i need to do a little survey to find out if local audiophiles are mere armchair music lovers/critics or real concert goers.

please give me some feedback on the following questionaire:

1) how many live concerts do you watch in a year?

2) if we bring in foreign acts like tommy emmanuelle, tuck and patti, shelby lynne, jacintha, emi fujita, aiza sequerra etc etc, would you buy tickets to watch them?

3) if not, what kind of artistes would attract you to pay money to watch?

4) what are your current favourite venue(s) for concerts/gigs?

5) what kind of price range for the tickets that you are comfortable with?

6) do you prefer the venue to be in kl or pj?

please, give me some indications! the more the better!

no time for hifi.

been busy with all things music.

hold your breath. i have been talking to various parties about starting a performing arts centre. think no black tie but 4 times the size.

we would either rent a place and build the venue, or take control of en existing venue and handle the program direction (contents).

my idea is simple. there is an acute shortage of medium-scale live performance venues in kl. KLPAC is perpectually full; actors studio has been closed down (and soon to be reenacted again in Lot 10); NBT is way too small; DFP is too high cost; Istana Budaya is too big....

i want to bring 2nd and 3rd-tier international artistes to malaysia. they can be jazz, indie and pop. they can be western or chinese. think tommy emmanuel, zhang xuan, joanna wang, jacintha, aiza seguerra, emi fujita etc etc.

what's music making without live performances? building a live performance stage is my ultimate dream and this dream is very close to realization....

progressing in parallel is my chinese indie album project. my talented singer-songwriter (let's call her CJ for the moment) has begun work on the album. it is going to shock the chinese music industry, that much i can say.

tomorrow, a group of us will be heading to tiny dot for cheer chen's 2nd live concert in singapore... it is gonna be a blast. in her last concert in 2007, cheer gave 6 encores!

watch this space closely.