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

The Armani Exchange A|X Studded Eagle T-Shirt gets banned in Indonesia!

The Armani Exchange AX Studded Eagle T-Shirt Just another overpriced T shirt from Armani? Or an item of subversive clothing that threatens the very fabric (sorry!) of Indonesian society? 

Well both actually. The first point of contention is its astronomical US$42 retail price. Utterly mad. 

By way of comparison, I usually get my T shirts from Blok M for between US$3-10 depending on the quality. 

And as they manage to survive the brutal scrubbing of my thick-armed maid, they can’t be half-bad. 

 As for the Armani T shirt being subversive? 

Well, this is what Eva Kusuma Sundari, a member of the nationalistic Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), had to say: 

"It's such an insult for us… The Garuda is very sacred to us as a nation.” 

But threats from some members of the House of Representatives to sue Armani Exchange for willfully desecrating the Garuda Pancasila - which carries a prison term of one year or a Rp 100 million fine - seem to have worked. 

Armani have removed the product from their Indonesian website. So if you want one you’ll have to buy from an overseas seller. 

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