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Yup, time to let your hair down and rock !!! The Times of India Strawberry Fields 2008 is set for masti and magic in Bangalore over the weekend with 60 rock bands letting it rip, and five finalists will get to perform along with Pentagram !  I’ll be in Bangalore only next weekend, so guess it’s strike out for this one. This [...]

Well, this one was a real bummer. Some of us were planning to attend the Def Leppard concert at Mumbai next weekend, on October 19. However, all those plans went down the tube as the group have cancelled their concerts at Bangalore and Mumbai in view of the prevailing scenario in India. (ie. our bomb per weekend schedule). The organisers [...]

Yup, the gig is over ! After a short battle with cancer, Pink Floyd keyboard wizard Richard Wright died on Monday at the age of 65. He was among the founder members of the band along with fellow students Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason, all studying at Regent Street Polytechnic College of Architecture at the time. Some [...]

A coincidence, but without all the hype and hungama… The recently released Bollywood flick, Rock On, features four friends who were part of a rock band before splitting and going their separate ways, only to reunite years later… And in the real world, just happened to read to about Johnny Depp reuniting with his band, The Kids, for [...]

Visited the MG Road Walk Plaza after a pretty long time yesterday. Keeping in mind all the traffic related chaos due to scarcity of parking arrangements, the tendency has been to mostly stay away from this area on Saturdays.

In a landmark judgement, the Bombay High Court ruled in favour of composer Ram Sampath, who alleged that film maker Rakesh Roshan plagiarised the music score for his latest film, Krazzy 4 from an ad jingle that Sampath had composed for Sony Ericsson. According to the court;

Got a shock when reading the newspaper today morning. Homi Bathena, the founder-owner of the erstwhile Jazz Garden had met with an accident on the Bombay-Pune highway and was no more. Apparently, a bus rammed into his car, though some other passengers in the car survived. Jazz Garden was one of the several restaurants that [...]