It's been a long time since the last time I wrote here. Many things happened of course.Last yesterday I finally play on stage again (at last!!). It's been quite a long time since the last time I play on stage in front of many people (In Javarockinland if I'm not mistaken).
Anyway, I played in event called Urbanfest 09. It's located in pasar seni, Ancol, North-Jakarta. A lot of street cultures shows there. Things like skateboard, low-rider-bike, street basket, parkour (I'm not sure what is it?), and many mores.
Me and my band, Idealego, have to performed at movie stage.
It's quite awesome. Lots of white screen (since it's a movie stage yo!). Unfortunately, we are unable to use it cause we have to perform at 4.00 pm. And it's still sunrise so it's useless to put some video in that white screen.
Damn! What a waste!
The stage itself it's not so big. We only got three monitors. Yeah I repeat it, ONLY THREE MONITORS!
So we have to share each monitors. I have to share monitors with my bassist. I share a little with the other guitarist. We let the vocal have one monitors so the vocalist can sing it out loud without interruption from other instruments.
Finally 4.00 pm, it's showtime!!
I use fender telecaster for this show (thanx for my friend, Rendy Diodianto, for lending me this awesome guitar ;) ). We play it nice and cool. Although there are not many people watched us, but we don't care. We just play as if thousands people are watching us.
At the third song, I realize that in front of the crowd, there is a man that keep headbangin, follow the song's rhyme. Suddenly, he moves forward 'till the edge of stage and shows his hand to me. So I give him 'five' while playing with my guitar. That was so Rock 'n' Roll! Hell Yeahh!!
Thanx die-hard-fans! Whoever you are :) we salute you.
After 20 minutes, we finally end up our show. Many people cheers and salutes us (this is what I like in a concert)
I went to the dressing room to change my outfit. My friend help me pack up my riders (thanx a lot chie! you really give me a hand there).
After saying goodbye to other members of band, I went to some japanese restaurant nearby with my girlfriend. She has an event with his collegue there. I ate shabu-shabu. It was very delicious.
At 9.00 pm, I went back to pasar seni to watch a friend of mine perform. His name is Depe Gabe and he has a band called Tembang Pribumi which always cover traditional music (with their own style of course).
Depe sure is one of best bassist that I ever known. His skills and techniques were so amazing. The rest members of the band are so amazing too. They play songs like 'cublak-cublak suweng', 'gundul pacul', with some kind of jazzy tunes. Combine with traditional intruments like angklung and gamelan. It's so great. They even bring 'Dalang' to performed with them!
For you who doesn't know, 'Dalang' is a person who plays kind-of-puppet called 'wayang'. The different is, wayang made from leather so usually it's called 'wayang kulit'.
At 10.00 pm I had to drive my girl home. So I say goodbye to my friend and went outside pasar seni.
What a night to remember.
Here's some of the snapshots. Enjoy :)
