Twice As Nice

When you’re as well-loved as MAYDAY, you can stage the same gig twice in less than a year and still put up a helluva show.

- Yip Jieying

Taiwanese band Mayday evidently likes to play life on Hard mode. Why else would they — their last gig in Singapore was in December at the Indoor Stadium — stage the same show again, albeit at the National Stadium? The concert venue has been criticised for its awful acoustics (like a pair of, er, made-in-China earphones). And there’s the band's job of entertaining the crowd again with the exact same show less than a year later. But hey, it’s Mayday we are talking about. The thing about the group, which comprises vocalist Ashin, guitarists Monster and Stone, bass guitarist Masa and drummer Guan You, is that they come across like good friends you hang out with ’cos they are just so darn entertaining — even if they’re telling you the same epic story for the umpteenth time. Trust Stone to sum up the night best: “This is the Life Tour, extended version.”