The TFA Awards and Allegro Fudge
| Date: January 13, 2009 | Categories: Music | Comments: 3 Comments | Share: |
The TFA Awards were announced earlier tonight at the Alliance Francaise, Bangalore and my band, ‘Allegro Fudge‘ though din’t win the prize, won a special commendation from the judges. For a band that has just been together as long as we have, this is a real validation of the work we have put in and a nice pat on the back! [...]
Continue Reading →Young Music Entrepreneur Award – The Review
| Date: January 12, 2009 | Categories: Featured, Music, Personal | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
About a year back, I won the ‘Indian Young Music Entrepreneur Award‘ conducted by the British Council and in many ways that changed my life and definitely shaped my career path! This is a long overdue post about the award and my experience in the UK where I got to meet and interact with the music industry there. Firstly, I must [...]
Continue Reading →My Highlights of 2008
| Date: December 31, 2008 | Categories: Music, Personal, Photography, Work | Comments: 11 Comments | Share: |
On the last day of this year, I thought it was only fair to write about the lovely year its been for me. After I decided to make this post, I thought about the year and the events that I should write about, and the only points of reference I had were the photographs I had taken through the year! So based on the strength of my photoblog, here [...]
Continue Reading →My Guitars – The Warwick Streamer
| Date: December 28, 2008 | Categories: Music, Personal | Comments: 4 Comments | Share: |
This is one hell of a story! and it has to start with this story! Because this is the coolest story of my musician life yet Sometime late in 2006, I was travelling back from Delhi (after playing at the India Social Forum) with The Raghu Dixit Project and on the plane back to Bangalore, I bumped into Debbie. See, at that time, I hadn’t [...]
Continue Reading →You don’t work!
I just got into the Bangalore airport and was subject to “random checking”. The security at the airport has increased considerably! there are actual guards with actual guns and its a sure sign of precautions being taken because of the recent attacks! So coming back to the story, the guard who stopped me, took my ticket and started [...]
Continue Reading →Whats in a name?
| Date: December 11, 2008 | Categories: Music | Comments: 21 Comments | Share: |
Over the past year, I have been working with some amazing musician friends of mine to put together a band that truly does some ‘different’ music from what you’ve seen me play all along. I don’t really know how to describe the music we make, but if I had to try, it would be a contemporary acoustic arrangement of some [...]
Continue Reading →Raghu Dixit Project in Bangalore
| Date: December 7, 2008 | Categories: Featured, Music | Comments: 3 Comments | Share: |
[Update] The show has been postponed to the 24th of December, 2008. [End of Update] After a LONG LONG hiatus, The Raghu Dixit Project is all set to play in Bangalore later this month. We are playing at Opus on the 24th of December 2008. There are other shows that might happen which are not confirmed yet! I will update you chaps with information [...]
Continue Reading →Airborne!
| Date: October 11, 2008 | Categories: Music | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
The Raghu Dixit Project in the Jeonju Sori festival in Korea. We have been playing with this line up for a while now and this was the last show of the South East Asia tour. The band was fully enjoying itself on stage and this was a perfect capture. Raghu, Vijay and me are airborne in a synchronized jump on stage!! Photo credit goes to our [...]
Continue Reading →Dog Bomb
| Date: October 1, 2008 | Categories: Music, Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
The pavement on the main street in Harajuku is lined up with bands that play their own music, get their own set up, right from the drum kits to the PA to even the audience sometimes! This band we saw was called ‘Dog Bomb‘ and they were highly impressive with influences from RATM, SlipKnot, Limp Bizkit etc… They were hard [...]
Continue Reading →The calm before the storm
| Date: September 22, 2008 | Categories: Music, Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
The drummer for ‘The Raghu Dixit Project’, Siva sitting and watching the rest of us go through our individual sound check. This was in Hong Kong before the show at the Hong Kong University. It suddently reminded me of Niel Peart sitting in the stands during the Rush in Rio tour!
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