When my cousin texted me in t
he morning saying that Avial was performing at PES, Hosur Road, it did not really register in my mind. While driving back from work, it all but struck me at once. I called up Arun and a couple of others who I knew would just want to be there and we rushed in praying we get tickets. It turned out to be a huge college ground with students loitering around.. There dint seem to be anything much happening. Apparently water had seeped into the mixer when it rained for an hr and they were trying to fix things up. It was a bit later that we realized the band members were actually walking among the crowd. The students were more or less letting them do their stuff and get the console all setup.. half an hour later they went on. By that time, the crowd size was just about 10% of the ground capacity. All of us huddled near the stage yelling and screaming along with the music. It was just about perfect, the only glitch being sound system. But the adrenalin managed to overshadow all that. It felt a bit strange to jump around with kids, but who cared! About 10 minutes back stage with the band after the show and our day was made. Smiling to ourselves and feeling 10 yrs younger, we all trooped back home. As Ruben the youngest amongst us and among the whole crowd said, Avial did manage to create a niche for malayalam in the the world of rock.
he morning saying that Avial was performing at PES, Hosur Road, it did not really register in my mind. While driving back from work, it all but struck me at once. I called up Arun and a couple of others who I knew would just want to be there and we rushed in praying we get tickets. It turned out to be a huge college ground with students loitering around.. There dint seem to be anything much happening. Apparently water had seeped into the mixer when it rained for an hr and they were trying to fix things up. It was a bit later that we realized the band members were actually walking among the crowd. The students were more or less letting them do their stuff and get the console all setup.. half an hour later they went on. By that time, the crowd size was just about 10% of the ground capacity. All of us huddled near the stage yelling and screaming along with the music. It was just about perfect, the only glitch being sound system. But the adrenalin managed to overshadow all that. It felt a bit strange to jump around with kids, but who cared! About 10 minutes back stage with the band after the show and our day was made. Smiling to ourselves and feeling 10 yrs younger, we all trooped back home. As Ruben the youngest amongst us and among the whole crowd said, Avial did manage to create a niche for malayalam in the the world of rock.Notes: http://www.phat-phish.com/avial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezWZafXv2OM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezWZafXv2OM
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