Twilight Circus at HOC

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Twilight Circus comprising of Bharat on vocals, guitars and percussion and Dhananjay on guitar and vocals performed at HOC, Chennai the other day. They also had John Pradeep of Bad Fish accompanying them on bass for a couple of songs.

The band was superb and gave quite a good performance and would have done better if they had a better audience and a better sound.

The Notwist

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German indie-electro pop band The Notwist comprising of Markus Acher, Michael Acher, Martin Gretschmann and Andi Haberl performed in Chennai at the Museum Theatre.

Central Festival – The spirit of Christmas

Chennai celebrated an early Christmas. And how?

Central Festival organized by Unwind Center had in store for the crowd, a number of musicians from the city along with students from Unwind School of Music.

The lovely evening started with contemporary dance performances by Stripe Studio of Dance and All Stars.

One of my favorite songs of the evening was Song of the Bells by Chennai latin jazz band Osher Moosica. Worth mentioning would be Yohan on the sax which left the crowd was simply mesmerized!

Jus’ for Kicks was amazing as usual and we really enjoyed their performance. The band does have good fan base in Chennai especially the lead singer, Sujan.

It was then Chennai’s gospel rock band Kontagious with Saroop Oomen on vocals with Satish from Skrat on bass and Tapass from the same band on drums.

Students from Unwind school of Music were very exuberant. All the lead vocalists namely Nritya Andrews, Anisha Verghese, Sujan and Samcy Philip came forward one by one and sang ‘War is Over‘ along with the choir and then sang together

Now which Christmas show is incomplete without Silent Night! This was the last song of the evening and the crowd joined the musicians on stage led by Saroop.

Pictures from the show.

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Paranoid Earthling Rocks Chennai

And what a show it was by Sri Lankan rock band Paranoid Earthling at Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall, Chetpet, Chennai! Paranoid Earthling consists of Mirshad Buckman on guitars and vocal duties, Asela on bass, Dhanushka Samarasinghe on guitars and Shanka Samarasinghe on drums. The band rocked Chennai with their hard rock and grunge music, the only drawback being the poorly publicized gig resulting in a poor turnout. Hope the organizers publicize future gigs better.

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Watch the slide show in full screen (FS button at the right bottom of the player) for best viewing pleasure.

The Sri Lankan band was brought here by Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the High Commission of Sri Lanka.

Live 101 – Rocking Christmas

Live 101 – Rocking Christmas featured 4 bands from Chennai – Blues Conscience, Rusty Moe, 044 and Sapphyra.

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Visit Areapal for discussions on Christmas songs and music.