Oct 31 at Someplace Else, The Park: TAAQ and Skinny Alley urge you to relish the ilish, and everything else that’s lovable about the City of Joy. Be there 8ish.
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One Small Love – Bruce Lee Mani draws the line
Birthdays, believes Bruce Lee Mani, guitar player and vocalist for Thermal And A Quarter, are to celebrate happiness.
“But we’ll save that for tomorrow,” he says on his 33rd.
Every day should be a happy birthday for love. As artists, that should be the mission fuelling our activism — to spread the message of love and peace in the world to everyone, to bring estranged people together, to shape the change that lies trapped inside our hearts. And not lose ourselves in cynicism.
If need be, we must cross one line to draw another.
Last year, Bruce wrote the lyrics of ‘One Small Love’ and put it to music with his band, Thermal And A Quarter. Join him and Thermal And A Quarter with other artists, speakers and thinkers on the song’s first anniversary.
‘One Small Love – Bangalore for Mangalore’, an assertion of liberty, love and happiness, celebrates the birthday of love.
Feb 14, Opus in the Creek, Whitefield Road, Bangalore.
Be there to draw the line. And spread the love.
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Crowdsourced gig review #1 – HRC, Hyderabad
Photo: Suchin Moses
As men, we feel very flattered when a woman says nice things about us. So when the young and eloquent Ramya Sriram gushed about our gig at Hard Rock Cafe, Hyderabad, where we played last Thursday, we blushed. And then, without a thought, plagiarised this bit from her blog and cut-paste-posted it here.
Read on:
The show was brilliant. They started off with one of my favourites, Look at Me, and by the end of the song I was already filled with that feeling only Bruce’s tu ta paraburapurooo can express. The new song, Where the State has No Name is a bluesy, catchy number and has one of those choruses that comfortably settle down in your head. A total singalong song. I really liked that they wrote this one. I’ve always believed that TAAQ is an intelligent band; from their lyrics to the structure of their songs, there’s a characteristic subtle wit that underlies. They’re classic, they’re contemporary. They reach out to the audience with songs like this one, and previously, with Keep the Promise, One Small Love and Shut up and Vote.
It was the first time I heard them play their signature cover, with its long intro (oh what tones on the guitar!) delightfully breaking out into Roxanne. At this point I glanced at the bouncer, contemplating my fate if I did get hysterical. De-arranged was anything but. I love how all the parts come together in their songs. I grinned throughout the show, and everytime Bruce went hic! during Drunk I grinned a little more.
Read it all here.
We’ll post some pics once our missing-in-action roadie with the throaty heavy-metal caller tune resurfaces with them. Meanwhile, if any of you have taken photos on Thursday, be kind enough to share them so that we can see what we looked like that night.
And here’s to all of you in Hyderabad: You made it a very memorable gig for us, no matter what you name your state. You have spirit, and you have guts for braving the bundh to watch us. Thank you!
As for ‘where the state has no name’, we’re not done making a noise about that yet!
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Where the state has no name – Hyderabad, Jan 21
We have a special fondness for Hyderabad because our third record Plan B was put together there at Ramoji Film City in 2004. Now, it saddens us to hear that this erstwhile princely state that has its own cricket team is turning into Jekyllabad (if you will excuse the atrocious pun), torn asunder as it is by contending claims for statehood. War-cries for new states are ringing across the country. And in nearby Puduchery (Pondicherry as we still love to call it), a new fight has erupted against statehood.
Drawing and re-drawing borders within borders… what a state for a nation to be in, we thought. Didn’t you too?
While we have time left, we shall give our fans in undivided Andhra Pradesh something to sing about. Here’s the chorus of a new bluesy number we composed just for the occasion.
Where the state has no name
Borders like boulders thrown
In a laughing god’s game
The dice fall in unkind spots
In a land of polyglots
Where the state has no nameWe’ll perform this number at our concert in Hyderabad on January 21. Be there and don’t forget to sing along.
Concert details: Hard Rock Café, GVK 1, First Floor, Road No 1, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. Telephone: 91-40-4476-7900
Watch this space for updates.
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Jazz Yuppies – Double Bill with the saxy Nate Linkon
Jazz Yuppies – Double Bill with Nate Linkon
How about spending Sunday night with a saxy, horn-y blond?
Now that we have your ever-so-fleeting attention, here’s an invitation. Our good friend Nate Linkon (he of the smokin sax) is breezing by just in time to play a sensational double bill with Thermal And A Quarter. We will be reheating some microwaveable goodies and performing some smoking new ones at the Jazz Yuppies Reunion Tour with Nate.
Sunday June 14: Bb (B Flat) 100 ft Road, Indiranagar, Bangalore.
TAAQ featuring Nate Lincoln and Arathi Rao. 8 pm onwards.Friday June 19: Fete de la Musique, Alliance Francaise de Bangalore 9 pm onwards. TAAQ featuring Nate Linkon.
Jazz be there. And bring along your grooviest state of mind.
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