WHAT MAKES A CONCERT, A KICK-ASS CONCERT?

photo by Talia Craiu

What makes a concert memorable? The one that would leave the audience having post-gig depression for months. The one that would be a conversation starter, in a good way of course. These are a couple of elements that would make a concert good, in my opinion anyway.

1. FRIENDS
Don't get me wrong, going alone to a show could be pretty 'epic' (did I use that word correctly? No? ....appy polly logies y'all). But coming with your best friends, would be even more 'epic'. Your best friends would get you, would have fun with you, would accompany you to stalk the bands, or maybe accompany you to sneak in backstage. Going with friends would be fun, and memorable. "hey remember the time that-" yeah I remember.

2. NEW FRIENDS
For me, one of the best concerts I've been with I make new friends at. My mother always give me this weird look when I say I met a certain friend from a concert, but that's socializing right? Meeting new friends in concert would be the ultimate ice breaker. Obviously you both would have a fascination towards the band or musician you are currently watching, that's one thing in common, and after exchanging number/facebook/email/aim whatever you would realize you guys have more things in common and tada! a new friend.

3. ONE HELL OF A CROWD
I've realized that if the majority of the crowd is unresponsive, or just plain rude, it would bring your mood down. It doesn't have to be the whole crowd, but the more the merrier. Even if you were standing at the right spot with a bunch of seemingly hardcore fans (but sometimes they're not, they just want to have fun) would be one of the key element of a good concert. So if you go to a concert to a band you don't really like, then a) what are you doing there? and b) just have fun and don't bring other people's mood down. Because trust me, if you just stand there being unresponsive or have the case of ACASP (Angry Cross-Armed Statue Phenomena*), it will bring others' mood down. [especially you Indonesian chick in the vampire weekend concert who spent the entire concert looking down at her blackberry, tweeting and bbm-ing... bitch]

4. CONFETTI
Because confetti is awesome. Especially when you weren't expecting it and then BAM! hundreds and thousands of tiny little colorful papers.

5. NO CELL PHONES
In this day and age, highly unlikely.

6. A GOOD BAND THAT YOU ACTUALLY ENJOY EVEN IF YOU ONLY LIKE A COUPLE OF THEIR SONGS
It would be more fun for your experience if you can sing along to the songs the band/musician is playing. And then you find yourself singing along with hundreds of other strangers and think "wow, this is a beautiful moment right here"

7. A BAND/MUSICIAN THAT ACTUALLY INTERACTS WITH AUDIENCE ENOUGH, NOT THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT COME ON STAGE, PLAY AND LEAVE.
the subtitle says it all, right?

Don't get me wrong here, this is just my opinion. You can also have a good time going to a concert alone, these are just some points that I have found in a good concert. Sometimes it doesn't matter what band/musician you're watching either, even if it's your all time favorite musician. I don't know, what do you think are the elements to a good concert?

I JUST WANT TO MAKE MUSIC VIDEOS-

..i really do, or:

XTACTIC TRUTH

POST-GIG DEPRESSION(S)?

You just don't know when it's going away, you're not sure if you have it or not, you just know that you really really miss whatever that band you have watched in the past and their gig still haunts you.
My worst post-gig depression would without a doubt be laneway festival. Mostly Foals, but I miss the other bands too, but not as much as Foals and that's the truth. To have wait somewhat patiently since the rumor in October, and the actual press release in November, and buying the tickets on the day of my birthday was just so...... yeah.. Still have that depression, their gig still haunts me. Haunting.
Next are the Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne is an amazing man. Flaming Lips is an amazing bang. AND THE CROWD IN SINGAPORE was spectacular, best crowd i've ever encountered. People were singing 'Do You Realize?' outside the venue and oh that was so touching. Wayne Coyne meeting some fans afterwards oh dear. I just literally sigh after looking back. It was a good night.

I guess those two are the main source of my depression, but pretty sure another one is coming. Or has already come. The Drums were amazing last night. Got to be honest, at first I thought they were assholes (I dunno judging from pictures and videos and such) but nope.. I was wrong. Nice guys they were. And unlike Two Door Cinema Club's meet and greet, this was not awkward at all and they communicated back like we are actually having a decent conversation. Communicated, that's a real word right? Did I use that right? Oh well.

I miss Foals///

BLACK WEEKEND

all pictures by kindergarchy

Friday there was the Thread on Frame show by Them.sg and blackmarket. Not my kind of event since I particularly did not know anyone there except for Tom and my art teacher Ms. Huynh who left early. And the people I came with of course. Amanda got me into Teen Illionaires so that was fun, I feel like I still need to try to eat in The Rabbit Hole.
Saturday was the Nikicio's Mixte vol. 6 launch in blackmarket, as my friend predicted not a lot of people showed up due to the other event last night. Not my place to judge since that is my, hmm, second blackmarket event and so I don't know what usually goes down at those things. People were nice, Amanda got a bit 'loopy' and that was entertaining.

As we walk inside cineleisure, Amanda looked around the place and whined "WHY ARE WE HERREE EVERYONE HERE LOOKS LIKE BROCCOLI" and she proceeded to explain how they all look like broccoli with straighten hair and the fact that humans are not green

Today Amanda, Omar and I will be watching The Drums. Planning to meet some people there, haven't seen Shermaine since Laneway. OH Chugg Entertainment is developing a contest where you ask the band questions on twitter to win meet & greet. Best question wins. Hmmm......... I got some questions in mind:
"Jacob when did you lost your virginity?"
"How many girls have you fucked in this tour?"
"Liking Singapore bros? I'll show you a good time if you know what I mean (i mean playing sudoku together)"
"How do you like your Singaporean chicks?"
"Like them asians?
Ok i'm done..... not really.

Here's the video of NIKICIO's mixte vol. 6.

ten hairy hunters//

this post will consist more photos than texts because I have to do some research for my in class essay tomorrow that I have not studied at all. Need to write four pages long, in less than 50 minutes and make judgments and constructing a well structured response with case laws and legislation to back it all up. Yeah *raise white flag*

Today our grade got partner up with some pre-schoolers. Lucky me, I got two buddies and I want to take both of them home as their cuteness level is just KABOOSH. I asked the teacher, she won't let me take them.... uhm. One of them kept repeating my name, hugged me and said "i love you" GAAHHH. Then we talked about how amazing tom and jerry is, and made the school's largest necklace (true story) that in our theory would fit '10 hairy hunters' (referencing the book I read to them), and they put necklaces on me and we all pretended that we are princesses. I mean... we are.. duh.

i hate that shit feeling when you feel like shit

I watched Deadmau5 with Amanda N yesterday and I got to say he was better than I expected, next week I shall be watching The Drums so they better be good. Heard mix reviews about their live shows and I'm curious.

In school we had Japan week last week, from making origamis and raising money for charity, we also had some performances from the senior and middle school-ers. We raised more than $12,000 for this, go school. Now here are some photos:
In other news (meaning my personal life that no one really cares about), I got a new laptop. Loving it. Went home to find out my baby (aka camera) died.
Yay /bangmyheadonthewall