Diana Krall Live

As mentioned in previous post, my friends and I went to watch Diana Krall perform at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on the second day of the Hari Raya holidays. Here are some picture which I took discreetly (we weren't suppose to take pictures, but I did anyway...without flash of course).

 

 

The stage, prior to the start of the concert

 

 

Eager fans of Diana Krall

 

Diana Krall and her band

 

While Diana Krall was...well Diana Krall, which was excellent, overall the concert was kind of a let down. All of us felt a bit short changed when the concert only lasted about 1 hour 30 mins. To make it worse, I think the venue was not made to hold acoustic events such as this as I personally feel the sound could have been better. Oh well, it certainly was an experience nevertheless.

 

After the concert, we adjourned across the street at Sevenatenine for drinks and to chill out.

 

Ee Lin, Suzanne & Evie

 

 

Zara & Evie

 

Evie & I

 

 

This last pic was purely for fun ya...so don't get any stupid ideas! It wasn't meant to be up, but since my friend decided to post it up on Facebook...so I thought WTH...just let the whole world see it too! Hahaha.. :p

Diana Krall Concert Tickets

 

Woohoo! Diana Krall is coming to Kuala Lumpur...and I just got tickets to watch her perform on 2nd October at KL Convention Centre. I managed to gather a few friends to go watch it with me, and in total...I had to buy like 11 tickets during my lunch break today. The cheapest tickets were going for RM288 and if you're a Visa card holder, you get it at RM262.20. Quite pricey for a concert ticket if you ask me, considering it's like the cheapest and the farthest from the stage...but hey...it's Diana Krall wei! So you can imagine the guy at the ticket counter asking me for a second time if he had heard correctly that I wanted 11 tickets. According to him, at most people buy 3 at a time...because it's expensive...and I'm the first person who wanted more than 10 tickets at one go! Well, that's what you get when you got to be the one who buys for a bunch of jazz lovers.

 

can you count how many tix there are?...hehehe

 

Anyway, for the price I'm paying, it better not be a disappointment.

Mont Kiara Jazz Festival 2008 & Raw

I was at Plaza Mont Kiara together with some friends last night for their annual Jazz & Rhythm Festival. The event drew quite a large crowd despite the slight drizzle and there were even a few people who sat under the rain. The highlight of the night was Mia Palencia, a local talent who I personally think would be the next Norah Jones of Malaysia. Her performance was outstanding especially her cover of Jason Mraz's 'I'm Yours'.

Mia Palencia performing

Like I said, despite the rain, I had fun, especially with the friends I was with, there is never a dull moment.

Suzanne, Zara & I

Su-Ann, Rozell & I

Su-Ann always gets excited at the sight of a camera

I had to leave before Mia Palencia's performance was over because I had to go for another farewell party in Raw @ Solaris. Sigh, this is the second farewell party in a month, and this time is for my friend Elaine (not to be confused with Ee Laine who already left for the States), who is leaving for Singapore in 2 weeks. Well, at least it's only Singapore and we can still meet up when I'm there (hopefully sometime next month).

Elaine and her sister Waverly....CUT!!!

Take 2 - Elaine & I

All together now...

After Raw, we still somehow manage to go for supper at Sri Hartamas and by the time we finished, it was nearly 4AM. *Yawwnnn!*

Marié Digby Live In Kuala Lumpur

These are some snippets of Marié Digby performing in a packed One Utama shopping centre

A packed shopping mall on a Wednesday night

Really nothing much to shout about, she just performed about 4 or 5 songs, then proceeded with the autograph signing session. There were a lot of kiasu people that already started lining up at the signing counter while she was still performing. Oh well, I'm not complaining since it's free.

Juwita Suwito

What:
Intimate Acoustics with Juwita Suwito

When:
24 October 2007

Where:
Sunway Resort Hotel Selangor,
Avanti Italian-American Ristorante

Time:
7:00 - 10:15 p.m.

Reservation 03-74928000 ext 3176
Price: RM168++ per person

4-course set dinner with wine and an exclusive showcase by Juwita Suwito at 9:30 p.m.

Click here for more information

Anyone interested?

Help Bring Norah Jones to Malaysia

I was chatting with Sue-Anne online a couple of days back, and she told me of this project where they want to try to get Norah Jones to perform in Malaysia. Immediately I told her I was interested to contribute as I would also like to see her perform here. Question is, why isn't she already here to begin with? Well anyway, I'm now part of this project together with some of her friends to setup a petition to gather enough signatures as well as online presence to make this project a success. So if you're a true blue Norah Jones' fan, visit: http://bringnorah.blogspot.com/ and sign the petition.

Please help spread the word around to everyone about this project, especially if you know any of Norah Jones' fans. Your contributions do count and will be most appreciated.

U2//VERTIGO//2006 Tour - Melbourne

Ok, I know there will be an insane amount of people who will hate me for this...but TOO BAD! I got the bragging rights!

I was in Melbourne last Sunday and was in Docklands doing some sight seeing and noticed that it was considerably packed for a Sunday evening. While not knowing what's going on, my friend then said that U2 is in town having a concert at the Telstra Dome. Of course we all went crazy contemplating whether or not to get the tickets and if there are any left, seeing that this is U2 that we're talking about, it probably might have been sold out ages ago. So we just tried our luck...and guess what??..WE GOT THE TICKETS!! Woohoo! Of course the cheaper ones were snapped up and all thats left were the AUD130 and AUD199 tickets. So we bought the 130 tix, and I must say, I would even pay AUD199 for it, simply because it was that f**king awesome.

Here are some of the pictures at the concert

Me and my sis outside the Telstra Dome

Our tickets...Woohoo!!

Sold out crowd. 50,000 people at least!

Bono on the giant video wall

COEXIST - Made out of the Islamic cresent, the Jewish Star and the Crucifix

You can also view some concert snippets here:

Watch video 1 - Concert opening

Watch video 2 - Vertigo

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the opening act was Kanye West and the encore performance lasted about 1 and half hours. To sum it all up, it was the best concert I been to by far (not that I've been to many). Kinda hard to top this one I bet.