Street Roar Festival
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I went to the
Street Roar Festival at KL PAC, and it was AWESOME particularly since
there was this mix of intellectual and visceral alternative undergound
sounds from a whole bunch of East Asia countries. And the sound
was amazingly good, courtesy of one Eric Wong (don't forget that name
if you want to put on a festival, guys). The stand-out acts were
Nao from Malaysia, LadyBug from Taiwan, Observatory from Singapore and
the super-band of the night, Subs from - yes - Beijing, with a girl
singer - a veritable tigress who could outclaw and out-roar all the
guys.
Congrats
to
Mark from Soundscape records who was the main guy behind the
festival...Wow!
But where were
the effing PEOPLE? It was free - I mean FREE for ****'s
sake. How is it that the Chinese don't support real fringe music
in this
country. I mean you import a couple of tired Canto-pop acts from
Hong Kong and the STADIUM IS FULL of PAYING PUNTERS! Then
there's Rock the World 6 which attracted more than 10,000 fellas and
girls nearly all Malay AND they were paying RM25 per ticket AND all the
acts were local. And then there's PETER PAN who are ok but
nothing special or distinctive (well, that's just my opinion) and they
get 30,000 into the Stadium
Negara. Yet here was a festival where there were International
bands who introduced their songs in Chinese, and yet only gleaned a
miserable 1K audience (in which there were a large number of other
races). And it wasn't even Black Metal. it's so
depressing...
More to the
point - can someone explain why this is - there must be some
sophisticated sociological explanation.
Well don't
give up guys, keep it up. There's so many fine bands out there
which we don't know about that we'd love to hear