After years of wait... after so much of hype... it turned out that a local college circuit band was better than the Beast! A classic case of ghar ki murgi daal baraabar!
Seriously, I thought Parikrama, who opened to Iron Maiden, were better than the Beasts themselves.
Maiden was opened by three bands:
1. F.T.N -- winner of some all India college band competition
2. Parikrama
3. Cauren Harris -- who?
F.T.N. were acting like a bunch of wannabes on stage. And I never quite liked the growling kind of music anyways.
Parikrama rocked with an all original line up. And the lead singer made a snide remark on the critics calling them a "cover band" at the end of their show. They're coming next week to Bangalore again. In an IIPM (yes, the same Arindam "Dare to think beyond the IIMs" Chaudhari's IIPM) college fest. Wonder who'll go to listen to them again!
Cauren Harris was a blood sucker. Straw laga kar ek litre khoon choos gayi sabka. She was like, Britney Spears Learns To Rock! The crowd was continuously booing her off stage with chants of "Fuck Off", "Fuck Off Bitch", "Cauren, Cauren, Who the Fuck is Cauren?" But she continued her torture for a full 45 mins!
After half an hour of that... Maiden came on stage to a cheering and ecstasic crowd. With blinking red lights on stage, and a sea of blue mobile phone hues in the audience. All jumping, craning, and stomping on the hapless fellow in front of them to capture THE moment.
Three new songs from "A Matter of Life And Death" which I did not know at all. Add to that a FUCKED up sound system. Seriously. I'm not joking. And I was not the only one who felt that. I had recently been to the Roger Waters show in Mumbai. And I was literally surrounded in a sea of sound. The sound quality at the yesterday's Maiden show was like a good quality college fest. What a let down.
I don't know. Probably I'm getting old. Probably my music taste is changing. Saala paaglon waala enthu nahin bacha in sab cheezon ke liye... But fuck I came down from Mumbai for just this gig. It was okay.
hehhe :) I cant figure out why you went there?
ReplyDeleteLOL!!i told u not to go!thank god i dint come along!saved my money n time :p
ReplyDeleteDid you mean Lauren Harris? Daughter of Steve?
ReplyDeleteBut I know the sucka' type. Sometime back during a Bryan Adams concert in Bangalore, there was a band (the lead singer of which, according to my friend, was totally gay) who played their 'music' for 40-45 min while Mr Adams flew from Delhi or Bombay wherever he was coming from. Though I must admit that he provided very good entertainment section of group where I was standing, mainly because of all the booing and comments from folks surrounding us. :-)
your comments are absolute shite!! who the heck cares about Roger waters u freak, u can first name him all day if u want!1 maiden rocked, and will continue to rock!!
ReplyDeleteMaiden didnt come down for u man, u dont count! All u freaking northies should get ur own state, and get a visa to travel down here. why do u guys act they way u do?? dont u have schools or places that teach civilisation near ur home made bomb factories???
ye lo saala koi sala allu mallu senti ho raha hai!!! he he
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