the story.

Hijack Hayley are four childhood friends from Singapore who started playing together in 2019 — and never quite stopped. Fourteen releases in six years, three design eras, one debut LP.

The name is a real story, frontman Terence Tan’s early-teens crush on a girl named Hayley: “zero chance… she hijacked her way to my heart.” He didn’t get the girl. Singapore got the band.

The sound is indie brit rock — fans of Inhaler and Arctic Monkeys get it immediately, and the band’s own claim from 2023 still stands as the anchor: “Dare I say, we’re the only band in Singapore with this sound? Yes, we are.”

The live résumé does the talking: Baybeats 2022, two nights at the F1 Singapore Grand Prix 2023, a Japan tour in 2024, and a headline at the Esplanade DBS Foundation Outdoor Theatre in January 2026 — two shows. Every release since 2025 has landed on New Music Friday Singapore + Malaysia, six in a row.

March 2026 brought the debut LP, People Pleaser — eight tracks that press called “most honest and expansive work to date… familiar and fearless.”

• Terence Tanvocals · guitar
• Val Russellband
• Clementband
• Rizalband

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