Bassist extraordinaire, Roger Waters, turns 65 today...

Happy birthday, Roger. It's time to forget the bitterness and reunite to make some original studio material again, what say? ;)

Zero no more...

Zero's farewell gig, 30th August 2008

You never realise that a community is growing until the oldest, the biggest, the best-known people leave the scene and you know that will change nothing - the family will live through it and will keep growing...

"Stop listening to covers... please!", said Rajeev Talwar, while bidding a final goodbye to the overwhelmed crowd at Independence Rock XXIII, which sang along with Zero to the band's anthem, PSP, at the band's last gig ever.

Zero is where a lot started and while the group is no more, Indian Rock is better than ever before. MusIG wants to bow to everyone who holds the guitar, drumsticks and the microphone anywhere across the 28 states.

Let's use the covers for soundcheck...
Let's create originals that makes everyone sing along...
Let's make the world start listening to India.

Amen

Guess Who's Back?

Radio MusIG's brand new season premiered on 24th June, this time playing out to the new PGP1 for the first time.
With tonnes of requests coming in, it was surely the most active shows we've had!

And here's some news: MusIG plans to come up with plenty of theme shows soon... stay tuned!

BoomShankar at (Not Just) Jazz By The Bay

Damn! This has started looking like an exclusive BoomShankar blog :D

Just back from BoomShankar's gig at Jazz (who, by the way preferred calling them 'BhoomShankar') and what can we say, we are just so proud of our college band!


They played for three hours and the setlist included THREE brand new OCs that were never performed before - Saaya (written by Vinay Trivedi), Say 'Hello' and Bombay Blues.


And ya, BoomShankar officially has four vocalists from now on with Yudi doing 'Smoke on Water'.
For those who missed the show, we have all three hours on record... so do let us know if you want some priceless bootleg from the band's early days ;)

BoomShankar performs at Hard Rock Cafe

SP's very own BoomShankar has gone professional! The band gave a stunning performance at Hard Rock Cafe on Tuesday, 8th April.

Here are some pics from the show:

BoomShankar on HRC's events boardA Packed HRC! Fans, maybe ;)

Post-show party :D

And if some of you missed the show, make sure you keep yourself free on 5th June, when the band performs again, this time at (Not Just) Jazz By The Bay!

Crescendo '08 -The night that was...

20th March was a great day at SPJIMR...
One, it was the farewell night for the class of 2008
Two, it was the last day of the year for the class of 2009
Three, it was the first performance of DanceInc., SP's very own dance troop and
Four, it was the night of Crescendo 2008.

Crescendo started at midnight and went upto 3.30 in the morning. The night was special since it was the last time SP's much loved band, BoomShankar played for the last time at SP.
The night saw some amazing performances including two BoomShankar originals, "Teri Deewani", "Knocking on Heaven's Door", "O Janeja", "Chura Liya", an SP version of "Purani Jeans" and Nitin Sharma's stunning performance of "Yeh Dosti" where he played Harmonica-Guitar-Drums - all at once!

Here are some pictures from the night:

Crescendo '08

Crescendo is that night of the year, when all the musically gifted souls at SPJIMR unite to create magic on stage. This year, the occasion is doubly special, as Crescendo coincides with the farewell night for S P Jain class of 2008.

20th March is the day to look out for. Watch this space for pics n' vids...