PUNE July 10th

WICKED SHOW. full stop.

but, i will say more...

we left mumbai in an innova in the pouring rain. got stuck in a land slide and i thought i had never seen the planet in a more beautiful condition. we are so tiny compared to the powers of this great earth. it's majesty and it's power humbled me.
rain, the giver of life...the destroyer too. hundreds of cars sat parked on the three lane highway...a guy came around selling chikoo...Anand (S+F bassist) was playing Ozric Tentacles on the sound system. We got out of the car and sat on the subdivider...the edge of the mountain...it was beautiful. chaos tends to initiate peace. or so it seems.

so, the clouds hung low, and we reached pune just in time to sound check. we had to be quick because there was a namaaz happening right next door and we aren't exactly the quietest band in universe (break yo face)- so even sound check is quite the raucous. instantly i was infused with that larger than life high i get from making music live with the ingredients present. the chemistry between lindsay d'mello (our drummer), anand subaya (our bassist), and randolph correia (also known as funk)is bloody brilliant - it had been a while...i've been in new york for almost two months and i haven't taken so much time off from the band in over two years. vacation did me good - but i'm well in need of getting back to the grind that keeps me full of fire...life gets dull - and if it's dull than what's the point?

So we played for an hour and a half - and I feel that other cities in India (Delhi, Bangalore, Bombay, I love you - but Pune knows how to jump!) could take a little lesson from Pune folk. Fire-starters I say. It was ablaze.

If I may ask, WHY IS PUNE SO FREAKING GOOD-LOOKING!?! It was a well attended good-lookin' folk fest for god sakes...is it something in the air out there? Share the wealth people.

Also, at least half the room knew all the lyrics to our tracks. That could be the single most gratifying feeling for me.

oh...and we tried out some new stuff from the album. That went down well.

This really sweet girl told me that our music makes her believe in love.

All in all a great homecoming. Got lots of work to do now - get back into fine form for the upcoming events we have going on.

So, next up, we have a gig on the 1st of August in Pune at the new Opus - and the preview is up on myspace of the new album. PLEASE CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW.