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Festival Seperlima
A few days before the event, I read a post on Luky’s Facebook account saying that his performance at Festival Seperlima on October 26 would be his last one in Jakarta.
java soulnation // scissor sisters
scissor sisters java soulnation 29.09.2011 I had never been that nervous. Not even when I was about to see Morrissey or Saint Etienne earlier this year. The last time I had this pre-concert anxiety was before Pet Shop Boys’ in 2009. And prior to their performance that Saturday evening, I had been watching “Let’s Have …
java soulnation // rnrm
RNRM java soulnation 29.09.2012 The last time I watched them live was at last year’s Soulnation. And I was bloody surprised. They had turned from something good to something really awesome. I even had not been able to take the song “Stuck in a Moment” out of my head for months. Yes, they really were …
java soulnation // hercules and love affair
hercules and love affair java soulnation 29.09.2012 It was the first time I watched their performance, and they were.. ab-so-lute-ly gorgeous I stood right in front of Gustaph, one of their singers, and I was melting like a lava cake. I will make a confession now: That was the first time I heard of them, …
java soulnation // valerius
29.09.2012 vette shit ouwe! Literally translated as “fat shit, old man!”, it is used to express compliment of something really cool. Probably it’s like, “awesome, dude!” or something like that. (Maarten said the expression is no longer common in the province of Noord Holland — where young lads use the expression, but some folks still …
java soulnation // theme park
theme park java soulnation 28.09.2012 The name of this band kept popping in my facebook the last couple of months. I realised that usually it was because the band has similar music as the one I ‘like’, calculated by (I assumed) the number of people who had the same music preference as I do and …
java soulnation // color me badd
color me badd java soulnation 28.09.2012 color me what?? For those of you who don’t know color me badd, then you must have not grown up in the glorious era of 1990s. I am not a fan, but after this gig I realised that their songs were actually stuck in my long-term memory space and …
java soulnation // spice girls experience
28.09.2012 I was never really into Spice Girls. Frankly, I used to despise them. But Spice Girls were a big part of Brit’s 90s culture that basically could not be avoided by anyone growing up in the era. Spice Girls were like a guilty pleasure to me. I loathed them in public, but I secretly …