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...

Vertu Ascent Ti in Jakarta

US$6,400 (60 million Rupiah) is a s*** load of money. Especially in Indonesia where more than 50 percent of the population survives on around 2 bucks a day.

But US$6,400 is also how much you will need to purchase the new
Vertu Ascent Ti, which is now on sale at the new Vertu shop in Jakarta.


Vertu Store Jakarta


So what else can a Vertu handphone do that a Nokia can’t? Well not much really. Although it does have a concierge feature whereby you receive recommendations for the best local restaurants and, so I hear, massage palors and men's spas (well this is Jakarta isn’t it?!!!)

Vertu handphone Jakarta
What else US$6,400 will buy in Jakarta:

1. food for the average family for 5 years (assuming a monthly salary of Rp2 million, and that 50% of the income is spent on food),
2. 240 Bakrie Esia handphones,
3. 8,571 counterfeit DVDs purchased at
Glodok (although the originals would set you back US$171,420)
4. 120 return tickets for a budget airline to Bali.

So watch out where you leave that handphone. Cos it won’t remain on that table for long!

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