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2nd February, 2008 would go down as one of the most memorable days of my life …. and now so will 21st December 2009 … no i didn’t get laid or win a million dollars or anything like that … it was IRON MAIDEN. i was at the concert of one of the best heavy metal bands of all time …. and it was wonderful!!! and after that i didn’t really think any other concerts that i’d attend again in my life could possibly be any better … but boy was i wrong.

now … i don’t really recall attending that many college fests when i was actually in college … not so much ‘cos i was busy or not interested … but mostly ‘cos i just considered them to be pretty lame ass … and most of  ‘em actually were. it was mostly about games, quizzes, plays and you know stuff like that … and i wasn’t much interested in ‘em (yeah i know … i’m weird) … but the fact is all these years later i don’t really regret it at all.

… but coming back to the topic … when a good friend of mine called up and asked me whether i’d be interested in going with him to Mood Indigo 2009 … i’d be lying if i said i was interested … even when he said Porcupine Tree were gonna perform. and the reason for that is pretty basic … i hadn’t even heard of ‘em. but at the end of the day it was a concert and it was gonna be way better than spending my evening sitting in front of a computer surfing through wikipedia about global weather patterns or the space shuttle or how led zepplin started out (yeah thats the kinda shit i read everyday … in office hours!!! ). so i said yes … even though it was gonna cost me a 1000 bucks ….

…. but now 2 days later i can say it was money well spent. now before i go through how the concert actually was … there’s an important thing i need to talk about … Mood Indigo itself. like i said before i’ve been to a few college fests before … but this has gotta be THE MOST FUCKED UP one i’d ever attended in my life. the entire thing was so badly handled … that i’d be ashamed of it if i’d been in IIT. i came to know later on that organizers didn’t really expect the kinda crowd that actaully turned up … which is a pretty fucked up excuse considering that it wasn’t a free entry thing … you had to buy tickets … so they knew exactly how many people were gonna turn up … :X

entering the concert arena was a story in itself … ‘cos there’s no way you could get in until and unless you showed some sort of valid identification in my case my passport … trust me when i say this it would be much easier to get into the Kalpakkam facility than into IIT Bombay …

but i guess thats understandable … and i have no complains about that … in the end the saving grace was the band itself. they were amazing … a kinda mix of grunge, metal and psychedelic rock (read: alice in chains meets ozzy osbourne). it was way better than the iron maiden thing … mostly ‘cos i could relate myself more to porcupine tree than maiden. I loved the songs Lazarus, The Sound of Muzak, Trains and Fear of a Blank Planet … and thats a lot for me to say … ‘cos rarely do i love a song the very first time i hear it … and that multiplies even more when i haven’t even heard of the band before …

so obviously the first thing i did when i came back home was to download … oops borrow & listen to the songs … and thats what i’ve been doing for the last 2 days … so now 2 days later it’s back to the real world … but i would say this … to anyone out there if you aren’t too sure about listening to some band that you have just heard off … then sometimes it’s well worth taking that risk … ‘cos there are some really amazing musicians out there … and you’ll never get a better high than listening to ’em … till the next year … ciao!!!