When i first started Abstained Agogo fanzine back in 1997, there were only two local fanzines from Kota Bharu at that time. Mine and Azra Affendi's Corepack Fanzine. We were both from the same Kampung, Lundang Paku, London Park i used to call it, 20 KM from Kota Bharu. A proper scene was almost non existent. JB's Hostile Disgrace used to be based in Kota Bharu but that was like years before I was introduced to the scene.
The Kota Bharu scene back then was dominated by skinheads (Kota Bharu Rebel Squad who frequented a place called Payung and Tumpat Revolters who would parade the saturdays in full working class skinhead gear, docmarts ben shermans and all) and your normal saturday neo nazi punks who frequented a place called Parking.
I never had the chance to go to the legendary Payung, but back in the days, the equally legendary Parking was THE place to be. It was not a pub or a specific restaurant, but rather a gloomy yet celebrated food court at a car park building adjacent to the once celebrated Mun Loong/Hankyu Jaya/Naim Jaya/The Store shopping complex near the Kelantan River, hence the name "Parking". Every aspiring saturday punk must pay the holy site a visit before acquiring their notoriety as a full fledged saturday Punk.
The place was notorious indeed. The local authority would often raid the place. I can still recall, one fine saturday afternoon, some friends and I were strolling towards the Parking for some quick lunch and saturday notoriety statuses, then got malcolm in the fucking middled by one of the raids and were almost caught by the raiding police. That was my one and only experience playing kejar-kejar with the cops that i shall save and tell my grandchildren with joyous pride. Haha. Atuk pernah berdepan dengan The Man and won.
Unfortunately one of my friend did get caught. Kecoh satu kampung Lundang Paku yang aman itu! Bloody fuck! Tak salah buat apa nak lari? Yeah right. Tell that to the cops you idiot naive little fuck. Adira Mustafa, where are you now, my naive little friend.
I do not know why people would go to such a place, the Parking. It was not your typical walking distance from the main Bus station. Maybe the only reason why the so called Underground kids went there to hang out was because of the nearby jam studio located at the near by building. The studio was called Hanis Studio and record store. Back then, jam studio was a rarity. As far as i could recall, there were only 4 studios in Kota Bharu at that time.
Besides Hanis, you got Digital Studio infront of Pantai Timor Shopping Centre. It was quite a cool place to chill since it also got a nice cyber cafe and a karaoke room. I used to came in and saw some sexually charged hanky panky shit going on in that karaoke room and it quickly went out of business after a couple of months.
Then you got Gahagi Studios or famously known as the Kapilla Studios at the back of the BSN building infront of the Pasar besar Siti Khadijah. The studio was owned by the band members of a local pop rock band called Kapilla if you might still remember. The band was famous for their Dikir Barat influenced album, Dikir Rambong back in their glory days. Demo lo ning tok supo mulo was the famous line from the song.
And then you got the infamous Dominant Studios at the Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium. If you wanted to properly record a demo, then that was THE studio. Phalanx Suffer (Metallic hardcore) and The Panic (Oi!) recorded their respective demos there.
During my schooling days in Maahad Muhammadi Lilbanin in Jalan Pengkalan Chepa back in 1995-1999, i would often go and jam at the Dominant Studios. I would sleep or take a quick lunch at the Surau infront of the Studio while I would wait like a homeless hobo for my talented Metallica/Butterfingers influenced guitarist friend, Mohd Aliff Ismail. I wonder where he is now, that bugger.
When i first met the core members who would later form the collective known today as the Network of Solidarity Collective (NOSC), it was at the Parking. Nazier and Dean of Papakerma records would be there. Poodien the now famous punk rock artiste would be there. Firdaus and Ben Khairilza, the muslim core kuantan dudes would be there. Faisal Dhani Ahmad the radical activist would be there. Me, Ariff (Deadmocracy, an IRC nick he is famous for), Nasir (Revenge of the Killer Germs), Affa (Phalanx Suffer) and Ayeh would be there. Jera Core Pack would be there. Nik Ikhwan of Life is Funny would usually be there. The only two chicks in NOSC, Manisah and Munirah would be there too, being cute and all. Hafiz Shit the former ROTTW columnist would hang out there.
It was these few people who would later build the core of Kota Bharu Hardcore Punk scene back in the days. We started fanzines and newsletters and bands. The leading band was Revenge of the Killer Germs (Gupa-g, Pudin-d and Nasir-b) playing punk rock then Shabra Shatila (Nazir-g, Firdaus-v, Dean-v, Juwe-g and me-d) playing hardcore then Ancaman (me-v and b, Faisal-v, Ayeh-v and Pudin-d) playing grinding hardcore punk and then Phalanx Suffer (Affa-v, Jemi-g) playing metallic hardcore so on so forth.
I do want to continue but Im tired. Sahur!
The Kota Bharu scene back then was dominated by skinheads (Kota Bharu Rebel Squad who frequented a place called Payung and Tumpat Revolters who would parade the saturdays in full working class skinhead gear, docmarts ben shermans and all) and your normal saturday neo nazi punks who frequented a place called Parking.
I never had the chance to go to the legendary Payung, but back in the days, the equally legendary Parking was THE place to be. It was not a pub or a specific restaurant, but rather a gloomy yet celebrated food court at a car park building adjacent to the once celebrated Mun Loong/Hankyu Jaya/Naim Jaya/The Store shopping complex near the Kelantan River, hence the name "Parking". Every aspiring saturday punk must pay the holy site a visit before acquiring their notoriety as a full fledged saturday Punk.
The place was notorious indeed. The local authority would often raid the place. I can still recall, one fine saturday afternoon, some friends and I were strolling towards the Parking for some quick lunch and saturday notoriety statuses, then got malcolm in the fucking middled by one of the raids and were almost caught by the raiding police. That was my one and only experience playing kejar-kejar with the cops that i shall save and tell my grandchildren with joyous pride. Haha. Atuk pernah berdepan dengan The Man and won.
Unfortunately one of my friend did get caught. Kecoh satu kampung Lundang Paku yang aman itu! Bloody fuck! Tak salah buat apa nak lari? Yeah right. Tell that to the cops you idiot naive little fuck. Adira Mustafa, where are you now, my naive little friend.
I do not know why people would go to such a place, the Parking. It was not your typical walking distance from the main Bus station. Maybe the only reason why the so called Underground kids went there to hang out was because of the nearby jam studio located at the near by building. The studio was called Hanis Studio and record store. Back then, jam studio was a rarity. As far as i could recall, there were only 4 studios in Kota Bharu at that time.
Besides Hanis, you got Digital Studio infront of Pantai Timor Shopping Centre. It was quite a cool place to chill since it also got a nice cyber cafe and a karaoke room. I used to came in and saw some sexually charged hanky panky shit going on in that karaoke room and it quickly went out of business after a couple of months.
Then you got Gahagi Studios or famously known as the Kapilla Studios at the back of the BSN building infront of the Pasar besar Siti Khadijah. The studio was owned by the band members of a local pop rock band called Kapilla if you might still remember. The band was famous for their Dikir Barat influenced album, Dikir Rambong back in their glory days. Demo lo ning tok supo mulo was the famous line from the song.
And then you got the infamous Dominant Studios at the Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium. If you wanted to properly record a demo, then that was THE studio. Phalanx Suffer (Metallic hardcore) and The Panic (Oi!) recorded their respective demos there.
During my schooling days in Maahad Muhammadi Lilbanin in Jalan Pengkalan Chepa back in 1995-1999, i would often go and jam at the Dominant Studios. I would sleep or take a quick lunch at the Surau infront of the Studio while I would wait like a homeless hobo for my talented Metallica/Butterfingers influenced guitarist friend, Mohd Aliff Ismail. I wonder where he is now, that bugger.
When i first met the core members who would later form the collective known today as the Network of Solidarity Collective (NOSC), it was at the Parking. Nazier and Dean of Papakerma records would be there. Poodien the now famous punk rock artiste would be there. Firdaus and Ben Khairilza, the muslim core kuantan dudes would be there. Faisal Dhani Ahmad the radical activist would be there. Me, Ariff (Deadmocracy, an IRC nick he is famous for), Nasir (Revenge of the Killer Germs), Affa (Phalanx Suffer) and Ayeh would be there. Jera Core Pack would be there. Nik Ikhwan of Life is Funny would usually be there. The only two chicks in NOSC, Manisah and Munirah would be there too, being cute and all. Hafiz Shit the former ROTTW columnist would hang out there.
It was these few people who would later build the core of Kota Bharu Hardcore Punk scene back in the days. We started fanzines and newsletters and bands. The leading band was Revenge of the Killer Germs (Gupa-g, Pudin-d and Nasir-b) playing punk rock then Shabra Shatila (Nazir-g, Firdaus-v, Dean-v, Juwe-g and me-d) playing hardcore then Ancaman (me-v and b, Faisal-v, Ayeh-v and Pudin-d) playing grinding hardcore punk and then Phalanx Suffer (Affa-v, Jemi-g) playing metallic hardcore so on so forth.
I do want to continue but Im tired. Sahur!
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