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BayBeats 2005

So yea, the much anticipated and biggest free music event of the year has come n gone. Somewhat our equivalent to glastonbury or coachella lah big muzak event. But only managed to catch a handful of bands (well 3 in particular) due to tight schedule, laziness and the weather. (blame it on the rain of course) so my 2sen worth of bands that i specifically wanted to watch :

Furniture :
Good ol' Ronnie's band. This is excellent people. His soothing voice, spacious music, feel good music. Simply put, Me'sia's very own Mainsejuk. (go figure)
I wish to see Ronnie playing that hybrid guitar/keyboard thingy again (wateva its called). Btw, Ronnie also plays for Me'sia's art-experimental ban The Maharajah Commission.

I am David Sparkle :
The weather almost bastard the band n not let them play, but the heavens soon stopped its tears for they too wanted to see David Sparkle. The disappointing was that they only managed to play 2 songs with the 15mins they had. Tat was the only disappointment. Apologies but didnt get the title of their songs. But particularly liked their 2nd song. The haunting keyboards, coupled with the drumbeats (tho a wee bit irregular) and the screeching guitar works of Amran, wat can better than tat? Excellent stuff they've got.

Kuala Lumpur Post Harmonic Quintet (KLPHQ) :
Another super titillating fuckentastic band. When i first heard the name, i really had this impression of a super hardcore band. Such a cool ass name KLPHQ (reminds me of you Police HeadQuarters, so the music vid would consist of police sirens n revolving red lights). You wouldnt expect less from a band consisting of Alang (of MUZE fame) on bass n the Custom Daisy drumming maestro helming the big beats of the drums. I was really mesmerized by the drummer. The beats that he accomplished, superb i tell ya. And their final song, it was like i was watching a movie. It started dark n sadly, then it goes on a high (reaches the climax), and then it dives down again to end the saga and all is calm again. A complete story probably of good vs evil. Beautiful piece. Really wish he had the right words to accompany the sound music.