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I cast my vote, have you?

Gaurav — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:44:38 +0000

My Grandmom is a LONG time voter and this time she was the most enthusiastic among all of us to go cast her vote! So she woke early this morning, got dressed and got all of us to go out and vote! I fully love her enthusiasm in this and her die hard support for the Congress right from the days of Indira Gandhi.

So if she can do it, whats stopping you?

Allegro Fudge

Gaurav — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:19:20 +0000

A while back, I had asked all of you to suggest a name for the band I was playing with. A lot of interesting suggestions came up, but what stuck was “Allegro Fudge” which was suggested by none other than Derek Sivers himself! Infact, it was suggested as a spur of the moment thing and without even knowing what it was for! But it was unique and just stuck with the band! Thanks a ton Derek for that suggestion, who knows, someday ..!

So after about a year of meeting and putting song ideas together and getting things in place, we finally are ready to unleash ourselves on the whole wide world! or atleast our circle of friends.

We have always wanted to play our first show for our friends whom we personally invite and ask for their feedback after the show and while we planned to do it initially in Jason’s house, we thought of Opus and the Sunday brunch was just too perfect a chance to pass up

So tomorrow, we premiere a lot of the original material we have written (we’ve written enough for a full length album BTW) and a couple of covers we thought would be fun to do! and we’d love to have some feedback from the everyone who comes to the show about the band and the music and what you liked and more importantly, what you din’t like!

If you are in Bangalore, please do consider this a personal invitation to come to Opus at 2 PM and watch Allegro Fudge’s debut show and after that, please do take some time to send us mail, or just post a comment or even catch one of us and tell us what you think of it all!

Website – http://allegrofudge.com

Email – music@allegrofudge.com

Independence Day!

Gaurav — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:18:49 +0000

For some odd reason, tonight, I was sitting and watching Channel [V]‘s feature on ‘Rock On’, the new Farhan Akthar movie about being rock musicians in India, a topic that is dear to my heart. And after an Ad break, a message, “Please Stand Up for the National Anthem” came up in bold on the TV!

Now in most cases, this is some form of an advertising stunt and so I was half skeptical as I looked up to the watch and saw that it was the stroke of midnight! and then it dawned on me ..

So I did stand up and watch as some of India’s best voices sang the National Anthem and rang in our Independence day ..

Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Happy Independence Day! It may not mean much to you personally, but it is a BIG deal!

The Woodwork

Gaurav — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:16:13 +0000

This bunch of “chair spares” as I call them were soon to be mixed and matched to make the seating for one of the VIP sections during our concert tour of the North East.

I just loved how they were just thrown there and that made for a brilliant photograph.

The merry men?!

Gaurav — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:01:52 +0000

Its not our fault that this happens! Its just that we are made this way and its certainly not meant to be offensive, our attention is immediately drawn towards certain things!

I am in no way justifying people leching or the eve-teasing that happens and I certainly think that such things are repulsive and the guys who indulge in eve-teasing should be condemned and drastic action taken against them …

But if a pretty girl walks by or is anywhere in the area, we can’t help but steal a glance!

And from the forward I received today, looks like, neither can a few of our ‘Men in Blue’