BANDung

the site's first band promo. check it out! promos from the other eight bands will be out soon, so watch this space.

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Two sets of friends from two places, brought together by love of music. Din and Luc went to KTJ together and were in different bands then. Luc floating around freeriders and guest drumming/guitar-ing in Bangers' Day Out, whilst Din was in the highly successful Talentime Champions, WITI, wowing KTJ with their hard mellow sound. As fate had it, the Manchester MS' Malaysian Music Festival in April of 2005 brought them together in Band-ting, with fellow KTJians Azlan and Aizat, as well as Helmi on bass. And that was where Kudo and Wong came into the picture.

Wong, a talented drummer from Sheffield, Kudo, with the Les Paul he didn't use (oi! -Ed.), and the rest of Maniacs took to the stage wowing Manchester with their Incubus covers, and before anyone knew it, Din, a huge Incubus fan, took to the stage with them, and so they say, the rest is history.

Nearly a year later, there was a calling. Luc was then working at Rizkee where he met Kudo again and was told about The GIG @ Sheffield. Inspired, he roused together the old Band-ting members for practice. As fate would have it, Azlan had to go back to Malaysia and Aizat was unavailable, so what came naturally was a merger... Manchester + Sheffield = Band-ung.

Watch out for the hard-hitting riffs and soul-pounding bass lines from Luc and Kudo, the technical wizardry of Wong sitting on the throne and the grungy yet melodic vocals of Din. Go on, sit still when Band-ung play, we dare you.