Last Friday on 11th March 2011, Japan suffered their worst earthquake so far, a 8.9 magnitude earthquake..
Japan, being one of the most advanced country in terms of technology and also city development, handled the massive earthquake pretty well, considering one of the popular countries that have earthquakes..
Unfortunately, the 8.9 magnitude earthquake caused a massive tsunami hit on Northeast of Japan, Sendai..
From earthquake leads to tsunami and then radiation due to meltdown of nearby nuclear plants..Tragedy maximum
On 25th June 2011, the 10th MTV Video Music Awards Japan has become MTV Video Music Aid Japan, serves as an awareness and fund-raising campaign of some sort benefiting the Japanese Red Cross..
Here’s a song from Glay called “I’m In Love”, an old song back somewhere in the last 90′s..
Let’s show some love to Japan and I don’t want the anime industry to die!
Here are 2 videos, one from the GLAY Survival Expo 1999 at Makuhari Messe, gathered a large crowd of 200,000 people, making it the largest concert ever held by one single act in Japan..
Another video is at GLAY 15th Anniversary Special 2009, The Great Vacation at the Nissan Stadium, a two-day event which have gathered 150,000 people..
*GLAY 15th Anniversary Special 2009, The great Vacation at the Nissan Stadium*
*GLAY Survival Expo 1999*
Chiisa na pokke ni gyutto tsumateita
Kusa no nioi no takaramomotachi wa kakurembo
Hodoketa kutsuhimo musunde kureta kimi o nose
Manatsu no takasugiru kumo ni mukatte shouryokou
[FROM] LONELY DAYS WE CAN FLY
Mabuta no ura ni wa ano hi no bokura
[FROM] LONELY NIGHTS WE CAN FLY
Itsu demo nani ka ni kizutsuiteta ne
I’m just in love I’m just in love
I’m just in love oh Singin’ my life
Furuita arubamu hiraita boku wa
Wakakatta futari to ima ja toshi mo sou kawaranai
Shouwa to iu no jidai ni bokura o kakaete hashitta
Sonna anata no ikigai ga shimite nakitaku naru
[FROM] LONELY DAYS WE CAN FLY
Yutaka na hibi ni natsukashiku omou
[FROM] LONELY NIGHTS WE CAN FLY
OK! THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE
I’m just in love I’m just in love
I’m just in love oh Singin’ my life
Lee DeWyze was in town on 17th May 2011, a public holiday in Malaysia where we celebrate the Wesak Day, to promote his “Live It Up” album..
The music showcase followed by an autograph session, proudly brought to you by Astro STAR World & Sony Music, was held at Subang Parade..
The American Idol is definitely one good talent and I enjoyed his acoustics..
Lee and his keyboardist showed some pretty good works and it made the crowd asking for more..
The crowd started to build-up even before Lee turned up and more curious on-lookers on top floors got attracted to the screamings and of course, nice voice with nice music..
I bet there were quite a number of new fans of Lee DeWyze on that day..
Other than Lee’s voice, the only other stuff I heard was from the crowd shouting “Lee I love you!” or a long stretch of “Leeeee ~!!!!”, I mean many of them..
The 90-minutes showcase ended with an encore of ‘Sweet Serendipity’ and an autograph session..
The queue was quite long and it’s good to see Lee make the effort to try to talk to each and every one of the people in queue but of course the tight schedule didn’t permit him to do more..
Thanks to SONY Music Malaysia, I was able to meet him in person in the backstage before the showcase with Joshua and Daphne..
Here’s the encore to his pretty awesome showcase, ‘Sweet Serendipity’..
Tiger Beer presented the biggest Asian music festival ever that has happened in Malaysia..
On 30th April 2011, the Asian Music Festival 2011 was held at the Mines International Exhibition Convention Centre (MIECC) and had pulled a strong 20,000 crowd to the event!
Thanks to GAB and G2, I was able to cover and enjoy the 12-hour concert standing right in front of the stage, standing very close to the artistes when they walked upfront the stage..
Long story short, let’s head to the main agenda of the day..
Local English band Rosevelt did the opening for Asian Music Festival 2011..Then Malaysian Will Ng came on stage for the second act..
I was right on time for 24 Herbs (Yah Sei Mei), the high-prolific rap group (after LMF) from Hong Kong was on stage to rock the house down..
*24 Herbs from Hong Kong*
24 Herbs gave a good performance with 6 songs, including Do or Die, Wonderland featuring ManHand, and ended with “Hu Ge”..
*Local Chinese rock band, dayDream*
dayDream was quite okay, performed 6 songs including covering 2 songs, one of MayDay’s and another Linkin Park’s “In The End”..
*Suki Low featuring Shawn Lee and Dennis Lau*
Suki Low made her appearance a moment to be remembered with a cover of Katy Perry’s “Firework”..She has grown so much since the One In A Million and she can definitely go further..
She continued to do an unplugged cover of “Born This Way” (Lady Gaga) on the keyboard featuring beatboxer Shawn Lee and violinist Dennis Lau..
*Namcha from Thailand*
Next up was Namcha from Thailand..Although I hardly understood Thai except for “sawadee kap”, her performance was pretty energetic and the tune and rhythm of the songs were quite easy to blend in, fun-happy-go-lucky type..
I really had fun with her songs and eventually followed her on Twitter (@namcha_tea) right there and then
American Idol Season 9 winner Lee DeWyze will be in Kuala Lumpur this coming 17th of May 2011 for a promo tour..
STAR World is proud to present another American Idol winner to fans in Malaysia so don’t miss this opportunity to watch him perform live in person on the 17th of May 2011 at Subang Parade (West End) at 4pm!
There will also be an autograph session for the public after his performance. So don’t forget to grab a copy of his new album, “Live It Up”..
*Image taken from Google Images*
Lee DeWyze will be here to promote his “Live It Up” album, in which he co-wrote all but one song on the album, has become the very first American Idol winner to have writing credit on a first single..
His first single of his debut album is “Sweet Serendipity” which is one of my current favourite, while his second single is “Beautiful Like You”..
Sony Music will give one lucky fan a chance of a lifetime to show Lee around town! Tune in to Mix FM from Monday, May 9th for a chance at being Lee’s personal tour guide to Kuala Lumpur together with fellow Mix FM DJs, JD & Dilly..
Be the first caller through during the cue to call and tell Mix FM how you will show Lee Dewyze around Kuala Lumpur in the most creative way possible..
All successful callers win 2 VIP passes to the autograph session as well as his latest album..
Managed to grab a pair of Maroon 5 live concert tickets at at Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium thanks to Maxis..
Went to the concert with Daphne on 29th April 2011, equipped only with a normal PnS camera, here I present some photos and video of Maroon 5..
*The queue was pretty massive*
I was pretty surprise with the crowd turnout because the queues were pretty long! Glad it didn’t took too long for us to enter the stadium..
There was no opening for Maroon 5 but it’s all fine because it started around 9.30pm, about 30-minutes later from its proposed 9pm as written on the tickets..
The crowd was very supportive and all, ranging from young to old and all kinds of people..
Well I couldn’t really remember much which song they started with but I was amazed with the amount of singles they had..
For I, who have never listened to any of their full track albums, I pretty much know at least 70% of their songs during the concert..
Which at the same time shows that they have quite a number of singles being played on the airwaves..
Moreover, most of the tune and rhythm of their songs are quite identical so it’s quite surprising that they actually have so many singles being played around all this while..
It all sounded familiar, I know the lyrics, but I don’t know the name of the songs..I know it’s pretty weird but that’s what happens when almost every song has almost identical tune..
Nonetheless, their songs are very nice, what’s more for a live concert..I think it’s almost a sold-out concert coz most of the seats in the stadium were pretty much all filled..
Most of the songs were their famous tracks such as “Misery”, “She Will Be Loved”, “Harder To Breathe”, “Won’t Go Home Without You”, and “Wake Up Call”, just to name a few..
Look out for a video I’ve recorded..It’s at the end of this blog post..
The Asian Music Festival is just around the corner and have you bought your ticket yet?
I would say this is the most anticipated music festival so far happening in Malaysia where 25 strong artistes will be performing live for a straight 10-hour long event!
The Asian Music Festival (AMF), proudly presented by Tiger and organized by Galaxy, is happening on 30th April 2011 at Mines International Exhibition Convention Centre (MIECC) from 2pm til 12-midnight!
Before the event starts at 2pm, there will be autograph session at 12-noon for artistes Jing Chang, Lollipop F, Derrick Ho, and Kevin Lin..
Those who purchase on site any imported album of any of the mentioned singers are entitled to redeem an official AMF poster and get exclusive autograph signing from the 4 artistes..
That’s not all..At 1pm, Korean artiste Se7en will hold a handshake session at the main entrance of MIECC, and again those who purchase their album will get to participate in a lucky draw to take photo with Se7en on stage!
The tickets are priced at RM128 and RM248 for Rock Zone..
I would say it’s DEFINITELY worth the money because you get to have 10-hour long performance featuring famous artistes including Edison Chen (HK), FAMA (HK), 24 Herbs (HK), Paul Wong of Beyond (HK), Sam Lee (HK), Tiger Huang (Taiwan), Jing Chang (Taiwan), Se7en (Korea), and Bibi (China) from the northern countries..
From our region we have Namcha (Thailand), Olivia Ong (Singapore), A-Do (Singapore), our very own Suki, dayDream, Manhand, Rosevelt, and Jess Lee, just to name a few..
A little bit of photos here where I’d attended the press conference for the local artistes at The Tavern, GAB..
The official launch of Asian Music Festival kickstarted when the big screen is touched and clips and shots of artistes is being announced..
Part of the Malaysian artistes including Manhand, Suki, Jess Lee, and dayDream who will be performing at the Asian Music Festival alongside international acts like FAMA, 24 Herbs, Edison Chen, Se7en, and Olivia Ong, etc..
Let’s cheers for the event!
*Suki, winner of One In A Million*
I bet most people who saw Suki won the singing competition would love to see how she has grown up as a singer in terms of her songs and singing style..
*Jess Lee, winner of the Taiwanese singing competition, One Million Star Season 7*
Tickets are available at Galaxy Headquarters at The Boulevard, Midvalley and Galaxy ticket counters at Sungei Wang Concourse level, and Wisma MPL (HLA)..
They are also available at Ticket Charge outlets (www.ticketcharge.com.my), Speedy Video outlets nationwide (including East Malaysia), and Rock Corner and Station One outlets (only in Peninsular Malaysia)..
