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Rock concerts live, on FM radio
FM RADIO channels specialise in airing popular music. You can either listen to them while driving or while showering. Now they are going live, we mean organising live music events as well.
Radio City has revived this with its "Radio City Live" held last weekend at Cubbon Park. Regaling the audience around the park's bandstand on Saturday were two local bands, "Thermal and A Quarter" and "Phenom."
This was to be the forerunner for a regular platform to showcase local musical talent. No dearth of that it either.
Three years ago, Radio City had done the same thing with what was to be a rock band hunt that brought two Bangalore bands, Antaragni and Document Done to the limelight and gave them an opportunity to perform with roack bands considered among the country's best: Euphoria and Pentagram. This time around, unusual venues and weekend evenings have been selected.
Thermal and A Quarter has evolved into a groundbreaking band of musicians who shot into fame when they did the opening act for Deep Purple in April 2001.
TAAQ as they are known among music buffs, have released three albums till now.
Titles Thermal and A Quarter, Jupiter Cafe and Plan B and a 40-minute seamless music video called Heart Cave Sphurana.
Phenom, originally a college band (no longer so, the musicians having graduated from PES Institute of Technology last June) is an amazing group of talented musicians, producing credible and highly appreciated original music.
While Phenom categorises itself as a classic and progressive rock band, their music really spans many genres; the members of the group have never allowed categories to limit their experiments in music.
By K. Satyamurty
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