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...

Practical uses for the burka (1): drug smuggling

This is incredible.

Eight women dressed in burkas have been nabbed at Jakarta Sukarno Hatta airport for trying to bring in £7.5m worth of drugs into the country!

The group of drug smugglers were found with 27kg of crystal methamphetamine at Indonesia’s Soekarno-Hatta airport.

They also had 23 litres of the drug in liquid form, said customs chief Anwar Suprijadi

The drugs, wrapped in plastic food containers and cleaning fluid bottles, were packed into hand luggage. But the oddly-shaped packages were picked out by officers operating scanners.

By wearing conservative Islamic clothing the women tried to 'fool officers in a country like Indonesia, where women in black veils are generally considered to be good women', the customs chief explained.

Source: the Daily Mail
You can cover your faces but you can’t pull the wool over our eyes

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