Posts Tagged ‘publicity’
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 [...]
The Ugly Face of Regional Politics
The resounding 320 run victory over Australia in Mohali has been overshadowed today by news channels focussing primarily on Raj Thackeray's arrest and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena party's violent attacks on North Indians who were appearing for the railway examination a few days ago. The MNS seems to have taken upon itself the task of [...]
Blugging my Plog
The title refers to a spoonerism that stuck, and will hopefully be around for long. It came about as a result of Monkee talking in his sleep over the phone the other day. For those still blinking at the ostensible spelling error - it is plugging my blog. If you don't know what plug is, kindly refer urban dictionary. After having engaged in [...]
The Car Boot Prank
Sometimes the lunch time conversations at the office result in brilliant ideas, that I can't get enough of patting my own back about. One such conversation ensued this afternoon, and another awesome idea was born in the process. As the subject title of this post might indicate, the prank has to do with the boot of a car. Over recent times, [...]
Making Music
This is one bit of shameless plugging of self that I'm indulging in, for a good cause. I play the bass guitar for a band named 'Arth'. Our lyrics are in Hindi, and one can classify our music under the rock genre. On the first day of the beginning of the second half of 2008, we've uploaded three mp3s of our as part of an initial demo we've [...]
Bangalore Rocks!!!
Bangalore rocks! Totally and absolutely. Although Mysore will always be city no.1 so far as I am concerned for the rest of my life, I've grown to love Bangalore so much more after a weekend trip to Chennai. Three days in Chennai on band related work and within twelve hours of landing there, I was pining away for Bangalore and its [...]
