It was the day where punk rockers, who grew up in the 90s could relish with hardcore joy.

It was the day where 2000+ fans queued all evening and gathered with one sole motivation.

14th April 2012. It was the day where Sum 41 rocked our Malaysian stage!

 

Sum 41 LIVE in Malaysia 2012

 

Yes. I am certainly one of those punk rockers at heart.

My teenage years were the most significant memories of my punk rocker demeanor.

 

Sum 41 was a band that I remember rocking out to – on my own – within the confines of my bedroom 

 

And now here I am at the upper deck of KL Live watching my teenage idols perform LIVE

 

Remember I ran a Sum 41 contest here? Well, I'd like to congratulate the 3 winners of my contest again!

Hope ya'll enjoyed the concert as much as I did

 

Bumped into one of my winners for the Sum 41 contest.

Congrats Melissa!

 

My lovely assistant for the day – buddy Pamela 

 

8PM | Bunkface kick-started the party as one of  the opening acts of the night.

They sang 4 songs altogether.

 

      

Bunkface on stage!

 

   

Rocking out with their guitars!

 

Playing 'Extravaganza'!

 

     

And 'Silly Willy'!

 

Those two are my favorite songs from them Too bad they didn't play 'Through My Window'!

I loved that song heaps! 

 

8.30PM | One Buck Short took to the stage  

They sang '10:04'. Hurrah! I remember singing to it last year in my car all the time when it played on radio.

 

   

Don't wake me up! This is our love song!

 

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Rahul, lead guitarist of OBS!  

He was amazing and definitely a man of talent

 

   

They performed a slow rendition of  'Puppy Love' as well

 

What I found really impressive was their cover of Katy Perry's 'Last Friday Night'.

It was such a brilliant metal version, complete will all the growls 

 

     

OBS introduced a violinist who played LIVE! It was a terrific accompaniment to their songs

 

10PM | No sign of Sum 41 just yet. We had been waiting for an hour!

People were starting to get a tad restless after the long wait but there was still merriment in the crowd.

 

Pam and I camwhored our boredom away!

 

What I found really amusing was the way people find such delirious ways to entertain themselves!

The audience from the upper tier started throwing free drinks to the audience below.

 

While everyone else started to freeze and sing our national anthem, 'Negaraku' and bursting out into random sing-a-long songs.

 

 

10.30PM | Finally! Sum 41 broke the frustration with a sudden grand entrance

All the dissatisfaction and rage immediately transformed into high levels of energy from the crowd!

 

Stealing the show with their Screaming Bloody Murder tour with 'Screaming Bloody Murder'!

 

Lemme introduce you to the band members of Sum 41!

 

Lead singer & guitarist Deryck Whibley!

 

Bass guitarist and backing vocalist Jason McCaslin!

 

Lead guitarist & backing vocalist Tom Thacker!

 

Drummer Steve Jocz!

 

Over 2000 fans queued up as early as the afternoon began! Talk about some die hard fans here.

And hours before Sum 41 rocked the stage, the entire KL Live was packed with crazy punk rockers coming from all over Malaysia and even foreigners who made their way here to watch them live! 

Left side of the stage!

 

Right side of the stage!

 

When Sum 41 began playing their signature songs from the earlier albums, both the upper tier and lower tier were roaring with people all ready to rumble!

I had my fair share of yelling (singing) along to my fave songs 

 

Derryck and Jason giving the crowd one they'll never forget

 

They continued with 'Reason to Believe' and brought the house down with 'Hell Song'!

The crowd began to crowd-surf amongst each other.

 

There's a video at the end of this post! We managed to capture a guy surfing away

 

Throughout 'Hell Song' , Derryck began cherry-picking people from the crowd

 

Picking out another one!

 

Bet it was hard to choose; everyone would kill to join Sum 41 onstage!

The crowd was yelling, screaming and jumping as much as they can to be THE CHOSEN ONE

 

Just keep choosing and bringing 'em people to your stage, Derryck!

 

He brought up not one but FOUR people up on stage! Saw some of them giving Derryck a big hug.

Everyone got real jelly when they saw that and went 'HEYYYY!!!!' but it soon changed into an 'AWWWWW!'

 

Turning the mic towards the crowd so we can sing the bridge for him!

 

NOW I'M IN OVER MY HEAD!

FOR SOMETHING I SAID!

 

COMPLETELY MISREAD!

I'M BETTER OFF DEAD!

 

The crowd got into the zone and began to whirl up a massive circle pit in the mosh!

 

Their next song on tonight's playlist was 'We're All To Blame'

 

Performing a beautiful rendition of 'Walking Disaster'

I must say, eventhough I haven't been catching up or keeping myself up to date with the latest songs off their latest album Screaming Bloody Murder, I truly enjoyed their newer numbers.

Sum 41's new release of tracks felt darker, deeper, less punk-rock – routing slightly to the metal rock genre

 

Sum 41 performing 'Time for You to Go'

 

The next two songs were 'In Too Deep' and 'Motivation'. Boy, I swore I could feel the reverberation throughout the whole upper deck!

Imagine 2000 people, upper and lower tier, jumping and headbanging at the same time.

 

We be causing our own tremor in KL Live! 

 

Sum 41 letting Steve Jocz have his moment!

 

He definitely stole the limelight throughout his drum solo!

 

The continued their performance with 'Sick of Everyone', a number off their latest album as well.

 

 

Despite it being one of their newer songs, die-hard fans knew all the lyrics by heart.

Now that was impressive… and so much undying love for Sum 41! 

 

ROAARRRR WHO WANTS SOME HEAVY METAL!!!?

 

To our surprise, Sum 41 gave us a few short performance-covers of some really popular metal songs.

They covered songs by Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Metallica and a few others.

 

 

After 'Underclass Hero', another twist was in store for us.

Derryck then passed the mic to Tom and he gave us a stellar guitar solo and vocal performance!

 

Woooootwoooooot!

Tom's guitar solo

 

Derryck's guitar solo

 

T'was great seeing how all the band members of Sum 41 were so cooperative and supportive of one another onstage.

Such wonderful showmanship! Their transitions and performances jived seamlessly 

 

Jason and Derryck began picking out more people from the crowd to join them onstage

 

"I choose you!"

 

Performing 'Still Waiting' off their 2nd studio album Does This Look Infected?

 

SO AM I, STILL WAITING?

FOR THIS LOVE TO STOP HATING?

 

'Still Waiting' was another one of my favorite Sum 41 songs and I enjoyed headbanging and yelling throughout the song.

It was mayhem! Another circle pit started in the mosh again and more crowd-surfing soon ensued 

 

It was so insane till a point where security had to come and keep things back to an orderly manner LOL

 

 

Don't want anybody to get hurt, ey?

Keep moshing but be safe, fellow punk rockers!

 

The boys of Sum 41 performing a cover of 'We Will Rock You' originally sang by Queen

(encore)

 

After that performance was over, the crowd was already soaked with perspiration and brimming with their own heat.

The temperature rose and many people were seen pouring bottles of water over themselves.

 

Some even splashed their water on Derryck!

 

Oh you wanna play huh?

Let the games begin!

 

WATERFIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Derryck then grabbed his waterbottle off stage and splashed it towards the audience in retaliation

 

Derryck was soon outnumbered. The waterfight just kept going!

 

Sum 41 proceeded to perform their final song of the night, 'Fat Lip'. 

For those of you who have been listening to them back in the day, you would know that 'Fat Lip' was the very first single released off their very first album, All Killer No Filler, back in 2001.

 

Geez, how time flies!

 

The final twist of the night : drummer Steve Jocz takes the centerstage and wows the crowd on the mic!

 

There you have it, the boys of Sum 41!

 

This was the first time in all the years of my covering gigs/concerts that the drummer actually got down

from his drumset to steal the show with the microphone instead

 

It was impressive no doubt!

 

Sum 41 then threw out guitar picks and drumsticks to the crowd.

Everyone flocked to wherever those goodies were being thrown to! Now, I wish I was at the mosh too

 

They gave us a bow after their stunning two-hour performance

 

Although it was a pity that they did not perform 'Pieces', which was a crowd-favorite (I could hear people chanting Pieces! Pieces! Pieces! as early as 10PM!), we enjoyed their live performance and all that wait to see them perform in the flesh right in front of our eyes proved to be worthwhile.

Only a true fan would wait for hours (rain or shine)and still support a band to the end and back.

 

Here's the video of the night

Thanks to Pam for the footages & thanks to Kon for helping me edit them! 

WATCH EEEEEEEEEEEEET  

 

You've made these two girls very happy and proud of the music we grew up with

 

I'm sure the entire crowd of 2000 exuberant fans can vouch for what I said

 

Freddy Mercury approves

 

Sum 41 made us, punk-rockers so proud tonight!

We wish you all the best for the remaining stops of your Screaming Bloody Murder tour

 

A major shout-out to Rahul of One Buck Short and Livescape Asia and for putting together this amazing one-night-only show for us and making it happen!  I had a terrific time, thank you! 

 

Tonight's special Rockaway showcase was indeed, brilliant.

Can't wait for the Rockaway Fest this year!

 

Finally, back from the Avenged Sevenfold concert held in Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach!

As a rockerchick deep down (though not an ardent fan of metal music) I must say I enjoyed my two hours worth of A7X's hard rock & heavy metal. 

 

M.Shadows rocking the stage with his gritty, powerful voice

 

They were nothing short of amazing!! 

The turn-out blew me away; it was success! A total of at least 15,000 people rocked up to the event 

 

 

A7X performed 13 songs altogether – beginning with 'Nightmare' and ended with 'Unholy Confessions'

 

Zacky Vengeance & Synyster Gates rocking the surf beach down with their deft guitar skills

 

 

This is just a little sneak-peak preview post ;)

Stay tuned for the main blogpost that's gonna be a massive load of photos & a video of the night!

 

Till then, AVENGED SEVENFOLD FTW!

 

Major credits to TuneTalk for working so hard to bring A7X down to Malaysia and serving us a heavy dose of powerful rock, metal, amazing guitar solos, drum solos, heaps of screaming & headbanging today!

Good night fellow rockers & metalheads! 

 

Who's up for another round of mad raves & music festivals? I know I sure am!

 If you didn't get enough of the shenanigans that went down at Future Music Festival Asia and Zouk @ Sepang, mark your calendars for M.C Asia 2012!

 

 

Energetic vibes, superior sounds & first-class acts await us all this weekend!

Here is a little bit more about the full line-up!  

 

Dash Berlin is no stranger in the music industry.

Ranked at World #8, this Dutch progressive-trance superstar is here to perform in Malaysia again for the 3rd time!

 

 

Dash Berlin – Till the Sky Falls Down

A personal favorite.

 

Popular Dutch DJ & record producer - World #59 DJ Richard Durand!

 

German progressive house DJ & producer, Jerome Isma-ae

 

The brilliant trance vocalist Julie Thompson!

She collaborated and have been featured alongside

Super 8 & Tab as well as former #1 DJ Armin Van Buuren

 

Miami-born Patrick Oliver, renown resident DJ for Euphoria Ministry of Sound

 

Our very own local pulsating trance music force -TRIMIX!

Watched Samuel Dan of TRIMIX perform in Queen Elizabeth II club in Penang. He's awesome!

 

Also our local pride, MisterAriffin of TRANCELAND fame!

 

Le Funkt.Studio, remember Ministry of Sound's Trancenation?

 

And finally, Mr. Fluff!

Our multi-talented DJ & Producer whose releases was featured in David Guetta's podcasts!

 

There you have it, the full line-up that's gonna make your night a spectacular wave of music!

I've attended one of the previous events by M.C Asia before, featuring tech trance DJ Marcel Woods from the Netherlands & progressive house DJ Marcus Schossow from Sweden. So, I can certainly vouch for their series of music events, it certainly doesn't disappoint!

 

Here are the details again, just in case :  

 

What M.C Asia 2012

Where Sepang International Circuit

When 28 April 2012 (Saturday) 3PM – 2AM

How much RM88

How to purchase Air Asia RedTix, Rock Corner outlets & Victoria Music outlets

For more info, head on to www.visitmcasia.com

 

 

UPDATES! EVENT LINE UP + TIME

Workshop / Conference Schedule 

02:30PM – Muzium Automobil, SIC Welcome Centre

Festival Schedule

04:00PM – Mr. Fluff B2B L.F.S
05:10PM – TRIMIX
05:50PM – MisterAriffin
06:30PM – Patrick Oliver 

07:15PM – BREAK

07:30PM – Jerome Isma-Ae 
09:40PM – Julie Thompson (Live PA)
10:00PM – Richard Durand
12:00AM – Dash Berlin

02:00AM – END

 

This massive celebration of music and anthems will rock our weekend! 

This Saturday will feature two tiers of events. An actual music conference during the day and a music festival during the night.  

 

 

 

Can't wait to watch Dash Berlin, Richard Durand, Jerome Isma-Ae, Patrick Oliver & Julie Thompson perform right before my eyes.

Also, not forgetting our very own local trance powerhouses Trimix, MisterAriffin, Mr. Fluff, Le Funkt.Studio!

 

Thanks to the wonderful organizers, Global Sound Masters, all electronic music revellers will have something to look forward to this weekend!

See you at Music Conference Asia (M.C. Asia) ! 

 

Been really busy! Hence lesser updates in this month. 

Anyway, what rocked Malaysia's music scene?

 

It is the first ever Asian installation of the famed Future Music Festival – an outdoor, world-class rave party originating from Australia.

As I mentioned in this previous entry, Malaysia was the first ever venue to host Future Music Festival outside of Australia, boasting 70 international, regional & local acts on our party-grounds in Sepang International Circuit.

 

The FUTURE IS NOW.

 

If you missed the fabulous 13-hour rave event, then take my hand and I'll show you what happened through my eyes & party-feet

I started my journey south to Sepang International Circuit right after lunch with my partymates.

 

Pam & I (and a wild, random distraught face) in the backseat

 

Emily & I

 

Okay so.. that wild, distraught face wasn't exactly that random after all.

It was theboyfie photobombing us

 

We arrived just as Stafford Brothers set ended. Bummer!

But at least we could hear just how awesome they are – collaborating with Timmy Trumpet – as we walked to the event from our car.

 

Partying at Future Music Festival Asia in First Class thanks to Future Music Entertainment, Livescape Asia & Ecosphere

 

My partypeeps for the day! 13 hours of non-stop raving.

Let's do this! 

 

Got our rave essentials ready : our Ray-Bans & party shades, slapped on lots of sunblock, brought disposable raincoats (just in case!), tissues, fully-charged mobile phones & cameras, LED finger-lights and ourselves of course – brimming with energy!  

 

Camwhoring with theboyf while waiting for others to arrive!

 

More camwhoring!

 

Met up Sueann!

 

Finally when everything was over and done with at the entrance, we proceeded to go into the grounds.

There's no backing out once you get in there as a no re-entry rule was imposed.

 

Once you're in, you stay in

 

With the Aussiemates!

 

Watching The Potbelleez at Future Stage

 

The crowd went crazy when they sang their single 'From the Music'

 

The other half & I (LOL look at Jane & Ray photobombing us!)

 

LOL Ash wore his shades upside down

Prolly can't see Jane's hat in this photo but she was wearing an epic feather headgear ala red-Indian!

 

With Shannon & Jane (and Joanne photobombing!)

 

The 4 piece Irish-Australian electro music group gave us a swell performance!

 

Managed to spot Jonny Sonic backstage! I ran outta the VIP lounge room to catch him for a photo

 

Sehati-sejiwa and I with Jonny Sonic! 

 

After Potbelleez, we stayed on at Future Stage to watch Flo-Rida spin right round, right round  

 

Flo-Rida!

 

Flo-Rida performing 'Low'

 

The popular American rapper bringing the house down with 'Club Can't Handle Me' 

 

Flo-Rida interacted with his audience pretty darn well! He came down to where the audience was and stage-dived.

Grabbed my friend's waterbottle and poured everything on himself too!

 

Next up, we headed to Flamingo Stage to watch Grandmaster Flash

 

No prizes on guessing why it's called the Flamingo Stage

 

The legendary American Hip Hop pioneer, musician & DJ – well known as King Grandmaster Flash!

 

Boyfie and I

 

We be lovin' his 90s gangsta rap music! He even dropped beats by Eminem and Snoop Dogg.

 

Joe and I at the VIP deck

 

Bumped into a few other friends during Grandmaster Flash's set, Leonard & Belle!

 

So happy when Aaron and I *finally* met each other!

 

We haven't seen each other ever since I left Australia to come back to Malaysia 

 

Bumped into a former collegemate, Theresa!
I just had a hunch that she will be there, knowing jolly well she's an EDM fan too!

 

Also met up with Chris, my first few buddies here when I first moved to KL!

 

When we walked past the art wall, Pam & I couldn't help but to run to the graffiti and take a picture with it!

Beautiful street art. Major loves!

 

We crossed to the other side to get to Las Venus stage to wait for Sneaky Sound System.

 

Look at everyone behind us waiting on the field!

 

Boyfie and I waiting too…….

 

Why are weeeeee waiting!!?

 

Getting darker and darker! Still waiting..

 

Jon, Jason and I…… still waiting

 

It was already 15minutes past 8PM and we have been waiting for 45 minutes!

We could no longer wait and dashed to Future Stage to quickly catch the last 15 minutes or so of Eddie Halliwell's set

 

We made it in time  

 

Loved the deep & heavy sounds of his house and trance mixes 

 

On the same stage after Eddie Halliwell was Pendulum, an Australian-British Drum n Bass/Rock band.

Rob Swire in action!

 

He was so lively and bursting with spirit and vigor – jumping, headbanging and beckoning us to follow suit.

We DnB revellers were practically feeding off his infectious energy! 

 

Pendulum performing ''Witchcraft'

 

I daresay that Pendulum stands strong as my favorite act of the whole event, a tie between Cosmic Gate & Eddie Halliwell.

They were so amazing and their performance was resonating with intensity throughout their 2 hour set.

Pendulum performing 'The Island'

 

Wish I could stay longer though! Loved their performance so much  

Unfortunately, we were all famished and thirsty as we had not eaten ever since we arrived the event at 3PM.

 

We had meat pies and delicious ice cream!

 

Laying on the couches inside the VIP lounge room after dinner

 

Pam & I ran all the way to Las Venus stage to catch Chase & Status!

Alas, we only managed to hear their final song performance and a thank you speech from them

 

Shortly after, Pam, Konzy & I headed to Gnome Stage to catch Super 8 & Tab.

Geez! We felt like energizer bunnies running from stage to stage making sure we get to watch our fave acts!

 

Woot woot watch the Finnish duo of  trance music producers go!

 

The laser lighting & flashes at this stage was extremely glaring! It was difficult to take photos or to watch the DJs

But fret not! We had our rave shades on us – it sure came in handy!

 

Shades and LED finger-lights!

 

Bumped into XinXian!  

 

Finally, my Konzy came to join us right after he finished playing

his racing game at the interactive game hut

 

Oh, and he won himself a kick-ass lighter in red & silver!  

 

We all then headed over to the Las Venus stage to catch Alex Metric soon after.

 

Watching the British musician & DJ drop the bass! 

 

Bumped into my other Aussiemates, Michael and Chris standing right in front!

 

And the rest of the girls chilling on the field listening to Alex Metric from where they lay

 

After Alex Metric was over, we roamed about before heading to watch the Chemical Brothers

 

Fun fair rides! There was a Ferris Wheel and a Reverse-Bungee Jump ride!

 

From the initial 5, we spread out and so the 3 of us made our way to the front  to watch 

Chemical Brothers as well as our favorite of the night, Cosmic Gate!

 

Part of the Chemical Brothers!

 

The transition between Chemical Brothers and Cosmic Gate was so quick that many of us didn't quite notice the sudden switch!

But here they are, the final act of the night…. the German trance duo behind the ever-popular 'Be Your Sound'

 

Cosmic Gate

 

Raise your hands for Nic Chagall and DJ Bossi!

 

Their 1.5hour set was phenomenal

 

All 5 of us reunited again after the 13 hour rave – fully exhausted and drained yet ecstatic that we have lived to rave through the first ever installation of Future Music Festival in our home country, Malaysia!

First of many to come, I hope?

 

Final photo! Tired but happy faces 

Bought myself a Future Music Festival Asia tee as a memorabilia of the fabulous night!

 

I had recorded so much footage and was going to make a kick-ass video summarizing my FMFA 2012 experience, but it got deleted by accident as I thought I had already transferred them to my computer (but I didn't yet). Goddamnit! Was so pissed

But at the very least, theboyf happened to put together a simple video containing the footages he recorded! 

So here it is - 

 

Thanks for the footages, hun!

 

A big KUDOS and thank you to the organizers of Future Music Festival Asia 2012, Future Entertainment and Livescape Asia as well as its sponsors for making this event a tremendous success!

FMFA 2012 has certainly set the bar for world-class rave/music festivals 

 

If you were there, you definitely will remember this for life!