{"id":6232,"date":"2014-06-08T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2014-06-09T04:32:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:32:20","slug":"music-tornado-festival-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=6232","title":{"rendered":"Music Tornado Festival 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n7th June 2014: Music Tornado Festival 2014<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n


\nSome of the members of Flying Pan<\/b> 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.)<\/p>\n


\nThere were musical instruments on sale!<\/p>\n


\nStalls.<\/p>\n


\nA surprisingly big venue, that even holds church services on Sundays.<\/p>\n


\nReady To Fly<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nCheck out that stack of amplifiers!<\/p>\n


\nKen Chung<\/s> Benjamin Yang on bass! (Thanks Zedes for the correction – they look alike from far, with similiar-looking basses!)<\/p>\n


\nDouble Call Mobeat<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nTurntables.<\/p>\n


\nHip hop band!<\/p>\n


\nCool uniforms.<\/p>\n


\nFinally spotted: Fahmi Reza’s awesome posters at a gig.<\/p>\n


\nMath rock band Nao<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nStart your show with a jump!<\/p>\n


\nJust 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.<\/p>\n


\nThis is what the VIP area looks like. Check out the lights!<\/p>\n


\nStill as heavy and technical, with plenty of progressive changes.<\/p>\n


\nHaven’t seen them since Sunburst KL 2009, 21st March 2009<\/a>!<\/p>\n


\nIan, who I didn’t recognize, having not seen him in ages!<\/p>\n


\nThe crowd.<\/p>\n


\nTributers<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nHey it’s Zedes Luther, the bassist from Cats In Love, with the cool bass!<\/p>\n


\nKeyboard, keyboard, and keyboard with a folding screen.<\/p>\n


\nThis band had videographers running on stage.<\/p>\n


\nThe keyboardist sang a song too, and all cameras pointed at her.<\/p>\n


\nOh and another cool thing about these big stages? Having the typical picture where the background screen is also the subject.<\/p>\n


\nThe 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.<\/p>\n


\nInception!<\/p>\n


\n4AG<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nI liked his shredding!<\/p>\n


\nFor once the smoke looks good.<\/p>\n


\nI’ve always liked the look of PRS guitars.<\/p>\n


\nThese guys rock, too.<\/p>\n


\nThe vocalist goes from hard rock vocals to screaming.<\/p>\n

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…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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