DDA is looking for musicians to join the band! If you can play the trumpet, keyboard or any sort of percussion, please contact me pedramdj@yahoo.com. You must be above 18 and you must be living in Penang.

Next gig : Indepedent Bands Festival July 22 info

As you can see from the dates, I'm quite inconsistent with updating the news section but today I feel invigorated. Last night was the first time the "new" DDA played a big stage. It was fun! It was awesome. Thanks to all those that came upfront and danced. Especially that guy on crutches!

I should have mentioned this earlier. We had an amazing time at our last gig at Church St. Cafe. Thanks to the organizers for inviting us. They made a loss but they insisted on paying us. Class!

I'm happy to say that despite the fact we keep changing bass players faster than we do our shorts, DDA is progressing very well. We are writing alot of songs and we are in no hurry to release them. I've noticed we're writing songs that easily fit into 3 categories, 1, a reggae and dub vibe with spacey guitars, or 2, straight out heavy rock instrumentals and finally, 3, nicely packaged melodious verse chorus verse singy songs. I like the fact that we have no idea what we are doing and what DDA will sound like. Alot of people have expressed shock over the reggae direction but I'm sure they'll be pleasantly suprised by the final outcome....if not, no matter, it's just a project, rock is still our bread and butter!

I'm weirded out to say this but it seems the music scene in Penang has a heartbeat again. The jamming studio where we rehearse is constantly booked and there's a gig almost every month. All thanks to Church St. Cafe for breathing new life to the scene. Alot of good new bands out there.

This saturday, 24th June, is the French Music Festvial again, we are playing at around 9pm at the main stage, upper Penang Rd. Come on down, its free!

Yours truly,

Pedram

We are playing this Sunday in Penang

Wanting to record an album and actually getting it done are completely different things. It wouldn't be DDA of us if we didn't leave things to the last minute... which we did. We recorded 14 tracks, 3 weeks before our bass player had to leave, at a kick ass studio in Taman Tun run by Mr. Funny man Nick Lee. Guitars were just a guide so I didn't have the stress to play perfectly. Vocals and Guitars will be done in Penang at our own studio. This will take a while so please don't expect an album soon.... we don't have any vocalists confirmed yet.

Bob and I would like to thank Shanker for taking over bass duties over the past few months. His level of professionalism and commitment was beyond the call of duty. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have had any recording done. Thank you and good luck in your new life in New Zealand. May the sheep bring you endless pleasure..

It is confirmed we are playing this thursday at a charity show to support the Methodist Girls College. Whitelight, Love me Butch and Lucy in the Loo are playing as well.
Thursday 6 October, 7pm
Pan Pacific KLIA

Hello everyone. Just wanted to let you all know that the new bass player, Shanker is working out really well. The jam sessions have been very fruitful. We've got around 15 songs sorted out and we're trying to sort out some gigs now. We're also planning on recording very soon. Just trying to sort which studio.

If there are any sound engineers out there interested in recording us, contact me.

2 nights ago was a major step forward in the DDA camp. We recorderd live at a jamming studio with my brother Sina at the helms as the sound engineer. After 3-4 months of jamming with the new line up, it was nice to see the fruits of our labor. Playing it and hearing it are 2 completely different things.... and it sounds great. A real incentive to go on. I'll probably upload one of the songs in the future but it's not "professional" enough for mass consumption.

We had a pretty shit show at the hard rock cafe due to lack of ambience so I wasn't too excited about beautiful junk before we came on. Thank you to everyone that came and supported us, your vibe and energy made it a great set. Now we are looking forward to this Saturday's Fete de la Musique.
We are playing out on the street at around 8pm right outside the Garage's Slippery Senorita. It's Free!

Looky looky, there's an article about the hard rock show in the malay mail

Welcome to noisemonkies ver 5. Damn Dirty Apes are back. We are currently working on 2 albums, the first a reggae/dub based album and the second a continuation of exploration left off in Ape Kill Ape.

Our Shows for this month

4 June, Hard Rock Cafe
with Prana and Klux Klux Adventure
starts at 3pm

11 June, Beautiful Junk
Music and Art Festival, Dewan Sri Penang
For more details www.beautiful-junk.com

18June, Fete de La Musique
Upper Penang Road
Free show