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...

SPG and the 2012 Jakarta Motorcycle Show in pictures

“It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
~ Robert M. Pirsig

It’s the annual motorcycle show and thousands of punters are packed into the exhibition hall, barely able to move. All is calm but then suddenly - over by the Honda stand - there is a flurry of movement as a scantily-clad model takes up a very suggestive position and a delirious crowd pushes forward. Everyone cheers as the girl writhes and wriggles by the motorcycle until the hot spotlights and frenetic flashlights become too much for her. She then stands up and departs the stage to thunderous applause. And all this to promote motorcycles like the less-than-macho 125cc Honda Scoopy. I mean seriously, WTF?!!!!

2012 Jakarta Motorcycle Show (7)

2012 Jakarta Motorcycle Show (11)

2012 Jakarta Motorcycle Show (3)

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