High, Higher, Gone

Right - so firstly, apologies to all for not mailing and all that. Have just been so lazy after quitting work. Have settled/settling into study mode - so you should be seeing a lot more blogging activity and mailing from me.

There's only one thing to write about at the moment - MAIDEN

So I get to B'lore on Saturday and discover that AK has these Lounge passes. So after braving the sun for a bit, we manage to get rid of our already bought passes and get in for free. The jing bang now comprises AK, SM, V1 and me. The Lounge is this special enclosure to the left of the performers - so its certainly not the best seats in the house to watch the show, but its relatively empty and you can see things as opposed to having to tiptoe to get a peek and above all else - there's grub and an open bar - details are best left unsaid.

So the MAIDEN show started off with a terrible band called FTN - winners of the Campus Rock Idol contest. Actually the band is per se pretty ok - but the vocalist is...well....a bit like me with a bad sound system.

Then came Parikrama - always very good as also today. Met the better part of the band - they got Lounge passes as well to watch MAIDEN. Last was this chick-band fronted by Lauren Harris. I have to be honest - we all thought that there was a mixture of guys and women on the band, but it turns out that its an all-female band. eeehhh...

The key being that Lauren Harris is Steve Harris' daughter - go figure....

Then comes MAIDEN. Palace Grounds are packed...there isn't place to wiggle - leave alone jump or get a mosh pit going. And MAIDEN was just incredible...no other word for it. Even V1, who's more a Floyd fan than a MAIDEN one was sold on them by the end of it. The trademark number and the one that I think all 20000 will remember was Fear of the Dark. Bruce stopped singing in the middle, cos there were at least 19500 people screaming out the song - Wow!!!

So the big high lasted about 3 days post the gig. Had a fun time in B'lore - nice place - vandalism is revered. Got myself a curtain by pulling down one of those cloth banners which were up to publicise the MAIDEN gig....

Thats about it for now...

Of Yawns

Attended a lecture today after - well, a long while. And I have to confess I enjoyed it - more so because the Prof was pretty good.

On the subject - its also worth mentioning that I'm taking a lecture sometime soon on one the Environmental Acts for the 3rd years and I'm rather looking forward to it.

Just felt like letting the world know about both these things - really don't have anything to write about and I'm not at my most eloquent at the moment.