Ampang Park's La Viva Carnival Festival

After being cancelled at the original place (Sydney 2000,
I heard they changed owner and they rebuilt the interior, 
and now they don't want any more non-mainstream, non-commercial
and creative bands), and later cancelled again at the 'plan B' 
place, Warp (too expensive apparently), the gig was finally
set up in the least expected place: a low-profile dangdut pub
in Ampang Park shopping complex called La viva Carnival.
The bands nevertheless gathered to check out the place
and it was pretty cool! Large place, big sofas and coffee 
tables everywhere, a bar near the entrance with stools around,
and a small stage with drums, synths and amps in the far corner.
Anyways, the place started getting filled up and only a couple
of bands got to sound check (Better, if you ask me. Long 
soundchecks are boring and pointless.) Finally the gig started 
cool, with the great bands in the lineup, gradually finishing one 
after the other. Koffin Kanser brought in three guys playing 
didjeridoos and played together with Koffin's low-tuned hardcore! 
It was great. Excellent ska/oi bands played their melodic tunes, 
and the place was filled with people dancing all around..there was 
an excellent vibe in the air. When Lyme's turn came up, we were got
a really warm welcome!. We had to be shifted up in the band lineup 
from third to almost last because of a little organisation problem, 
but it paid off well! We opened with nothing, and people sang with 
us! We mixed the ending of it with a previously unplayed sound-
check/incomplete song which we enjoyed playing. Soon after, we were 
asked to play Uneasy (ikan keke) by the cool people on the dance 
floor...soon we were all singing together in chorus! Then before I 
had time to catch my breath, boy and moez had started Size does 
matter's main bassline, and cheers came from all around! Smiles
could be seen in friend's faces and mosh-Girls were everywhere in 
the moshpit! I didnt miss the crowd-surfing girl in the middle of 
the pit too! Far Out! After this, Something was played, and
the show was closed off with that crunchy song, Purge. (Is that
the name? Moez hates it, maybe we should call it something else)
Which sounded pretty tight and..uhm, well, moshy.
Then we left the stage and on came other excellent bands
and everyone was just enjoying till dropping! When the whole
thing finished, some bands stayed back and just relaxed inside 
the place for some time. It was an excellent evening, it was! 
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