Category Archives: Music

Clearing Time!

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Ferns Album Launch, 2nd of February 2007, at KL Jamasia. Finally, I’m updating within the same month!

Keng of Furniture, shredding the blues for folk-rocker Azmyl Yunor. Shanon Shah was on keyboards!

Azmyl, ganas wei.

One half of Couple, lo-fi indie pop darlings. Quite a massive following.

…even if Hana wasn’t playing with them. Eh?

Happy music!

Warren Chan of Ferns, dreamy indie pop of the softer, frail variety.

Abigail blows the… uh… keyboard.

Adlin gets a KLue (speaking of which, where the heck is this month’s issue?) and sits down.

Fast forward to 8th February 2007, Moonshine, A Homemade Music Show.

The first thing people would notice about Laundry Bar is how the stage had shifted.

The second is that the comfy Laundry Bar plushies have disappeared.

The third would be the carpets, left to hang dry on the walls.

The first and third help to make the sound better, by reducing sound reflections. Okay, maybe it was for Chinese New Year too. 😀

The sound engineer gets a more glamorous deck.

Melina (who I shall no longer identify by her main band because she has become a band slut) performing with…

Reza Salleh, sexy alternative/modern/grunge/R&B rocker.

Guess which band Rahul (only of One Buck Short, heh) is playing for!

I let my friends play with my camera, and they set the white balance for me. I went up and took this shot with flash. Gee, thanks! (Your standard uninnovative photographer-wannabe would say, “Next time, shoot in RAW, stupid!“)

Aye, but he/she is forgetting the days of point-and-shoot and intensive Photoshop post-processing (and how proud he/she was of it.)

Don’t be lazy, even Levels can fix it. I went further and made it look like a cheap digicam. Anyway, that’s Alex Ang, yet another band slut. Guessed which band this is yet? (There’s also Zaim of Curtis Blues Review on bass.)

Ash Nair! Best known for his stint in Malaysian Idol and as one of those CLEO Bachelors.

I might’ve just discovered an interesting effect; using the wrong white balance with controlled flash power to isolate subjects.

I’m not sure if I’ve seen him before.

And now, for a rant.

An out-of-focus picture of Kimberly and Tan Yee Hou‘s friend, shot at 50mm F2.0. Shot by a friend who I won’t identify.

And this is why the Nikon D40 sucks. (No, this was taken with my Sony A100 with Minolta 50mm F1.4 lens… in manual focus.)

The D40 cannot use auto-focus on Nikkor lenses that do not have motors inside them. Thus, you’d need to get an AF-S or AF-I lens. However, Nikon does not make AF-S versions of their bright primes (at least F1.8), like the popular Nikkor 50mm F1.8D lens! (And when they do announce it, it takes ages to arrive and goes out of stock.)

Ironically, a bright prime which has narrow depth of field needs auto-focus the most.

Tan Yee Hou. Shot at 50mm F2.0, which is enough for someone sitting at the same table to be reasonably in focus. Identity of shooter withheld.

I’ve discovered is that most people can’t do manual focus, even in restaurant lighting! (Or haven’t a clue how to see if something is critically in focus.)

Yes, I’ve been asking people to try to manual focus, doing random samplings. (I didn’t ask them to half-press and spot the focus-assist dot, though… that would tell them if it’s in focus, which defeats the purpose of the experiment.)

There was once I met Fazri and his friend, Brian, and I asked him to manual focus and he got a sharp, in-focus shot.

Later in conversation, I found out that his father had an Olympus OM-2. Yep, one of those legendary, very quiet fabric-shutter manual exposure manual focus film SLRs. Manual focusing must be in his blood!

(Okay, so later he whipped out a digital SLR, so he already knew what in focus looked like.)

Imagine, there could be a generation of budget-strapped people getting D40 units with the cheapest first-hand Nikkor lens, the 50mm F1.8D, and taking loads of out-of-focus shots… and not knowing it.

A D40 could be retrofitted with a manual focusing screen, but because of the matte area, metering would be screwed, overexposing out-of-focus areas. Teehee.

Xian Jin nails the focus on this shot of Matthew. This was on the 50mm at F1.4! F1.4 is much more challenging, but done correctly, the right parts of the picture are in focus, with the bonus of soft focus in the other areas.

In general, with a small depth-of-field, one should focus one-thirds into the subject. For a face, the eyes are most critical; focus that and the nose and ears will be reasonably in focus.

Last Minute Update

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A quick update for tonight:

What: Hearts N Lightbulbs Valentine Event
Who: Jerral Khor & Zalila Lee, Nick Davis, Diplomats Of Drums, Saer Ze, Wong Yu-Ri, Soft Touch, Estrella, Reza Salleh
When: 8pm, Sunday, 11th February 2007
Where: (venue changed) Laundry Bar, The Curve
How Much: Free admission (but this is a charity show, so please donate!)

The event is organized by Feathered Friends Network. Proceeds will go to St. Jerome Home, a home to 18 children aged 2-16 years, taken care by Brother Peter. They urgently need a washing machine and funds for the children’s school fees.

Lie Surgical Seed Die At Her Might

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27th January 2007: Bear With Me (I only got to Jamasia near midnight, after Bryan‘s birthday celebration.)

Lightcraft, indie rock darlings.

Ooo hot chick photographer!

Ask Me Again.

Kick. Ass. Emo core.

The annoying lights, which kept fading in and out, led to me metering when it was dark (and thus overexposing) or metering when bright (and thus underexposing). However, I quickly discovered that the lights could create such… double exposures.

They Will Kill Us All, post rock.

I loved it when they kicked in the strobe lights! (This is definitely new for Jamasia.) I panned the members and got this interesting transition at 1/2th of a second.

1/6th of a second, for fewer strobe images and more discreteness.

What about zooming?

Yeah, to some extent.

Scream your post-rock spirits out!

Faux cross-processing on the members of Triple 6 Poser.

Muse, Bah!

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26th January 2007, Muse Bar, The Weld, Kuala Lumpur. An upcoming place for live performances.

Ziel!

I tried to capture the flare and ghosting, inspired by Ahmad Saiful‘s Olympus E500 flare-ful shots. Open wide, F1.4!

I don’t usually like to capture performers looking at me as if I was doing street photography, but some people think it works, so I offer this version.

Dragon Red! With a twist…

Slyde was missing, and Adam had to rap…

Manshaan was still on drums for one of the most explosive acts in the scene.

Filler bassist!

No turntablist either. Everybody was busy. But it made for an interesting set, including covers of The Cure – Love Song.

Surprise, Amil raps and sings!

Guest screamer.

Another surprise – Adam plays bass (and looks like a cross between Melina of Tempered Mental and Aru of Koffin Kanser.)

Both Adam and Amil kept time, and didn’t miss notes or words. Awesome. The Dragon Red Trio looks like it could work.

Open mike – Raffique plays more.

Raffique and Aishah.

“Where is she?”

Aishah and hot drunken chick Diana (who has a deejay sister who tells laaame jokes on stage; anyone who has seen her emcee for Jamasia gigs will know.)

Alex Wong of Singletrackmind, owner of the place (left) singing his English version of Peterpan – Mungkin Nanti with Manbai, the soundman.

Yes, the guy who sang Ilhamku. He’s hilarious on stage. He also sang a powerful version of Search – Fantasia Bulan Madu.

I’d show you videos, but there are a few reasons why I don’t:

– my video recordings are not steady, especially since I try to shoot pictures with my other hand
– you can hear my camera clicking away
– okay, so really, when it’s a song I want to record, the uh… enthusiastic crowd sings along, spoiling the video.
– okay, so really, my voice is nearest. Not only do you hear my funky-orange-juice-influenced singing, you get to hear my wrong lyrics.

Click on image for larger view. I managed to snap this at 50mm F2.2 ISO100 and 1/2th of a second. Yes, a half of a second! That’s over 5 stops (and this was standing up without resting on anything, with the funky-orange-juice in effect!) Okay, so pointing up always increases stability.

Click on the image for the original 1.5MB file, uncompressed with EXIF data for all to see. The thumbnail is a 100% crop, this time at 50mm F1.4 ISO400 and 1/2th of a second. I usually don’t get such sharp pictures at F1.4 (though being at infinity there might be some exceptions.) Contrast was lowered in camera because I like it that way and makes for more fun post-processing.

Audio Visual Text

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What: Moonshine KL
Who: Zach Tay Trio, Ash Nair (Malaysian Idol), Neomedicus, Reza Salleh
When: 9:30pm, Thursday, 8th February 2007
Where: Laundry Bar, The Curve
How Much: Free entry

More details here.

What: Indie-Licious
Who: Sky Juice Coffee, IG Collective, Telephony Delivery, Project Ei8ht, Crosstown Traffic, PG 165, Edward Gomez
When: 8pm, Saturday, 10th February 2007
Where: KL Jamasia, Desa Sri Hartamas
How Much: RM15 entry

For more information call: 012-7697749 or visit http://www.kljamasia.com.

Yes yes I’m going for all three.

And now, for camera geeking time. Fun reads:

Edwin’s CameraHobby.com

This guy writes lushly in his reviews; you’ll never feel like skimming through because he goes into a historic review of things before getting to the product at hand. Truly an experience for the camera geeks. God knows how many did-you-knows I picked up, like:

“USM was pooh-poohed until Nikon came out with their own version called AF-S and suddenly it became the best thing since sliced bread to be able to override the lens focusing without switching levers or buttons.” – Nikon AF-S VR 70-200mm f2.8 G IF-ED review

Yes, it all sounds too familiar.

“As far as I know (but am likely wrong) the predecessor A1 was the first digicam to offer IS built into a digicam chassis. While the traditional IS/VR developed by Canon and Nikon is built into the lens, the A1/A2 went about it a different way and incorporated it into the body, a seemingly good idea for this class of camera and one that is going to be taken to the next step when KonicaMinolta produces their first D-SLR. Pop Photo magazine indicated that KonicaMinolta went this in-camera IS route to avoid the patents that Canon and Nikon have for in-lens IS/VR mechanisms.” – KonicaMinolta A2 review

Oh. I guess Panasonic found a loophole when implementing lens-based Mega Optical Image Stabilizer.

Still, CCD-shift works for me, and as they say YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary), and I’m getting a heck lot of mileage.

Petteri’s Pontifications also provides a historical ride down camera history.

“The Minolta 7000 changed all that. Here was a camera that could undeniably focus and track faster and more consistently and precisely than even the most practiced manual-focus SLR shooter. It took the camera market by storm, and for a space Minolta looked set to take the top spot in the professional market as well. It was clear that Nikon, Canon, and Pentax had to do something — or go the way of Olympus and give up on the SLR market.” – Ugly Ducklings: The Early EF Primes

It’s also great fun reading his lens reviews; he nicknames all his lenses.

I think I’ll nickname my lenses too – the Nocturnal, the Beercan, the Kit Kid, the Loupe, the Orphan, the White Bride, the Sharpie, the Zoom Zoom and the Onanist.

…or maybe not.

More old-timer goodness can be found at The Online Photographer, (formerly known as 37th Frame) with a few contributors, all of different uh… allegiances.

Photography In Malaysia is always a fun read. The Minolta Maxxum/Dynax 7000 article is quite interesting. Initially, there were only twelve auto-focus lenses available, (of which I have the Beercan and 50mm F1.4) but none of them were lousy or dark, at most ending at F4.5!

Yeah so why am I quoting all these sites? It might be my inclination to think of my Sony A100 as being the descendant of what was then groundbreaking Minolta.

Random Thoughts:

If there is CCD-shift anti-dust, and CCD-shift image stabilizer, why not have CCD-shift autofocus ala the Contax auto-focus SLR, which moved the film plane? (Obvious weaknesses would be that shake could make an out-of-focus picture, and that the CCD cannot move enough to be sufficiently macro. However, if the lens was at closest focusing distance, moving the CCD back would provide significantly closer focusing distances!)

Another question would be of digital SLRs in film SLR bodies, e.g. the Fujifilm S3 Pro, based on the Nikon F80 full-frame film SLR body. Do they have full-sized mirrors? Does that mean you view a full frame, but with the digital crop? (Quite like a rangefinder, letting you spot action outside the frame. Coolness.)

Why didn’t Konica Minolta (and then Sony) reuse the Konica 58-400mm F4 Hexanon AR or 35-100mm f2.8 Hexanon Varifocal AR?

Three And Then Some

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More rock shows: Project Bazooka, Laundry Bar, 18th January 2007.

Adlin of Lied, angry rock music perpetuators, on the 210mm end of my Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan lens.

Matthew, affectionately known to the band as Jessica.

Guitar and bass.

Citizens Of Ice-cream. Post-rock bands must have a keyboard.

They should also have am electrocoustic guitar for jangly, yet piting post-rock sounds.

Post-rock pictures require post-processing.

Guitar licks or licking the guitar?

Ronnie Khoo of Furniture. Slow-sync flash.

0.8 seconds, F13, ISO 1600, 18mm.

I noted that he wasn’t wearing his shoes; his shoes were in front of him! That’s not shoe-gazing anymore now is it?

Toe-gazers.

And then, for a gig at Nu Skool, Melia Hotel, 20th January 2007.

I remember when I first watched High School Musical and thought, “HEYYY I know a chick who looks Vanessa Anne Hudgens!” Okay, so she’s got bigger eyes.

Izuan of Auburn, alternative rock with interesting riffs.

Shot with my Olympus OM-2000 film SLR with my Vivitar 24mm F2.0 lens.

Citizens Of Ice-cream again! 2 second exposure at ISO 400, with full-power bounce flash from Nikon SB-28 flash.

Yep, I got a clue.

The Rhaman. Shot at 1/125th of a second, at my Olympus OM-2000’s flash sync speed, with bounce flash from the Nikon SB-28.

They played ska-ish indie rock. For some reason the female vocalists always sound like Gwen Stefani (before she went solo and contributing to annoying radio.)

From the side, artsily out of focus, is Stonebay, grunge rockers.

With the Olympus OM-2000 with Vivitar 2x teleconverter and Olympus Zuiko 70-210mm F4.5-5.6 lens at full zoom, making a 420mm F11 lens. I could point the Nikon SB-28 directly at full power and get correct exposure!

My friend dropped me off at Jamasia, where I’d find Alda. I let him play with my Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan lens and this is what he got.

He shot this, too. He’s got an eye!

I think it’s too expensive to have Gadget Acquisition Syndrome for two different hobbies, so Alda, you should just stick to collecting basses for your own wealth. 😛

Spotted in Cineleisure Damansara. Now I know where to pick up chicks! (Ikano has a pick-up lane.)

Sh-and-Az

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Shelley Leong and Az Samad were back in town for two intimate gigs.

10th January 2007, No Black Tie

Az: Aku main dulu. Harap tak pancit.

He played some new shit. Some old shit. Some refashioned shit. All good shit. Az is Malaysia’s violent acoustic fingerstyle guitarist with a penchant for alternate tunings, gentle guitar dynamics, and medleys of Beatles songs (all on one guitar, like Daytripper with both vocal lines and basslines!)

Oh, and I think it was his first public performance of Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Shelley meanwhile, upped her performance photogenicness. 😀 All that raw emotion oozing from her face, I felt like crying too. (This was before the Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan lens, shot using smashpOp‘s Sony 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 at 120mm, F6.3, 1/15s, ISO1600.)

Wah, pedal!

Open mike, and it’s awesome fingerstyle guitarist Dave Yoong! He had a few tricks up his sleeves, too.

Rozhan joins Az to jam some jazz standards. I didn’t know if it was a jazz thing for both of them to take audible breaths at the same time, and sometimes take turns taking breaths, but not related to who was playing or taking turns.

Emoticus maximus.

Now, with Alda on bass and Zalila Lee on percussions!

Zalila aspires to be a hip candid shooter while playing the percussions with the other hand. Ah, the days when I slinged my Canon Powershot A520 on its belt pouch snapping everything as proof of something.

Reza Salleh, soul/rock crooner and Moonshine and Feedback gig organizer, gets an epiphany.

Fast forward to 17th January 2007, same place, right after I got the beercan lens.

Crispness at the 210mm F4 1/60s end!

Same, but at 1/8th of a second.

It’s like they teach looking emo in Berkley. Hmmm, maybe they do.

Guess that chord! (This is a 600×898 crop shrunk in half to 300×449 to show the power of the beercan. ~~Beer goggles~~ beercan makes it look good!)

I’ve been meaning to catch Az do this. (No, he’s not shielding himself from the bright spotlights.)

Knock on wood.

I’ve never seen anyone so happy to be tuning his guitar.

Two plugs – one for the guitar pickup, the other to pick up the sound of knocking on the guitar!

Zach Tay plays alternative rock and shreds the blues madly.

Finally, some flare! 50mm, F1.4, 1/3s (the main factors being overexposure, wide-open aperture and having a bright light somewhat out of the frame.)

This was not combined from two pictures.

Az tunes. Everyone is happy.

More extreme closeup goodness at 210mm F4. For once Az plays the blues without going all jazzy and haram on us. Yay!

A most massive Chumbawamba-esque jam fest. From left: Two guitarists (Az and Shelley), two bassists (Loon and Alda), two percussionists (Stephanie and Zalila).

Oh, and Zarul the blowing the blues!

Yep, we’ve all seen him with Isaac Entry. Interesting change of pace, this.

Another surprise came in what Shelley called her happy blues song – Az sings the blues!

Argh I forgot her name, and her friend’s name too. She had a beautiful, slightly fragile-yet-chin-up voice. I think I’ve been exposed to too much of that unidentified Laundry Bar blogger, hence my decreasing captioning abilities.

Better Butters

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What? Butters & Friends at Zouk KL, 13th January 2007.

Damn Dirty Apes have turned… reggae! Pedram thankfully is still on sound-effect guitar. (Shot at F1.4.)

Guess whose style this reminds me of!

C’mon man, gimme the Jaguar. You know I want it.

No color tweaking on this one. I love how it turned out so film-like on my Sony A100.

Thankfully, after a few reggae-singalong songs (with DDA background music) they went back to their classic shoegazing, with lush soundscapes, beautiful arpeggios, haunting basslines and intense walls of noise. Space-rock/post-rock never sounded this good.

Now if only these guys would come down from Penang more often. Worth the RM35 entrance fee alone.

(They were also the only band to play new songs. Their new non-reggae stuff rocked as much as the day I first heard them, falling into a hypnotic trance, then enjoying the roaring volume-11 feedback.)

Republic Of Brickfields! (I went in as media since Xfresh FM was part of the event anyway.)

They’re finally coming up with an album after years of otai-ness. Ganja-ran, they call it.

Another vantage point (which would’ve been awesome with a telephoto lens.)

OAG‘s guitarist. Focused on it by accident. At F1.7 the out-of-focus spots were still bright-lined bokeh (which, some people say, is displeasing) so I used the Blur Tool in Adobe Photoshop, with the Mode set to Darken, to give the circles less donut-like borders.

Despite being mostly out-of-focus, I like this.

OAG played their English stuff! Yes, I must admit that I liked their English songs more, because they had a simpler pop rock sound.

As you can tell, it got harder with more photographers creeping in to the sides. The exclusivity of media tags had been lost!

Radhi was a boom mike operator in a past life.

The Minolta 50mm at F2.0 really sparkles. I loved it when I captured other photographers’ flashes, illuminating the fog.

This, at F2.5. I love having a 50mm F1.4 not just for the F1.4, but for all the apertures in between that and F4.

Butterfingers are on! Loque tries to locate his pedals with the sudden influx of people.

They played their classics. Again, I prefer their English grunge rock with Malay-or-Celtic-traditional-riff (I don’t mean A-minor glam rock) stuff, before they went Malay and added Radiohead influences.

…I don’t like Radiohead much.

Many songs I didn’t know the titles to, I found out that day. Fire Is A Curse? E! Stolen! Skew! Love! Delirium! Garden City Of Lights! (Okay, so I had Butter Worth Pushful sitting on Winamp, but I never committed the song titles to memory.)

Emmett can still scream like he came out of his momma’s womb in Seattle.

There you go. This would probably be grabbed by a fan.

Loque, for the synth-y bits.

Needless to say, they blew me away. I haven’t felt such a fresh rush of grunge since… 2002?

On a side note, I figured out a Celtic version of Vio-pipe for guitar using E-A-C#-G#-B-E tuning. Yeeeaaahhh!

Moshpit in Zouk. You’d better believe it.

I spotted Xfresh FM DJ Rex crowdsurfing! Congratulations man, you’ve kept it real and have transcended beyond your socializing days in Laundry Bar. You now really rock after getting kicked in the face a few times and coming out of the crowd smelling like a thousand Mat Rockers.

Emmett ends his set neck-to-guitar-neck.

He jumps, and is met with a most supportive crowd.

To think, I only came because I heard that Damn Dirty Apes were playing. I forgot what a national treasure Butterfingers were. Plus, for RM35, all four bands played one-hour-long sets! Usual gigs only have half-hour sets at most.

Outside, I bumped into Linda Onn! (I’d link you babe but where?)

After the gig, I bumped into Ahmad Saiful, a friendly photographer. I got to play with his Olympus E-500. His Zuiko Digital 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 in particular, had very cool flare, with an obvious double-line outline, a quarter-circle filling up half the frame. I think it’s a characteristic of having such wide focal lengths (despite the view crop.)

This shot was to demonstrate black-and-white with high contrast color mode on my camera; I just stretched out my arm without aiming and got this random shot. Some people like it for some reason. I just find the bokeh reflected in the window to be rather odd for its position.

Rocking To 2007

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The first Moonshine of 2007 on the 11th of January had many greeting me “Happy New Year!” although my happiness subsided 10 days ago.

Who the heck is Paolo Delfino, and why are girls speaking lushly of this acoustic singer-songwriter?

Oddstars, oo la la.

Hehe the drummer smiles too!

Guest vocalist.

Karen Nunis Blackstone. Folk rocker.

Who has rather otai-looking members…

…like the great bluesman Julian Mokhtar.

Funk/jazz rockers Seven will always be recognizeable by afroed Bobo…

…who is also a member of Cosmic Space Munkys.

And not forgetting the saxophone.

Random shots; top-left and top-right: Rachel; bottom-left: Athira who looks cool; bottom-right: the Laundry Bar blogger (what, you thought she really wanted to take your picture because you were sitting around looking cute?) and Eddy the hard rocker.

The next day I headed to Jamasia for its relaunching.

The Epiphone SG guitar that once hung from the ceiling now had a grander spot.

The bar relocated to the back. Debbie makes AWESOME cocktails, with interesting names like Naughty Chocs, Twist And Dip, Electric Berries and Do The Haka. There’s also something that blows the McDonalds McFlurry – the Snickers Pimp. Like melted Snickers!

If you tire of mamak drinks in Desa Sri Hartamas, come over to Jamasia for funky fruity/sweet alcoholic delights.

Where is Jamasia anyway?

Behind the Maybank in Desa Sri Hartamas.

Guitar!

Jamasia is now open 6 days a week, closing only on Monday. Tuesdays are jam nights, where anybody can bring an instrument and play. There’s a gig every other night, including Reza Salleh‘s new Feedback series.

Speaking of which, his band played for the relaunch.

Melina!

Reza and gang. Finally got to flash Jamasia with my digital SLR!

One Buck Short also did a short punk rock set.

Something I rarely blog about in Jamasia gigs (but is tradition) is the drinking game, where the winner gets a jug of beer. Adam, the usually malevolent-looking screamer of Dragon Red, looks so cute with emo glasses!

Oh, and the best thing about Jamasia is that it is now non-smoking, like The New Paul’s Place. Smokers will have to sit at the stairway.

Eve Eve Reprieve

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30th December 2006 was the New Year’s Eve’s Eve show at No Black Tie, featuring many acts that played there the whole year.

Rhapsody in a post-chorus pose.

Melina to Stephanie: So, you’ve finally crawled out from behind the drums to a more visible spot.

Ywenna-cute-ears!

Jangan tak rock.

The Sofa Sessions. Yeah, I’m bootlegging them performing Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here!

No bassist this time, but featuring Aznan Aziz of Blues Gang! (Last seen over two years ago at what was then Titus Blues Avenue and is now The Wall.)

Next up: Engineer turned lounge-singer Shanon Shah. He now writes beautiful songs about love and Star Wars. One of the most fun, and funny, performers that night. And hello there thanks for reading my blog! 😀

Zalila Lee (not in picture) featuring Jerral Khor and Zack Kim (that once-long-haired shredder for Cosmic Funk Express!)

I had to rush out for some errands. On the way out I snapped a crane.

Hishamuddin Rais was next. Who? He sounded like some minister or someone important. His stand-up skit was initially funny, but turned ugly when he starting saying, “You know what I hate about Nigerians?” He then turned into a shouting political crowd-riser.

Yeah, he got a rise from the crowd indeed, sounding like, “Get off the stage!”

Jasiminne prays: Finish your speech already!

No creative lighting system was used in this picture. Place model, frame shot, and shoot.

What was all that about?

A quick Google search on my phone revealed that he was the director of “Dari Jemapoh Ke Manchestee“, who was detained under ISA (strangely not associated with any party, calling himself a NGI (Non-Governmental Individual)). Apparently, quite the exile, too.

Back to the music with organizer Reza Salleh, the dude with the sexy voice and soulful rock ballads.