peering out of our cave

Hullo! We took ourselves off the shelf, dusted our shoulders a little, and are making ourselves look presentable for TWO shows tomorrow :D

Show #1: Launch of Artisan Roast

The's bandmate Alang and his friends just opened up a coffee place off Jalan Ampang. We'll be playing alongside Azmyl Yunor and Reza Salleh - a chilled out set amongst pretty shady trees and cups of good coffee. Event details here.

Show #2: Taylor's University's Indo Night

The good folk at Taylor's University are hosting an Indo Night tomorrow featuring a variety of Indonesian acts, food, etc. We're wondering how we'll fit in as usual, but Dizzy suspects The's Indonesian blood might come in handy. Details here.

Come ah or we don't friend you.

♥

urbanscapes 2010 + palate palette 31 July

We wish we had more stuff to show you from our session under the tree at Urbanscapes, but so far we've only uncovered one video (thank you Wayne!) of strangely enough, Believe Me I Saw It On The Internet. It's a poem to my cat which I wrote because she was trying to walk into the microwave.

What we did different THIS time at our gig was before we started, we passed around bits of paper containing one poem from our setlist. It was randomly assigned and we did spot some people trading poems after the show, which was what we hoped would have happened. In the past we've had people come up to us before saying they missed out on a few words (A GREAT EXAMPLE is the poem Wayne shot because frankly it's a bit crazy).

Maybe we'll do this at all our shows from now on?

See for yourself at Palate Palette, 31 July at 9:30pm. RM15 gets you in with a drink.

(applicable to everyone who isn't perving on Katy Perry the same night, that is)

the wknd sessions, a video we should've put up AGES ago!

Immigrant & Interpreter + Prime Number

Thanks to popteevee and The Wknd!

fashion for passion

We are performing tomorrow (Friday, Apr 2) for a really great cause.

• Come by Bangsar Shopping Center at 8pm
• Visit www.orkidstudio.co.uk beforehand; they're the charity that invited us!
• Complete Fashion For Passion charity fundraiser details here.

Thanks to Su Mei for inviting us. Here's hoping you haven't been pranked too often this April Fool's day.
See you tomorrow!

our letter to JUICE

which we've just sent and would also like to share to new friends landing here from the article about us in the February issue of JUICE magazine. (for those who haven't seen it yet, we're trying to find a scanner).

Dear JUICE,

As well excited as we were when the call came for us to play around in your February issue, we've just read the accompanying article, and figured we should set a few things straight. 

1. Our EP is not at all available at "the best record stores", only through us. Unfortunately we only handmade a few hundred copies, & they're all sold out.
2. The first page of our effort seems to have skipped publication, & so we'd like to clarify that only the second half of Wildcats was printed.
3. Most importantly, Dizzy is Liyana, & The is Alia in our little duo— really not vice versa!

We would have gladly provided these details & our blog to JUICE along with Wildcats if we had known they were needed. After all, our memory of being named your Best Spoken Word Album of 2009 is still fresh in our heads, and now we have you to thank again for our biggest spread in a magazine to date. 

Dizzy (Liyana) & The (Alia)

http://dizzyandthe.blogspot.com

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Our next post, hopefully, will be the complete version of our handwritten Wildcats for everyone to read. Once we find it! 

PS: We have a pretty ridiculous idea for our next release, and hopefully things will be set into motion before middle 2010. We'll flood you with updates when we're done working it out.

dizzy & the's first post of 2010

our first project of the year had nothing to do with a performance. It took all day and we're pretty happy with it. Watch out for Juice Magazine's issue next month (I think).

This is the first photo of us taken in 2010. Thank you, Adrianna Tan!

we're 2nd runner-up in Junksounds!

I know I cast my vote for Arabyrd and Tenderfist, but thank you everyone who chose to vote for us! We somehow persisted in that mad sweep of winning Indonesians and came in as 2nd runner-up in the Electronic/Fusion category!

Congratulations as well to Goodnight Electric :)

PS: hey, that's not our myspace...

usually it's the other way around, I think

photo by lainie yeoh

our performance at book launch of 'What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You'

feel the need to relive our last performance (of the year possibly) over and over again?!! well even if you don't, we'll just leave it here anyway, just in case you might want to, who knows.

credit for the video goes to our 200th ep customer! thank you!

hey, about the whole sold-out thing

if there was anyone on the waiting list or who was interested in buying a copy but, well, due to bad luck or misaligned fates we never managed to meet up since the release— the ship might have sailed, but do email us. we believe we have a secret solution :)

200 sold!

I am writing this in the car with Alia behind the wheel. Fueled by the purchasing power of kind strangers and in the mighty shadow of Farish Noor's new book launch, tonight we have sold absolutely all 200 copies of our self-titled EP! Thank you everyone for making us feel a little like rockstars :)

Juice Magazine voted us Best Spoken Word Album of 2009 which is also crazy awesome. Alia and I personally think there might not have been many other contenders in the category, but since it's now out there, we're pretty psyched at the possibility of spoken word releases proliferating henceforth.

I don't always write like this but we're happy and in a traffic jam! Thank you everyone!

Best Electronic/Fusion Act (Solo/Group) — Dizzy & The?

we're pretty blown away that there's space for us in the JunkSounds '09 nomination category, especially since it's regional! Crazy stuff. Of course this means we're up against very, very solid and diverse acts (you think fusion food is confusing? mix all of us together yo), and even our latest music-crush, Tenderfist. Tenderfist rocked our world the last time we saw them, which happened to have us on the line-up as well. They don't even have a release yet but we're standing in line for a trade.

Also, an awesome tweeting byrd we know was there to check them out too, and turns out she's also in on the nominations! So that's Dizzy & The, sidebyside Arabyrd, and Tenderfist, together agaaaain.

And we haven't even talked about the ones from other countries yet...
So. Can we just say upfront that it really is awesome to be nominated?
Because it really is :)
Thanks Junk.



And I don't know about Alia, but I'm not voting for myself. Just seems weird.

TimeOut KL; interview now, show later

Stop! TimeOut Time! (The will kill me for that). Aaaaanyway, TimeOut was also kind enough to invite us to play at their monthly installment show, No Black Tie. We'll be in September's edition on the 16th. it's in our google calendar. bring it on!

dizzy & the quick quick quickie!

We were just live on TV!
We really were!
But I was really nervous and kept staring away from the camera, so my mother at home thought I was reading something. Fail. My heart was in my throat.

Since I don't know how to embed videos, you can watch us right here yes click right here if you missed it!
(but you'll need to sign up first if you haven't already)

Thank you 8TV, Shaz (for the invitation), Asman (for taking care of us), very cheeky hosts Prem and Henry, Matthew (for calling in), the mask-wearing makeup ladies dan sewaktu dengannya.

did we make your hearts grow fonder?

one.
September 16th at No Black Tie for a Time Out KL gig, come come and watch us after buka. More details as we know them. We're gonna be featured in an interview with them too, will post the link when it's online!

zwei.
As you saw in our previous post, we were at Cloth & Clef a while ago, and here's the podcast if you missed it. Thank you to our favorite soundman Mac for balancing the recordings so you guys won't go deaf listening to "Believe Me, I Saw It On The Internet", hehe.

tiga.
SSK's "RM - Rap Melayu" is out! And if you squint at the tracklisting, you'll see that we are guests on the 3rd track "Chenta", also featuring Sipanitera. If not for our awkward geekgirl charm (cough), do get the album; we're big fans of these guys, they're all sorts of awesome :D
(ps: my favorite track is ATFL)

cuatro.
We'll be on 8TV's Quickie at midnight tonight. So if you want to see us caked in makeup and cloaked in even more awkwardness, do tune in! For those outside Malaysia, we'll post up a link to the video if it does get uploaded.

V.
We were almost going to be in Singapore this weekend for a show organized by the amazing Bani Haykal of B-Quartet and his girlfriend Ila, but we do sincerely apologize for not being able to make it, as there were delays and miscommunications. Fret not, however, I (The) will be there next weekend for the rescheduled show - but not to perform though - so say hi if you wanna :)
(will post up a link to the almost-show's flyer once it's out)

when we were at cloth & clef.

thanks to malayrish for taking the photos of our show :) it was quite an interesting turnout, and we loved the rest of the lineup. and thanks to C&C for having us!

more for your play button

Remember our appearance on The Wknd? If you just can't get enough *cough*, head on over here to order a copy of The Wknd Sessions Volume 1 on DVD, featuring Azyml Yunor, Otam, Estrella, Paolo Delfino, Meor, Reza Salleh, Shahridir & Nizam P, Couple, Deepset, Bunkface, and us!

Includes extra footage from the first 11 episodes, and you get 10 free mp3s from Popfolio :D RM30 inclusive of postage and handling, or if you can't wait, come to Urbanscapes this Saturday. Limited copies available.

Dizzy & The are, unfortunately, not performing for Urbanscapes, but I'll be on stage with Furniture in the afternoon (and we might just barge into open mic, who knows? hehe). Come say hello!

DELIVERY ANNOUNCEMENT

For those of you who want us to post you the CD, please email us with your address at dizzyandthe [at] gmail, so we can work out payment methods (money order? bank draft? well-concealed benjamins?). For deliveries within peninsular Malaysia, it will cost around RM20. For deliveries overseas, we'll customize costs according to order, which will include price of CD + price of postage + possible processing charges, depending on payment method. Or just email us to say hi, we're very nice little girls :D

So watchoo be waitin' for, foo?

shameful promo by shameless people

some of dizzy & the's favourite boys, faiz (can dance) and uzair (cannot), including our henchman major behind the camera majin. belated thank yous for everyone who came to bentley that day (for yuna <3) (and happened to see us before her slot). for those who came up and took pictures, share share with us on facebook / myspace.

if anyone has problems with the cds they bought that day, send an email and we will work things out.

a quick one! (oh, pun)

we're up tomorrow evening circa 5pm-ish at homegrown space, wisma bentley, in mutiara damansara, right before yuna, who oh-so-kindly pimped out the show on 8tv's quickie (aka NATIONAL TELEVISION). dizzy & i are trying not to pee in our pants at the amount of people in the audience. but we are excited, yes, and we are bringing copies of our EP :)

p/s - scroll down this link for a video of our performance at homegrown space's launch on may 8th.
p/p/s - we've been in a couple of magazines of late; scans of the clippings will be posted soon!