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Pocketful of classic rock
YO MAN, Peace. Flower Power's back! Only, this time `the gathering of the tribes' was not accompanied by bombastic bellbottoms and bevies of flower children, complete with long unwashed hair and spaced out expressions.
Despite the disappointingly demure suit-clad headwaiter (who didn't have so much as a earring, collection of string beads or even a little tattoo to redeem him), Aqua at The Park's `Flower Power Wednesday' did manage to get its guests tripping with nothing more suspicious than smoke from their barbeque to keep spirits afloat.
Well, that and spirits — in artfully concocted cocktails.
Aqua's ambience by night would have sent poetically inclined hippies into raptures, since it was "like, so totally chilled out, man." The pool, set on the eighth floor of the hotel, rippled soothingly, and beside it `Hip Pocket' from Kolkata belted out the songs of the sixties — sandwiched between the stars above and Chennai's carpet of bright lights below.
Hip Pocket, which plays what it calls `the classic rock of the Woodstock generation' (the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Doors, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix), alternated between bubble-gummy rock and roll, addictive pop and serious rock though the evening.
By the time they were half way through their act, they even got members of their audience to abandon dinner for a dance routine. They began with the twist. Then, incorporated snatches of the Birdie dance and finally wove in steps that made them look remarkably similar to a group of people drowning on Baywatch.
One young lady even caught hold of the headwaiter and dragged him, kicking and screaming, around the dance floor in an impromptu waltz. The addictive sixties music evidently spares no one. But then, that's what makes it so irresistible.
SHONALI MUTHALALY
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