“After leaving Malaysia for a year after my graduations, I finally went back to witness my sister’s graduation ceremony. Congratulations to her and congratulate also for the rest of the young bloods. May the force be with you always. And this is a glimpse of KL that I’m able to capture during that short period of time.”
Update: It seems that Junk Magazine have fully adopted this writing without even acknowledging me or Azhana (yeaa they acknowledge her by saying she provided additional info). My comments for this matter; please don’t do it again Junk, it is rude and will make your magazine loses credibility; and secondly when you get “additional infos” from other person, just make sure that you have understood what the infos are all about, for example Lightcraft bassist went MIA not actually the name of the bassist is MIA.
It was a great day for a great event for music, two took place in Malaysia and another in Singapore. Leave all the Asia Awards and Fest to the other music fans and journalist. I am here to write a review regarding an event took place in The Annexe Gallery. Lightcraft and Silent Scenery, two well known indie bands in Malaysia, are deciding to release their album together, a debut for Silent Scenery and sophomore for Lightcraft. Along the night there are also performances from other great names such as Leaders on Sunday, Lurks (last minute replacement for Telebury) and Inspirative coming all the way from Thailand.
Soundcheck session
Being fashionably late, the event kicked off at 8.30 PM, started by Leaders on Sunday, self proclaimed crunk band which are motored by 3 of their member Rushdi, Shariman and Nabil. The guys give out an upbeat set for all the people that have been waiting, at one point during their show the MC tell out that the band were formed because one of the member girlfriend is ditching him because she attracted to some underwear model.
Leaders on Sunday
Second on the bill is Inspirative, hailing all the way from Thailand this band had already make head turns during their check sound sessions. It’s unique and fresh, like how tom yum soup will make you warm and then continued with mango rice which are cool and soothing. The band played mostly their instrumental track with one (or is it two?) tracks with lyrics. This band really is the black horse of the night providing the great mood swing.
Inspirative
On the third, there is one of the main show of the night, Silent Scenery, equipped with a celloist the band which describe themselves as emotronic, rocked out with the audience. At one time the vocalist Kit, said that the band will play differently than the other band as they would not stopped between songs, strangely they did, but it was forgiveable as they started to explain about the event and how they met with Lightcraft and planning the event together.
Silent Scenery
Next on the stage is Lurks being the last minute replacement for Telebury, they really are not dissapointing. Sounded like Depeche Mode or some might say Joy Division, they are the most rocking out band of the night. Again the mood of the audience is being changed drastically to a bit dark, I guess it is quite needed to ensure that the audience is still in the place and kept interested.
Lurks
Lastly come the star of the show, although this event can be said that it is a collaboration between Lightcraft and Silent Scenery, most of the audience were clearly waiting for Lightcraft on stage. They come out with almost their original formation with the exception of Efry on bass. The sound of Lightcraft although still very British, are being added with more complexity and maturity especially on the track All In My Mind and The Girl Who Went to War. Imam being the front man are clearly very nervous on that night, however, that did not make their performance become any less entertaining. There are quite a few surprise on the night especially when they are trying to play their first Indonesia song, which surprisingly great sounding and also when the audience asking for the encore which come answered by playing I Don’t Know What It Is.
Lightcraft
Finally the event ended, tired but amused the audience went back to their homes, sharing the experience which are clearly could not be found in Genting or Singapore. and yeah.. did I mention we get a free muffins?
Pictures:
Cheers
As much as my own annoyance at the system, for it’s sometimes confusing, complex, and repetitive. I still feel there’s a need to support it, which could be done by improving the factor that is most likely to cause error in the system itself. the human factor.
A system in for collecting print jobs in Monash University Malaysia, which I view as a solution for creating order (one person could only take his/her print job and not others) and for the helping of environment (If one person get the print that he/she needed than there is no need to print another set of copies thus it does not waste the paper)has been failed considerably.
As the new semester kicks in the number of students increased considerably and many still don’t know how to collect the printing account (shown by many papers which are not collected by them at the end of the day), in which the explanation could be the information is not clear enough, or they are just plain ignorant (in which I hope they would change).
In the end, this is just a very small example in my life, there are larger problems in the world right now. I just hoped that, we all could support the system that is good, criticize ones that is had flaws, and taking the words of Mahatma Gandhi “be the change that you want to see in the world”.
Cheers
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Now playing: Pelle Carlberg – Middleclass Kid
Well it has been my greatest gig ever, great sounds, great lighting and great souvenir (I got Pelle’s towel + his and Club 8’s signatures on that!!)
anyway without further ado here are the pictures from the great night:
Sorry for the poor quality, I had only my mobile with me, well better that than no picture at all.
Cheers
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Now playing: Paul Williams – You Give A Little Love
If people from Indonesia asked me where am I studying, I would answer “well I studied Medical Bioscience in Monash University in Malaysia” and their reply could be categorized into two types; first, for them who know Monash University they would reply “oh ok how many years left?” or “what’s the plan after study?” for the people who doesn’t know anything about Monash or education in Malaysia they probably going to say; “the heck you doing in Malaysia to become a maid?” as Indonesia is one of the biggest importer of the maid to Malaysia apparently.
Well apparently living here is not just about the study, the maid things, and the life after study which I always try to enjoy. However my view upon this country is changing significantly, this is mainly because on my final semester of the second year I was taking an Arts subject as my elective, the lecturer would teach us world history basically, but how she related it to the Malaysia’s modern issue made me curious of looking into more than just the normal, plain stories in the newspaper. At past probably I was interested regarding the beta agonist, highway incident, the sports section, any artist or band coming to Malaysia, sales announcements, or purely gossip just because I’m curious.
Suddenly a murder case of one women, one Mongolian women, Altantuya Shariibu, caught me in a political tales in Malaysia (due to the relationship of the murdered with top political people in Malaysia) However, I would still consider this section as unworthy of me to make comment or remark so what can I do is just observing and looking at other news. The more that I spend my time in front of the screen looking through news from blogs particularly had given me another viewpoint of Malaysia, a nation which is going to celebrate its 50 years of independence soon.
In the end I just wish all the best to this country, may all its plights are solved not buried. May all the people’s rights fulfilled, and my all what is need to be done is done.
Cheers
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