VOR Disco's Sound Struck
Our first gig at Penang Island! There were no flyers
around KL and Penang had a few, released a couple of
days before the gig. Needless to say, the turnup was
around 20 or 30 people. Nevermind, we still played
for the fun of it (we didnt even get paid). The
place is nice though! It reminded us to The Warp or
Sydney 2000, pretty large and disco-looking. It had a
big stage and there were chairs all scattered around
the dark indoors. We arrived at Penang with the
Octobuses on Friday night and we went walking around
the area (we stayed for the night at one of the
backpacker hotels in town) and visited a couple of
places before we went back to sleep. The next day we
had to wake up at ten to go for the soundcheck, but when
we got to the place, the instruments and the amps were
not set up yet, so we had to go with the octobus' help
to pick them up somewhere and bring them back to VOR.
After that was done, soundcheck started around 3 or
4pm and ended at 6pm, so the gig started around that
time! The bands played one by one, with a good sound
and with a good mood. Our set was without Lymeus,
this time because I couldnt find a monitor at all!
Remember I dont have a monitor since the Panasonic
gig..I have been borrowing monitors ever since..
well I bought a really cheap one but it blew up
after two jams and a gig. Anyways, VOR wouldnt
borrow me any because they were all in use, so
we couldnt use Lymeus Delta. But anyhow, the gig
was fun and energetic! Even though there was hardly
anyone, aside from the bands, it was a lot of fun.
We played our new song from the compilation and
Singh (Love Me Butch's drummer) helped us doing the
evil laughs near the end of the song! That was cool!
We finished our set with Something..I even messed up
the beginning of the song for not being playing
Lymeus Delta! Pretty confusing, really. Hey, but
nothing too bad, we were all having fun of each
other after the set was over, there was a friendly
vibe in the air and everyone felt safe and relaxed.
The other bands played great as well, and you could
just sit and bob your head to their music. :)
After the gig was over we headed back with the
Octobus again (Even though I think this is the last
time Octopus will borrow their buses, since we were
told not to smoke but we did anyhow (I dont smoke
though, its bad for your health, hehe) and did
lots of noise too.) Anyways, we headed to hang out
by the beach (I guess the organiser felt guilty for
the poor organisation and for still complaining that
we ask too much!) and we had time to swim and relax.
After that, around 4 a.m. of Sunday we headed back
on a long trip to KL, to arrive around eleven in the
morning. Sleep? Not yet, we had to shower and go to
the gig at the warp, where Love me Butch and
Blindtribe, two bands that played the day before in
Penang, had to play this day again. After all was
over, I managed to catch some sleep before having
to wake up on monday to go to college. Considering
everything else, it was a pretty cool gig! I think
we enjoyed the trip itself more than the gig..hehe.
And I'm still wondering what were those thousand cans
of coke the organiser had in the back of the bus for..
weird, huh? anyways, cool gig.
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check out a few pictures we took of the gig!
picture 1: Big pic of victor and Javier, with Boy in the background.
picture 2: Another big pic from a different perspective.
picture 3: Mantor in action, Cheez and Boy in the backdrop.
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