Saarang Noon.
As usual, Ragha found someone to cheat. This time, Vasanth Christopher’s cousin, Sam who, by the way, was always found making multi million dollar deals on the phone, huddling in a corner at IIT Saarang yesterday. Of course, I was asked to come as an after thought, only a half an hour before. Adithya, Ragha and me drove to Saarang in Sam’s car at around noon. We wandered here and there a bit, watched people performing impromptu dance to some soundtracks on makeshift stages, people walking with their faces painted, dragons and flowers tattooed on their arms. It was what it should be. A cultural fest. Fortunately Sam knew where he was going and led us into Central Lecture hall or something. I think it was Decibals event. Or Acoustyx. I don’t remember seeing any poster. Bands played mostly with acoustic guitars, basses, drums and keyboards here. An A cappella group from Bangalore was there too. Watch here at Marc’s blog an A Cappella group performing. They were quite good. A decent performance. 3 boys and 4 girls, each adding a different sort of music. Needless to say, they were not engineering students. They sang Alien Ant Farm (or MJ?) ‘Smooth Criminal’, Rockapella ‘Zombie Jamboree’ and two other songs. They were meant to sing only three songs I guess but seeing the response they got, they asked the audience if one more can be sung. The audience drowned the IITian’s refusal who was compering the event and the poor chap had to allow it. We left after that shortly, after gulping some food bought at the stalls. You can bet we didn’t buy the food. Sam did.
And I think this is one of group’s video.
January 27th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Oh shit! A Capella group here! Damn! Missed it! What college were they from?
Haha @ IIT guy getting snubbed.
January 27th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I couldn’t hear that bit when they were introducing themselves. They even had a name for their group and I couldn’t catch that either. It was a small lecture hall and the acoustics was poor. Each time they finished singing, some one would show them how they are being heard with a recorder and they adjusted according to that. Only boys were vocalists though. Maybe it’s the songs they chose.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Decibels was in the OAT, IIRC. That Central Lecture Theatre isn’t a very good place, they should’ve held it in that other hall in the IC&SR building, that hall rocked!
January 30th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
All right, it should have been Acoustyx at Central Lecture Theatre that we went to. George, no A Capella group in MCC? I guess there should be one.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
A very good question.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I don’t think there’s a group at MCC. There’s one from WCC though, if you’re interested.
January 31st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I am interested. What’s the point of being interested though?
February 1st, 2008 at 11:16 am
Yeah, what’s the point if no one is interested other than yourself? A cultural fest is coming in my college and I asked a few guys if we can try A Capella for a change. I even showed them videos of some. They just refused, said it was never tried before and the college guys wouldn’t like it! They feared that they might be booed off stage for trying something like that. Anything that is not Tamil and without instruments is not worth a try for them.