Earlier today we were at KNUKE press conference on their upcoming UK and Eire tour. KNUKE as an organization has been bringing local acts overseas to perform at venues all around United Kingdom for Malaysian students and locals aboard. This year, they are bringing two local music act, Monoloque and Altimet.
Kugiran Negara Unites Kingdom Enterprise (KNUKE) starts out as a group of Malaysian students studying abroad who wanted to see their favorite local independent act perform in U.K. They first started by with the band Hujan back in 2008 and since have successfully brought Estrella, Seven Collar T-Shirt and Couple on tour all around U.K.
This year, 2011 KNUKE is bringing two well known local acts Monoloque and Altimet and they are expanding their reach by adding Dublin, Ireland on the tour stop list. Tour starts 16th February 2011 and ends 27th February 2011. They'll be visiting Copper Room – Warwick University, House of Coco Tang – Nottingham, Twisted Papper – Dublin and Easy J's UCL – London.
You really can't write about MonoloQue without mentioning Butterfingers, one of Malaysia's legendary grunge band. Started as a side project for Loque of Butterfingers, MonoloQue now has become more of its own. There is nothing grunge about them at all. With MonoloQue it feels that they are trying to push the envelope of what musically possible. Emphasizing more on effects and distortions they have a very post-rock-broken-radio feel to it.
Altimet on the other hand have been busting rhymes in the local hip hop scene for quite some time. He is also part of one of the most notorious hip hop group at that time, the Teh Tarik Crew. As a solo artist he had collaborated with quite a few talented artist and musicians. He also was crowned as the Best Hip Hop Solo Act at the Voize awards. Previously KNUKE has been bringing only rock bands, Altimet is the first hip hop artist on the KNUKE list.
Sure these bands and artist that KNUKE brings isn't playing at big U.K. festival, but you got to start from somewhere right? As mentioned at the press conference, although it might seem that most of the crowds are Malaysian students, but they are bringing their friend, the locals and other foreign students. A good way to showcase our local music.
There will be opening acts on each venue by local artists and musicians. This gives the chance for musicians to network. Sure websites like Facebook and MySpace lets you network with other musicians beyond our border, but nothing beats face-to-face networking.
Throughout the journey, they'll have videologs posted on Gua.com.my so that we here in Malaysia can follow the updates. More info on this when it's available.
Also during the press conference KNUKE had briefly mentioned about other projects they are doing, one of them is a podcast series. We love podcasts! Will be watching for updates.
To know more about KNUKE, visit their website at www.knuke.org or follow them on Twitter, @KNUKEtour or like them on their Facebook page.
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