| Let love be your guiding force

Digi Live Presents AAR Live In Malaysia (Part 2 - The Gig)

Thursday, November 5, 2009

So after the session at Pavilion, Willy & me, we headed to the McD outlet at Bukit Bintang to have lunch.
After which we dropped by Bentley and Chambers for a bit to check out guitars before we actually left for the gig.
We first took a monorail to Hang Tuah station, and then switch to the Sri Petaling line to Bukit Jalil...

Just looooove taking public transport...

Funny story, while getting on the 2nd train, I actually left Willy behind and he had to take like 2 trains after mine... (Those automated doors do close very fast.... :P)

So we reached the venue at around 2.30pm
A quick trip to the loo, and then we were off to the queue at the entrance...

By then the line has already started building up.
Believe it or not, there were people who started lining up as early as 8am!!! Thats insane!!!

These people were at the back of us... The line grew that long in less than an hour...

Duno if u guys can see the length of the line, but to put it in simple terms, we were not even in the shot.. we're Waaaaaayyyy to the right of the picture... And this was around 4 something...

The heat was killing I tell you.. We were literally trying to find every possible way to shield ourselves from the mighty sun...

Fluid's very very important.. Crucial to our survival that day... XD

At around 5pm out of nowhere, everyone started getting up.
Being Malaysians, when 1 does something, everyone else follow... So everyone in line stood up..
Pada hal, they havent open the gates yet.. -.-'''

Around 5.15 if im not mistaken, they opened up the gates, and suddenly the line wasnt there anymore...

Everyone just started pushing and cutting in..
Hell broke loose...
We were dragged by the crowd... all the way in.. we didnt even need to move a muscle, the crowd would push us forward... SERIOUS!!!

Still, we manage to get in when most of the crowd were still stuck outside.. So we were kinda lucky... Coz we had the option to head in front if we wanted to... Although we didnt in the end...

The very first thing we did when we went in was to redeem out meet and greet pass...
In exchange for the token we got earlier at Pavilion..

It was gold that day.. Had to guard it with my life.. Though I just wore it on my neck throughout the whole gig.. Haha..

Moments later we met up with Audrey who got in even earlier than us even though she reached Bukit Jalil at like around wat? 5? -.-'''

Chillin' while waiting for the gig to start...

As we were chilling waiting for the concert to begin, we spot these guys wandering around..
They were hitz crew... Dressing up for the occasion.. And their outfits were pretty awesome..
Check it out..

This guy in the white mask invited us into the Hitz zone (supposedly for lucky winners only) after we took pictures with them and chatted for a bit...
We thought we were damn lucky coz before the gig, Hitz zone passes were going for like RM200 a piece!!!
But as time goes by, people just swamped in, no security was present to check for the tags...

The crowd got bigger and bigger.. And soon, Ean and Hani Madu came out to open up the crowd...

So the first band up was Disagree.. They played a few familiar hits... but I cant remember the titles.. And as expected, they finish off with Crumbs, their biggest hit so far.. They even brought out a marching band for that number.. and they sounded awesome...

The 2nd band up was Pop Shuvit.. And they actually played their earlier hit, Old School Rocker.. How cool is that? And obviously, they did Marabahaya... Which drove the crowd crazy.. Mootz was having the time of his life.. At the climax of it all, he went down to the crowd, and actually jumped into the crowd.. Awesome...

3rd band up was One Buck Short.. Unfortunately, their lead singer was hospitalised and couldnt make it to the gig... Instead they got help from other bands instead.. JD from Pop Shuvit, frontman of Bunkface, Estrella and a few more took turns to hit the stage with the rest of the band.. They were great..

Ok, i gotta come clean here... I was too busy enjoying the music till I totally left the pictures out..
I figured I should really enjoy the gig while I was there.. Instead of keeping myself busy taking pics.. :P

Ok, to give u a picture of how big a crowd of 15,000 people really is, check this out..
And yea, 15,000 people showed up that nite... The crowd was as big as MTV World Stage a few months ago... ^^

(Picture courtesy of hitz.fm. I do not own any copyrights to it... Thx hitz!! :D)

(Pic from Mike's twitter... Again, I do not own the rights.. Thx Mike!!! :D )

There you go.. The crowd was HUGE!!!! and they were amazing.. Especially during "It Ends Tonight" where every single person in the house sang to the song... All 4 of the Rejects were seen smiling... :)

So, here's the set list that nite..

Move Along
Fallin' Apart
Dirty Little Secret
Swing Swing
My Paper Heart
I Wanna
Mona Lisa
Real World
It Ends Tonight
Damn Girl
The Last Song
The Wind Blows
Gives You Hell

Yup, they played a total of 13 songs!!! but honestly, it didnt felt like it was that long..
But no doubt, they did an amazing job..
(U'll see in the next post why am I so positive about the order of the set list... :P)

Ty put on an old native American hat.. Or whatever u call it.. It was amazing.. he got a little carried away though.. With Chris on drums, they started doing a snippet of some sort of voodoo chant or some shit like that.. XD

(Photos courtesy of Digi... Thx a lot.. AGAIN, i dun own any rights to them... :) )

Ty was being nutty and silly as usual...
But the part that surprised me the most was he didnt care about all the stage rules over here..
He said lines like "How r y'all doing, b*tches???" and "I hope ur having some f*cking fun"
Which drove the crowd even more crazy..
Thats the rockers spirit for u.. They dun give a shit! :D

~ One final post to go ~