Here's a timeline of what happened yesterday, November 21.
5.30pm: Universal Music Singapore delivers the Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy album to me - the first person in Singapore to get the album! It is only available in stores on November 22 after 6pm.
6.00pm: Meet other bloggers at the lobby of Fairmont hotel to wait for our limosines to fetch us to Scarlet hotel for a blogger event (not related to the Chinese Democracy Listening Party).
10.00pm: Event ends and I get the suite at Scarlet Hotel for the night.
10.45pm to 2.00am: A total of 56 invited guests and friends become the first people in Singapore to listen to Chinese Democracy at the Pre-Launch Listening Private Party hosted by me.
In all, I received an incredible 159 requests for invites to the party. I'm extremely sorry that I couldn't invite everyone because the suite has a limited capacity.
I would like to thank everyone who wrote in for invites, my friends and the 56 that showed up at my private party, the bloggers who stayed behind after the previous event, the Scarlet hotel technician for showing up two times during the night because of power failure and a mysterious burning smell in the room, Axl Rose for making such a brilliant album and Universal Music Singapore for the support and the CD!
It was an amazing night and now I can really look forward to growing old and tell my grandchildren the story of how I helped Guns N Roses launch Chinese Democracy in Singapore. Purrrrfect! Oh, and thanks for all your birthday wishes and pressies! Will post more photos but here is the first batch.
16 comments:
Happy Birthday IZ! Wish I could join you guys.
thanks for organising the party man.. u rock! gnr rock!
You should take the video or pics when all of us were head banging!
thanks! happy bd!
Hope u had a great birthday dude. We Guns fans owe you a big gratitude!
thanks iz for the invites! happy birthday once again
Gona buy my album tom!!!!
man the room looks awesome... u can have more than juz a listening party there... hehehe
Happy belated birthday dude! That must be a really memorable one for you.
the suite is lovely!!!!
Hi IZ. Thanks for giving us the invites. It was nice to meet you. Long live GNR!
it was fun! thanks iz!!!!!!! happy birthday once again.
too bad i did not get the invites but i got the album on saturday. it's really very, very good. nice to hear axl again. anyway, congrats on the successful hosting of the listening party.
Happy Birthday IZ. I was so angry with myself for not reading your post about the party earlier. Really wanted to go.
:o(
would love to buy some of em GNR patches off you email me and let know how many you have and how much you would want a peice for em
i'm interested in those patches, email me at r2punksgmail.com since i can't give your email. let me know how mnay u have available and price. I am based in Singapore too.
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