BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t...

Past posts on Indonesia

As I’m not sure what to blog about today, I thought I might provide links to some of my favorite posts that I’ve done over the course of the last 10 months or so. Just click on the relevant number to go to the post.

1. Why are handphones so popular in Indonesia? Because users are taking uncompromising photos of girlfriends and then posting them up on the Web for everyone to see. It’s true. Really. 

2. How Indonesians stay hard without Viagra: Pasak Bumi health drink. 

3. Two of the Bali Nine may have been given death sentences, but convicted terrorist Amrozi is first in the queue to be executed. But by what method? A public hanging would be a spectacle for the general public: a day out and that. But the government does have plenty of other options. 

4. It’s not just a myth: Westerners do have bigger cocks than Asians. But it won’t save them from bird flu. 

5. Is Bali really paradise? 

6. The employment of underage maids is not slavery. Despite what some Western journalists might try to tell ya. 

7. Indonesia: the world’s most overbanked country? 

8. Wanna have a few laughs in an Indonesian supermarket? Go to the section where they sell powdered milk. 

9. No one would believe you if you told them that the world’s most expensive coffee beans have been shitted out of a small furry mammal’s butt. But incredibly, it’s true…

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