21st March 2014: Platform11 – Screaming From Petaling Street to Kenting, at Petaling Street Art House, Jalan Sultan.
But first, a secret performance, starting from the little lane where the famous Chinese roadside barber is, at Jalan Sultan (often mistakenly stated to be the Petaling Street barber…)
The little stairway that leads to Petaling Street Art House, and Coffee Amo, a coffee joint attached to its back (with the most awesome 3D latte art ever.)
This is what my friend got (a #latergram, as they’d call this on Instagram.)
My little piggie.
I think you’d have to ask for it specifically now, since I went there while waiting for the gig to start, and I didn’t get 3D foam art. Sure, it adds nothing to the coffee snob’s palate, but I am not a coffee snob and I just enjoy hipster-y things like 3D foam art.
Stamped on entry.
The treasures of Petaling Street! (Of course, on Jalan Sultan…)
The last property in the path from the Pasar Seni MRT to Merdeka MRT, passing Jalan Sultan, to be claimed by the MRT project, was Lok Ann Hotel. They fought a good fight, with lawyers and all, until they were the last one to sign. The government wanted to pay a pittance for a beautiful 5-storey backpacker’s hotel and classic coffee shop!
The irony is that a 118-storey tower, called Menara Warisan (Heritage Tower), was to be built over a heritage landmark (the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park/Merdeka Park) that was demolished. Heritage is about keeping what you have intact, not about destroying and building new shiny things and calling it heritage!
This was before the full crowd came in.
Keith Tan, on vocals and guitar.
Fung Chern Hwei, on violin.
Anna Chong, mostly on vocals, but here depicted with a guitar.
Ken Chung on bass.
Drum and bass, chilling out.
Platform 11 plays soul-searching, atmospheric, engulfing rock.
Anna doing a Kurt Cobain.
An old Rediffusion radio speaker.
More ornaments. I can’t read Chinese.
I was waiting for Ken Chung to bring out his fretless bass! This was an old Squier fretless bass, made in Japan.
Gideon and his effects. He’d also use an eBow and a metal slide for interesting sounds!
We called for an encore after the show ended, and the organizer ran up to Keith and took his hat away.
The organizer then adorned Keith with this!
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This was epic.
It was floppy!
Yeah, you could stretch it.
Some more? Anna smiles.
They decided to join the audience sitting on the floor.