twisted frequencies @ 04:36 p.m.

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Friday, March 24, 2006
my pop's a tart, yours is rent

Oh boy….where do I begiiiiiiiin.

Initially didn’t intend to go for Placebo’s Fashionably Loud coz wasn’t sure if I could make it after work.

But went anyway coz workload seemed light today (Thursday). Thanx shamudin for inviting me (although I helped you rig the invites). hoho.

SO. How was it, you ask me?

Lemme just say that I almost came back with no story to tell but a very long rant.
But turned out, hey I’ve a story to tell…. but also a very long rant.

Came down to ngee ann city after work with val. Met his friend alex and we munched on Old Chang Kee while waiting for sham (shaz hope you don’t mind me ‘chaperoning’ your boyfriend for a night. Muahah). Sham came and we sat for abit, then joined in the long freakin’ queue. I must say the Old Chang Kee wasn’t worth it.

It took an hour plus for us to reach near the entrance….only to have a bald guy scream “Sorry but we’ve reached maximum capacity but if you would just stand along orchard road there are big screens where you can catch all the action inside.”

There was maybe 4 to 8 people in front of us riiiiiiiiight before the entrance...maybe a hundred or two behind..

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most people left but No we didn’t. haha. Oh c’mon! I queue-ed for an hour and I’m standing a metre away from the entrance, hell, I wasn’t gonna give up just like that!!!

It was agonizing though. We were trying to pull all strings we could, going through all the shoulda woulda couldas in our heads. “We shoulda jumped queue just now”, We shouldn’t have sat down and ate Old Chang Kee just now”, etc etc.

I let my anger out on the lady at the door. Hahah. (no I didn’t beat her up) Just had to ask her, “So why’d you print so many invites and in the end turn down what, a quarter of ‘em? I don’t get it? Could you explain it to me? It’s ridiculous!” to which she replied, “Well even I can’t go in, we’ve reached maximum capacity. You can catch it on the big screens outside though." and I said (and you would too) "WElll, it's not the same!" and she went "Blablabla…*trombone plays*” and then she scooted far far away. Hahahahah. Scared eh?
Welllll...I’ve queue-ed over an hour for a show that I’ve been invited to and then I’m denied entry when I’ve reached this close, you bloody heck stay there and hear me roar woman. MUAhahahah.

SO ANYWAY. My bro was there, already inside. And he was there to be a sorta saving grace. I called him and begged him to help me in. He came out halfway to go to the loo and he had a backstage pass to help me get in. But only meeeeeeee, like…how sad laaa, sham’s like a big fan of placebo and val’s just as eager to go in, alex by this time has already given up and went home.

So. *takes a breather* Guess what happened.

Bro came back from the loo…told me to go with him, while he was negotiating with the guard, I heard something like “cannot cannot”. Then I sorta opened this closed unlocked door beside me thinking to myself “hey-lo this door’s unlocked”, guard was distracted by someone else, in a millisecond I found myself in the dark air-conditioned place after bro had shoved me through the door that I curiously opened. MUAHAHAHAHhhah. SCORE! I’m in!

I was a lil dazed. I looked behind to see if val and sham could’ve been hot on our heels while still walking forward lest the guard chases us. And I saw val rushing in looking panicky. Wahahaha. You go bro! And I checked again but I couldn’t see sham! And I’m like shittt, I would think he woulda been the first to follow my lead coz he’s been eye-ing on the unlocked door and was ready to pounce before. Bro went to join his friends. Val said sham sneaked in before he did, so I guess sham had speedy gonzalez-ed his way to the front himself. PunkRock bro! Val and I took a moment to squeal in delight like 2 pre-pubescent schoolgirls (haha) who successfully sneaked in to watch F4. And then we proceeded without any struggle (read: there was ample space. read: they lied about maximum capacity) to get a good spot.

Half the crowd was dead. Didn’t know how to move. Looked at me weird coz I was enjoying the music. BULL. You mean you suckas have been bored here while we were silently fuming listening to reverberations from outside? Oh the world is so unfair.

We managed to catch their last 3 songs. Of course they saved the best for last, so at least…even if we didn’t manage to catch the whole show, we caught the best parts.

It was so……………..apt that they ended singing……. “See you at the bitter end..” I think we fought to get in to the bitter end. HaHa.

I still don’t get why they turned so many of us down.

If it was to use us to hype up the event, if it was to make the rest of us stand outside orchard road and watch the big screen so that others in the streets would join in when they’re curious to see what the fuss is about, if it was to use us to create a long queue so that everyone in town would think the event must be oh such a craze, then bollocks you. Whatta buncha crocs you marketing people are.

To leave true eager hardcore placebo fans standing outside denied…while leaving space inside for people who don’t even know how to move/enjoy to a live band. It puzzles me to no end.

Poor placebo-bigfan shamudin lor, standing outside hearing only echoes of brian molko and his ‘pasis’ guitar jangling. It was torturous, coz only a stupid white tent and an unlocked door was standing between us and the whole shebang. So near yet so farrrrr

And we had invites and we had every right to go in. But a rather messy piece of rough paper with hurried handwriting on a blue-inked pen wrote that they only accepted according to capacity and they were full and it signed off with a pathetic ‘sorry’. Such disrespect to us. If they’d expected to turn people down, at least prepare a nicer, more professional-looking sign than that. And shameful (on the Organizers NOT us) that we had to sneak in and feel like criminals when we had every right to entry.

If it was truly full capacity then fine. First come first serve. Fine. But loadsa people were leaving halfway, at least let the rest of us in then?
If you say that it was full capacity, at least say the truth.

When I came in, like I said, there was so much room dang it. And everyone seemed to be standing with their arms crossed. What the…? Who are these people?! Placebo must’ve been yawning.

“Reached our limited capacity”, My Fiddler’s Fart. There was enough space for a whole crew of breakdancers to knock themselves out la.

So yea. I don’t get it. I don’t know to blame IMG Fashion-pico or MTV or both but to turn down fans after promising them the goods, with no very valid reason, is just so low. I am so disappointed with MTV.

What. The. Shizz.

Anyway. Thanx brada. Remind me to use more of your connections with high places. *wink-nudge*

Ok.

A lil’ less conversation.

A lil’ more action please.

I wasn’t a huuuge placebo fan but seeing them live I think I’ve converted. One of the few pitch-perfect awesomest live bands I’ve seen….and only seen 3 songs summore.

What is calming me down is the fact that I got to catch this song, at least.
(This is for all of yall who had invites but was denied entry.)

Just always remember to...STRIVE, just like you do for seats in the MRT.

Again, pardon the blair-witchiness.

Ok I’m hungry.

Bye.