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Indie-rock band Bunkface are representing the country at the first Hong Kong Asian-Pop Music Fair (HKAMF).
The event, modelled after the popular Eurovision song contest, will be held on March 23 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Bunkface's singer Sam said the band were honoured, yet humbled, to have been selected to represent Malaysia at this event.
“We will do our best to make Malaysia proud. We feel really excited to be part of this event and we hope that this could help us go mass market in Asia," he said.
Lead guitarist Paan said,"We want to take Malaysian music to the Asian region, and finally the world stage!”
Bassist Youk said the band are not sure how many songs they will be playing yet.
"But there is good chance, we'll play Prom Queen. We'll be practicing for the next few weeks," he told The Daily Chilli.
Bunkface are a trio with Shamsul Annuar (Sam), Ahmad Farhan Hashim (Paan) and Muhammad Farouk Jaafar (Youk).
They will be participating at HKAMF with their permanent sessionists, Ezanear Bin Baba Ahmad (Ejam) - drummer and Mohd Faiz Hazizi Bin Arlis - keyboardist.
The HKAMF is organised by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Hong Kong Group) Limited with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, to discover the next superstar from Asia.
Bunkface will be competing with bands from Asia including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The audience at HKAMF is expected to be 7,000.
The Recording Industry Association of Malaysia chairman Norman Abdul Halim said Bunkface were selected because they were a young and creative band that had won many awards.
In 2010, Bunkface won 5 awards - including two Anugerah Industri Muzik (AIM) awards - Best Rock Song (for Situasi) and Kembara, a special award that recognises overseas performances.
Bunkface have performed at events in the United Kingdom and Australia..
The band also won the Anugerah Bintang Popular 2010 Most Popular Duo/Group award. - http://www.dailychilli.com/
Discography
1st EP - Lesson Of The Season (2007)
1. Tired Mission
2. SillyLily
3. Highschool Rocker
4. Fine
5. Land of Hope
6. Last Minute
1st Album - Phobia Phoney (2010)
1. Bunk Anthem
2. Prom Queen
3. Revolusi
4. Soldier
5. Escape Dance
6. Dunia
7. Ekstravaganza
8. Situasi
9. You & Me
10. Minute To The End
2nd Album - Bunk Not Dead (2012)
1. More?
2. Bunk Not Dead!?
3. Hollywood Just Died!?
4. Agenda Jahiliah?
5. Panik?
6. Jatuh
7. Kita Perang Kita Menang?
8. Supernova?
9. In Another Life
10. Wont Let You Go
11. The Mr DJ Took it Away
12. Better Off This Way?
13. The Insider
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Bio
What started as a series of casual jamming sessions among three secondary school friends ended up in the formation of a band; Bunkface. Although the band was formed in 2005, it was only in late 2006 when they caught the attention of the public through their participation in the hit TV show Blastoff 3. The year 2006 proved to be an exciting one for Bunkface.
One of the highlights of their experience as fresh young musicians happened in 2006 when Bunkface won first place in several Battle of the Bands competition across Malaysia. Winning the competition opened a door for Bunkface to be featured in a magazine for the very first time ROTTW (Rythem Of Third World Country).
After garnering a truckload of new experiences, Bunkface began writing more and more new songs. In December 2007, Bunkface released their first EP titled Lesson of the Season . Phobia Phoney was released in 2010, it is the bands first album and it was a huge success untill Bunkface became a phenomenon at the time in Malaysia and also accross Southeast Asia. With a taste of Pop-Punk and Alternative
Rock, they have put a new color into the commercial league in Malaysias music industry. Fast forwarding to the present, Bunkface have been featured in many local entertainment magazines and interviewed on air numerous times on many notable
radio stations. Under their own production team , Bunkface Production, Bunkface keep trying to produce a high quality of musics, new sounds,enegertic performances to appreciate the supports from the fans and trying to make a changes in Malaysia music industry.
Bunkface has been given recognition for their contribution in Malaysias music industry with few prestige awards like Breakthrough Awards , Rockstar Awards, Ultimate Awards (Shout Awards 09), The Most Popular Group (ABPH 09) , Kembara Awards (AIM17) , Best Rock Song (AIM 17) and many more.
The band has performed at many major events in Malaysia, Singapore, Maldives, Australia and United Kingdom. Latest, the band has been given recognition to perform with top international artists , Katy Perry, Tokio Hotel and Wonder Girls in a world class concert , MTV World Stage. Bunkface also was chosen by RIM to represent Malaysia for Hong Kong Asian Pop Music Festival at Hong Kong on March 2011. Bunkfaces mission is to bring their music to the international levels.
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