More shots from Sunburst Music Festival! 15th March 2008. This time around, George Clinton And Parliament Funkadelic!

He asks: “Do you hear The P?”

Kendra Foster.

Garry “Diaperman” Shider. Yes, he is wearing diapers!

C’mon Carlos “Sir Nose” MacMurray, give Diaperman a hug!

This is the big stage. Thanks name-withheld-to-protect-media-pass-giving-privilege for the media pass!

Dance to the music! Oh wait, wrong band…

Pat Rizzo… who yes, was in the Sly & The Family Stone.

Lige Curry on six strings of pumping bass.

Ronkat Spearman.

William “Bootsy” Collins! Yeah he was in the J.B’s, James Brown’s backing band.

Suzanne-leaving-to-India-soon-Lee! Gotta check out how she wraps her camera.

Shaunna Hall, from them 4 Non Blondes.

Frankie “Kash” Waddy.

And at this dude, I failed my mission to identify each member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective that I photographed. 🙁

More shots from Sunburst Music Festival! 15th March 2008. This series features local bands who played at night.

One Buck Short, pop punk rockers.

Wokayyy!

Joe Flizzow!

…featuring Duan of Seven Collar T-Shirt on guitar…

…and an entire ensemble for hip hop!

JFK steps out into the light.

Reza Salleh offering an electric alternative rock set.

Adi the freebie tosser! I miss you dude. And that Search – Fantasia Bulan Madu crooning in the office which you did so well!

Meet Uncle Hussain, indie with a most powerful vocalist.

But none beats Amy Search. Amy Search!

Search played. None of the classic stuff I knew, sadly, but plenty of rock and roll and hard rockin’.

Estranged. Quite estranged from the funk metal band I used to know.

So what’s cooking next?

An international artiste snuck into this entry. Incognito!

Previous entries:
Sunburst-A!
Sunburst, Raincursed
Sunburstin’ Goodness

Finally, shots from Sunburst Music Festival! 15th March 2008. This series features local bands who played in the daytime.

Y2K, masked crusaders of punk rock and catchy punked covers.

Stick ’em up.

Gerhana Ska Cinta.

Ska, what else? Catchy beats.

Najwa the amazing crooner!

Who is joined by a human beatbox. Who is not black. Yo.

I love her soul. No wait, that ain’t right.

Yeah! ERA FM stage!

Featuring a very happy Jimmy…

…playing for Atilia, jazz diva.

Then there was Gigi.

This is where I tell you all that I shot most of this with my Tamron 200-400mm F5.6. My Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan was with Lex.

Tompi! Kickass versatile voice.

Also featuring Steve Thornton…

…and an ensemble.

Pop Shuvit, heads up! (Yes, that is a head blocking the lower part of the picture.)

Nope, this is not a crop. It’s the full 400mm effect, yo.

And then, it started to rain madly. The crowd ran from one end to the other to catch Love Me Butch! I would’ve if my camera was waterproof.

Hujan, a huge indie band who played not only to appease the crazy crowd that comes with them, but the rain gods. And true enough, it stopped raining.

Moonshine at Laundry Bar, 12th June 2008!

Ana Raffali! Alternative/indie…

…and once mistaken for a guitar tech.

Man these drumsticks are photogenic.

So are these colored lights.

And unlit guitarists.

And flashed bassists. Andy Flop Poppy!

And dramatic cello.

…it’s a cello, right?

I liked her solo song too, but Myspace isn’t loading them songs so I can’t identify!

Then there was Oh Chentaku, post-punk/hardcore.

Hey this guy is so darn familiar!

Emo is always better with strings. I mean, bowed strings.

A dude with a Sony A350. I lent him my Minolta 50mm F1.4, as he had only the kit lens to shoot this low-lit gig with!

So what did I shoot with, then? A new angle, a new lens.

An insanely contrasty lens.

…of which I have yet to blog about.

Zach Tay…

…of the Zach Tay Trio!

Zach Tay laserbeams his tuners to precision.

So he can play the blues. Man can this dude shred!

Nicole is back!

…in reggae band Layan Sound System.

Justin, happy as ever. This was the first time I’d paid attention to how reggae drums are played. Very different, and very fun!

Brian Kwan dumps all that jazz for some ukulele!

Every reggae band must have one person in reggae colors or a reggae shirt.

Salim makes effects.

Tony Eusoff makes conversation.

Drummer makes goofy picture.

Shots from November 2007, Ziel jamming!

Rudy on drums.

Raffique on guitar.

Eyes on Floyd Rose.

I’m not quite sure what genre, either – alternative metal?

Mr. T’s ride.

From the backseat; old-school!

14th May 2008 – GAP presents Marie Digby Live in Kuala Lumpur!

Yes, this Japanese-Irish mix is singing to a MIX FM microphone.

Wow, it can get real lonely up here. Lydia look she looks like you here!

Snap your fingers and toes!

While I sing, my barely-photographed guitarist will tune up.

No, YOUR guitar is out of tune!

She didn’t do any covers other than Rihanna – Umbrella I think.

Girl: Nice boots! Guy: Nice guitar!

Yes, she is as pretty as her videos show, and her voice is just like the videos, too! There was certainly a more Live feeling about this performance since it was just her, her guitar, her guitarist and her guitarist’s guitar.

All landscape shots were shot with my Minolta 70-210mm F4 “beercan” upside down. Yes, upside down! So I can get a higher angle while using the camera like a periscope.

13th March 2008 – Juke Joint Jupiter at Laundry Bar! This is The Big Pink. The moment they started ripping out Cream gritty blues-rock classics, I knew the next band would be wishing they won’t play White Room, too! They did Cocaine, though, but left out a solo. Don’t give us high hopes like that!

Fortunately, the other songs they covered like Cream – Badge and Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing were in full. I was rocking out so much that I didn’t take much pictures heh.

Nipple-pinchin’ Reuben.

Rockin’ guitar-reviewin’ Lohan of Cats In Love!

Tattoo-bearin’ gig-organizin’ Eddy of Triple6Poser.

Executive-organizin’ Ahmad Izham Omar.

Chain-smokin’ blues-rockin’ Khai.

Even the LCD monitors got the blues.

Ghani of Jack And The Howling Wolf.

This guy was superbly the best performer of the night. He came on with a charismatic roll, like he was gonna breakitdown ‘n a James Brown. He did justice to Ray Charles – Unchain My Heart and Chuck Berry – Johnny Be Goode. Take it to the bridge!

17th February 2008: No Black Tie Unplugged with a special flava – girls only.

Zalila Lee!

Yuna (who is cool in that fresh-out-of-Myspace-with-songs-written-years-ago kinda way.)

Najwa the awesome R&B/soul/jazz keyster. However, she tuned down the intensity and emotion of my favorite song of hers, and it lost its impact.

I like intense songs performed… intensely. Don’t hold back!

Mia Palencia, who needs no introduction!

And now, fast-forward to a wet 14th March 2008. Umbrella? You got the wrong not-from-Malaysia artiste.

Who? Which artiste had Adam Carruthers as emcee?

Spot the Cheryl!

Spot the chimpin’ Reta! And what is going on to the right?

Figured out who, yet?

Colbie Caillat, MySpace graduate!

And this is her John Mayer. Spot the Sarah!

She played quite a bit of songs. To me however, there was something missing – song dynamics. It had an unwavering level of energy. I also felt the vocals to be a bit soft, such that the guitars’ consistency overrides and made her performance rather… flat.

The light falloff at the bottom is from the crowd of human heads.

No prizes for guessing which song this prop was released at!