Here are the flaming B52s!!

We sat around for a bit with the music shut and then resumed a little later but the dance floor was closed and the volumes suggested the place was more a lounge than a club.

Whatever, so that was all okay with us and we were heading out anyway to her place for the rest of the party when suddenly we were locked in! Supposedly, there was a bunch of people (about 50 of them) with Karnataka flags sitting outside the club on the street and picketing!

This is supposedly a new group that has just started in the city and their name is rumoured to be ‘Hoysala Sene’ (The Hoysala Army). They were there from about 10 PM till midnight and ever increasing in number and were supposedly waiting to ‘oust’ people inside! Some rumours spread to the extent that they wanted to make a point about the dressing sense of the club goers or just trying to be the moral police in this matter.

So for the next 2 hours, we were packed into the club and the doors locked while the picketing gang outside waited for the media to arrive in all its glory! Finally, a little after midnight, members from our extremely responsible media waltzed into the club with their video cameras and their flashlights and for some reason ignored my wide smiling face and went straight for the girls in the club!

It was like they were on some mission to find the girls in the club and put them on their TV News show! And they din’t care about anyone else! This is the best shot of them I could get as I was walking out of the club.

Now what I am asking is, what were the people in the club doing wrong exactly? How is it wrong to go out with friends to a club and dress up while you are at it? Which part of what was happening was illegal? Or was the issue dancing when alcohol was being served? Was that why you were targetting the ladies only? Is this the ‘news’ you want to *CREATE*??

I am waiting to see what tomorrow’s news papers say about this and what the TV channels show this out to be. I was in there and I saw what happened! it was a plain and simple night out in a club which was stopped rather illegally by a picketing gang of people. I want to see the media report this .. and tell me their version!

The band launched its album and the press went crazy and everything was moving in fast forward motion like there was no tomorrow .. Things have settled down a bit but not for long .. the album hits music stores across the country this weekend and from then on .. all hell breaks loose! A few people who did go online and order the album have been raving about it and have only good things to say so we are quite expectant for the mass verdict!

But this is about a little group of friends who traveled from far and wide and came to witness the launch of the album. At the very last minute, I called a bunch of close friends and invited them for the launch and quite a few of them turned up and the rest of them were present in spirit which made the launch one of the most memorable days in my life!

Its not everyday that one gets to launch a music album worldwide and be featured on national TV etc .. and when that day and that moment comes, you want everyone you love to be there … well as many as can possibly make it atleast …

A bunch of my friends could and did! and after the brilliant launch, we went to this wonderful place in Bandra called ‘The Hawaiian Shack’ and partied till they allowed us to! It was the most fun I have had in a long time and is something which won’t go out of my mind any time soon ..

Thanks all you guys!! you made it special for me!

Do read Shilpa’s take on the launch and the party on her brand new blog which is a super read!! (oh well … so I am shamelessly promoting … so what?!?)