No, no all pictures didn't turn out this fuzzy..artistic effect lah :P
i LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture..the best one of the night, imo..
Exact same stage from Muse concert; sound was RAWK CONCERT fantastic, but lighting was Bleah..ya win some, ya lose some..anyways, cannot compare to Muse. hel-lO0o0o!!
effing cool bass/cello stand-alone contraption thinger that the bass player dude brought during one of the mellower (aka time to stone and delete bad shots) tunes
dynamic frontman Doug Robb and his amazing balancing act! WYND IT UP!
the guitarist dude Dan Estrin, didn't have the 'finger work' of Matt Bellamy..i guess that's inherent in American bands..hardcore americana rock and roll can't be all that fancy. but his energy and ROCKSTAR moments were infectious and even though i didn't know half the songs (my 'dont go for a concert if you dont know the lyrics to more than half of the possible setlist' theory, down the drain), i was watching him more than anything :P PLUS! he was wearing a Kenny Rogers tshirt! TOO COOL man, TOO COOL
click to enlarge. if you look close enough you can see the oh-so-familiar pepper n salt beard of Mr.Rogers himself. (oh how i crave corn muffins *drool*)
ok lemme make this clear: i got free tix. please lah i'm not a hoobastank fan or anything..i don't really mind their music. some, i repeat, SOME of their material is quite solid but what bothers me is that it all sounds the same, which is highly unexciting. you see, Muse, are clever and experimental. Jamiroquai are funktastic and groove-inducing. Scissor Sisters are fresh and too fucking sexy. But Hoobastank? they're very "run of the mill", if i may be so bold as to use a cliche :P
the audience oso quite relack ah. Keeran and I got there at about 745-ish(supposed to start at 8), and the entire hill was just full of people sitting on mats (provided by Starhub. they also gave out free bottles of water) enjoying the breeze(which was quite lovely btw). at the Muse concert, they opened the gates at 6.30 and by the time the concert started 2 hours later, the entire hill was sardine-packed with people, STANDING, mind you. in comparison, the attendance figures were 7000 (Muse) and 4000(The Stanks). pffft...pure pwnage lah.
opening act was this local band called The Sexies (i'm not sure if that's how you spell it :\ ) whom i wrote off as jokers cos the name already quite dismissable. but their music wasn't too shabby at all! not much local flavour, but all 3 songs of their set had catchy hooks and the girl keyboardist's voice was impressive..very impressive. the bassist's thump-thumping was quite sexy haha. the lead singer looked like an NS man :P and he was wearing frickin sunglasses..aviators i dont mind, but the kind that lifeguards wear. ya actually he looked like the lifeguard sort. ok whatever. obligatory statement: Support Local Music! (i only like The Suns lah..cos the lead singer is like, tamilan ah. and Rudra. and Electrico cos i see the lead singer dude in Serangoon Gardens always. and Force Vomit..cos they were on Lonely Planet Six Degrees. power to the mats!)
i really expected the crowd to warm and go crazy and jostle and headbang and sing along...but tak ada lah! *bemused* apa seh..i also not ONZZZ, the crowd also not that ON..or maybe that was just my section of the crowd *shrug*. They played familiar tracks like Disappear, Crawling in the Dark( opening number. imho, this is their best song), Running Away, If I Were You, Born to Lead and obviously, The Reason. i remember a point of time where i heard the song SO EFFING OFTEN, i just started hating the song.ok not hating per se, just being rather antagonistic towards it. But to hear it live and be able to sing along was a pretty cool feeling.I've been reduced to "pretty cool"..words fail me. some of the stuff was unfamiliar. but like i said before, since their all their bloody music sounds the same, not hard to bedek-bedek and sing along ah. Like this one track, "Inside of You"..and this other track, " Out of Control", i think i saw it on same X games video or while i was playing Tony Hawk or some shite like that.
they'd fantastic audience interaction though- there was a bit where Dougie and Co decided to play "Guess the tune" and they ended up playing 'Livin on a Prayer"(Bon Jovi) and "Another Brick in the Wall"(Pink Floyd) which goes 'All in all, you're just another brick in the wall', which he ended with "How fuckin' true"..HA!
and he advocated music piracy! "i don't care how you get it, as LONG as you get it"..and how can i forget. after the first song, he was all 'Leave your inhibitions at the door'. Doug FTW!
all in all, not bad. but not fantastic either. free tickets how to say no?!
MATT BELLAMY MY LOYALTY IS TO YOU AND YOU ALONE, you crazy mofo
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