Author Archives: Aditya Vishwanathan
What better way to end a long weekend than by watching a band that you like play a ninety minute set? Sunday evening saw The News perform at Kyra to a sizeable audience. A large part of the crowd consisted of the band members’ friends who were ready to root for them through the evening. The News is Gitarthi on Lead Vocals, Ankit on acoustic guitar and vocals, Nitin on bass, Raghav on the keyboard and Prasanna on drums. Taking to the stage before 9:30 p.m., Ankit performed an introductory Mahaganapathim of sorts in the form of ‘Will not Rain’ to inaugurate their show. The rest of the band came up on stage and they kicked…
It was a Thursday evening and Four Strokes was all set to play a tribute to The Beatles, the fathers of rock music, at Hard Rock Café , Bangalore. The place was filled with avid Beatles fans and funny as it may seem, we had raised our expectations nearly to the sky but what unfolded was quite unsatisfactory. When I walked into the venue, the band was halfway into ‘From Me to You.’ The vocals were the first thing that caught my attention. It wasn’t pleasing and almost overpowered the instruments. It was disappointing to see how the vocalist didn’t make even the slightest effort at subtlety considering The Beatles didn’t really endorse a punch-your-face kind of vocals….
Sunday evening brought two immensely talented bands Parvaaz and Mad Orange Fireworks to the same stage at The Kyra Theatre. I was expecting an odd combination of genres since both bands have very different influences. Two odds make it even and on that note, I entered Kyra to find the place quite empty, which would not remain that way towards the end of the show. Parvaaz was up first with a one-of-a-kind genre that they call ‘Psychedelic Sufi Blues’. I had witnessed the band perform a couple of years back when they had just started out and they seemed to have a lot of potential back then,and it felt great to see them once again…
