3 years ago – 2002


i co-organised a gig for the first time ever, with shahid and firr. it was on the evening of the sheffield sports meet which meant that some people just ain’t too happy with that. i wasn’t in the e-mailing list of the local grapevine which meant i was spared the e-mails shunning the gig, which was purportedly held near sheffield’s red light district (wow. we have one, do we?). funny that. the engineering department, which is one of UK’s best, is in the same vicinity. why don’t you get the students to pack up their bags and study elsewhere while you’re at it? the gig was aptly titled malam temasya pria mambo 2 (no wonder eyebrows were raised as high the arts tower), based on the title of a gig held in a college in perak’s royal town a few years back. we had five bands playing and it was easy to get them to come down all the way to play as the newcastle malaysian soc had its gig only a month before ours. we had lots of help from the newcastle and glasgow people with the loaning of their sabian cymbals and expertise in being front-of-house sound engineers. we charged like three quid for the tix. each band played a 30-40 minute set. the cost incurred wasn’t too bad as i paid for the PA and bass amp rental (the guitar amps were ours and james let us borrow his drumkit) whilst shahid coughed up the dosh for the party room which was cosy enough to fit like a hundred guests. we had like 70 people turning up in the end, and i think between the three of us we got a tenner each in profit. which was fine by us!

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