Linkin Park ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week, I realised one of my life long wish-to attend one of THE greatest rock bands of my generation.



I started listening to Linkin Park in my late teens and Linkin Park's first album -Hybrid Theory was one of the albums which was played full blast throughout the whole summer when I first got my first car in KL after graduation! :p


Linkin Park's earlier albums-Hybrid Theory and Meteora had a lot of anger and frustration in its songs and lyrics which was many teenager's life anthem at the time. You can relate this to songs like Numb, Easier to Run, Crawling, Points of Authority...


The most recent album Minutes to Midnight is awesome! It is more mellow- a display of maturity from the band members but without compromising the great music they produce.
The songs which stand out for me are What I've Done, Bleed it out, In Between, the Little Things give you away. It is more politically conscious and it is refreshing to see bands who are globally aware in what is happening to our world today and reflect this in the music they play reaching a greater audience.



The O2 arena has been THE place in London to stage concerts and Linkin Park is no exception. We got the standing area and I was a bit apprehensive there would be a lot of teenagers bashing into each other which I experienced at the LostProphets concert which wasn't pleasant.
Luckily, the Linkin Park concert didn't have the crazy teenage bashing. Most people were there to enjoy the music and althought there was a lot of jumping and singing (myself included!) it was an enjoyable experience!



Chester and Mike belted out a mix of the new songs from the recent album with the old classic songs from their previous albums. I also got to see my old teenage crush Joe Hahn on stage DJ-ing his beats and sounds on stage-he's still looking and sounding good! :P
The stage also displayed the animation videos which the band are known for-it's a work of modern art :)



Towards the end , Linkin Park did two encore appearances....everyone took out the mobile videophones and cameras and sang along to One Step Closer and In the End in unison.



An amazing experience which I will never forget.....Below is a video clip-snippets of some of the great songs that were played that night. I apologize in advance for the blurriness of the video-I was jumping up and down with the crowd and the music.

Paolo Nutini-Upcoming artist

Apologies for disappearing for a while from this blog..I have recently been occupied with other commitments but I am back (well for a while at least!)

Last week, I went to the long awaited Paolo Nutini gig at Brixton Academy. Paolo is on his first World Tour. It is quite a challenge performing non stop as he's only turning 19 or 20(??!!). I just hope he doesn't get burnout by the end of it all. He is more of a singer than an entertainer but I think that will come with experience..

He performed the crowd favourites like Last Request, Rewind, Funky cigarettes. I love his Scottish accent although there were times where I have to admit (sadly!) I was struggling to understand him when he spoke (and I have lived in Glasgow/Edinburgh for 7 years!!)
But it all doesnt matter cuz when he sings with his guitar..I am just blown away! ;)That is why for me he is one of THE breakthrough artists of 2006


Here is him singing one of my fav songs "Rewind" from his debut album "These Streets" at the gig.