| Anyone visiting Singapore for the first time, with | | | | in shaping Singapore's own musical present, and |
| expectations of visiting a city that's locked in | | | | some of the seminal groups are still very much in |
| some quaint past, is in for a big surprise. And also | | | | the popular consciousness. When the rise of |
| a very big treat. Because Singapore is an entirely | | | | alternative music showed itself on the world's |
| modern island city-state, and although it might be | | | | stage in the 90s, there are many here who felt |
| small, their contributions to world culture are | | | | their was no good scene to latch into, so they |
| pretty mighty. In terms of the cuisine, the visual | | | | had to create their own. Of course, for those |
| art, and the advancements in technology, its | | | | who are schooled in the history of this music, |
| citizens are making work that is changing the way | | | | that's pretty much how it happens anywhere. Like |
| the world perceives itself, and there is a | | | | other forms of music born from a spirit of |
| tremendously vital creative energy that lurks here. | | | | rebellion, alternative has to be alternative to |
| Even alternative music, which has had a pretty | | | | something else, and it's invariably something |
| good run in the world at large, has played a part | | | | mainstream and contemporary. |