21 posts tagged “music”

It's New Year's Eve! How are you celebrating tonight?

By posting up these lists! hahaha. I really have no life. 

Anyway. I can go on and on about 2008. But I'll just post up these four lists, then maybe say something at the end. How about that?

2008's albums:

Clearly shows how I am not part of the hipster gang whatsoever. Here are my favourites, in random order:

1. Rogue Squadron- I can has mixtapz? -_-
2. The Last Shadow Puppets- The Age of the Understatement
3. Portishead- Third
4. The Roots- Raising Down
5. Erykah Badu- New Amerykah Part One
6. Hujan- Hujan
7. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
8. She & Him- Volume One
9. TV on the Radio- Dear Science
10. Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
11. Estrella- Estrella
12. Sore- Ports of Lima
13. Naif- A Night at Schouwburg
14. Ludacris- Theater of the Mind
15. Gnarls Barkley- The Odd Couple
16. Coldplay- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
17. Weezer- Red Album
18. Bloc Party- Intimacy
19. Flight of the Conchords- Flight of the Conchords

Should I, or shouldn't include...

• Solange- Sol-Angel and The Hadley St. Dreams
• Jazmine Sullivan- Fearless
• Bunkface- Lesson of the Season
• Everybody Loves Irene- On Second Thoughts, I Might Wanna Change Something
• Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue

Released in 2008, but I haven't heard it properly yet (shame on me)

• Free Love- Feed us with your love
• Laila's Lounge- Laila's Lounge
• Efek Rumah Kaca- Kamar Gelap
• Guns N' Roses- Chinese Democracy
• Couple- Teenage Disc Fantastic
• Q-tip- The Renaissance
• Joe Flizzow- The President

Major Gigs/Concerts/Festival Attended (Top 9 is in order, the rest is not)

1. Sunburst Music Festival- Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club(Nevermind Incubus, say hello to George Clinton and The Roots)
2. Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival- Singapore (Awesome two day gathering of kick ass DJs)
3. Explosions in the Sky- Ruums (my heart exploded and I don't think I fully recovered)
4. Oasis- Echo Arena, Liverpool (kick ass seats, free of charge and full two hours something of Gallagher brothers)
5. Indie Day Out- MCPA Hall KL (crazy attendance, with people fainting and breaking noses etc)
6. Travis- Carling Liverpool (on the eve of Aidilfitri, no less)
7. The Last Shadow Puppets- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (pasty yet good looking British boys making beautiful music in a beautiful hall)
8. Jakarta Rock Parade- Senayan, Jakarta (Badly organized lead to poor attendance, but had stellar line-up)
9. Mono- Zouk KL (don't mess with Japanese post-rock musicians)
10. Vox- Esplanade Singapore (Surabaya heart-warming harmonies.. ah bless)
11. Mocca- Zouk KL
12. Goodnight Electric- Ipoh
13. The Bays- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
14. Ida Maria & The Courteeners- LGOS, Liverpool
15. Goldfrapp- LGOS, Liverpool
16. Pendulum- LGOS, Liverpool
17. Noah & The Whale- Bumper, Liverpool
18. The Roots- Manchester
19. MTV Asia Awards- Genting Highland
20. Family Affair II- Singapore
21. Pesta Malam Indonesia 2- Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club
22. KRU's Anniversary Bash- Ruums, KL
23. Rockestra- MCPA Hall, KL
24. KLUE's Urbanscape- KLPAC

What's good 2009?

• Rogue Squadron's 'I can has mixtapz' mixtape
• Jin Hackman's 'Jinius at Work'
• Rogue Squadron's monthly night 'The Bomb Shelter' at Cloth and Clef, KL
• The Rebel Scum's 'Time has Scum'
• Clue to Kalo's 'Lily Perdida'
• Flica's new album
• Yeah Yeah Yeah's new album
• Zeke and the Popo's new album
• Convocation XD
• Blur's reunion
• More concerts (Franz Ferdinand and Oasis and more hopefully)
• Better camera kit 
• More travelling!

I woke up this morning and found out about the news from Wenz and ELI's multiply. Apparently a band, called Beside had their album launch at AACC (the last surviving good gig venue in Bandung) over the weekend, and something happened during the show that caused a stampede (some said police tried to stop the show and people started fighting after that). Of course, there are reports saying people were pushing and shoving each other inside the hall, and fainting could have been caused by lack of air circulation. Some newspapers said gig-goers were given alcohol-laced drinks that made people faint. Logically, it could be a combination of both, alcohol and lack of oxygen. And in music shows like this, people dance and jump and really couldn't care less about any other people.

If it's to give any comparison, AACC in Bandung, is pretty much like the usual gig hall at MCPA  here in  Kuala Lumpur. But the AACC is really about twice the size of it. But like AACC, MCPA suffers the same ventilation problem, and it really is a scary thing. The gig scene here is already in trouble with the authorities and if something like AACC's tragedy happens here, it would spell 'the end' to a lot of things.

On the Indonesian side now, I can only guess that most probably after this, the authorities will be stricter at issuing permits and I can feel the pain coming to my gig organizer/label owner friends.

Will update more on this when I have more info, but the families of the 11 youngsters who died in Bandung, condolences.

Reads from mainstream press:
From
AFP
International Herald Tribune
Detik Bandung
Metro TV News
Pikiran Rakyat (the best report so far) ( read the last para-- "The police wanted to stop the show after seeing so many people fainting, but it seems that more people were found on the floor after the stop order was issued.")

Konsekuensi- The launch

The movie launch itself, is not all that short. The evening starts with performances by local indie bands such as

• Dum Dum Tak
• Onani
• Harmacy
• Have a Nice Death
• Mohd Jayzuan
• Komplot
• Muck

'Konsekuensi' is directed by Razaisyam Rashid. According to the director, the movie is about the consequences of every action you do. Here is the list of other people involved in the movie:

Cast & Crew
Mohd Jayzuan - Badar
Naqi - Broko the Thief/ Pencopet
John Hafiz - Wong the Hobo/ Pengemis
Asfanizam - Boss Guevara
Sharina - Emelda
Anwar - Bowei
Rahmat Haron - Poet
Avroco - himself

Director - Rzaisyam Rashid
Producer - Uzair Sawal
Idea/ Story - Razaisyam Rashid
Screenplay - Uzair Sawal
Dir. of Photography - Kamal Rusydi
Lights - Mohd Afzal
Audio - Mohd Afzal
Technical Assts. - Nur Ameliana Warkil, Siti Shazwani, Rafiq
Post prod. - Norhairuddin Fatul Rafiq

So, if you have RM15 to spend tomorow, 8th of February, come by to Annexe, Central Market. Show starts at 6.

Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.

let this be like a time capsule. of sorts.

The Works, Deena, Charlie Dark and random woman

The Rebel Scum, before transforming and rolling out

WM and Time

Charlie Dark and other poets

MCR