Retro9

We are MERKMAID is a band comes from lovely land called Malaysia, city of Batu Pahat Johore, Malacca Historial City and Terengganu Darul Iman. Which officially formed at the end of 2006, we’ve played Post Rock/Post Hardcore/ Screamo band with a spread of catchy melodic vocals. At the time, we consisted of only three band members, named Ijan PM the frontman (guitar/vocals), Faiz from malacca (bassist), and Adek as a (drummer). But as the time we’re slowly pass we change our formation because our drummer Adek had another commitment that need to quit from this band. After a while we have change our new formation, we have six line up Ijan (vocals/screamo), Ery (backup screams), Faiz (rhythm guitar), Asyraf (lead guitar), Fuad (bass) and Qayum as a drummer. MERKMAID is " Penduyung Malaya ". We will continue to rock your world, keep on rocking and we’ll never give up till we reach the end. Wait and see!

PENJELASAN DARI JOE KID-CARBURETOR DUNG

Friends all, kami semua OK (Alak ada benjol sikit kat dahi). kami perlu berterima kasih pada pemuda-pemuda AMK (Angkatan Pemuda Keadilan - t-shirt biru) yang rata-rata marah tapi masih cuba sedaya-upaya menyelamatkan kami dari segerombolan pemuda-pemuda berbaju merah yang memang ready to rip us apart. With the help of AMK, we all managed to sneak out of the stadium (separately) after about 20 minutes being under siege.

The problem here is our song “Mari Nyanyi Menjilat”. Macam biasa, Alak did his exposing his underwear thing and of course dalam situasi panas tentang “liwat-meliwat” sekarang, aku rasa that gesture was misunderstood by the people there.

Some reports I saw also misquoted the title as “Liwat” instead of “Jilat”, so if some bloggers made the mistake, I’m sure a lot of the people in the stadium misunderstood too. So many took umbrage lah, thinking that we were making fun of Anwar. Actually I even explained to the crowd the gist of the song before we played it.

The thing is aku rasa Alak was in his “auto-pilot” mode. We have been playing that song for a long time and to a lot of people for years already and Alak have always been doing that to heighten the “satire”. The kids in the scene would get the joke all the time but we can’t expect the same from the public. That’s our mistake.

Anyways, apart from the guys in AMK, we also must thank Tom (Skitzofrenia) who shielded Alak from a lot blows, and in the process also got some benjol-benjol. Much thanks to Mad Yus (Apparatus), Poodien, Mirdza (Relationsheep), Black and many more who were there and helped out.

BTW; Mari Nyanyi Menjilat (not Mari Belajar Menjilat, as Malay Mail wrote) is about integrity or the lack of it; the mother of corruption…

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