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SHOW REPORT: TERASKOTA MOVIE SOUNDTRACK FESTIVAL

Venue: Teraskota BSD, Tangerang
Date & Time: Saturday, May 21st 2011

It's a band & indie movie competition, held by Teraskota which happens to be the venue owner and managed by Berisik Radio. The bands has to play 2 songs, one movie soundtrack and one any other song they like. The movies detour done in the middle of the show, 2 films, which I say too few for a show with such title. The show started around 8 PM, 1 hour-late from the plan. No bands knew when they will be playing, "secret" rundown, Amir of Berisik Radio said lol.

The journey to the venue was good, no traffic jam. We arrived around 6 PM, then having a little chit-chat with Amir, doing a not-so-comforting sound check regarding to the not-so-cooperative sound engineer, these kind of engineers in a band competition, they'll go "Serve the best to the famous" and as you might guess, fame is a factor that impede a band joining a competition at a particular level, so apparently these engineers will have no concern to a competing band's needs.

To the main topic. We got second turn to perform, which around 08:30 PM. We play 15 Step (Twilight OST) (hey come on ! The song is good) and Xenophobia. There was no stage, the venue was more like a big circle bowl with the audience sitting around the edge, so I could go here and there with no problem except the inadequate cable length. The sound system's not too good, result of a "shut-up-I-know-the-best" sound engineer I guess. But all in all, we play well and took very good response from the audience. Unfortunately, the video taken was not proper enough to watch, bad audio & video-movement.

The indie movie session started after the third band. Both films are nice, it's always exciting to watch a film on a big screen in an outdoor venue. Then the MC led open discussion with the directors and then goin to last session of bands' performance and finally goin into the announcement of the bands who made it to the final, including LunariaN. Yup, we'll have our performance again next week at the same place.

See you again at TerasKota !

 

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