It has been a while since I’d been to Paul’s New Place; since the screening of Ciplak, Khai‘s independent movie. I was there for the Y2K “Pizza Salsa” album launch.

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Left to right, top to bottom: The crowd; FYI Entertainment expresses how they finally got around to producing Y2K’s album; Rina Omar was the host and one-time Y2K drummer; a projection screen shows hilarious short clips of The Making Of the album (parodying Nacho Libre, Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster documentary, Karate Kid, Star Wars, and many others that Khai gets inspiration from); the sound-engineer’s corner; Triple6Poser performing.

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Left: Eddy Lim, tattooed frontman and long-haired harmonica player; top-right: Khai rocks out; bottom-right: Jay on bass and Henry on guitar complete this hard-rocking bluesy classic rock/heavy metal band.

Stonebay was the next opening act, with grunge-tinged vocals.

Check out his guitar, yo.

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The last act before Y2K breaks onto stage is Dragon Red. Adam croons and shouts; Amil makes orgasmic faces while playing nu-metal riffs, while Natalie keeps it low on bass.

Interestingly, Adam found a hammer on stage, but I did not get to take a picture of it. Him holding a hammer in one hand and a mike in the other reminded me of Anchorman:

Ron Burgundy: Brick, where did you get a hand grenade?
Brick Tamland: I don’t know.

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Finally, Y2K makes their way on stage, masks and all; Monsieur Poubelle was a rapper who lost his face and now plays bass.

Hermano Grande is the lucha wrestler on a Flying V guitar.

The Naq, fear-striking space creature, is not seen in the background. After a series of Spinal Tap-like drummers (from Asai the original cute Japanese drummer who drummed punk rock beats and sang at the same time, to Rina Omar, and some others, they were finally graced by The Naq.)

Nazneen joined on stage when they needed female vocals.

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Look ma, no flash.

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They then swap positions! Unfortunately, it wasn’t as easy as just swapping instruments; Monsieur Poubelle was left-handed!

Ahmad of The Blumps joins them for a crazy angry bridge! Check out the punk rock rage, yo.

(A second-curtain flash would help in this slow-shutter-speed-flash picture, so his trails would be behind him.)

The finale.

Oh, but that’s not all; check out their album case!

RM19.90 for 19 songs of good, clean punk rock production, with hilarious lyrics and a few not-so-punk-genre songs. I’m not sure where you can get this uniquely packaged CD, but you can check Y2K‘s official site.