By Elsa Lim (Chairperson), Sarah Tan (Vice-Chairperson) 

The lights dim. 

The audience falls silent. Anticipating breaths echo throughout the room. 

Backstage, your hands shake and your heart pounds; anxiety, adrenaline, and excitement thrumming through your veins all at once. Your bandmates surround you, the looks on their faces mirroring yours. With clammy palms, you share a final high five, a final group cheer, a final whispered ‘good luck, we got this!’ 

Cloaked in shadow and smoke, cheers and screams accompanying your every step, you take the stage. Fingers finding keys, hands clenching drumsticks, you are swallowed by the applause. For this moment, the stage is yours.  

This is Raffles Rock.