The Beautiful People

2006-06-07T16:30:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone! It's gonna rocking with great bands, noise and BOOZE!!!! Come on down! PAR-TAY!

(Sorry this one is old poster. Samanta not inside. BUT WE'RE PLAYING!!! COME COME CUM!)

Following our invasion of Armenian Street Kopitiam in April, onistudio is stepping our toes into The Riverwalk HOME club with our concoction STREET OF CROCODILES inspired by Brothers Quay's haunting yet visually enchanting animation of the same name.

We are proud to present live! the very performative TIRAMISU

very intense ENGINEERED BEAUTIFUL BLOOD

very mashed-up DJ KIMUS

very strutty egopop band SAMANTA

and a very mad noise orgy between

ZAI KUNING, MINDFUCKING BOY & THE ESCAPIST THEORIST

Date: 10th June 2006
Time: 9pm till laate
Venue: HOME club, 20 upper circular road The Riverwalk
Entry: $15 includes 1 drink

2006-05-26T10:52:00.000+08:00

Sorry guys. Got the wrong line up. HERE'S the real info.

Live performances by:-

Localbarboy

Samanta

My Writes

Ceramic Circles

Mistaken Identity

Monroe

6pm.$10 inclusive 1drink. 27may

2006-05-24T16:18:00.000+08:00

Hello Ego-sters! Hope you people are feeling great. Who am I kidding. You're all always great. Anyway, SAMANTA will be playing at Gas Haus this Sat 27th May. Do come down if you can. We'll be playing with a great line up of bands. Local Bar Boys, My Squared Circle, Monroe, Mistaken Identity, Murder Her On The Dance Floor. It'll be a fun night. Gig starts at 7pm and there'll be an entry fee of $10 BUT it includes one drink so I guess it's still ok.

Gas Haus is at 114 Middle Road. It's one of the 4 corners opposite the old NAFA building, the new National Library at Bras Basah and the always there Bugis Shopping Centre.

p/s: If you no money, then come and listen to us from outside but hey...where's the fun in there. Oh, we've also uploaded an old video from one of our gigs ontp You Tube. Just go to www.youtube.com and search for Samanta.

See you guys there!

2006-05-15T08:23:00.000+08:00

Chekkit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW8XF620VII

2006-04-29T01:44:00.000+08:00

Oh oh oh oh oh! Wait!

13th May POW
27th May Gas Haus
9th June Nanyang Poly
Whoa!!!!

We're coming!!! More people, more energy, more fun. Yay! So come ah.

2006-04-15T23:19:00.000+08:00

Whoa! We love you, but we don't know where to find you, so if you love us, you'll come look for us.

SAMANTA

April 21st
930pm
Prince of Wales Pub.
101 Dunlop Street.

2006-04-12T06:28:00.000+08:00

April 21st.
May 27th.
Watch out.

2006-03-20T23:11:00.000+08:00

Coming! Coming!

Stasis 8

2006-01-19T09:50:00.000+08:00

Once again thank you so much to OMS, The Substation & especially to those guys who danced through out the whole entire gig. A good start for a good year.

2006-01-18T01:13:00.000+08:00

Sorry guys. There's been changes in some of the details. Pls read again carefully. No more free entry (those bastards!!!)

Event: Superstar Rebel! Featuring GIBRALTAR, THE MODEL LIPSTIQUES, SAMANTA and
FRONTLINE SOUNDSYSTEM. DJ Effen will be spinning the rest of the night away after the bands.
Venue: DXO. It's at Esplande.
Date: Sat. 28th Jan 2006. It's Chinese New Year's Eve.
Time: Doors open whenever. Event starts at 9pm. SAMANTA plays at 10pm.
Entry:$10 include 1 drink before 11pm. After 11pm it's $18 for non-members, $16 for members, includes 2 drinks.
Drinks: Drinks are 1 for 1 from 11pm till 1am. Heniken $40 for bucket of 5. Still Booze Party dudes!!!
Others: Our album "This is EgoPop"isstillon sale. We've only got a few more copies left. Going at our norm$10 atgigs, $12 outside. So grab it from us after our set!

I know it's Chinese New Year's Eve and there's reunion dinner for some of us.But come after! Party before Chinese New Year! After all. Event starts at9pm. Just nice. Drinks after a heavy dinner. We'll all feel good.

See you there!

Here's the flyer.

Click here for bigger version .

2006-01-12T00:17:00.000+08:00

Sorry guys who came down to Esplanade on Sat and Tues. Unfortunately for the rain, THAT HASN'T STOPPED SINCE GOD KNOWS WHEN, all our sets got cancelled. But oh well, we had a great time at Stasis 8. Thanks all you crazy people who were moshing like mad. First time ev-Ah! We didn't expect it. We came out and suddenly everyone was on stage with us dancing around. Shout out to Jeremy. He came down all the way to Esplaande some time back to buy our CD. I remember seeing him in the crowd moshing. And to Edle too who was dancing away in front. The rest was a blur. The sweat, the prancing, the photo-taking, the amazing cameramen just going for the shots they need. People taking pictures with Helmi, WHILE he was playing drums. I remember him even posing and playing at the same time.

So anyway. I think our next gig would be at DXO on Chinese New Years' Eve. That's 28th of Jan 2006. Doors open at 8pm I think and we're the 3rd band. There's 4 in total. There's the model Lipstiques and 2 other bands I'm not sure who. Free entry before 10pm. That's all the info we have at the moment. More to come. We've only got a couple of CDs left too (I'm not sure what happened to them but I looked at our stock and I'm like...what the hell happened to the rest?!) going for the usual $10 at gigs. $12 outside gigs. Do get one if you haven't gotten it yet. Cheers.

2006-01-03T10:11:00.000+08:00

Another quickie. This time with timings.

- Sat, 7th Jan, 730pm @ The Esplanade Waterfront. A collaborative effort with friends The Subway Stars

- Sun, 8th Jan, 4pm @ The Substation. Stasis 8. Along with other great bands such as The Pinholes, The Subway Stars, Ugly in the Morning, Documentary in Amber, Sleeve, The Leaven Trait, Set For Glory, Surreal, Sakky's Rejex, Dyna Turmoil and Hamartia. Even starts from 1pm.

- Tues, 10th Jan, 730pm and 845pm. A double set @ The Esplanade Waterfront.

- Sembawang Fest on Sat, 21st of Jan 2006, 7pm. < We're playing Sat now not Fri.

Also, do check out our interview at www.agingyouth.com Thanks AYP.

2005-12-05T05:51:00.000+08:00

Hello peeps. A quick update. While driving home at 530am in the morning, it suddenly hit me. Samanta will be pretty crazy busy in the month of January. We'll be doing....

a) A collaboration thingy with friends The Subway Stars on Sat, 7th of Jan 2006 at Esplande Waterfront,
b) Stasis 8 at Substation on Sun, 8th of Jan 2006,
c) A double set at Esplanade Waterfront on Tues, 10th of Jan 2006 and
d) Sembawang Fest on Fri, 2oth of Jan 2006

Crazy man! Will be back with more details soon. In the meantime, while we're working out the NS thingy, we'll also try to debut more new songs at each gig for our up and very slowly<--note coming single releases and a series of gigs with a couple of other friend bands like The Pinholes, The Subway Stars and Sourgrapes to name a few.

In other news, Naz just entered N.S., just when his short film, Wayang, which he and his school mates did for his school's final year project got selected as audience favourite in The Substation's First Take event. It'll be screened on the first tuesday of Dec at 8pm. Which is the 6th! Tomorrow! Come on down and check it out. It's free.

2005-10-17T00:25:00.000+08:00

Thanks all for coming down to POW last night and buying our album. It wasn't as great as we hoped to be cos we've been slacking some. BUT! We'll be back again. Here! (click on pic for more details again)

We'll definetly get our act together with more practices and hopefully new songs to get you guys dancing to the dancey beats. This time, it's all about YOU!.

Return of the returns

2005-10-12T11:10:00.000+08:00

Samanta's back! Get your albums here!

Hello peeps. plasticblackspecs here for a little quickie. Samanta is back after a short break. (NS la) We'll be doing a small but intimate gig at our very friendly Prince of Wales pub (details below). Our mini EP/album entitled "This Is Egopop" will be on sale that day so come on down and grab one if you haven't. And if you have, just come down and drink yourself silly. It'll be going for $10 that night (normally $12) with free sampler CDs. Supporting us will be NvRLrN who's also back after a long break. In case you don't know who NvRLrn and Samanta is...keep on reading.

NvRLrN
NvRLrN is back! After a 2 year hiatus, they are back at their best to rock your punk rock socks off! Expect a night filled with energy, entertainment and cold jokes!

SAMANTA
The self-proclaimed ego-maniacal pop stars of Samanta will rock YOU with their fierce brand of music and brash, hedonistic presence, complete with flying monkey stunts. Their self penned songs can be dangerously infectious, catchy yet hard edged tunes dealt out with lethal dosages of rock star attitude. Come catch these sexy beasts unleash their insurmountable energy that will reel you in, everywhere, entirely, completely. Heck even they are dying to see themselves play!

So it's gonna be at...
... the Prince of Wales pub aka POW.
...101 Dunlop Street. Behind Tekka Mall.
...15th of October 2005. Saturday.
...NvrLrn will be playing at 930pm and
...Samanta at 1030pm.

But come down earlier and chill. It's a nice cosy place. In case you're not sure how to get there. Here's a map. click for bigger image.

Keep your ears on Power 98FM coming thursday, friday and saturday too. Oh. And it's also our secretary's birthday that day. Come say hi to her.

2005-09-04T20:37:00.000+08:00

***latest news***
Samanta record is out. get it now!

for more info visit www.agingyouth.com

pictures that were not lost...

2005-08-22T01:15:00.000+08:00

punk rock returns vol 2?

2005-07-16T23:31:00.000+08:00

samanta's slot will be announced as soon as we get it. keep a look out...

some pics from homeclub, opening for last transmission; album launch

2005-07-16T16:58:00.000+08:00

invaded by asri from juliet's diary

on a high pictures

home club 14th july

2005-07-10T03:11:00.000+08:00

hey ppl, samanta's opening for this band called "last transmission" for their album launch at the home club. www.homeclub.com.sg. its also a so called baybeats prelauch party as described by the organizers. we are not sure of what's happening but do come down. we're starting at 8pm. its 12bucks per entry with one free drink... hmmm.. see u there

as usual they spelled the band's name wrongly...

images from RAAD show at youthpark 23june2005

2005-06-28T00:43:00.000+08:00

happy people

performance

one lucky bustard

CHECK IT CHECK IT CHECK IT!!!!!!!!!

2005-06-22T07:41:00.000+08:00

Join us at the RAAD! Teens LAUNCH event!

23rd June 2005 @ the Youth Park 2pm - 8pm

Hosted by: Jamie Yeo

Featuring: Maia Lee (from Singapore Idol)

Bands performing: Disco Biscuit, Force Vomit, Full Pledge Munkees , Samantha, Summer's Over, The Leaven Trait.

Performances by: Singapore Lions, Graffiti, Turntablism, B-Boys, Extreme Sports, Dance

Guest of Honor: NMP Eunice Olsen
Piano Recital with Jeremy (Children's Medical Fund)

as usual they spelled the band's name wrongly.

RAAD show book launch at youth park thursday 23/6/2005

2005-06-20T00:05:00.000+08:00

www.raad.com.sg

we will be playing a set along side some other bands. band line up not confirmed as yet. the show will start at around 6pm. come join the party.

the bosses favorite pics

2005-06-19T23:43:00.000+08:00

live & loud @ pow with arpee 17/6/2005

indie nights @ hideout with moods 8/6/2005

live & loud @ pow with model lipstiques 21/5/2005

live & loud @ pow with sourgrapes 13/5/2005

plug & play version 1 @ substation theatre 30/4/2005

2005-06-17T00:32:00.000+08:00

SEE THAT, PEOPLE?

See you all there. :)

2005-06-02T00:16:00.000+08:00

This is an update to everyone.

Samanta's performing times on the 8th and 17th June are confirmed, as per informed by the boss.

On the 8th, wednesday, we'll be playing at Hideout at 10pm.

Hideout's address:
31B Circular Road
Singapore 049387

Tel: +65 65369445

On the 17th June, we'll be performing at Prince Of Wales. 9:30pm.

See you all there!

2005-05-24T16:47:00.000+08:00

As I have said, Samanta will be performing on the 1st June 2005, at Hideout, and on 17th June 2005, again at P.O.W. Hope to see all you die-hard fans there again, and once more, we love you guys! The time we'll be performing is yet to be annouced, no worries.

2005-05-24T16:36:00.000+08:00

Pictures from 21st May are up. Enjoy!

Hilmi

Helmi

Nazry

Terence

Performance shoots, taken by moi.

The crowd.

It was a fun night, thanks for coming everyone, and hope to see you on the 1st of June, at Hideout!

2005-05-20T01:27:00.000+08:00

I'm sorry to post this so late, but since I'm being put at gun point, I'm finally putting up pictures from Friday the 13th. Enjoy, you all.

Finally got a shot of the mysterious Terence. There you go. Spying pink.

Performance shots.

A sleepy friend.

A hot guitarist.

A happy winky couple.

A happy horny white man.

4 lucky girls.

The prata 'baby' boy.

And lastly, exhausted, satisfied people.

That's all, goodbye.

Signing off.

2005-05-17T02:56:00.000+08:00

I couldn't help but imply on the hotness of the band members. Once again, Samanta! (Terence, the other ~~guitarist~~ bassist, is currently at home, feeding his son with a jug load of beer, un-contactable.)

From left to right -
Helmi, the band's drummer, Nas, the lead vocalist and guitarist, and Hilmi, guitarist.
I apologise profusely for the poor quality of the picture. It probably just couldn't take all of it.

2005-05-17T01:18:00.000+08:00

Samanta, everyone's favourite pop rock band (yes, I know), will be performing on the 21st May, 2005. At P.O.W. aka Prince of Wales. We'll be performing right before The Model Lipstiques, so come early, everyone. Catch a good show.

AND.

In case no one here knows where Prince of Wales is, it's at 101 Dunlop Street, Little India, right behind Tekka Mall. There's a mosque around there, too.

See you all there!!

Signing out.

P.S.: By the way, thanks to everyone who showed up on the 13th May at P.O.W.. Without you people, we'd still be as hot as ever, but remember, we still love you!

2005-05-14T14:01:00.000+08:00

Hello.

This is the secretary, reporting for work.