That's Rite: Very Nice @ One Cafe, Jln. TAR

It's the first gig ever of 2010 that I'm heading to, and hell, there was nothing to regret about it. Minus the occasional longggg pauses to wait for bands to set up and the fact that it started like... two hours later from when we arrived, the gig was pretty fuckin' awesome. As in.... awesome.

Nindy, after never ever ever being able to go out to gigs with me (parental shit), finally finds a way to sneak out to come with us. Her expression of excitement before leaving our place:

Went to One Cafe, and there was some huge fascination over the origami bird Nin did, along with laughing over "magic trick" videos. Nguh.

"KL Mosher's got long hair now!" (Not really lah, that's Nindy wearing my mosh hoodie haha, I'm still short haired and all)

So finally, at 4pm or around that time, the gig decides to START! We walk in to Forgive the Sinners performing. Not disappointed. As an opening band, they toyed with our excitement and pulled the crowds into the hall without stress. A worthy band for a gig, definitely.

But I wouldn't say the same for the next band Definitely Maybe. It's just the fact that everyone else in this gig was more towards hardcore/metal shit, and out pops this rocky, poppy band with a girl fronting who seemed like she would rather be somewhere else. Hmmm... More work on stage presence perhaps. But we disregarded the cons and just had fun jumping and dancing around like lunatics. Haha. Then Nin and I scared the crowds by putting in our drama skills into action, and pretending to start a fight. Acted like she was wrenching my hair pulling me around when really she wasn't (it's a drama technique). ;) Apit terkejut, sial HAHAHA!

Up next were Massacre By Fall, a new band who have some potential of striving further if they work more on their instrument arrangements to fit their vocals. But overall, they were a recovery from the band before. After MBF were Avalon's Whisper, a band I was interested to see. And I wasn't disappointedddddd. They were great. Enough said. Haha.

Up next was a surprise for me. Glamorous Evil Genius. They've improved a lot since the last time I saw them live, and they blew me away. Even Nindy went all "They're fucking awesome!" hahaha. Was it them that I started moshing to? Or was it Avalon's Whisper? Can't remember really. Haha. Or maybe it's the next band Massacre Conspiracy!?.... Who were great by the way. Already hyped to see them live since their win at Soundstage last week, they found my energy bubble and inflated it til it exploded. That's how good they were. Also, thank you guys for the bruise on my forehead. (Some stagediver kicked me). Oh, and some other stagediver decided to jump to a place where there were nobody but Nindy. Ended up hugging her head trying to maintain his position above the crowd. WHAT CROWD?!???? FAKKK! I was like "OI! get off! get off!"

There was also this one guy who was headbanging with his legs wiiiiide apart. He looked like a crab. Hence the new "ketam mosh" term. HAHHAAAHAHA.

Glamorous Evil Genius

Hardcore Mamak in action HAHAHA

Massacre Conspiracy

Had a break where Nindy had to leave, and then I went back in for Caladrius (with my hoodie again!) Was thrilled when they sang "Roses for Sharon". My love for you is neverendinnggggggg! Lol!

Next up... let's all sing along to THIS IS BLACK TERRITORY!!! Actually no, they didn't play that, oddly enough. But they still granted us with the fav It's So Hard, so that makes amends for it.

Prognosis Death. Took me ages to remember their name, and there's an obvious reason for it. They are pretty much forgettable. Sad to say. They had some good moments and the showmanship was pretty confident, but something just lacked in their music I'm afraid...

Then it was time to pave way for the band who released their EP at the gig; THIS SUNDAYYYYY!!!!! :D Was hyped up to see them onstage (annoyed because Wira didn't do the wave he always does onstage! PFFT!) After quite a while of waiting for their EP to get sorted out, I was ecstatic to finally get hold of one from them! Weehee!

Their performance was great, crowd pleasers, many people sang along and wrenched the mic out of their hands a few times. Always reminding me of The Used, though they really are quite different, it's hard not to enjoy listening to them though I was trying to layan a sore leg and tired body at the same time.

And finally, my awaiting the headbanging session was no longer needed. Daarchlea tore the stage apart - and hopefully, not anyone's neck - with their usual devilish whirlwind of screams and frantic guitars that send everyone's heads going wild in unison. Hehe, Firdz memang la syaitan, as I said on Facebook. HAHAHA!

Congrats to This Sunday on the EP!

Last band was finally up, it felt like the gig would never end, but somehow it did, and we weren't really looking forward to saying goodbye to a gig packed with awesome music. The Padangs gave us an explosive ending, nothing short of moshing and going crazy singing along to their songs.

Saje je nak show off 6-pack la dia... HAHAHA

Had a wonderful nasi goreng ayam (which I couldn't finish) before heading to Melawati to jam after dropping Apit home. Was excited to find out we were watching Nik jam with Asthalin first before us (they're performing the next day, which I was going to attend as well). Wee hoo!

All Celine needs sometimes is a simple day like this.

Rock The World 9 @ Bukit Jalil Stadium Carpark

Woke up really damn early, because my friend was leaving my house in the morning. Walked around like a zombie getting ready to leave my house around 11.30. Left at 11am, because I was shit bored. Headed to Bukit Bintang where Apit, Kiki, Amirul and Jaja would meet me up.

Headed to Hang Tuah LRT. Went to Bukit Jalil, pening kepala because Azam told me he had problems getting passes. Sial lah. But finally he managed to get backstage passes thanks to Moe (don't know what happened to the media passes in the end), and I arrived at Bukit Jalil with a major headache, and energy level down to 1.05%.

Headed inside and caught Bactrim at the Chill-out stage with Rangga and the Ipoh gang. Bactrim was pretty good, they had a constant funked up rhythm going on with the bass that made you want to boogie, or head to discos and dance to "Play that funky music white boy". Spent about the first hour walking from stage to stage to stage. Met Moe at the Indie Stage backstage during Robot Asmara.

Walked over to the Main Stage's backstage again and saw Firdoz who was crew for Federated, a kapak band who was playing on stage. Found out it was going to be Restraint next and true enough Razlan waved at me from where he sat. Can't believe I forgot he was Restraint's vox.. wth... hahahahaha. While waiting for Restraint, I walked over to the Chillout stage and saw Khottal, and bobbed along to The Woo Song!

Restraint. Tight, solid, and rageworthy to the max, as always. Couldn't mosh at first because I was too far back but I did bump into Faiz! Told me 40 winks was next at Indie Stage, left and when I saw Syafiq's red cap bobbing around the moshpit, I dashed towards it, found him and Amirul and the gang, and moshedddd. Woohoo!

Next up, 40 Winks! Haven't seen these buggers in ages, and was chatting with Faiz whilst eating my Ramli Burger, waiting for Nitrus to finish their set as they did a cover of "Mercy". Quite an odd choice if you asked me. 40 Winks went on, Faiz asked me to trigger the crowd, but there was no need for that, for the crowd seemed to have loved their music. Well who won't? It was what feel good is all about, you could skank, jump and mosh to it! What else can you want?? :D

Then as they ended their set, and I met up with Haziq who FINALLY came and clap boom! thunder and rain plagued the whole event and everyone dashed to the tents for shelter. Couldn't stand the guys whooping at wet girls eesh!

Walked back in when the rain died, found Atin, then I found Chaom, Nad, Jarrod and everyone else again, in time for us to separate again for the events as they started. Caught Second Combat and thank you Haziq for the mosh pics! :D

Second Combat overall were entertaining and their fans were ready to catch Second Combat's last performance of the year. Headed over to catch Monoloque, but I had to say I was disappointed with the music, because his music was more for bedroom moments, not really ace when coming to performance. It was hard for the fans to capture the style of the music and they seemed lost to how they were supposed to groove.

Headed back to the Indie stage to catch Syahrul LMB's side project with his wife, Labrats, and went back to the Main Stage to catch The Times, took a detour back to the Indie Stage (yes, tiring!), to catch Skudap Skudip as they played their last song "Mari Berdanska" aiyo!

Stayed at the Indie Stage but went into the crowd for Auburn, realized the sound system was crap and couldn't fit with the colossal music of Auburn, then headed away to catch Bleeding Mascara in action at the Main Stage.

Here was where hell broke loose, and I had to miss out on the remaining night, because my hamstring injury at Ipoh Trunker's Fest only got worse when I did the breakdown for Bleeding Mascara. Limped my way out after Republic of Brickfields, who were amazing, but the crowd pissed me off because they were not following the music at all, just crazily moving around. The guy in front of me was annoyed as well ahhaah, it was funny.

Surprised and excited when Amy Search made a special appearance with R.o.B, because Radio Rosak was cancelled, so he must've decided to conquer the Main Stage of Rock The World. Haha awesome dude.

Headed to ROTTW's booth, sat there through Yuna and Pop Shuvit, couldn't take the pain of sitting on the floor with an aching leg, went out with Haziq and sat outside the closed up event, and listened to Love Me Butch, Seven Collar T-Shirt, Disagree and all the rest from outside. Went to the foodcourt with Moe when Moe came out, and heard Bittersweet from afar. Disappointed because they changed their vocalist, Pijie is no longer singing. New vocalists only worked out for Meet Uncle Hussain, who ruled with the new two vox! Bunkface ended the show with a sad finale, for DBKL arrived at midnight and the sound had to get turned off on their last song. Ah well, no heartache for me. :)

Joke of the day: Hardcore Mamak cooking!

Celine will have to stop injuring herself, or she'll be sitting out to future moshpits!