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...

A Song for Guy (or SBY)

This is from the Jakarta Globe:
Jakarta. With 3,000 candidates vying for just 164 positions at the Ministry of Trade, getting the right answers on the recruitment test was always going to be vitally important. Imagine the surprise of many of the applicants, therefore, when they were confronted with the following multiple-choice question in the general knowledge segment of the exam: 
“Which one of the song titles below is included on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s third album?” Trade Ministry spokesman Robert James Bintaryo told the Jakarta Globe he did not know anything about the question because the exam had been compiled by a special team. 
“Now my question is, what is wrong if a general knowledge question is about Pak SBY’s song?” Robert asked. “It’s part of the general knowledge questions. There were 30 or 40 questions in that section and the song title was only one question.” He added: “I can assure you, there is no hidden agenda behind the question.”
So, which one of the song titles below is included on the third album? 
a) You’re So Vain – Carly Simon 
b) Let’s Stick Together - Bryan Ferry 
c) My way - Frank Sinatra 
d) (If I Could) Walk on Water – Eddie Money 
e) Road to Nowhere – Talking Heads 
f) Ada Apa Denganmu? – Peter Pan 
g) Do You Think I’m Sexy? – Rod Stewart 

And the answer? It’s a trick question and ALL the answers are right (except g)!!! Par for the course, par for the course…

SBY new album

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