Posts Tagged ‘band’
Raghu Dixit Unplugged @ Swagath Garuda Landmarks (16th November 08)
It was quite a while since I'd seen Raghu Dixit perform live, even though I'd had a chance to pick his album up (and have him open the cover and autograph it thereafter, heh) and listen to it. The autographing was around the time I interviewed him for a cover story for RSJ, in April this year, which finally didn't happen for reasons I'm not [...]
Iron Maiden : February 2009, Bangalore
This is big news, for obvious reasons. Iron Maiden, our pantheon of Gods bless them, is coming to India for the third time in three years, and I still have the fondest memories of March 17th 2007 as among the best concerts I've been to. In any case, Iron Maiden is performing in Bangalore again on the 15th of February next year, and that has [...]
The Longest Bike Ride
Every weekday, when our band has to practise, I have to travel a total distance of about thirty six kilometres from my office on Mysore Road, all the way till Vignana Nagar in Kaggadasapura. My friend's bike, which I am in possession of when he is in the US, has been extremely useful for me in order to undertake this long and perilious journey [...]
Bicycling Adventures : The Maiden Ride
While there has been extensive stuff written about how my bicycling journey started (linked a couple of posts below), and how the current events related to cycling have unfolded over the eyar, the middle years in engineering college where cycling became an important part of my life needs to be written about (for it is filled with anecdotes [...]
Of Photo Shoots, Railway Stations and A Greedy Cop
On Sunday, 2nd November 2008, the members of our band Arth and our friend Shrenik headed to the KR Puram railway station on Old Madras Road in order to get some photos that we intend to put up wherever we need band photographs. We're looking at demo CD cover material, when we're ready to come out with more songs that we're totally comfortable [...]
Band Photo
So, the other day, our friend Shrenik came when we were putting practise, and using his flashy remote controlled Nikon DSLR took a few pics of us. Combined with Adobe illustrator, he's done something that you can see embedded here (see up). He's taken a few other weird and funny photos of us. For more of his work on flickr check out Shrenik's [...]
Mysore Rock Fest Day 2
After my previous post on the fact that every band needs a sound engineer, I decided to check out the second day of the Mysore Rock fest which was being held at Purple Haze here. Firstly, hats off to Anbumani Ramadoss for his smoking rule. The two pubs I've been to since the ban came into effect at the start of this month have provided good [...]
Every Band Needs a Sound Engineer
Every band, big or small needs a sound engineer. This painfully obvious fact struck me like a thunderbolt (ok, I am exaggerating. It sort of just came to mind arbitly) when I was at a pub gig in Mysore. For those unaware - yes, Mysore has pubs. Shocking but true. Sadly, it is going the Bangalore way, and while the ban on live music in places [...]
