Hours after watching my favourite musician of all time perform live — pun intended — Irish alternative band The Cranberries took to the stage and rocked it out in front of an impressive audience. The night concerts brought about brilliant lighting and the festival’s core attendees, which created just the right atmosphere for the personal reason behind witnessing their performance.
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Back in college, I made a promise with a friend that if Live — or in this case, its remaining members — held a concert in a place within reach, we would attend together. When former Live frontman Ed Kowalczyk announced that he would kickstart his first visit to Asia by performing on the second day of Java Rockin’ Land 2011, it was a mad rush to make it finally happen.
Arizonan alternative rock band Jimmy Eat World held a one-night concert in Jakarta’s Nusa Indah Theatre. The jam-packed gig was nothing short of unforgettable — with a great sound and lighting system, to boot — as the audience was pampered with a set list of twenty-two songs. As an added plus, I also stood metres from and was at eye-level with the gorgeous frontman, Jim Adkins.
While on his Indonesian tour, American singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik held a surprise gig in the flagship store of one Jakarta’s well-known bookshops. Word of the impromptu concert went out through the bookstore’s Twitter account about an hour beforehand, and it is the first concert I’ve attended spontaneously.
The second concert of Saturday’s 2010 Grand Prix Concert catered to lovers of the glitter and glam persuasion. Adam Lambert’s set is filled with expert showmanship and beautiful manifestations of the important reminder that ultimately, humankind needs to motivated on nothing else but love.
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