Rhapsody's Debut

We know these upcoming posts are overdue, but we had to start from scratch so.

Rhapsody was slated to make their official debut on October 20, 2005 at Ikano Power Center, in the Starbucks Music Series, playing alongside Jerome Kugan and Izzy. Emails, sms-es, bulletins were sent, friends were constantly pestered, and everyone was extremely psyched for the big day.

Again, as fate would have it, our beloved Prime Minister's wife passed away, and our big debut was cancelled.

Needless to say, everyone was bummed, most of all, ourselves, of course. Now we know what a deflated balloon feels like. :/

Then a friend, Broken Scar was playing a gig at the newly reopened No Black Tie, alongside many artistes, including Sei Hon, Shannon Shah, Jasemaine Gan, Jerome Kugan, Izzy etc.

Nicole had this really strong gut feeling that they should head to NoBlackTie, but Ywenna had previous engagements that she couldn't wriggle out from.

Again and again, as fate would have it, Ywenna's thing got cancelled and she showed up at NoBlackTie. The gig was great, lots of good artistes with good music.

and surprise, surprise, we went up for open mic. Unprepared, we were quite nervous. Ywenna was wearing glasses and complained that she was ugly, Nicole was so nervous that her teeth were chattering (what stage presence again?)

But the audience were so kind they gave us an encore, and so unplanned, unprepared, Rhapsody made their debut at No Black Tie, Musicians' and Music Lovers' Paradise...