July 18, 2007

Rock Out With SingFest Over The National Day Holidays!

By Lennat Mak

If you think Singapore is not the place for a music festival, think again.

Come this National Day holidays (August 8 and 9), over 14 top acts from all over the world will come together for SingFest, Singapore's largest outdoor music festival yet, at Fort Canning.

"We are so excited to be able to hold a concert of this scale involving international artistes like the Pet Shop Boys, Sugar Ray, Shaggy, The Stranglers, and many more," says Michael Hosking, Managing Director of festival organizer Midas Promotions.

"The fact that they will be making their way to our shores in 5 weeks time and sharing a stage is definitely a first and we hope that it will pave the way for more of such music festivals to take place here in the near future."

The two-day music festival will kick off from 5pm to 11pm and 1pm to 11pm on August 8 and 9 respectively. Line-up and ticketing details as follows:

August 8: 5pm to 11pm
Pet Shop Boys
The Stranglers
Cyndi Lauper
Sugar Ray
Shaggy
Sasha Bach Band

August 9: 1pm to 11pm
Gym Class Heroes
Avenged SevenFold
Hinder
Crowned King
MXPX
The Academy Is...
The Noisettes
Cobra Starship
One Buck Short
The Great Spy Experiment
Eye Candy Twins

Tickets:

One Day Pass
Standard: S$200 (at the door)
Early bird: $150 (now till August 1 only)
Pre-sale: $175 (August 2 - 7)

Two Day Pass
Standard: $200

Tickets are available all SISTIC outlets. For more information and bookings, visit www.sistic.com. Please note that prices above do not include the standard ticketing charges levied by SISTIC.

MTV Asia is the Official Music Channel for SingFest.