The lead vocalist's mike jams - no sound. The band apologises to the audience, it takes a minute to fix, the lead vocalist bows and apologises, "so sorry" and they start off with a lovely guitar piece. Playing as a band from 1997, they were for me the most special band for the evening. Okay I have a weakness for Myanmar, but as these guys were playing some great metal stuff, beatiful ballads I was just thinking how did they manage to stay together, play metal music in Burma, what does it mean to be in Delhi and playing as part of south asia bands festival, how did they survive, what do they think of the future. Amongst all those bands their responses would be the most interesting ones. I got chatting to 2 guys from Manipur parked next to me. Manipur shares a border with Myanmar isn't it. Yes, we can enter but have to return before sunfall. There must be border market? Yes all goods from Thailand, Singapore we get very cheap there, we would go often. Manipur is full of music - How did you find their music? Oh, they were very good, though we did not understand a word , we laugh. Three cheers for Metal Zone, and for the ICCR to get them here. Tommorow is another superb line up.
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