Compare it with The Couples who were into the scene much earlier. Although both music style is similar, you can see how language can be the decisive factor. For me, it just the matter of taste. But don’t let the language be your barrier. Music is universal. Definitely.


When was your last show? Is it hard nowadays to get a chance to play for gigs? (If its hard, why is it in your opinion?)

The last would be a jamm session early this year at 60’s Studio, Kuala Ibai, Terengganu. We just finished playing 2 songs before the friends in blue uniform raided the venue and eventually put the session to the end. Go figure that. The truth is, we didn’t play as much as we hope so I would say it is hard to get that chance. I guess there are a whole lot of bands out there but too little rooms for them to show what they’ve got on stage. What we get was the same bands over and over again.

For SleepyJeremy, playing live is not what we really think about. Besides, every one now live far apart. I’m in Besut, Terengganu, Ujay and Sedang in KL, Yazit and Kinto in Klang. I guess it would be better for us to focus on producing good releases.


Future plans for SleepyJeremy?

Right now everyone were busy with their own life. I myself just got married a couple of months ago, so I can’t really see what’s in the future have in store for us. I still writing some new tunes and hopefully we could squeeze some of our time to get together and starts polishing the material we have. I guess time will tell. For the time being, enjoy your Lifetime Valentine dosage. : )


Thanks for answering all these questions. Anything you want to add before we wrap this up?

Thousand thanks to the whole Innerview crew who kind enough to interview us. This is the second interview we have done and the first one was like ages ago. Keep on the good work. It’s a good thing to see when you know the scene is still alive and kicking. To all readers out there, have faith in our scene. Bands, zines, organizers, Free Food Volunteers all need your supports. So keep it going. Anyone out there who is interested in having our e.p, please do send a self address enveloped with RM1 stamp to the addres below. Cheer guys.

Last advice, the best thing to do when you feel anger is to grab a pen and not a boxing glove.