7th June 2014: Music Tornado Festival 2014, at Mega Star Arena, Jalan Kuchai Lama! I was particularly looking forward to this, because it was the Chinese rock scene that I had not seen before, and in a place I had not been to. It would be an adventure. I would be expecting a dingy, dodgy place, but if it was not then I would be pleasantly surprised.
Some of the members of Flying Pan are in this picture, of which one invited me, but I came just in time to miss their performance. (It didn’t help that Mega Star Arena wasn’t found on Google Maps.)
There were musical instruments on sale!
Stalls.
A surprisingly big venue, that even holds church services on Sundays.
Ready To Fly.
Check out that stack of amplifiers!
Ken Chung Benjamin Yang on bass! (Thanks Zedes for the correction – they look alike from far, with similiar-looking basses!)
Double Call Mobeat.
Turntables.
Hip hop band!
Cool uniforms.
Finally spotted: Fahmi Reza’s awesome posters at a gig.
Math rock band Nao.
Start your show with a jump!
Just look at the size of that stage! I’d say this was the biggest indoor venue I’d seen that doesn’t have elevated seating like a stadium or amphitheater.
This is what the VIP area looks like. Check out the lights!
Still as heavy and technical, with plenty of progressive changes.
Haven’t seen them since Sunburst KL 2009, 21st March 2009!
Ian, who I didn’t recognize, having not seen him in ages!
The crowd.
Tributers.
Hey it’s Zedes Luther, the bassist from Cats In Love, with the cool bass!
Keyboard, keyboard, and keyboard with a folding screen.
This band had videographers running on stage.
The keyboardist sang a song too, and all cameras pointed at her.
Oh and another cool thing about these big stages? Having the typical picture where the background screen is also the subject.
The stage is so big, my Sony Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm F1.8 ZA on the full-frame Sony Alpha 99 does not reach out to the drummer as much as I’d think it would.
Inception!
4AG.
I liked his shredding!
For once the smoke looks good.
I’ve always liked the look of PRS guitars.
These guys rock, too.
The vocalist goes from hard rock vocals to screaming.
I left early to head to two other gigs that day. (Of which one I didn’t even plan to, but that story will be told in a later blog entry…)