Day 352/366

Day 2 of NH7 Weekender at a glimpse. And for some reason, I enjoyed Bangalore MUCH more than Pune this year. (Oh wait, I think I know why)

The Shakey Rays 

Jivraj Singh and Nischay Parekh

The Bicycle Days (SO much trippier live than in recordings)

Delhi Sultanate  

Susheela Raman (Notice the airplane in the sky!?)

To Raghu. With love, Raveena.

Swarathma :)

Best set of Day 2 - Bauchklang

Collaborations: Swarathma and Dualist Inquiry

Drunken love

Posers.

Warning: Smoking electronic cigarettes can do this to you.

Pais Mafia

Day 351/366

A glimpse of Day 1 of NH7 Weekender. It's been a perfect day, to say the least. :)

Fink

Gowri

Creepy Johan Pais

Tough on Tobacco

The Staves

Advaita

Idan Raichel Project

Blackstratblues

Day 350/366

I love my job. I'm going to cover NH7 Weekender today and tomorrow and this is probably going to be the best assignment they've decided to give me. Sky Rabbit's going to be a pleasure to finally watch, Tough on Tobacco (my favorite band) are going all emo in their look and I'm going to hear Fink play 'This is the Thing' live. Other than that, there's obviously a lot more to see but I know that today's going to be epic. It's one of those things you don't need to actually experience to know. You just do.

Woohoo! Let's do this, bitches!

Day 310/366

Jack Steadman of Bombay Bicycle Club. Best set of NH7 Weekender 2012 (for me)!

My favorite sea creature, the Rock Ness Monster.

Light up. Please.

The warmth of the colours could really be felt when you walked in. In hindsight, that was probably the sun. 

Such a spine chilling and beautiful act. The Manganiyar Seduction.  

My favorite place to be: the Bindass Fully Fantastic Stage. (Yes, that's Peter Cat Recording Co playing on stage! =D)

Delhi Sultanate. Jump, Jump, Jump! 

And then, there was Jinja Safari. What a vibe! 

Day 307/366

I'm getting this done with. It's Day 1 of NH7 Weekender. I'm happy. I love the world. This is my excited post because my blog post doesn't deserve a full post right now.

Day 306/366

I never knew excitement of this scale was possible. Think of the saddest memory possible and flip it over and that is what the next three days apparently mean to me. There will be plenty of high-inducing substances consumed, uncountable hugs given and most importantly, a lot of new music acts witnessed. I'm feeling a tingling sensation in strange places just typing this down. What a feeling, I tell you. I can't really put this emotion into more words than this. So I'll just say this, thank you NH7 Weekender for your existence. I'm ready for you! :D

Day 301/366

How do you contain the excitement -

For the happiest music festival around?

The wait that began (what seems like) a century ago

Is finally returning to town.

The buckets are back

80 artistes shall play

Across the six different stages,

In each one, I will sway.

My workout regime has been planned

To run from the bar to the stage to another bar to the Other Stage.

Well, the weight loss seems impossible,

Thanks to my upcoming alcohol rage (happy rage, don’t worry).

I can almost taste the cupcakes

Fingers crossed for cheesecake, too.

Of the Fully Fantastic Stage,

My ears and legs must somehow un-glue.

Hugs in a-plenty I shall give,

In returns for buckets of booze.

The most difficult decisions made

Are the acts I’ve had to choose.

Bombay Bicycle Club to Talvin Singh,

PCRC to Spud in the Box,

From some I’ve seen to the never before experienced,

I just know it’s going to be kickass!

Come soon, NH7 Weekender. All my thoughts are about you (As you can see!).

Day 264/366

Ms Oblivious,
I ask for permission to go for the music festival that I have been looking forward to since the last day of its second edition that I went for last year. I couldn't go for the first edition and yes, I did try to kill myself.
This year, I see no reason why I should not go. I know my colleague wants to go for her annual leave on the same days. But while she chooses to go get drunk at a beach with her friends, I want to do the same with my friends at a music festival. Do not trivialise my choice of enjoying life. You have friends and family and so does she. I have my own set of friends and family in the music community of this country. So basically, you have no right to differentiate between your choice of company and mine.

*I can't stand losing you-The Police playing in the background and fueling this anger*

By the time I wish to take my days off, it shall have been 5 months of me working in the company that I work in now. I deserve this break as much as any other. At least the rest of you have taken your holidays to here or there. I have only had that one day off a week which goes into planning the next week's stories and meeting people who I value in my life and who hate me because I have no time for them the rest of the week. I'm not asking you questions when you take a week off during the most crucial time of our company's branding, an activity I never signed on for when I signed that wretched contract.

I am angry. But I am honest. Had I said I have a family function to attend, I would have been possibly given the leave, wouldn't I? From where I come from, a lie can only be covered with another, more serious one. I am new to this world of commitments and am yet to learn the tricks of the trade. Somehow, I don't even think I'll be able to learn them because I don't want to. To me, my friends used to be fictional characters from books I'd read and my cousins and extended family members who were in my life by default because our parents got along. Music was the best thing that happened to me and it let me understand who I was, who my friends were, what kind of friends I wanted to keep in my life. To make that passion into a lie or an excuse is probably not in my capacity.

I just want you to know that about me. Don't expect me to shower you with praises to sugar coat you or to not point out an error when I see it. I'm not that person. Others might be and I don't feel the need to pass judgments on them. Just leave me and my music be. Or, accept my relationship with it.