| | My Sunburst Experience And Meeting DJ Killjoy.Things started off way before the actual festival, when I was asked to play the first pre-event show at Pavilion, KL. I played alongside soul crooner Najwa and mega indie act Hujan. Playing with Hujan is always good coz that means I can tumpang their crowd :-p
The night before the festival I attended and performed at the Sunburst Cocktail Party at the Ritz Carlton. Razman (main dude for Pineapple Concerts) asked me and Najwa to sing a bit that night and he asked to recommend a third act. I said Yuna. He said ok. She was so good John Legend's manager spoke to her after. Najwa was so good she got the diaper dude from George Clinton's band rambling about how kickass she was.
The DJ from Incubus was walking around so I decided to go up and get a picture with him:
Reza: Hey Killjoy!
Killjoy: *nods in acknowledgment*
Reza: Do you mind if I get a picture with you?
Killjoy: Yea sure man.
Reza: Cool. I listened to you guys growing up man.
Killjoy: Oh that's cool man.
*snaps photo*
Reza: Yea thanks for the picture man.
Killjoy: No problem
*later*
Reza: Eh I think I wanna pass him the March issue of Junk la. It has his face on it after all.
Melina: Yea yea do it. And while you're at it, slip my CD into it (Melina fronts Tempered Mental)
Reza: Oh great idea. Ok lah I'll slip in mine too.
*waits for Killjoy to be free*
Reza: Hey man...
Killjoy: Do you mind if I go to the toilet one sec?
Reza: Oh yea sure ( - _ - )
*looks around and catches quite a number of skanky hos giving me the evil eye*
*Killjoy comes back out, nods at me*
Reza: Hey man, I work for this mag and I wanted to give you a copy, seeing that you're on it.
Killjoy: Oh yea we get these in our dressing rooms
Reza: .......oh..uh...ok, well I also have these...
*opens mag to get cds out, which decide to wonderfully drop to the floor*
Reza:..................
*bends down to get them*
Reza: Yea here just wanted to pass these to you, if you ever feel like listening to new stuff
Killjoy: Oh yea I'll take those....*looks at both cds and puts them in his back pocket*
Reza: Yea I'm playing tomorrow too.
Killjoy: Oh yea? What time?
Reza: 930 at the Hitz stage
Killjoy: Oh cool. I'll come check you out
Reza: Cool. *yea right you will*
*walks away a happy camper*
Reza: I gave 'em to him!
Melina: Yea I saw. Nice one!
Reza:..........Wait a minute...crap. I think I've been calling him Killjoy all this while.
Melina: Whaaatttt???
The DJ for Incubus is Chris Kilmore aka DJ Kilmore
( - _ - )
The day itself was a long one. I was up at 9AM and I only got home at 6AM. Nice huh. Had to set up the Junk booth which took longer than expected due to organiser delays. It started off ok, with people streaming in and checking out the early acts. I got to see a bit of Tompi's set which was awesome. He did this helium-sounding scat solo battle with his lead guitarist that just blew me away. He's played here before at Alexis but I never got a chance to see him.
It started raining and thank god I had decided to be at the Junk booth at the time. Meng and the rest of LMB's set was in the thick of it but I still saw fans with umbrellas layan-ing them. Bless their souls. Hujan was ok, I've definitely heard them play better sets. May have been the sound system.
George Clinton was nice but waaay too long. He played so long that he pushed everyone back, foiling my plans of being in between The Roots and John Legend. Damn you George. I spent my set looking at the big screen with The Roots on it while I was playing. Only managed to catch their last song.
Thanks to everyone who came to my stage. I was quite taken aback by all the people. Didn't think there would be so many who didn't who The Roots were =) Anyway I wasn't gonna risk it by saying that. Takut ppl just didn't realise haha. John Legend was awesome, but I was a bit disappointed by Incubus. Yea they played a lot of old songs which was great, but something about their set lacked punch. I think I was subconsciously feeling less of Mike's playing coz I know he just recovered from surgery. Had to adjust his playing style and all that.
I stayed till the end, packed up and waited for Hanafi (poor Estranged had to play last due to scheduling issues). A bunch of us hung out at Hartamas and somehow I ended up at home at 5.30AM.
I never slept better.
More shots from my photographer for the day, Cris, soon.
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| | Posted 3/22/2008 11:50 PM - 11 comments
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