A NIGHT OF MY LIFE... MASTER PIECE TO ME

A night i can never forget... yesterday i had the most wonderful experience of my life. I was on a concert, a rock concert, and not just a rock concert but a concert where my band "RANA HASAN PROJECT", Akash, OVERLOAD & most importantly ALI AZMAT was performing. I've witnessed a few live concerts. i've been to Shafqat Amanat Ali's concert, Josh's, Call's, Karavan's, Shehzad Hameed's, The Band O2's, Akash's and others but have never witnessed something so huge in my life. It was a night at RAFI PEER FESTIVAL 2008.

The nite started by my band "RANA HASAN PROJECT". they did a couple of songs and the crowd loved it .. because i was back stage so i was unable to see people jumping or clapping but at the end of every song crowd roared like hell. It wasn't a huge crowd but the response was huge.

The came a punjabi local rapper, HAIDER ZAIDI. He was gud but nowhere near BOHEMIA. But he was OK. He did a couple of track and left.

The it was AKASH. Man they were rocking. By this time i was now infront of stage sitting in the first line. AKASH was pretty much what i was expecting, AALA. SAM and KENNY and rest they rocked the night for about 20mins. the it was some new young kids band "Boston Coastal". Pretty much GOTHIC and EVIL. Im not that much into music thingui, so much that i can guess which genre was that exactly but to me it was HARD ROCK or heavy metal. They were nirri khup. THEY disappointed me big time. I was thinking that why the hell are they here, but never the less. May be they can get better in future. But yeah there music was gr8 but upto few mins when they started. Coz there entrance was pretty much an instrumental. a 3-4 min instrumental and then there vocalist came and he made things worst.

Then Shehzad Hameed came. Im not a big fan of him. I've heard in a couple of concerts before but never like it. Yesterday i liked him upto and extent.

Then came the Overload, the band who impressed me on their first ever live performance at IM Awards, but mind it i saw it on TV and not even live. it was a pre-recorded show. Today i heard them live for the very first time and man it was mind blowing. This time they had a new Saein in their band. He was from DASKA and man did he carried the audience with him to a whole new level of dancing and enjoying. Farhad the lead member of Overload, he took me away with his drum skills. Their 3 new songs were awesome, their new lead singer, the chick, lotsa guys thought she was sexy, some called her a B#### but anywayz it was something over all, i mean the band performance.

And then came the master blaster, the original by all mean, "ALI AZMAT". man he was so amazing. This was the first time i was listening to a pakistani rock legend live. The very first song he did was mine favourite "GALLAN" and it was awesome & aala by all means. Then on and on and on. The came the legenedary song in its own, "PAPPU YAAR TANG NA KAR"... mind blowing. Guyz i dont have any words for what i witnessed there last night. MAHI, GARAJ BARAS, NA RE NA, YEHI DOSTI HAI... u name it and ALI AZMAT sang it. At first the crowd was pretty much dead .... but when PAPPU YAAR came everything came to life.

LONG STORY SHORT. I wish everyone of u would have been there. Dont know, dont care if anybody liked it or not. But i was taken away with the DHOL & Rock of OVERLOAD and ALI AZMAT's performance. Omran was a masterpiece in his own.

To me it was a night of my life... i can never forget this night for a very long time. I wish i can go on tommorow and on 22nd too. As STRINGS is coming tommorow and on 22nd it is FUSION NITE. Mekaal Hasan Band will be there performing. I had a vision that how great musician perform at live, ALI AZMAT, RANA HASAN PROJECT, AKASH and ALI AZMAT... they togetherly truely proved that they are good.

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