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

Hot Property (slums in Jakarta)

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
London is drowning-and I live by the river


> London Calling by The Clash

Plenty of nice houses on the market in Jakarta. Like this one advertised on Indoproperty.com:

luxury house Jakarta

Category: Residential (freehold)
Type: Sale
Location: Pondok Indah (very expensive area)
Land Area: 546 m2
Building Area: 600 m2
Number of Floors: 2.0
Selling Price: Rp 6,500,000,000.00 (six and a half billion rupiah)
Telephone: 2 lines
Bedrooms: 4 rooms
Servant Rooms: 3 rooms (with 2 servants to a room, that’s enough for 6 servants)
Electricity: 16,500 watts (enough power to light up Old Trafford)
Reading Rooms: 4 rooms (four reading rooms?!!!)
Garage: 2 cars (for the Merc & Landcruiser)
Others: Gym, 2 Carports (for all the other cars)

But if you can’t afford to pay anywhere near Rp6.5 billion, don’t fret. There are cheaper alternatives:

slums in Jakarta by the Ciliwung river

Category: Residential
Type: Sale (subject to eviction at a later date)
Location: Bukit Duri
Land Area: 10 m2
Building Area: 10 m2
Number of Floors: 1.0
Selling Price: free!!
Telephone: O lines
Bedrooms: none (everyone sleeps in the big family room; cosy huh?)
Servant Rooms: we are the servants, stupid!!
Electricity: Nicked
Reading Rooms: books? What for?
Others: Romantic riverside views, good fishing, self cleaning WC (it’s called the river!)

The choice is yours!!!

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