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ALLURA

Wake Up & Smell The Seaweed.

About Me


Attention: Allura's Ladeda & Limbo are available for request on Perfect 10, 98.7fm. So please do , text message, call away or email to request for us!
Allura was conceived in early 2007 from an unusual series of unfortunate events. Allura is a five-piece band infusing a different variety of influences, from Jazz to Alternative, from Experimental to Indie - portrayed in the form of Rock. With emotive passion and resilience, Allura pristinely resonates a unique quirky melodic tone with a prerogative crunch. Feel and embrace a new emotively refreshing sound, oozing into your senses.
Behind the scenes, after the show. Come meet the band! :D
Special Thanks to Ron From BluePrint Studios.
Please do feel free to download, burn & distribute our downloadable song(s).
FESTIVAL/TOURS
    Mosaic Music Festival 2007 Baybeats 2007 Lime Sonic Bang 2007 School Invasion Tours 2008
  • RP Augural Rock Festival 2008
  • SingFest 2008

  • LIVE PERFORMANCE HISTORY (SELECTED)
    150607 Something REALLY Good 2007 // Youth Park
    290707 LaSalle-SIA College Of The Arts // LaSalle Campus
    260707 Noise Singapore Launch // The Heeren
    050907 Speak Good English Movement:Rock Your World // Timbre
    090907 Games Convention Asia 2007 // Suntec City Convention Centre
    061007 On The Waterfront: Tapestry Weekend // The Esplanade
    071007 World Animal Day // The Atrium @ Orchard, Plaza Singapura
    201007 A MajorMinor Thing: Allura // Earshot @ Arts House
    091207 PageOne Anniversary Celebration // PageOne, Vivocity
    151207 La Famiglia: Love Is Indie Air // Blu Jaz Café
    281207 Celebrate December // The Esplanade
    010108 Marina Bay New Year Countdown // The Esplanade
    260108 Fasten Your Seatbelt // The Substation
    260108 National University Of Singapore: Pre-U V Bash // The Arena
    050208 Allura @ NUS Radio Pulze // NUS Radio Pulze Station
    280208 Crossborders: Pink Rock Special // Laundry Bar, KL, Malaysia
    190408 Weekend Trip 2008: Force Majeure // *Scape Park
    170508 Rock Off Malaria // Fort Canning Park, Fort Gate
    070608 Rock The Sub // The Substation, Gibson Stage
    140608 Something REALLY Good 2008 // *Scape Park
    260708 RP's In Augural Rock Festival 2008 // Republic Polytechnic
    030808 SingFest 2008 // Stage 2, Fort Canning Park
    090808 Electrico We Satellites Live Loud Tour // *Scape Park
    COMPILATIONS
      Rock For Wayne Compilation JUNK Magazine - Baybeats Issue LIME Magazine Compilation Music For Good - Ballyhoo Compilation

    ACHIEVEMENTS
      Power Jam 2007 Finalist
      Singapore Music Awards Nominee, Best Breakout Band

    REVIEWS
    Music debut at the Esplanade's Mosaic Music Festival 2007
    " Formed out of the ashes of the now-defunct Auburn's Epiphany after "a series of unfortunate events," Allura was ready to shake off their previous band's shadow by playing completely new songs by the new band. Lead vocalist Inch's dynamism and the band's youthful exuberance showed as they blasted through their set with songs like Ladida, Diary Page No. 13, and Closure. One might be compelled to peg them as an alternative emo band, but the band proved they were capable of jazzier arrangements with the song Clandestine."

    - Mosaic Mania Review by Lennat

    ALLURA Beyond The Ashes
    " Allura was forged in the fire of conflict and discontent and in the aftermath, has emerged as one of the most promising, raw and young bands out there in the Singapore music scene. "

    - Power Of Pop Interview by Kevin Matthews


    MERCHANDISE
    ALLURA'S EP: WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SEAWEED IS OUT IN STORES. You can grab your copy at Gramophone, Sembawang Music, Earshot Cafe, Roxy Records, Straits Records, MusicForGood and Beat Merchant Studios. :)
    Sorry, our merch has sold out. (: and we've been too caught up with work or down with some sickness to plan anything yet. But fret not, we'll cough up a new fresh batch of shirts and buttons soon. (heh, pun intended)

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    For performance booking, enquires or further information, please contact: [email protected]

    My Interests

    Music:

    Member Since: 1/24/2007
    Band Website: amp.channelv.com/allura
    Band Members: Inch Chua
    (vocals/the foxy siren)

    Aaron Wong
    (guitars/the casanova)

    Mark John
    (guitars/backing vocals/tentacles man)

    Matthew Yap
    (bass/the war-torn warrior)

    Low Han Quan
    (drums/the lone wolf)

    Sessionist
    Peter Shuan Hedger
    (bass/perfect-faced Buddha)
    Influences: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fiona Apple, Bjork, Hendrix, SRV, Incubus, Keane, Mars Volta, Coldplay, U2, Dream Theatre, Foo Fighters, Muse, Billy Sheehan, MuteMath, Tokyo Jihen/Shiina Ringo, L'arc~en~ciel.
    Type of Label: None

    My Blog

    Running on Seaweed.

    Wake up & Smell the Seaweed's FINALLY OUT! And we cannot be more excited and absolutely psyched about it's debut release. More details will be out soon about how you can get your hands on it. (And...
    Posted by ALLURA on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:27:00 PST

    Back to School

    Hello Ladies & Gentlemen!Finally an electric set from our two-month-long hiatus (fortmoon?) and it feels GREAT! (:School Invasion Tour kicked started for us with the Montfort gig, with Inch headli...
    Posted by ALLURA on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:17:00 PST

    Wake up & smell the seaweed to get banged by a car & assaulted by a drunk Caucasian.

    Its been ages since we blogged up anything up here. (:I guess the new facebook craze has really snagged us off myspace. (no offence tom)Anyway, just a general update on the band. Everything’s be...
    Posted by ALLURA on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:31:00 PST

    To the first hour of 2008

    Thank you, to everyone who was there to support us in the year 2007.Thank you, to everyone who was there to support us in the first hour of 2008.Thank you, Esplanade, for giving us the honour of being...
    Posted by ALLURA on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:25:00 PST

    LYEEELICKS.

    Its about time put some lyrics up. Liberty With Wings Taking its toll, Vision's a blurDoes everything said need to be heardPacing it slow, temperament's coldDoes everything heard need to ...
    Posted by ALLURA on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:41:00 PST

    Bang bang, he shot me down!

    Da Jia Ni hao! LIME Sonic Bang was fun fun fun!The whole beach weekend was like a mini holiday for the band!Before that weekend  it wasn't looking too good and we all got a little worried about i...
    Posted by ALLURA on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:33:00 PST

    Yards beyond the Epiphany. Also, acoustic sweetness!

    That was one hell of three gigs. First One: Tapestry Weekend (Waterfront)! Thanks to all who came and supported us, we really had fun at that gig: Bringing a more personal stage presence, as well as ...
    Posted by ALLURA on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:57:00 PST

    pwned!

    The whole Games Convention Asia was one heck of a "festival" man. The AsiaSoft booth was the biggest booth that hogged alot of space at the convention hall. It wasn't so much as a booth anymore, ...
    Posted by ALLURA on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:58:00 PST

    19 and more.

    First and foremost,Deafcon5Thank you everyone for coming down and supporting us at Deafcon5!The gig was really fun and a good learning experience for us,we're a bit bumped out we didn't get to play La...
    Posted by ALLURA on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:11:00 PST

    B A Y B E A T S 2 0 0 7

    Hello all friendly local music people!Baybeats 2007 was a blast!We thank all of you who came down to support us! Of course, it was a great honour to share to stage with great local bands and our dear ...
    Posted by ALLURA on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:01:00 PST