The Filthy Dukes
| Date: July 29, 2009 | Categories: Music, Photoblog | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
The Filthy Dukes were a band that played on the same stage as us at the Lovebox festival after us and they had a fantastic idea for marketing themselves. They gave away these blue balloons to everyone in the crowd, or atleast to as many people as they could and when the band came on stage to perform, there was a nice sprinkling of blue balloons [...]
Continue Reading →Allegro Fudge
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 [...]
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 →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 →The Real Music Director
| Date: August 16, 2008 | Categories: Friends, Music, On-Stage | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Premila is the actual music director! even though I am credited with the title, she knows the music through and through when we start out practicing. But she has way too much on her hands to take care of during the musical and so I handle the sync with the script and the actors. She is an amazing person, an excellent pianist and a very good [...]
Continue Reading →Dance to my tunes
| Date: August 13, 2008 | Categories: Music | Comments: 5 Comments | Share: |
Sign the Pledge – http://bengalurubleeding.com/petition/ I have been an amateur musician for about 8 years now and a large part of my education as a musician happened playing in the various venues in and around Bangalore. These were either college fests where my band Phenom competed or pub gigs where we played for measly sums of money, [...]
Continue Reading →The Saviour
| Date: July 9, 2008 | Categories: Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
A statue of Jesus the saviour I found in Kohima. The mist in that place just makes every picture look wonderful!
Continue Reading →Reflections ..
| Date: July 1, 2008 | Categories: Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
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Continue Reading →Taking the long way!
| Date: March 8, 2008 | Categories: Music | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Just finished watching the Dixie Chicks documentary "Shut Up and Sing" and I must say its been a LONG LONG time since a movie made me want to pick up my guitar and start making music! This is a definite must watch for any music lover and if you like the Dixie Chicks music, this just can’t be missed! You must admire the courage [...]
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