Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club
Holy Serpent
Orange Ocean (CN)
The Great Spy Experiment
Wormrot featuring Gabriel Dubko and weish
Forests
The Jansen (ID)
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS (JP)
Baybeats 2025
Orange Ocean (CN)
6 Oct 2023, Arena (DBS Foundation Outdoor Theatre at Esplanade)
Orange Ocean, 6 Oct
Britpop-inspired band Orange Ocean stands out in China’s burgeoning indie music scene thanks to the yearning nostalgia embedded in their music, which reflect the band’s unique worldview. Hailing from Qingdao, China, the band comprises members 2KM (vocals and guitar), Xiao Lu (bass) and Qingxi (drums).
With infectious melodies and ingenious guitar riffs, the band creates lush ocean-romantic soundscapes, evident in their full-length debut record, Tears in Ocean (2019). The band saw immediate success with this record, racking up more than 300 million streams on Chinese DSP with breakout tracks Summer Cozy Rock and You Nuan Chi.
Catch Orange Ocean live again on 20 Mar 2024 at Esplanade Annexe Studio for a fuller live set. Tickets here
About the festival
Held from 6 – 8 Oct 2023, the 22nd edition of Baybeats at Esplanade presented an exciting line-up of homegrown and international acts. As Singapore’s largest alternative music festival, Baybeats is kept free, and for the 2023 edition, was supported by new partnerships formed with overseas music festivals such as Taiwan’s Golden Melody Awards and Festival (GMA) and Hong Kong's Ear Up Music Festival, as well as Principal Sponsor KEEN.
The first set of four recordings will premiere 8 Feb 2024, 9pm. The second set of performance recordings will be released by the end of Feb 2024.
