Showing posts with label live loud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label live loud. Show all posts

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Goodnight...and goodbye...

The lights went out on Live & Loud 07 tonight. Kinda sad, but the festival will be back bigger and better next year (and hopefully with me part of it, eh Reymee?) It's been hectic but fun. Congrats to my friends who worked their asses off to pull it together.

You proved walaupun kita orang Malaysia, omputeh pun tak semestnya lebih bagus dari kita.
Semalam was World Music & Culture and Heritage night, so music dia tak ler tuk frantic sorts like me. Ada persembahan kebudayaan, then Mawi, Mila, Zahid... ramai la anggota keluarga Akademi Fantasia perform. Lebih 2,000 layan.

By the time they finished, tinggal lebih kurang dua ratus orang layan Zainal Abidin. Er... tak campur.

"Malam ni bukan malam world, tapi world music."

Some people just sound so bitter. Ok la..malas tulis pepanjang. My line is still wonky, even though the Streamyx techies I call says they've reset my port or whatever. Sheesh!

So just enjoy the pics guys.

Mawi sempat posing walaopon nak sarung stoking. Zahid sempoi jerk.


Haziq poyo (jangan marah adik oi), dan Bob yang pinggang...erm.. on the way ramping!


Zarina gayut sempat pose, Velvet lak kenapa wat muka camtuh???


Mila cuaght off-guard,si Rosma call Juan ngamuk pasal kak kahwin (matilah aku!)


Heliza asik gayut ker keja! Balak ke???


Sampai Mila sempat posing tuh!


Damn... the weekend is over. Will try post more for tomorrow's entry. Too butt lazy skang ler. Apapon...ciao!

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Oh wow!

First of all, congratulations to my friends, pembaca-pembaca blog yang enjoy the concert yesterday. I heard you guys got seats at the arena area, right in front. Hope you guys are satisfied with the tickets. Sapa tak masuk padan muka... hah! Amik ko! Lain kali masuk... jangan segan-segan.

Thank you guys for reporting to me how the concert went, and thanks to Mozac for taking this video of Nikki performing His Eye Is On The Sparrow for me. I'm pretty impressed by her performance as much as everyone else is...but you guys be the judge. What do you think? Pause or mute the imeem player sebelah or click the video window to launch in another window.

Me? I went for the launch of the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival. How was it you ask? Well, let me put it this way.

Imagine the worst tortures... inflicted upon me. Times that by a thousand, as you have those people from Mystarz LG sing to me, while dressing me up in last season's colours. Get an idea?
Buat malu jerk. Nama jer international level. Sudah lah filem tak banyak yang competing. And then pastu malam pembukaan pun macam kenduri kahwin siot. No... I take that back.

Datin Seri Siti Nurhaliza's wedding pun lebih grand! I can overlook the fact, a handful jer karyawan filem tempatan yang hadir yang digantikan orang kementerian, dan makcik makcik jual tupperware dan Zhulian dari Finas. Aku leh maapkan cultural performance semua repeat performance with nothing unique to offer.

Aku leh lupakan kordial orange tuh... or the joget lambak which was the highlight of the night - tapi I can never forgive them for thinking this could ever put Malaysia on the map when it comes to international film festivals.

Kalau camni ler meka nak buat, baik takyah. Stakat nak gunakan tuk promosi 1957 : Hati Malaya yang busuk tuh...buang masa. Mentang-mentang ler tak laku kat panggung kena promo camni.

Aku ingat aku sorang je bad experience, masa dok luar isap rokok tension, ramai agik kengkawan kongsi perasaan gundah gulana (amik ko bahasa!) mereka.
Tanpa mendedahkan nama, ni antara komen daripada kengkawan.

Complaint #1 (seorang producer filem) - Apalah...kata festival. Letak aku semeja bukan dengan orang industry nak kita networking...gi letak aku dengan makcik makcik ni dari kementerian ke Finas yang excited tengok-tengok kalau Maya Karin hadir, sibuk planning nak ambush tuk amik gambar bersama. Ni ke international.

Complaint #2 (wartawan) - My God! What are they doing???!!!! Meka joget lambak tarik tarik omputeh semua. So much for a dignified elegant event. And this is the highlight of the night???!!!

Complaint #3 (orang industri belakang tabir) - Aku confuse. Ini festival filem ke Citrawarna??? Apa mereka nak promosi? Main focus meka tourism ke filem? Macam filem bukan main focus langsung!

Complaint #4 (pelakon wanita) - Aku tak kisah nok...pas ni aku curi-curi balik jer. Letih kalao camni...

Complaint #5 (kengkawan organiser) - Nok...kalau da budget ciput dari Finas tapi angan-angan jer lebih, nak wat camna...

Complaint #6 (director yang tak hadir on the phone) - HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Seb baik aku tak pergi!

Complaint #7 (orang industry gak) - Ini festival filem ke annual dinner Finas dan KeKKWa? Semua orang meka. Makanan dan persembahan pun style style meka jer...

Complaint #8 (rakan industri filem) - Eh? Ko pun keluar isap rokok? Aku nak tertidur dalam tuh...had to come out kalao tak berdengkur aku kang.

Nak lagik ke? There were so many complaints, aku shudder in horror that Finas and KeKKWa leh organise event camni. Tak caya aku meka nih tak reti nak hold an international standard festival. Come on lah... setakat buat malu takyah hold better.

Kalau budget tak cukup ker, tak cukup masa planning ke, next year jer lah buat.

Jangan main tangkap muat jerk. Kan malu kita kalau camni. Especially when internal ketidakpuasan hati menjejaskan festival, with some of our own producers and directors enggan nak participate. So in the end we have mediocre films at most tuk bertanding.

Citrawarna kembali lagik!


Berapa kerat jer orang pilem mai. Eh Michelle...ko kena urut tuh sebagai upah tak kena carut ke? (ampun!!!)


What is this???!!!


Aiyo!! Joget lambak!!!


Cam kesial nya... aduh.

I'm not kidding, but by the end of the night (the first half hour) aku dah pening. My head was throbbing dan aku rasa nak pitam.

Since this was a film festival, or so they claim... they could have made a good movie out of this. Just stick a camera to record the pelancaran, and this would have been the SCARIEST movie ever made!

Leh? Matilah....

Aduh....nak tidur...trauma...trauma...

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Win tickets to Live & Loud TODAY!

Do you want to win these tickets? Win, NOT buy ok...cause if you do, then keep reading...



I've always wanted to do this but no real opportunity ever arose. So dengar sini... eh...silap... baca sini (cam tak betul lak tulis camtuh). Kalau korang nak tiket ke Live & Loud 07, you can win tickets here.It's a simple competition, tak susah pon. Malas nak wat contest susah-susah. Cam tak ikhlas lak kang nak bagik tiket kat korang.

So read on kalao korang bebetul nak tiket tiket ini.It takes less than five minutes to win.
Here's what this contest is all about.

THE PRIZES
Tickets for the Live & Loud 07 R&B concert tomorrow night, 28 Nov 2007 at Stadium Negara beginning from 6.30pm until very late!

Tickets are RM330, RM220, RM190 and Rm130 but you can get these Elite Passes FREE to watch K-Ci & Jojo, Mint Condition, Lil'G of Silk, Mark Douglas, Taufik Batisah, Nikki, Jaclyn Victor, Azan (Ruffedge), Lah(VE) and Mode. I have no idea what the seats are like or where they are or whatever...but hey...they're FREE!!! (Malaysians love that word, right?)

HOW MANY OF THESE TICKETS DO I HAVE TO GIVE AWAY
I have a total of TEN tickets nak bagik korang, so all you have to do is follow the directions below, and win, win, win!

Regular readers of my blog will find it a lot easier to answer these simple questions.

HOW DO YOU ENTER?
Easy! From 3pm (no earlier), all you have to do, is be the first FOUR callers to 013-6026006 (at normal call charge only - ko ingat bapak aku tokei telco ke) and answer three simple questions to win double passes (that's TWO passes a winner) each to the event! The winner who answers the bonus question FIRST among the winners correctly, will win a total of FOUR passes to the show.

The three questions are :
1)Name me the three performers in the R&B show who were in the Idol series?
2)Where will the R&B concert be held?
3)Is Live & Loud 07 the biggest music event in South East Asia?

Bonus question (it is in my blog)

Name me two pop divas I watched LIVE in concert recently, one in Singapore and one in Bangkok.

RULES
This is open to ANYONE, but to qualify, you MUST post the sentence I WON! in the Comments box within 5 minutes of being declared winner (sit down lah in front of your computer as you call me to do it immediately)

Since the concert begins at 6.30pm (you can go later, but you risk missing some really good performances), you MUST be able to pick up the tickets from me at 5pm in 1 Utama, Damansara.at a venue I will tell you on the phone.

There are NO exceptions to these rules.

The prizes are just the passes offered. Winners bear their own cost of travel, lodging or Ramly burgers and watered down Coke. Ko gila ke aku nak sponsor semua?

DISCLAIMER
I am NOT responsible for any change in the line-up of the event or anything to do with the organiser. Note that I am NOT affiliated with Live & Loud 07 either.
Also I am not responsible if you get caught bringing someone other than your boyfriend or girlfriend to the event. Or somebody else's boyfriend or girlfriend for that matter.

I hope you guys enter this contest. I made this announcement last minute, because I want it to be more of a thank you to my loyal blog readers yang selama ini temankan aku, with every entry, no matter how boring or obnoxious I get.

There MAY be more coming your way, but I'm not making any promises ok? I will try my best!
Anyway, I won't be at the R&B event because I will be attending the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival (KLIFF) welcoming night at the same time.

Kalau ada masa, I may drop by, because My Boo will be there ngan kengkawan dia.
Am dead tired because I just got back from the Live & Loud 07 80s show with James Ingram, Kool & The Gang and Hazami, which was also at Stadium Negara.

It's just simply AWESOME. One thing for sure, the performers are all top notch, and the production of the show like no other concert you've seen or heard in Malaysia.

I usually get b****y about concerts here because of lousy sound systems or nightmare acoustics, but this...was simply awesome (all the more reason you guys shouldn't miss winning the tickets).

Here are a few pics from last night. Sorry about the quality. Can't do anything about it kecuali kalau ada sesiapa nak sponsor aku camera phone or digital camera baru... didn't think so...

Half full stadium during Hazami and James Ingram performance. What's it about Malaysians and not being on time?



James actually got off the stage when he was singing I Don't Have The Heart and came down to us in the arena area.He's the bald dude.


Awesome lighting during the Kool & The Gang performance.


By Kool & The Gang, it was PACKED!


Energetic show - boogie all night long.


As you can see from the pics, it was really a fun time. Hazami was pretty good, tapi yang best nya, masa James Ingram performed, he actually got off stage and layan everyone in my section of the arena. Cool!

Sapa yang minat tapi tak gi, rugi siot. He sang all his biggies! As did Kool & The Gang! They've got so many hits in their catalogue, it's not funny, sebab aku dah semput asik menari, and there was no stopping, because I seemed to know every song (I'm not old... I... erm...listened to...erm... my parents' collection?)

A salute to the Kool guys, one of whom noticed me freaking disco-style in the front row and waved to me, pointing out my hair. Erm... red is very attention grabbing, that's for sure.
Got an invite from Reymee, the head honcho of Live & Loud 07 to join the private post party with the band, tapi memang letih gila, so torn between wanting to go and boogie some more or not.

I'm not as big a fan of Kool & The Gang, but it was the thought that counted, and it was sweet of Reymee to invite me, so props to you dude!

Apapun, I have to compliment you la mate sebab ko rilek jer throughout the whole show walaopon apa berlaku. I am so proud to know someone yang muda muda, dah berani nak take all this on. If it were me, I would have either gone crazy ke...warded terus sebab tak tahan all the stress.

Reymee was my junior in college (a big shout out to Ocean Institute of Audio Technology - 241B!) yang memang ramai produce orang industry skang.

Dia nih memang humble giler. Masa aku kuar college aku da dengar mamat ni nyanyi, tapi tak sangka we crossed paths again when Innuendo nak kuar album (yeap, the one with Belaian Jiwa - everyone's favourite karaoke tune) and I interviewed them. Terkejut gak aku...but who would have thought...I'd be on the other side.

Apapon - dude, you've gone far, and just keep chasing your dreams! No matter what. Kalau ada sesapa masih ingat dan minat Innuendo, here's a pic of Reymee and I. The coolest, and now most busiest dude in town (muka pun nampak letih giler walaopon senyuman menyembunyikan stress memacam)


By the time we ended, memang aku rasa nak pengsan. Letih siot! Dancing throughout the night takes its toll (actually it was dancing on and off for an hour or so, with the rest of the time sitting on my ass too lazy to move anything apart from my head)Did I go to the post party. Nope... but got to meet Kool & The Gang anyway pastuh to interview them. Coolness.


Esok ada interview ngan James Ingram, tapi sibuk ngan KLIFF, so no go on that. Got to catch some shut eye now. Cheers!


PS - Sapa layan aku pagi tadik kat Astro Awani, jangan carut aku ek sebab rupa aku ngantuk sangat. Aku half asleep on the program, tambah lagik takde orang nak bangkang point aku. Heh...ok ler tuh. Kira menang tanpa bertanding.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Justified!



Do you know this man? Well, you should, because the rumours you heard about him coming here - is true!

While there is no black and white, sources have confirmed that Justin Timberlake will be performing in Kuala Lumpur. The only other date in the South East Asian region is Jakarta.
I don't know when the actual confirmation will come - tapi besh gila!!!!

Expected date of the concert is next month, so sempat simpan duit agik ler. The full story will be in The Malay Mail tomorrow, tapi apa aku tau aku bagitau, sebab my colleague yang got the story.

Today has just been news about concerts and international names je. Tadik celah bebanyak keja, call Reymee nak tanya pasal Live & Loud KL punya event.

From the many nights, aku confirm nak gih yang R&B night at Stadium Negara on 28 November featuring K-Ci & Jojo, Mint Condition, Lil' G of Silk, Taufik Batisah, Mark Douglas, Jaclyn Victor, Azan (Ruffedge), Lah (VE), Nikki and Mode.

The other big event of course yang merasalah nyesal teramat kalau miss is the Turn Of The Pop night at Bukit Kiara Equestrian Park on 1 Decmeber yang menampilkan Whitney Houston, Elliott Yamin, Shaggy, Project Pop, James Taylor Quartet, Joe Flizzow, Anuar Zain, One Buck Short, Dina, Hannah Tan, Sufiah Noor, Jaclyn Victor, Azan (Ruffedge), Noryn Aziz, Lah (VE), Nikki and Mode.

Banyak lagik programme. One in consideration will be the Best Of The 80s concert with Kool & The Gang, James Ingram and Hazami.

Untuk yang minat more closer to home music is the World Music, Heritage and Cultural Concert yang include Mawi dan keluarga Akademi Fantasia, Zainal Abidin dan pertunjukan kebudayang beberapa negara on the list on 2 December also at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian Park.

Reymee!!! Aku nak backstage access!!! Kita kawan lama kan!!! Matilah shameless begging. Leh per kan... college junior... one of the first to interview and give Innuendo a spread masa debut dulu...merasalah semua aku ungkit. Anything for Whitney Houston baby!

Apapun, grab your tickets to beat the mad last minute rush. For more info CLICK HERE.
Got to get some sleep. Got some stories to rush in, a meeting and an assignment tomorrow.