TAAQ at Hard Rock Cafe, Pune

Yes, we made history. History that was seen, heard and experienced so palpably that it reverberates in the Hard Rock Cafe that we left smoking yesterday.

TAAQ at Hard Rock Cafe, Pune

Sound wasn’t cooking very well during the first few songs. But when we came back from our break with Motorbyckle, four-stroke sound effects and all, Pune finally got a taste of what it had come here for. Look at Me followed, and so did cheers. The audience had totally warmed up, and warmed to us.

TAAQ at Hard Rock Cafe, Pune

Everything was cooking just right. Even the lights, handled ineptly and impromptu by yours truly on an urgent and frightening command from Vinay at the sound console, started to make sense. Perhaps because by the second half, most of my first scotch on the rocks had also nourished my liver.

High spirited

The covers got us a nice response – Run like Hell, Hoedown, Roxanne and Wonderwall all went down very smooth. Chameleon and Hot Day got them headbanging and grooving in turn. And by the end of the night, plenty of long atrophied muscles had been revived.

TAAQ at the Hard Rock Cafe, Pune

CD sales have never been brisker. At the console, I felt very like a bartender on a Saturday night. Many people bought all three at our very special Tuesday night price. And after the last guest had left, we tore through the Atkins Diet Hard Rock dinner (designed exclusively for the American Appetite) and headed off to Hotel Phoenix to uncoil. It was well past two when we hit the sack. We got back to Bangalore this morning.

TAAQ at Hard Rock Cafe, Pune

Thanks to the good folks at the Hard Rock Cafes in Mumbai and Pune, and Groovetemple for making these Midweek Weekend shows a very special hit.

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Rock hard midweek – Mumbai & Pune, Apr 7 & 8

What is one bleary-eyed, groggy morning at work when we’re the TAAQ of your town?

It’s not always that a weekend drops by in the middle of the week. Or that we drop by both Mumbai and Pune. But here we are (and the edge of the world isn’t so far).

We can now safely call the Hard Rock Café gigs a series. We’ve played in Mumbai and Bangalore. Pune, where the Café has opened not many moons ago, will play host to us for the first time. We expect a lot of first-timers here.

Mumbai: Tuesday, April 7, 8 pm onwards

Pune: Wednesday, April 8, 8 pm onwards

Are you worried about the morning after?

Calling volunteers: Since it’s our first outing in Pune, we’d like all the publicity you can help us get. Tell your friends, call your family over… just pack the place. Please write to us (taaqmailATyahooDOTcom) if you are able and willing and, most importantly, if you are in Pune.

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