Evening Edition

We had a man whose wit and humour straddles a line that our political scene does so well. Very much so till most of his material is indeed about the special branch of political comedy! He’s name is Sim Tong and he wasn’t wearing yellow tonight.

Sim is an open mic regular in the Malaysian comedy scene. With three years under his belt, Sim has done something he’s been a big fan of ever since the days of Napster. He realised he has a knack for putting out funny punchlines in his old blogs; he one day watched Aw Young Tuck on stage for PJLA’s One Mic Stand. By the following week, Sim went on stage and killed it!

By day, funny enough, Sim is works for the property investment industry. All that comedy being suppressed deep inside probably cause him to make that leap forward for the stage and create bursts of laughter from his audiences. When he cracked jokes in front of the Bersih4 crowd, Sim was asked how many people did he performed to. Sim said “I would say about 300 people. But I'm gonna mark it down as half a million. It felt like I was talking to the whole Bersih crowd when I was up there.”

For the record, Sim score 14!

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Having its debut in Australia and New Zealand last year, the brand new Neo-Soul, Jazz and Hip Hop festival makes its way to Malaysia. We speak to the organisers of the event to find out more.

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Ross Yusof & guests Bob Holmes, Ray Jennings & Sam Postlethwaite discuss the UEFA Champions League. It was defeat for Chelsea & Arsenal against Porto & Olympiakos respectively. Is Mourinho alienating his players? Is Wenger's decision to drop Cech the strangest ever or did he promise to play Ospina in the cups? On Wednesday evening, It was Manchester 2 Germany 0 as United & City defeated Wolfsburg & Monchengladbach 2-1. Also, Ronaldo & records, Liverpool & Spurs draw in Europa and weekend previews. Arsenal v Man United, the Merseyside derby and Treatment Table & 3 Big Shouts.

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Tonight we had a man who spent many years growing up to the tunes of country music in Texas, he turned to the world of DJing and now he runs with the moniker xR_. His name is Harley Scott and we catch up with him on his travels!

Harley Scott was raised in Singapore for the first 10 years of his life before transitioning to the heart of Texas for another 12 years. While he was in the States, he heard the song Stronger by Kanye West featuring Daft Punk. Harley was so enthralled by the beats and sounds, he began to research all about the DJ lifestyle.

Initially, he wanted to head over for music schools but his mother, a well-sought after hair-stylist from Singapore, nudged Harley into the hairstyling industry. He came back to Malaysia to study hairstyling, got his certification and clocked in the hours needed for him to be a fully fledged hairstylist. Harley admitted that he didn’t want to be a hairstylist. It all came to place as his partner at that time shared the same passion as Harley in forming him to be a DJ.

Harley enrolled to a music school to learn the art of being a DJ and also the production side of things. By 2013, Harley was already out there playing in clubs and bars at Changkat. Frangipani became his first residency slot. Now currently, Harley has a residence in Mr. Brooks, a speakeasy in Bangsar Shopping Center and is planning for a recurring bass night in Bangsar filled with the hard beats of dubstep, trap and techstep.

For the record, Harley scored 8!

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They jump out of cars, get thrown a distance in bomb explosions and make action scenes look so damn good. But there's a lot that goes into becoming a stuntman and to find out more, we speak to 2 of them who are also part of the exciting and upcoming Movie Animation Park Studios that will be officially opened in 2016 here in Ipoh, Perak.

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Tonight we had a man who initially started off in the world of engineering, made a brave 180º turn and ended up being the man of theatre that he is now. His name is Ghafir Akbar and he is a part of the new wave of Malaysian actors who are revamping the Malaysian theatre scene one bit at a time.

For Ghafir Akbar, acting was a hobby for him during school days. Soon after ending secondary school at Victoria Institution, Ghafir made his professional debut with The Actors Studio Theatre Box Of Delights. It was the production which brought forth Ghafir’s untapped talent for acting to the KL theatre landscape.

As young Ghafir was entering his 20’s, he enrolled himself to a local engineering school complete with a scholarship. Throughout the years in engineering, he kept entering for performances and plays till one day, Gharif made the daring jump to do theatre full time. By chance, he met the head of an American university’s theatre department during one of his shows.

Having been given a slot in the programme, Ghafir waged through two years of saving money and scholarship searching. He did a valiant job as it all fell into place for him and he went off for six years of studying in the States. Giving him a BA in Theatre Performance and a Masters in Acting. He ended it all with another two years in New York, having a hand in the American theatre life.

Ghafir since then has racked up an impressive 28 different shows to his credit, ranging from acting, directing and writing. By 2013, he was named August Man’s Theatre Man Of The Year; Ghafir scored nominations for Best Actor at the Kuala Lumpur Film Critic Awards and Most Promising Actor at the recent the 27th Malaysian Film Festival for his role in the 2014 film, Cuak.

For the record, Ghafir scored 17!

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It was reported yesterday that City Hall (DBKL) will be looking to impose congestion charges on private vehicles come 2017. These charges will be imposed around high traffic areas in the city, specifically in KL's central business district. So, while we're dependent on our cars to get us around because of our poor public transportation system, we now will be charged for driving it. On Talkback Thursday today, we asked: Will congestion charges help to reduce traffic congestion and drive public transport usage?

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Tonight, completing the Malaysian YouTube trio of pioneers, Dan Khoo joins us to talk about how the website became such an integral part of his life. Having started with a background filled with numbers and graphs, Dan’s departure and making it big on Youtube shows that chasing your passion full-on pays off well.

Dan Khoo started off as an economics graduate from London School of Economics. He started making videos for fun during 2011, armed with a video camera and a basis of how films worked, Dan went out creating films with an emotional content and weight to them. As time went by, Dan realised the potential of Youtube and went full-steam with his venture.

Little did he know, he was spearheading Malaysia’s ‘Youtube Boom’ alongside with JinnyboyTV, Dmingthing and a few others in 2012. These group of online filmmakers started to appear on websites and newspapers, eventually becoming household names for families. Things really got going for Dan when turned to the lighter cheek of comedy and released Sh*t Malaysian Girlfriends Say, his first video to break the half a million views mark. Soon after his video Banana in 2014 broke 1 million. His most popular video to date is I Give You Chance listed at 2.3 million views.

Dan has worked with a truckload of companies with his Youtube films. Early on his videos, Dan did the cinematography, script writing, directing and actor casting. Nowadays, Dan would go on as the scriptwriter and director while Jeremy Choi and Kelvin Goh would do the camera work now. Earlier this June, Dan’s amount of subscribers surpassed 300,000!

For the record, Dan scored _!

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A solid hour of live music from what some call the female version of Elvis Presley. 

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She had big hair, was a painter, dancer and multi instrumentalist. But it was her bluesy vocal voice and electric performance that blew the 1960s and 70s away. A May 1968 issue of Vogue described her as "the most staggering woman in rock...she slinks like tar, scowls like war...clutching the knees of a final stanza, begging it not to leave...Janis Joplin can sing the chic off any listener". Join us for an hour as we dive into the life of the Queen of Psychedelic Soul.

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