One 10th January 2009 night ago at Cloth & Clef!

Stonebay, one of the headliners.

Choon How uses his Nintendo DS to provide background electronic music – cool idea!

Dude, you were raw and grungy. Definitely a powerful f-all set.

Fans.

The crowd.

Anuar, rippin’ it out on lap steel guitar. We don’t ever get to see this around Malaysia much!

This was Az Samad’s nephew Afiq (thanks Uncle Az for the info!) He ripped out some groovy, killer thrash metal riffs. I had not heard anything so fresh in quite a while.

Then of course, it was Az Samad‘s turn to impress by turning every crevice of his guitar into a sound-making instrument, banging on the wood and tapping the surfaces.

There was no space to slap guitar body on the Soloette.

Davina came on to sing a song, or two.

She did a cover of Bachelor Girl – Buses And Trains.

And then there was a far more emotional song, Carole King – It’s Too Late. (Thanks Davina for the info!)

“Uh, did I just croak like a Kermit?”

She rebounds from slips quickly and cutely with a smile!

A video by William here.

Then Melina (and Stephanie not seen in this picture) are in yet another band…

Hamster DamnAged! A Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover band.

Featuring a sexy, dancy vocalist with all the shouts of shrieks of Karen O!

Here’s a video of them performing on Youtube.

A softer change of pace with Rusdi.

Brainhead.

The stuffed toy bows.

Then came one of the most uh, memorable bands of the night – Jenny Rocket! In the sense that they forgot to tune up before going on stage (major boo-boo) and that the vocalist was kicking and punching his band members on stage.

I think he was trying to get them into the mood to dance about in an indie band manner instead of mostly standing.

The way they sounded, I felt like I was temporarily teleported into a jamming studio!

Fortunately Auburn saved our ears with some new songs in the language of Malay.

Still as progressive and rocking as ever!

Maya Lara was next – this was Jenny Rocket without the vocalist.

Firasah ended the night with a killer cover of Deep Purple – Burn.

They were only allocated time for one song as the gig was over, so the vocals were cut off from the sound system for the next song, Iron Maiden – Trooper. That did not stop the crowd from singing the entire song (and the catchy call-and-response riff!)

Yep, some members of heavy metal revival guys Revenge were in the crowd. Fun night that was!