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Hi all. Scattered post in both English and Bahasa Melayu.

I know its Ramadhan for the Muslims,

but some food photos.

This is a Muslim food place selling halal food in CARDIFF, WALES. As you all know I was backpacking alone for the Iron Maiden UK Tour , not the full whole tour, about half. LOL!!

I will tell more next time...

Nanti aku tunjuk jugak kedai2 aku gi makan...

For those in Singapore and Malaysia, thousands of miles away, but the menu is so familiar.

Kan, korang tengok siap ada teh tarik tu...

nak gelak aku.. brader ni pernah duduk Singapore pun.

Padahal jauh siak kat Wales sana... lain kali aku cerita.

One more, I was starving and I only want rice. I just arrived at Birmingham Bus Station after taking bus from Liverpool. ( I went for both Iron Maiden shows at both cities).

Below is photo of a halal rice dish, Briyani or Beryani, UK Halal Style. in Birmingham, England.

My God, its so dry, there is no gravy like what i am used too.

But I was going crazy, I need rice. Rice is my staple food all my life. Without it I DIE.

LAPAR NASI , nasib baik di Birmingham dan aku makan nasik kedai sama masa aku backpack gi Birmingham 2013 dulu tengok Bon Jovi main kat stadium Villa Park.

Sapa jenis Lapar Nasik paham la apa aku cakap... boleh jadi giler....

betapa jumpa banyak kedai pun tengok makanan semua tak kena...

desperate sampai nampak kedai halal, kedai india soalan ialah "Bro, you got rice? anything as long as rice , I dont care what colour!"haha.

Other times I will tell about places I stopped by while taking long express buses and trains.

This is BRISTOL below, lovely picture that I got lucky in taking it. Well, at least for me this photo is very pretty.

Amazing city amazing place. It was between the Birmingham Maiden show, and Cardiff Maiden show...

Supposed to catch Cranberries in Colston Hall Bristol, but Delores fall sick so its cancelled. But Bristol was amazing... OOO Lots of amazing and historical photos next time (especially if you are a history buff in regards, Iron Maiden and other UK music legends like the Beatles and such, because Beatles play at Colston Hall too in the 60s)

More of all the above NEXT TIME..

Next, I want to share some merchandise that I got for the Iron Maiden 2017 UK Tour to support the Book Of Soul World Tour.

FRONT VIEW.

From left..

1) Maiden 17 - is a very pretty and sweet bootleg tshirt that I saw was on sale at the road side outside of the Liverpool Echo Arena and Birmingham Barclaycard Arena.

I finally decide to buy it for 10 Pounds.

One of the most simple and very pretty design I see of Iron Maiden for a long time. Yes, a bootleg, a fantastic fan design this one.

The rest are tour tshirts for 2017,

2)with second from left is the UK/IRISH TOUR TSHIRT for the whole UK Tour.

3) 3rd from left - Thats a new design EDDIE for 2017 with the Mayan Eddie Theme.

4) THAT KILLERS TSHIRT, its always the same problem with Iron Fucking Maiden.

They tease, people got excited thinking Killers was going to be on the setlist once this design was made into a 2017 Tour tshirt.

ALL ARE PRICED AT 25 POUNDS. And, the designs even if you buy it at the Maiden Official Shop will have different tags on the collar, and no dates and places.

Take note the dates are only sold at the venues of the show, although those who follow the news will realise that earlier on before the tour start, Iron Maiden sold the event tshirts with dates IN ADVANCE about one month before the shows reach UK. But I dont buy it then, I only buy physically at the stands when I am at the venues.

The ones at Maiden Official Shop will be priced at about 22 POUNDS with different collar tags, and no dates and locations. And I dont think that other two tshirts will be sold too.

(it carries the black label of Iron Maiden Merchandise or something if you buy the ones without dates

this is the behind...

- Check out again the bootleg tshirt.. the behind designed like a football jersey...

- again.. the second tshirt is the rear of the BRITISH/IRISH TOUR TSHIRT

and its has a very very cute Cow.

SO the story is Eddie on the bike travelling all over UK and Ireland, as the front design goes, being a nuisance with a vehicle who got into an accident, the front design has all the directions and places Maiden is going to play with some flags on the flyover.

Eddie got into trouble on the road and hit the poster wall advertising all UK dates, makes a hole and off he goes again.

And as those travelling in UK will know the roads sides are all fields with lots of cute cows so there is one right there being a busybody.

- The rear of the 3rd jersey is also a new design. There are a few other tshirts with this design, but I dont buy all. I rather buy a few more UK tour shirts for my love ones.

- the one most on the right is the Wasted Years design. A song they played on both the 2016 and 2017 section of the book of soul world tour.

This is the tagging... of the official merchandise tshirt sold for the british part of the world tour 2017, and as can be seen for the bootleg, the label (I think its fruit of loom), is snipped off.

I think its a practise of British bootleggers? I am not sure.

I am not cordoning bootlegging for monetary profit. But I think everyone have to admit this is a very pretty tshirt.

OK one more shoot of the cute cow... and the dates..

Allow me to tell you, not only the above pretty thshirts only available at the shows.

but there are others pretty tshirts too, there is one THE RED AND THE BLACK, looks like an American Baseball Tshirt.

Allow me to say, I have done quite a few backpacking travels for different tours, not only on this tour is Maiden playing beyond beyond expectation and really unbelievable they can top up their usual 666% performances of the past to a new 667% performances for this tour (2016 was amazing but the 2017 was another planet completely)

and the merch is simply amazing this year. Its like so many bands merchandise but actually its all Iron Maiden.
(aku ringkaskan, design2 atas tu Maiden 17 tu tipu nye, orang jual tepi jalan tapi cantik giler, so aku beli satu, Sweet 17 sangat tshirt tu.
Yang lain semua hanya jual kat tempat show je.
Yang British Tour Eddie naik motor tu, ada jual kat Maiden nye website tapi takde dates dan lokasi, dan bukan je takde tarikh dan lokasi tapi tag pun tak serupa, kalau beli kat official maiden website dia pakai tag Iron Maiden warna hitam tu. Yang lagi aku rasa memang tak jual.
Yang design tiga dari kiri tu Eddie lukisan baru untuk 2017
Belakang dia pun sama lukisan baru 2017
ikut tema Mayan Book Of Soul
Yang akhir tu design lama lawak nye korang tahu la tshirt ni ada, orang ingat Killers dalam setlist. Puaka besar ni Iron Maiden ni.

Also tshirt tour British/Irish tu ada cerita , design depan Eddie naik motor, dalam design depan korang tengok ada papan tanda tunjuk tempat2 bandar2 Maiden akan pergi, dan Eddie cam pelesit sampai ada kenderaan eksiden tu korang tengok betul2, ada orang kibar bendera England, Scotland contoh nya.
Kat belakang dia, Eddie tersasar, tersondol banner poster Iron Maiden untuk UK tour ada dates tu semua.. lokasi semua.. lepas tu ok, masuk jalanraya balik.
tapi sapa travel kat UK, naik bas, naik keretapi, tentu tahu kiri kanan semua ladang2 ternakan lembu kebanyakkan jadi ada seekor lembu jadi mak kepo la gi tengok lobang tu ).

OK before ending this post...

MARI KITA CUCI MATA

some shoots of Maiden live on stage I took... on different shows, I stand at different places, and managed to move around a bit and there.

I manage to get some pretty photos of Maiden. Actually its more like I got lucky really...

Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers together in one photo. I always got difficulty getting them together in one photo shot. The magnificient Three Amigos. (I think this was in Aberdeen?? I forgot).

There is more of this scene I snapped. I will choose a prettier one next time.

This is just some photos.
I know its not nice, but its what I like, and for me they are all beautiful photos.

Below..

Bruce Dickinson, Ohhh I was trying to get him for Death Or Glory.. That monkey sequence and all that , and I think I was a little bit successful. More next time.

Last photo for this blog post, till next time.....

The one, the only, there will be no one more like him ever....

Mr Steve Harris.

Till next time bye.

FULL REPORTS OF TRIPS AND FOOD AND THE PHOTOS OF DIFFERENT CITIES AND LIVE PHOTOS.. all next time, dont know when. haha

Over 20 days has passed in Ramadan. How time flies quickly.

First in English then in Bahasa Melayu. .

For my backpacking travels alone to watch Iron Maiden plays their very successful UK Tour and amazing performance in both their live shows and the fans attendance at every show, in 5 places/cities in Scotland, England and Wales, I try to explore as much as I can the cities and places during the daytime especially I went to NOT where the outsiders visit but I go to where the locals go.
So means I explore the lonely backlanes, the markets, and see how the locals buy and sell vegetables, meat, even secondhand goods.
So this time I want to blog about the Birmingham City Centre Flea/Secondhand/car boot/market /sale or whatever you want to call it. Its across the road from Bullring shopping area and St Martin Church(above are both of them the Church and Bullring Mall, I guess thats the name).
Its near the vicinity of the Islamic Relief Building.
So enjoy the photos of this huge flea/car boot/secondhand dealer market of Birmingham City and the area of the Islamic Relief Building near Birmingham City area.

Iron Maiden plays Birmingham Barclaycard Arena on Sunday 21st May so I arrived there at Sunday Noon by bus travelling from LIVERPOOL where Maiden plays the night before.

And this is how the Birmingham Barclaycard Arena looks like, way before Maiden starts their show. And I was not even near the front. Such a vast huge place and the standing section Floor level was like a football field size. LOL!!

Atas tu dua foto tu ialah apa korang nampak kalau korang sampai Birmingham naik bas ekpress dari mana2.
So keluar dari bas terminal nampak ni dua, satu gereja satu shopping mall.
atas foto ketiga tu tujuan aku gi Birmingham dan tempat lain bulan lepas, backpacking sorang sorang tengok Iron Maiden untuk Book Of Soul Tour 2017 yang akan jadi penutup.
Lepas dorang pusing Amerika lagi satu round. Bulan 7 ni pentas Iron Maiden guna akan dibubarkan. Aku rasa konfem gossip peminat tahun depan ada tour berlandaskan History Tour part 4 atau mungkin berlandaskan greatest hits dengan pentas baru dan semua baru untuk masa depan nya usage.

Bawah. ISLAMIC RELIEF HEADQUARTERS BUILDING sedunia. kalau tak silap aku.
Aku ingat nak carik tapi sebenarnya senang nak jumpa kalau korang jalan kaki kat kawasan tu tapi aku tak gi la bangunan tu. Beg dah berat giler, aku gi pasar karat dia kat kasawan situ.

Dan Royalty paling aku hormat dan suka dalam dunia ialah keluargaQueen Elizabeth.
Bila aku dengar cerita dari orang Melayu kita yang pernah kerja sama Islamic Relief di Birmingham pasal Queen Elizabeth. Aku sangat terkejut.
Jadi bila aku baca reaksi orang terkejut gembira pasal Prince Harry berbuka puasa bulan Ramadhan dengan orang2 Islam di Singapore, dan act macam orang biasa je kat Singapore, lagipun memang pun, lantak la kau diraja tempat lain , ada tempat kau tetap dilayan sama rata dengan semua orang.

(mulut manusia tak boleh ditutup, ada "keturunan" bila kat Singapore cam cam perangai.)

aku tak heran sangat, sudah tentu Queen Elizabeth dah ajar cucu2 dia tentang agama kita dan semoga sokongan Permaisuri menguatkan ummah kita di UK.
(dan serious berbual ramai giler orang melayu kat UK ok,- aku pernah cerita kan, first aku sampai stesen keretapi kat Piccadilys, aku backpack nak tengok Iron Maiden main kat Donington 2013 dulu, aku dah tak boleh jumpa train aku nak naik dah aku sorang2 dah lambat pasal aku nak rush gi Birmingham nak tengok Bon Jovi main kat stadium Aston Villa, so kelakarnya, kat tempat sendiri kena speaking omputeh tanya arah, tapi kat England berbual melayu pasal aku nampak muka melayu so aku gi la kat dorang..., aku first cakap eh dah sampai England, aku cakap Melayu pasal ada budak Melayu lelaki pompuan so aku berbual melayu langsung tak yah nak belit lidah speaking omputeh -
terus terang aku cakap ramai giler dalam context "ramai giler" melayu di Eropah la, dari Portsmouth - ni tempat memang budak Melayu ramai tak yah khuatir.. - paling bawah UK tu, sampai naik atas UTARA ke Glasgow..(cuma kat Aberdeen aku tak nampak Melayu atau dengar orang cakap Melayu haha).. aku tahu pasal aku dah sampai Glasgow pun dan aku jalan kat kawasan ada U ke kolej sekolah tinggi la gitu,.. orang2 Melayu ok ngan pompuan baju kurung., nanti aku cerita pasal aku semayang jemaat kat masjid Liverpool... Kecohhh berbual melayu.. aku siap tanya "ingat lagi cakap melayu tak? haha, ada dah duk sana orang melayu kita, dari tahun 1960an, zaman beatles ok, sila jangan berbual pasal Iron Maiden la kan aku... diam dah.. ni semua old timers legend.. zaman Beatles dorang dah kat Liverpool.. takde fight la kan....).
Serious berbual la, Melayu ni kan.... jangan cakap dari negeri mana , negara mana la kan..
Melayu ni kan...boleh cam la pattern melayu kalau gi mana2... hahaha....
lagi Melayu tu nak berlagak mat salleh, lagi terserlah kekampongan nya.

ok sambung balik pasal Birmingham...Lagipun pada aku, Birmingham ni ialah bukan sahaja jantung Heavy Rock dan Heavy Metal dari segi sejarah dan hingga hari ini,
tapi jantung umat Islam seluruh Eropah pada aku kerana jumlah umat Islam di Birmingham sangat ramai.

Ok Lepas Islamic Relief tu, ialah pasar karat, pasar jual beli barang yang dah digunakan, . Kira macam Sungei Road skala besar giler.
Macam2 ada... sila tengok sendiri... kasut boots caterpillar, doc mart, barang mainan, rekod piring hitam dan cd, barang2 ayat suci untuk hiasan rumah, pakaian memang banyak dan macam2 dari untuk musim sejuk ke biasa, peti sejuk dan mesin basuh juga dijual di pasar ni, nampak ada baru ada dah 2ndhand, alat pembinaan, bantal, tilam, perkakas barang dapur dan sebagainya.
Ramai dari penjual dan pembeli ialah umat Islam kita.
Langsung tak nampak dari foto foto ni aku ada kat Birmingham UK.

OK la aku sumbat semua cakap Melayu kat sini, jadi bawah tu lagi, sebahagian bangunan2 lama yang sangat cantik di bandar Birmingham ni, dan sikit2 foto tempat ada bahagian beli belah dan shopping di Birmingham..

Dan bawah lagi tu jalan menuju ke Barclaycard Arena Birmingham..
aku ikut je laluan air tu (water canal) terus sampai...
jalan ikut laluan tu aman, terus sampai kecoh giler...

dan ada satu bahagian mall tu kat Bullring, bercahaya giler siot...

dan bawah lepas tu foto foto aku snap sikit2 masa tengok Iron Maiden merata tempat untuk 2017 UK Tour ni...
tu je kot.... nanti lain aku cerita2 la, tempat2 lain dan macam2 je la...makan2 tu semua...

OK tu je kot. Selamat terus berpuasa dan apa2 je la korang buat di bulan Ramadhan yang mulia ini.

Besides this I took some photos of the buildings which are old, historical and very beautiful.
Also some photos of their shopping districts and pink colour trams...
also,
I was looking for the Barclaycard Arena, so the locals just tell me to follow a Water Canal.

Amazing, its peaceful, tranquil, you even have ducks on the canal.
And once you reach the arena you got the 16,000 fans? or less? Maiden hardcores of Birmingham.
Amazing show as usual, amazing audience too.
So these are the photos to the end.

I will end it with some more Maiden live photos I took..

But these photos below are the prettiest... hahaha

Ronnie James Dio hand salute will always always be there ..

\m/ \m/

and while Bruce is talking away, Steve and Janick will wipe their sweat their perspiration,
tuning their bass and guitar, and will have a little fun and joke among them two..
and these are precious things to see..
I got some photos.. next time.. LOL!!
I need to look for them in the memory.

More next post, to be continued...

till then...

this is Aberdeen.. a great city, very cold, and Iron Maiden again played another blinder in this city. a very intimate place for an Iron Maiden show as it fits about 7000 people only in the indoor hall.

I took this photo, I think this is the first photo of an Aberdeen street I took once I arrive by bus in Aberdeen from Glasgow.

About a 4 hour ride of full of the ocean on one side, and lots of beautiful nature of cows and fields, and flowers and sheeps and beautiful old homes.

Salam and greetings, as usual first in English then in Malay Language.(photos are all below on this post and as usual both do not have similar contents for linguistic value. cewahh).

Its been quite a while, talking cock in this blog. So here we go again.
Firstly, I would say a few nice things on the new EP by a Singapore rock band which plays Heavy Rock and Heavy Metal style, singing in the Malay Language.
They are called "JARUM".
Six songs, four uptempo and heavy numbers with two slower ones.

I love this EP so much. Right now I only download the ITUNES version, which I then convert to fit into my new bluetooth Walkman as below... (yes, Sony still makes Walkman, but its so much ultra sophisticated and modern version now and even supports Lossless formats).

I hope to get the physical cd also.

Also, some nice bands and performers are heading the way of Singapore and Malaysia in these next few months.
You will have: Dream Theater, Mr Big, Sebastian Bach with special guest Loudness (this is hilarious, simply awkward matching, Sebastian Bach should be opening for Loudness instead), Kreator , Vader, Prime Domestic, and of course the mightiest of them all - Belinda Carlisle.
So, budget, life in the real world, and taking time to go to shows instead of work (I work shifts) is priority and I guess I have to choose wisely....
So here are some photos of the tickets I got readied. Whether I really do go or not, is another matter.

Till the next time, and I do hope to continue and conclude my reports, explorations and photos while backpacking to see Maiden across Britain in June 2017, before they announce the expected and full of gossip so called "Legacy Of The Beast" 2018 European Tour next May to August.
I hope to backpack again alone to see Maiden in some new places, I had always dream to see them play in Sweden (LOL!!), but I would be back to Cardiff again and this time go to Millienium Stadium if the gossips of Maiden with openers - Judas Priest, Megadeth, Anthrax and Ghost warming up for Maiden are true LOL!!!. Yes, it sounds hillarious but stranger things have happen.

I was in Cardiff to see Maiden play this year and Bruce Dickinson did say on stage "we'll be back sooner than you think and this time we'll be playing a bigger place". So Millenium Stadium it shall be then for some headlining summer festival tour. (I hope).

Salam, dari nak abis bulan Ramadhan lepas, sampai nak masuk Raya Aji, blog sendu ni terus kejong abis. Tapi... di sebalik kehidupan dunia realiti aku, aku tak lupa blog ni, walau aku panik kejap masa nak log in tu hari takut password salah.

HATI BONGOK. yes, bongok.. haha.
Itulah judul EP band bernama JARUM. Aku dapat tahu band ni dari satu sahabat, dan memang, aku kalau rock melayu, aku lebih condong kepada style heavy metal melayu macam Rusty Blade dan Rockers.
Dan Jarum jugak dari Singapore, dan apa aku tahu memang ni band bermula dan masih disandang nama2 ex members tersohor band2 Singapore.
So aku sebenarnya sebelum download kat Itunes, (pasal buat masa ni aku belum cuba dapatkan physical cd), aku berharap ni serupa style Heavy Metal Melayu.

Dan boleh cakap, aku tak dihampakan. Mula2 dengar aku pakai speaker laptop je, then aku realise something wrong terus aku pakai Soundblaster sambung dari laptop, WOW Dahsyat!! Meletop!!! dan seterusnya aku masukkan dalam walkman aku macam photo di atas tu untuk aku seperti biasa dengar sewaktu berjalan kaki, menunggu bas dan train dan dalam bas dan dalam train - Simple pleasures in life rasanya begitu dengan headphone melekat kat telinga dalam keadaan hiruk piruk duniawi ...

4 lagu heavy rock, 2 lagu slow, dan dalam lagu slow Mana Silapku itu ada dalam berapa saat lagu tu dilajukan sikit dan ada la tempias Steve Harris sikit sikit. Suka betul aku hohoho.

Aku tak boleh lupa lagu Bebaskan kerana korus dia catchy sangat hoho. Dan actually semua lagu alright. Memang aku terhibur EP ni dari semua segi, aku kasi markah 664/666. (aku cuma kasi neighbour of the beast punya markah la, nak kasi markah penuh number of the beast, mungkin tunggu full album la nanti, hohoho).

EP ni lagu2 nya mempunyai time-changes yang menarik dan terkejut2 dalam lagu2 nya, bertukar2 rentak jadi memang seronok dan aku rasa sapa yang rindu Heavy Metal Melayu, Heavy Rock Melayu macam Rusty Blade, Rockers, maybe kumpulan2 seperti May, XPDC, malahan Amuk,
aku rekemen korang masuk Itunes dan sample lagu2 ni dan kalau suka beli je la semua lagu satu set EP tu dalam ada 6 lagu.

Kalau aku dapat CD dia, lagi la nanti aku cerita panjang....
Aku nak tengok liriks lagu2 ni, memang best tulisan lirik2 nya dari apa aku dengar.

'OK..

Cakap pasal band rock omputeh pulak....

Mr Big dan Dream Theater, akan membuat persembahan di Singapura dan Kuala Lumpur.
Masalahnya dekat2, jadi kena buat masa ni kena pilih betul2 sambil tengok rota kerja apa shift dan apa hari off dan rest.

Apa aku cuma nak cakap, nasib baik TOTO pun tak datang rantau ni dan main masa yang sama hujung tahun ni.
Kalau TOTO, aku rasanya gi dua dua show Singapore dan Malaysia. hohohoho.

Apa pun, dua dua band live memang gerek nak mampos pada pengalaman aku menengok dorang beraksi atas pentas, dan aku akan pilih Mr Big kalau aku cuma boleh pilih satu show je aku nak gi lagi.
Dan aku cuma nak cakap je la...
Korang yang ikut Mr Big nye perkembangan, tengok macam mana dorang layan drummer dorang yang tengah sakit Parkinson.
So.... bandingkan dengan sebuah lagi band yang layan drummer dorang yang sedang jugak sakit berlainan cara.

Well.... (sambil angkat bahu).

Tiket Mr Big untuk show Singapore 2017. Aku recce show Malaysia belum jual tiket ye (dan show DT pun takde harga tiket lagik pun?)... so gi show Singapore je la, hari ahad tu aku tengok aku kerja malam, mampos clash... so mintak tukar2 shift je la, sayang siot nak ambik cuti benda2 gini...

OK seterusnya, lagi satu konsert rock yang aku dah ada tiket dalam tangan...

Kreator dan Vader dan jugak satu opening band Tormentress.

OK, aku nak cakap sikit... VADER.

Aku tak tahu apa2 pasal ni band Vader ni, so aku teruja tapi tengok la keadaan...

So memang VADER is a curiosity.

rasanya macam biasa datang star karat je la, datang lambat.. ngam2 Kreator start. (Dan kalau sapa baca blog aku, aku ada review cd Kreator terbaru yang versi Jepun tu ada lagu tambahan EARTH UNDER THE SWORD, dan aku pun tak tahu kenapa lagu ni terselit kat cd versi Jepun dan takde dalam cd versi2 cetakan lain pasal lagu ni hip hop abis).

harap dapat tengok Vader main sikit pun jadilah..
Ni jatuh Hari Merdeka, malam raya aji...

Cantik tiketnya, siap laminate lagik...

lagi satu cerita kelakarnya, dan memang kelakar, Loudness baru diumumkan jadi special guest Sebastian Bach.
Memang biar betik, memang tak logik.
Untuk aku afdal nya, Sebastian Bach main dulu dengan perform full album pertama Skid Row, lepas tu Loudness aksi dua jam ye tak? haha.

aku rasa aku stop sini je la...

OK nanti aku sambung pasal aku backpack tengok Iron Maiden tu hari main kat Scotland, Wales dan England...

nanti aku tunjuk korang masjid Liverpool nye bandar. Aku backpacking gi Liverpool tengok Maiden nak main hari Sabtu malam kat Echo Arena, so hari jemaat aku dah sampai ke hari Khamis kot?
aku naik keretapi dari Aberdeen pasal sebelum tu Iron Maiden main kat Aberdeen tempat giler bapak sejuk, so aku gi carik mana masjid ni, ala... jalan kaki je semua tempat kalau aku backpacking, yang penting kamera standby nak jadi jakun snap sana sini tempat orang,... so jumpa.... so gi sana semayang jemaat... wakakaka.
Korang jangan ketawa la siot aku gi mesjid. haha... (yes its sound funny a bit).

dan tak ah, gua tak kena petir ah masuk mesjid... haha.

bye, see you guys again.

Salam and Happy Eid Adha to all Muslims Worldwide.

A short story, review and setlist of Kreator live in Singapore last night (31st August 2017).
Then it will be followed by a longer one in Malay Language - Bahasa Melayu, which of course as usual in this blog will be full of slander, insults, gossips, and lots of talk-cock.

This was like my first rock concert since doing my 2017 backpacking trip watching Iron Maiden plays all over Scotland, England and Wales in May for their UK Tour supporting Book Of Soul album. So the itchiness to be in a rock n roll environment is there in me.

Firstly, I came early (for my standard), the tshirts I want in sizes I want are all sold out. OK, not so early then I realised.. LOL!. - The opening act has finished, I think Vader was just starting.
So I left the place and go elsewhere.
I came back later and saw a bit of Vader for about two songs. I do not know Vader, first time watching them. Too short, I cannot make a conclusion if I like them or not.

Then went out for a drink, came back and its Kreator time.

setlist

1. Hordes Of Chaos
2. Phobia
3. Satan Is Real
4. Gods Of Violence (intro tape start used with Sami the guitarist playing along)
5. People Of The Lie
6. Total Death
7. Mars Mantra (tape)
8. Phantom AntiChrist
9. Fallen Brother
10. Enemy Of God
11. From Flood Into Fire
12. Apocalypticon (tape)
13. World War Now
14. Hail To The Hordes
15. Extreme Aggression
16. Civilisation Collapse

17. Patriarch (tape)
18. Violent Revolution
19. Pleasure To Kill
20. Death Becomes My Light (tape)

A balance setlist for those who enjoyed different eras of Kreator since this is the tour to support the latest album of which 5 full songs played.

- 1 song from their mid years experiments.
- about 4 songs from their early old-school thrash years
- about 13 full songs from their post 2001 melodic thrash years.

I think everyone has a good time. The hall is full, maybe 500-600 solid in attendance? and enough space for those wanting to circle pit or participate in the walls of deaths.

The band what can be said? it is Kreator. They were awesome.
Mille Petrozza is in good voice.
The bassist has lots of fun and centrestage on Violent Revolution.
The guitarist Sami was clear and in the spotlight a lot.

The set up after Vader takes a much longer time than expected by the Germans support crew.
Maybe they just want to ensure 100% perfection.

Too bad, no Flag Of Hate, no Tormentor.

But Mille Petrozza does all the countings in German.

Eins! Zwei! Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier!!

Bye and more photos below...
changing TV Channel to different language broadcast.

Ini cerita semalam,
ulasan dan cerita merapu..
aku off day semalam kebetulan haha.
so raya aji ni memang dah plan aku ada di Singapore.

so aku ingat aku tak mau jadi star karat, nak datang awal untuk menengok konsert rock ini.
sekali aku datang tshirt2 kreator lawa2 kau, ada dates Asia dan Australia,
dahbis dah size2 aku nak...
nabey..
aku mati2 ingat aku datang awal dah haha.
rasanya tu jam Vader dah nak start kot?
haha.. lambat la tu, opening band dah lama abis main ler tu haha.

So ok malam raya siot kebetulan jugak..
so gi Al-Falah, magrib dan takbir hari raya dulu.
Dahbis sikit lebih kurang takbir hari raya, lap2 air mata sikit muahaha.
apa lagi....

its Kreator time.
so sampai, eh? Vader masih perform, dapat tengok.
Tak tahu pasal Vader so first time dengar dan menengok apa dorang sebenarnya.
OK, ending tu dorang pakai lagu Star Wars "IMPERIAL MARCH" theme untuk farewell dengan audience.
OK haus pulak tekak, gi minum..

then datang balik ok, Kreator.
Dah boleh agak la kan lagu2 dorang nak main lagu2 apa. (setlist atas tu kaler merah). Aku OK je kalau dorang main new album seluruh album start sampai abis pasal aku suka.

Lama jugak dorang set up lepas Vader, entah apa tidak dipuaskan hati sound dorang, semua CAKAP JERMAN dia dengan crew set up on stage...
last2 ok kot.
Then maka bermulalah Kreator. Apa nak dikata? Hebat la kan. Takde la nak cakap apa2 tak baik.
Beberapa lagu old school zaman 80an sampai Coma Of Soul, satu lagu zaman 90an, dan majoriti lagu sejak mula zaman nasik tambah melodik 2000an tu sampai sekarang..
album baru ada 5 lagu full, satu lagu intro..

Semalam, penonton nak buat apa buatlah... asal jangan ada rusuhan sudah. HAHA.

Wall of Death ke, Circle Pit ke, buatlah korang, buat puas2. Cuma aku heran siot, budak2 ni semua mana dapat stamina siak?
Aku tengok macam tiap2 lagu pun lasak betul.
Tapi yang penting, sapa yang tak mau masuk campur sila pilih tempat berdiri yang selamat. hoho.

Kreator tak main lagu raya. Tapi ok la kan forgiven.

- Tiptop ye suara Mille Petrozza memandangkan kalau tengok dates shows dorang tu memang teruk.
- Bassist dia si Christian tu ha, bila diri tengah tempat Petrozza hah, showmanship dahsyat.
- si gitaris si Sami tu memang bapak awesome ler kan, sebijik macam dalam mp3 dengar.
- drummer si Ventor, aku tak nampak langsung dia ketuk2. Tak nampak, tapi of course dengar clear. Crystal clear.

(sapa tanya aku semalam? apasal tak kedepan??
hah... macama aku jawab.. nak mampos???
tu.. parting of the red sea tu.... dah sedia nak rempuh tu peminat2 Kreator yang happening2 )

haha.

OK dah tu je kot? nanti aku sambung la cerita pasal backpacking tengok Iron Maiden main merata UK Mei lepas dan tempat2 yang aku suka tengok lalu aku spend time dan mengambik gamba kawasan2 tersebut dan perjalanan2 backpacking aku untuk Maiden 2017.

Tu hari kan, entah cammana aku teringat, ada satu band member Iron Maiden cakap dorang nak main full Jepun tour.
So ni macam aku dah terfikir.. last time kan dorang main luar Tokyo ialah 2008 iaitu Yokohama.

Dan aku pernah baca satu tulisan peminat Iron Maiden yang dah tengok Maiden main banyak tempat, dia bilang dia tak pernah tengok betapa best Maiden main dan sound dorang macam seperti kat dewan yang kat Yokohama tu.
So kali terakhir Maiden main kat Jepun dan bukan saja kat Tokyo ialah Amolad tour iaitu - Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima.

Ni yang ada foto famous Steve Harris tengah gi kedai bootlegs dan dia kerut dahi sambil tunjuk show2 Iron Maiden dirakam peminat dan dijual kat kedai cd Jepun.

So the mind boggles kan?

aku pernah merentas negara2 bukan cakap Inggeris macam Jerman dan Peranchis nak tengok Maiden, Rainbow, gi Hellfest dan apa je la, naik train ke ekpress bas ke, tapi tu tempat semua masih guna huruf RUMI huruf aphabet, tak paham bahasa pun boleh cam kan huruf ABCDEFGHIJKL....., tapi nak backpack merata Jepun sorang2 tengok Iron Maiden main dengan guna keretapi atau naik bas ekpress takut siot, dah tulisan Jepun pening. haha.
Tapi takpe, bak kata Winston Churchill , WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER!!!

Salam and greetings to all.

As usual first in English, then in Malay Language - Bahasa Melayu.

I have no time to resize my UK Iron Maiden 2017 British Tour backpacking photos,

so until then, lets entertain other things. (Lots of packaging photos on this post).

From Kreator live review to now showing off the double cd Japan only - MR BIG R.L.S 113 SENDAI OFFICIAL BOOTLEG NOVEMBER 8 , 2014.

after opening... the cute obi strip....
Two booklets,
one colour photos booklet,
the other is text booklets complete with all lyrics in English and Japanese.

(more photos of packaging below)

So a few things special about this album...

- Its an OFFICIAL BOOTLEG.

Its stated Produced by Mr Big but I suspect its very minimum production and basically it sounds like any Fan-Collection Bootleg which is sourced from the Soundboard Recording.

But still the sound is absolutely nice if you are into Mr Big or even if you never hear of Mr Big, this is a very fascinating live album.

- R.L.S 113 - stands for Raw Like Sushi.

Mr Big has some Japanese only release live albums which is entitled Raw Like Sushi, so this is basically the one labelled 113. On this same tour (supporting The Stories We Could Tell album in 2014) is already a full live album with the full blue ray recorded in Tokyo or something. That one is entitled R.L.S 114.

This tour is also where Matt Starr comes into the picture, Pat Torpey is more to percussions and backing vocals and taking the lead on Judas Priest Living After Midnight cover.

But Pat Torpey still drums on some songs.

*Amazing how the band take care of their unwell drummer*

- Sendai

I guess Mr Big release this special live 2cd official bootleg album, is because finally they get to play for their fans in SENDAI, which was hard hit by the Earthquake and the Tsunami of 2011.

- This album has live versions of songs from ..What If and ... Stories We Could Tell..

For myself, I kind of prefer Mr Big live albums as its so exciting.

Anyway, they are coming again to South East Asia.... going to see them play in Singapore this October, wishing I could go to the Kuala Lumpur show too..

- The packaging of this album reminds me of those early 1990s Italian bootleg companies which print professional bootleg cds of high quality fans recordings or soundboard sources like companies like the famous K.T.S (Kiss The Stone) label.

A really good buy... whether you are into Mr Big or even if never hear of Mr Big before...

And for their live shows, just bite the bullet and buy a ticket, even if you never know them, it will be magical once they perform on stage. And.. you will be surprisingly impressed by the quality of their songs live too.

(more photos till end of blog)

Hi Semua...

Ingat nak cerita sambungan Iron Maiden, tapi aku malas nak resize photos.

Aku tak suka terus tampal photos nanti blog aku makin berat.

So dari ulasan Kreator buat persembahan live minggu lepas ke menunjukkan bungkusan Mr Big Official Live Bootleg - 2cd rakaman dari 2014 Sendai Jepun.

Ni macam aku cakap atas dinamakan R.L.S 113, kerana Mr Big ni kat Jepun dorang keluarkan album2 live khas dan RLS ni sambungan nya, RLS tu maknanya Raw Like Sushi.

Live album ni sebenarnya dari show2 Mr Big tahun 2014 yang support album baru waktu tu album.. Stories We Could Tell.

Jadi antara sebab aku beli cd ni aku nak simpan koleksi live2 version dari album2 What If dan Stories We Could Tell,

pasal Mr Big live ni istimewa sangat. Tak bedek... Aku tak tipu... Satu pengalaman menarik tengok Mr Big Live.

Sama macam tengok kumpulan Toto beraksi.

Macam.. cakap macam.. Biar Betik... apa nye persembahan ni, dan lagu2 mereka gerek.. dengar sekali first time pun dah suka... dan showmanship memang power jugak..

Aku tak tipu...

So bungkusan ni jugak tiru macam sapa2 dulu beli atau kumpul bootlegs2 dari negara barat atau Jepun yang punya bungkusan yang fantastik... so dalam ulasan ni aku tunjuk setiap apa ada...

selain obi strip yang kiut tu..

Dan jugak... Album ni aku rasa Mr Big release live album bentuk "official bootleg" kerana akhirnya mereka dapat main di Sendai.
Sendai ni yang berapa tahun dulu tu kena Tsunami teruk sangat. Yang gempa bumi dan tsunami kena Jepun tahun 2011 tu...? Sendai antara wilayah paling teruk la so memang ada part dalam live album ni memang rasa sedih sangat la..

Ni album banyak jugak lagu2 dari album ... What If dan... Stories We Could Tell..

contoh ni album ada Undertow live.

Jadi aku memang teringin nak kumpul setiap live album untuk setiap tour support setiap album studio.

Dan... Mr Big ni, waktu ni dah pakai drummer jemputan, kerana Pat Torpey dah makin teruk kot Parkinson Disease dia, jadi Matt Starr takeover drum,

Pat Torpey lebih kepada percussion dan backing vocal dan jugak lead vocal masa nyanyi lagu Judas Priest.

Jadi... mana2 band2 melayu, cuba la kan bila drummer jatuh sakit, pandai2 la take care, cubalah jangan sampai jadi bahan cacian dan kutukan..., ni band omputeh punya la gerek jaga drummer Parkinson disease.

So Mr Big akan beraksi lagi di Singapore dan Kuala Lumpur jugak, sapa was2 nak pegi ke tak nak, aku cakap pergi... bayar je harga tiket untuk sesuatu sangat istimewa.

dan apa lagi eh? aku dah lambat la.. so aku stop... bye.

ok more photos...

p.s

Pat Torpey main drums lagu Fragiler, Just Take My Heart, pun boleh nampak dia sakit...

Wooo ni tour dia mesti dapat tempukan paling gemuruh dari aku... haha...

Salam and Greetings (as usual first in Englishthen in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language)
LOTS OF PHOTOS on this posting till the end of the post.

While backpacking alone for the Iron Maiden Book Of Soul UK Tour, travelling by long distance buses and trains,
I take the opportunity to walk around and explore the cities and places I went to.

So on one of the Friday, I was already in Liverpool and take the opportunity to attend Friday Prayers at the Central Liverpool Mosque called Al-Rahma Mosque.
I took a slow walk of about 30 minutes to absorb the surrounding and Liverpool environment walking to the mosque from the bustling city centre of Liverpool.

So here are some photos of the place...

Full of different colour skin and languages of peoples from all over the world, understandable as this is England, the UK. Coming from my part of the world, its easy to identify Muslims from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The sermon of course was in English. The Khatib was not using any script, he got the positive messages across very well, it was near to Ramadhan then.

So here are the photos of the mosque building from outside, the inside, the ablution location, , the main prayer hall and all that.

To get a close up view of the pulpit, I waited till majority of the Friday Prayer Congregation had dispersed.

I hope to go again...

And now an Iron Maiden photo before the Malay Language text and then lots more photos till the end. There may be repetition from previous photos in previous blogs postings but I hope not.
The photos are from different shows. (I think) LOL!!

Hi semua...

ok apa aku nak cakap eh...

ok....

So masa tengok Iron Maiden main tu hari kat bebebeberapa tempat kat Britain... England, Wales, Scotland..

SO memang aku ronda la sorang2 lorong2 ke hapa ke, semua aku rembat je, insyallah takde apa2 la. haha. Macam aku cakap, pakai tshirt Iron Maiden adalah paspot kebaikan di negara2 barat.

Kalau kat sini, kau pakai tshirt Iron Maiden, memang kena chop kat dahi, macam kau dah fit a certain character profiling, macam mereka-mereka tahu je la kan sapa dia nak tahan mintak tengok IC.

So,
Masa Jumaat aku dah sampai Liverpool dari Aberdeen, aku masih ingat aku naik keretapi Tujuh jam tukar keretapi 3 kali kot, tapi ok la, sana sistem semua tersusun, tak yah bimbang, ikut jadual je, turun kat bandar mana pekan mana, gi platform berapa tunggu je ikut waktu nanti konfem keretapi kau nak akan sampai....
Permandangan pun cantik..

OK post ni aku tunjuk, aku nak gi semayang jemaat, solat jumaat kat Liverpool.

(OK, ni bukan nak menunjuk ok?? Atau nak bilang aku ni konon baik ke hapa k, aku bukan nye betul pun kan..), aku cuma nak kongsi je la informasi untuk sapa belum berpeluang lagi kan...

So aku jalan kaki, memang cantik pemandangan, bangunan2 klassik, memang best la kan... Liverpool memang terbaik dan special. Aku dapat rasa berapa tempat la kan..
Aku ada jugak la merasa berlainan tempat di UK sikit2 tu ada la, dan aku dah sampai dari atas tu Aberdeen tu dan paling bawah Portsmouth dan Isle Of Wight.
Dan memang Liverpool sangat unik,
tempat nya, dan orang nya... budak2 sekolah pakai dressing dan rambut macam James Dean.

OK so aku jalan jalan jalan tu gi masjid, aku hirup pemandangan dan udara, so aku pun sampai kawasan Masjid.
Nama Masjid ni Al-Rahma. Macam aku cakap kat atas aku hegeh hegeh ada la 30 minit, jalan stop jalan stop kan tengok tu ni.
So kat masjid ni, masuk je aku dah nampak orang orang Melayu.

Memang kelakar pun ada..

Kat Singapore, kat Malaysia tak sapa orang Melayu la kan, buat apa nak sapa Melayu, merata ye tak?

Tapi kat sana, nampak je Melayu pakai kain pelikat, nampak je muka Melayu hidung penyek.. Ye la Melayu hidung penyek apa...

Aku siap tegur " MELAYU EH?? " haha.. Serious, ada satu orang tua ni, aku tak tahu apa nak panggil dia, datok? Pakcik? Tuan? Encik? So aku pilih panggil Abang, kasi angkat sikit la kan hahaha...

Dahsyat dia dah duduk Liverpool dari tahun 1960 or 61. Siak ah dia kat sana masa zaman Beatles.
Terharu dia peluk aku dia tanya aku " MELAYU???"

Gitulah... Takkan Melayu Hilang Di Dunia, Sama Macam dengan ROCK NEVER DIE!!!

So dia cerita asal usul dia kat aku, Penang, KL, apa je la dia lahir kat mana semua, dan pasal bang azan lambat lagi so ada la dia share story dia,,
so then aku jumpa Melayu la... Dari Malaysia dari Singapore.. haha...
Biasalah semua dulu orang Navy kan, lepas tu merantau.. semua landing Liverpool tak balik la.
Balik Singapore, balik Malaysia pun jumpa sedara mara keluarga je.
Tapi kan... dorang tanya aku kat Liverpool buat apa?
takkan aku cakap aku backpack tengok Iron Maiden main kan?
so...

Aku cakap aku tengok persembahan budaya.. .. aku memang pakai tshirt Iron Maiden, tapi pasal masuk masjid aku zip up tutup dengan jaket aku.

So seronok seronok sangat dan aku tahu dorang seronok berbual melayu dengan aku

Aku seperti biasa seorang bastard.. aku suka tanya " INGAT DAN TAHU CAKAP MELAYU LAGI KE?? " haha.

So ni la kat atas ni beberapa foto suasana solat Jumaat dan selepas solat. Ye la ramai orang takkan aku nak snap foto. tapi ada foto foto tempat ambil wuduk istinjak , sama jugak England ke, UK ke, apa ke sama jugak ngan konsep kita.. takde beza la...
Satu dunia orang Islam sama je, tak kira kulit dan bahasa.. kita semua sama... Itulah kekuatan Orang Islam, pasal kita semua sama je dari corok mana pun kau kat mana2..

Aku tak pernah percaya apa mass media cakap, bila aku tengok Rainbow main kat Jerman kat Loreley masa Ramadhan 2016 dan ada orang Jerman tu cakap cerita kat aku masa borak2 dia makan dinner lambat pasal kawan dia berpuasa dan nak tunggu 9.30 malam buka,
bila dalam keadaan huru hara banjir lumpur hujan turun, 80,000 peminat tengok Iron Maiden main kat Donington 2016 , orang sebelah aku peluk2 aku cakap "Then I love you twice as much because Islam means Peace" masa Iron Maiden tengah main bila aku provoke dia masa kita pekik2 kat telinga satu sama lain pasal tengah gamat kecoh suasana Maiden tengah main, dalam keadaan tonggang terbalik dia tanya aku dari mana dan aku nasik tambah info yang aku orang Islam.. saja nak test market.. (NI SEMUA AKU PERNAH CERITA DONINGTON FESTIVAL 2016 NYE POSTINGS)

aku tak pedulik apa mass media cakap, siapa yang racun kan hubungan orang Islam dan bukan Islam, dan memang ramai dua dua pihak suka racun meracun masyarakat untuk benci membenci , tapi.. pasal untuk aku yang penting peminat2 heavy metal dan heavy rock dan band2 rock dan heavy metal semua takde masalah dan takde tanggapan negatif kat agama Islam aku alright je pasal this is my kind of crowd la kan. Lain2 tu gi relak one corner sua.

Dan memang people on the street Insyallah tahu apa terjadi.. dorang pun macam kita jugak, tahu mass media dan hasutan internet sebar kebencian ni semua putar belit je.

SO sambung balik...
Khatib tak pakai skrip... berbual style Will Smith...
Tu jam nak masuk Ramadhan kan Iron Maiden nye UK Tour, so khatib ni sound la pasal Ramadhan, kalau sakit ke, travel ke, apa ke.. ada keistimewaan Allah dah beri...
macam2 la dia cakap..
Heran nya aku boleh paham... pasal dia gunakan bahasa mudah dan cara penyampain yang sangat mudah dihadam dan macam Will Smith siak dia nye bahasa haha.

Aku nak tergelak pun ada.
" TAKE IT EASY MAN, YOU ALL TAKE IT EASSZZYY...
RAMADHAN IS A MONTH OF RAHMAH (RAHMAT).
NOT A TORTURE.!!
IF YOU SEE PEOPLE TRAVELLING AND THEY ARE EATING..
DON'T YOU ROLL YOUR EYES AT THEM!!!!"
(Sambil dia sendiri pusing kan mata buat jelingan gitu)...
Dia cakap pasal solat jamak la apa la, .. anugerah Allah kenapa kita manusia elak padahal tu anugerah untuk sekian sekian peristiwa kita sedang lakukan.
semua nye sama, standard operating procedure SOP la kan umat Islam satu dunia.

So tu la... ni semua pengalaman dan pengajaran ye tak.... terutama untuk orang cam aku. (MUAHAAHAHA!!! - KETAWA JIN)

nanti aku cerita2 lagi... entah bila game nya...

OK layan foto foto kat bawah ni... ni semua merata tempat la, aku pun dah tak fikir mana show mana show..

Dave Murray, Janick Gers dan Adrian Smith... the 3 amigos..

Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith have a new hilarious action during the last two chorus of Wasted Years with Bruce monkeying around with Adrian's mic.
When Adrian is suppose to do backing vocals for this song....

Climb Like A Monkey... Bruce with his monkey mask presenting Dave Murray with a banana for Dave solo during this song...

Janick Gers with the amazing ending solo of Blood Brothers, when the whole world eyes will be on him...

Steve Harris face... haha.

TO be continued.... once completed I will retitle all these Maiden UK 2017 to proper labels..

Firstly, a happy new year to all Muslims celebrating the new Islamic year of 1439 last Thursday evening.
As usual I will start in English and then in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.
Lots of photos as usual, with a bit of review and opinion, plus lots of talk cock.

"Washes of digital sound
that had more in common with Depeche Mode
than Celtic Frost."

says this write up...

I bought this album again!! albeit 20 years gap. LOL!!!
Paradise Lost can play anything.
Though with new album MEDUSA they go back to their traditional death doom, growling, s... l... o....w... style., this is from what I hear on the internet, I have not yet bought the cd.
Even much slower than Plague Within before this.

I love this One Second album from last time it came out.
Basically its the best album that neither Depeche Mode or Pet Shop Boys did not make.
Superb electronicpop songs like Mercy, Lydia, Disappear, One Second, This Cold Life, but do not be mislead about all the comments in the internet and magazines too much, there are still some very nice heavy fast songs here for example Say Just Words and Soul Courageous.
In addition , Blood of Another has this haunting keyboards sound.

Now, I bought it again for the Paradise Lost One Second 20th Anniversary Edition.

Not exactly so much for the remastered version, as I have no problem with the original pressing,
but because of the 2nd CD.

So now I have a official live CD of the concert that supports the One Second album.
SIX SONGS at least from One Second is played live on the 2nd cd in this 20th Anniversary release.
Plus more songs from Draconian Times album to backwards from their early days.., like True Belief, Shadow King etc..

A very nice live album, so its worth the buy for me this anniversary edition.

HANSEN & FRIENDS Thank You Wacken Live.

I bought this double disc (one cd and one dvd), is because there is a few nice live rendition of the Hansen XXX album.
This show was performed before the release of that XXX studio album.

Songs like Born Free and Burning Bridges are as great as any Helloween Classic.
Contract Song is hilarious and very funny, like any funny Helloween song.
The stage banter is comedic.
A very good buy. I dont have time to watch the DVD, as I only rip the music to my player and listen to the songs only when I am walking, waiting or riding on the public buses and trains.

I enjoyed this live album very much. I saw a bit of the dvd footage and its very nice too.

Oooohh The musicians and guest singers are great, the lady singer Clementine sounds and looks good too.
Ooohh and of course Michael Kiske is in the album too...

So if you are a Helloween fan, this is a very very good buy.

Speaking of Helloween..

There is a very very nice JAPAN RELEASE ONLY call Sweet Seduction.

It will be a 4 disc set of 3cd and 1dvd.
It will have few songs songs from each and every Helloween studio albums VOTED BY HELLOWEEN FANS IN JAPAN.
I think all the 3 cds will have a total of 46 songs with two unreleased songs in Japan.
Plus the dvd will have the music videos.

I hope to get my hands on this release. It will come out in November probably to coincide with the
Pumpkin United World Tour.
And I saw this so-called possible setlist of Pumpkin United.
What a dream setlist indeed.

So lets hope Pumpkin United play shows in both Malaysia and Singapore, so I can go two shows.

And if Helloween's PUMPKINS UNITED open for Iron Maiden on Maiden's heavily rumoured and gossip by fans worldwide of 2018 LEGACY of the BEAST tour,
then... I have an even stronger excuse for my what is now seems an annual backpacking adventure to see Iron Maiden play in different places, cities and countries again and again. If i can save up without disrupting my real life responsibilities that is, Lol!!!

Till Next Time, good bye..

SALAM SEMUA DAN SELAMAT MEYAMBUT TAHUN BARU KALENDER ISLAM.

OK, aku cuma cakap sikit je la tapi aku rasa nanti mesti panjang.

Pertama sekali paling atas tu, lagi sekali lepas 20 tahun, aku beli lagi album Paradise Lost One Second.
Memang, ni album memang terkejut beruk waktu tu.. dan akan lagi tambah terkejut beruk dengan beberapa album selepas ini lewat 90an dan awal 2000an.

Macam aku cakap kat atas ni la album paling terbaik yang Depeche Mode mahupun Pet Shop Boys tak keluarkan.
OK pasal PSB lagi happy sikit, memang sesuai lebih kepada DM.
Seperti sapa pernah baca blog ni, band music paling setan untuk aku ialah DM.

DM ialah satu2 nya band yang paling sesuai main kat Festival Hellfest. Main headliner malam.
Tentu seronok kalau Iron Maiden headline satu malam Hellfest atau Donington, dan DM headline lagi satu malam.

Apa pun, khabarnya Hellfest nye tiket dah habis dijual, padahal headliners dan banyak bands belum diumum,
walau desas desus banyak kat forum Maiden ialah maiden akan headline Hellfest 2018.

Masa aku gi dulu Hellfest, masih boleh dapat tiket selepas Iron Maiden announce akan headline, tapi nampaknya sekarang tiket sold out dulu sebelum diumumkan..
Hellfest sangat best dan memang bands yang beraksi berbagai ragam dari pop rock sampai Tsujder sampai Emperor (dengan drummer Faust) seperti tahun aku pergi..
dengan clash giler2...
waktu Soundgarden main pentas utama, Paradise Lost main pentas kecil dalam khemah besar giler (teka la band mana aku gi tengok main kan? ) haha.
waktu Iron Maiden headline main 2 jam kat pentas utama, Watain main pentas kecil dalam khemah.
Memang giler babi clash2 kat Hellfest.

Aku pernah terfikir nak backpack lagi sekali, kalau Iron Maiden headline la, tapi dengan keadaan sekarang tiket dah sold out sebelum announcement band, aku rasa takkan dapat gi sana lagi la. haha.

OK nak cerita pasal album2 atas tu pun aku dah cakap omputeh, so korang baca yang text omputeh atas je la ...

Hansen and Friends XXX Live In Wacken, aku memang rekemen sapa minat Helloween beli.
Pasal ni memang lagu2 pengaruh style Helloween lama.
Kai Hansen kan..

AKU SANGAT REKEMEN KORANG GI MEMILIKI KEDUA2 PARADISE LOST DAN HANSEN ATAS TU.

Dan... Helloween Sweet Seduction yang atas tu pun, memang dahsyat kan, punya susah nak dapat informasi album ni, tapi ada la dalam internet senarai lagu yang dipilih oleh peminat2 Helloween di Jepun yang undi untuk koleksi giler babi terbaik dari ladang ni..

Aku harap aku memiliki koleksi unik ni, dan kalau ada kat tangan aku, aku cerita la kat sini nanti..

Dan paling last tu, aku jumpa kat satu website Brazil kot? entah betul entah tidak, tapi nampak macam realistik susunan lagu2 yang dijangka merupakan setlist untuk PUMPKIN UNITED.

Sekali je la kan Helloween main di Singapura/Malaysia kan waktu album apa eh, Gambling With The Devil nye tour,
aku takkan lupa Andi Deris cakap dia tengah berpeluh macam babi.
""Sweating Like A Pig".
wahhh happy days...
Tu la, minat Helloween tapi peluang nak tengok mereka beraksi susah....

Aku rasa sangat terkilan ialah kerana tour Straight Out Of Hell, dorang tak main di Singapore atau KL, ni kerana album tu sangat dahsyat, dan lagu2 setlist untuk tour tersebut sangat dahsyat, dahsyat serupa semua planet di cakerawala tersusun satu barisan...

OK dah tu je...

nak borak banyak sangat nanti dah macam encylopedia lak posting... nanti sambung...

UP THE IRONS dan BELINDA CARLISLE RULES.

Hi, as usual I will begins in English and ends my usual nonsensical "talk-cock" in Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language).

I am a sucker for Ghost, the Swedish pop/rock band who sings about unholy beings and stuffs. Or Ghost BC or how you want to call it.

I have no idea who they were until I saw them warm-up for Iron Maiden in Belgrade Serbia.
I was early then to check-out this hype band call Ghost, and it turn out to be a game-changer moment. Love their love show, and now I would like to say I am a fan who try to follow news about them.
Though, I have to say I HATE all the band members squabbles, court actions and problems.
I just hope whoever Papa Emeritus gets as the Nameless Ghouls musicians will be great as always.

So this is a another item I got regarding Ghost.
Its a very pretty looking pirate bootleg CD packaging of what is actually consist of the 3 songs from Ghost demo from 2009.
Legends say this demo was originally distributed as a cassette tape format of total Seven pieces only.

Three demo songs happily bouncy Roxette-style songs celebrating Lucifer and other unholy beings and things.

Prime Mover, Ritual , Death Kneel.
All songs will re-appear when they record their first album Opus Eponymous.

These are the pretty packaging photos. A nice cd to give yourself a treat occasionally.

Ohhh...
this is a video I took of them, for the whole song of Year Zero.
Very nice very catchy Abba/Roxette Swedish Pop lives on with Ghost.

"Belial, Behemoth, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, Satanas, Lucifer"
Welcome to Year Zero indeed...

So as the above photos, especially the first one...

- That Opus Eponymous is a Japanese version,
GET THAT Japanese version simply because of the extra song which is "Here Comes The Sun" from the Beatles. A very superb cover of a George Harrison Beatles classic.
And of course Japanese pressings has some cute inlets which makes it more worth it for a Ghost release.

- That Meliora Redux is a Swedish version release.
GET THAT version simply because of the extra song which is "Zenith".
I have no idea why the best song from Meliora is not on the Meliora album. LOL!!!
I think this is still the only place to get Zenith on CD.
Ohh and Meliora Redux has the Popestar EP on it too...

- That Infestissumum album, I hope to get the Japanese version next because there is one more song of Ghost I want on cd format that I do not have yet, so its on the Japanese version of Infestissumum.
Yes.. I am a sucker for Ghost.
The worst disapoinment was I am suppose to catch Ghost supporting their new album Meliora at Donington on the last day of 2016 Donington (Maiden headlining that evening), but then something happen, a virus or something and Ghost cancelled at the last moment.
Well, hope to see them again next time...

All the above previous albums and full packagings of each cd packagings are all here..
http://deaf-angel.blogspot.my/search/label/ghost

Next post I want to show you some great food I ate while backpacking across UK for The Book Of Souls Tour. (sample photos below LOL!!!)
Bye.

Salam semua, dan aloha..
Apa khabar, semoga sihat2 selalu..

ok.. aku dah merapu omputeh kat atas ni, so macam aku cakap panjang lebar kat atas la, aku ni terpeleot sikit bila kena mengena ngan band nama Ghost tu.
Suka sangat first time tengok dorang main, terus kumpul2 cd2 dorang.
Cam puaka band ni, lain2 cetakan lain2 isi. So memang nak kena plan la kan kumpul cd2 dorang.
Ni pun aku kalau ada peluang aku nak sambar Inffestissumum cetakan Jepun pasal aku tahu ada 3 lagu extra, dan satu lagu tu aku belum ada dalam bentuk cd.
Sorry la eh, kadang2 aku cakap gini, korang jangan cakap aku ni macam sial ke, menunjuk ke berlagak ke nak itu nak ini..., riak ke.., pasal kalau korang rasa begitu, korang salah masuk blog la kan..
Sapa yang korang passion macam aku, tahu la apa aku nak cerita sebenarnya. Berkongsi maklumat, berkongsi pendapat, dan berkongsi sesuatu yang aku minat giler...

ok aku stop sini pasal kalau tidak cuma ulangan apa aku cakap tadi kat atas...
sapa tak pernah tengok foto2 packaging lain Ghost cetakan Jepun ke, versi Redux ke,
sila klik link kat atas...

Nanti sambung pasal Ghost ok? .....

Gezek pasal Makanan pulak...

lepas tunjuk pasal semayang jemaat kat mesjid kat Liverpool tu hari,
lepas ni aku nanti aku nak tunjuk foto2 makanan2 sepanjang aku backpack kat UK sorang2 tengok Iron Maiden merata... bulan mei lepas sebelum Ramadhan tu hari...
ni gezek dulu....

Ni bawah ni masa aku kat Bristol...
last tu kat Birmingham...

Hi All.
Lots of photos on this post but minimum text I hope.
As usual first talking cock in English, and then talking cock in Bahasa Melayu (Malay language).

Incoming Iron Maiden Fan Club Magazine edition 106
and Def Leppard Hysteria 30 Years Deluxe 3cd Expanded edition.

Lets start with Def Leppard...

I will show all photos of the packaging for those interested.

This album is basically imbedded into many rock fans ears and brains thru all these years.

Remember that I only listen to the ripped-format while walking, waiting for bus and trains and inside public transportations of bus and trains,
and plus being aware of the songs since its release many years ago..

The remastered version do not make much difference to me.

I only got it for the 2nd and 3rd cd of In The Round In The Face cd official format.
I want to collect a live album officially release on the Hysteria tour, so this is my chance.
Again, a hit and miss live album..
Some portions are amazing, some are boring.

But if you love anything on the late STEVE CLARK.. THIS 3cd version is a MUST!!!!

Click to make it bigger.

Hai Semua...

Macam aku cakap kat atas.. kalau korang minat Def Leppard,
berapa korang menyampah pun album ni pasal terlampau pop sangat...,
tapi ni album dan lagu2 dia dah konfem terpahat dalam sanubari korang sejak berpuluh tahun lepas.
Memang banyak lagu dari album ni gerek..
terbaik dari ladang.

So kalau korang fikir nak beli versi 3cd ni...
aku tak boleh cakap ni paling gerek la...
lagipun kalau korang dah ada...

tapi kalau korang nak simpan satu live cd zaman Hysteria yang official punye walau korang dah ada videotape ke hapa ke, ni la tempatnye..
walaupun aku rasa konsert tu pun tak complete kot...

Apa pun.... cam aku cakap jugak.. kalau korang minat Steve Clark.. ni la album nye versi 3cd ni..

We're fighting for the Gods Of War.

Moving on to Iron Maiden new fan club magazine...

Very very good issue as usual.

44 pages all full colour, no advertisement just pure Maiden with lots of cute pretty photos and superb and informative text , and essays and writeups.

But its not all fun and happiness.. There is a very nice reflective and memorable text , a full page write up on the passing of Mr Khan.

So you have the preview of Bruce Dickinson new biography.. The Rock In Rio 1985 quote is amazing really..
Interview with the book editor.
Interview with Metal Blade CEO on him being an Iron Maiden fan.
Interview with the artist for the Legacy Of The Beast Comic book.
John McMurtrie accompanies his photo spreads with lots of nice captions and stories...

Plus lots lots more... of both text, stories, articles and of course photos.
Anyway Dave Murray is really looking cute on the front cover. Its from the last night of the British UK Tour 2017.

So here are some of the pages...

IJAU... Adrian Smith ambik gambo untuk kau ni.. haha.

Tulis tangan tu untuk buku dia tu...
ceritanya dia kasi kat editor dia 7 buku dairi penuh tulisan tangan yang tak boleh dibaca...
nasib ada orang kerja dengan Iron Maiden boleh cakap kat editor apa tu perkataan2 yang ditulis tu..

Bruce dengan Rod Smallwood tengok peninggalan Apollo yang terbakar zaman dulu bunuh angkasawan 3 orang tu...

Aku suka tengok foto Iron Maiden beraksi atas stage dari belakang....
Walaupun tengok dorang main dan dapat diri kat tempat dekat dan best, tapi tak nampak semua...
Tak boleh nampak apa Nicko buat...

Dan foto ni, dalam keadaan best giler tu... Dave Murray kat tepi tu......ngah buat apa tu...

Bye..

Salam and Hi Everyone.

Mr Big is back to play and its happiness all around.

First in English and then lots of talk cock in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.

Just for one song.. its just Billy Sheehan, Eric Martin, Pat Torpey and Paul Gilbert.

Other than that Matt Starr plays the drums while..

-Pat Torpey plays Percussions/Tambourines and backing vocals on other songs.

-Pat Torpey appears only on after the 3rd or 4th song and occasionally leave the stage.

-Pat Torpey always received the loudest applause and cheers for the night everytime- when he first appeared, when he takeover the drums, when he finished Just Take My Heart, and during the individual band members introduction.

-I think Pat Torpey did not say anything to the audience last night if I remember correctly. Yes, no cover version song encore.

Undertow..

Below are the front and back design for the 2017 Defying Gravity Asia Tour Tshirt Merchandise.

Its awesome evening, I was supposed to be working night shift yesterday, but its Mr Big and so it need favours from colleagues to allow me a chance to not miss Mr Big.

There are a lot of nice overseas bands playing within the same period in this month or two..

Dream Theater, Loudness (opening for Sebastian Bach), Belinda Carlisle.. (LOL!!)..

but you cannot have have everything in a short period of time budget wise, work and family commitment wise, and you have to choose wisely from past experiences, and unless its TOTO, Mr Big is the best "superband" I have ever seen and I want to see them again and again. Of course Belinda Carlisle is a compulsory attendance for me everytime too.

So, watching Mr Big is like watching Toto. I dont know whom to look at.

At least watching Iron Maiden, you basically knows whom to focus on at which parts of the shows, and backpacking different places watching Iron Maiden multiple times means I can afford to OGLE at Dave/Adrian/Bruce/Janick of course Steve Harris playing on stage (except Nicko he is somewhere buried).

But its seldom to see Mr Big. So its a big deal for me.

the price ticket is worth it just to see Billy Sheehan plays for 2 hrs. (no he did not bring out his double neck).

Simply exhilarating , enjoyable, thrilling, awe-struck, happy to see Mr Big perform.

Pat Torpey I had already mentioned above.

Amazing amazing songs, and the bonus are the solos section by Billy Sheehan and Paul Gilbert.

Billy Sheehan also does the bulldog sound.

Billy Sheehan closing speech is always very uplifting and he knows how to win over the crowd.

He really says some nice things at the ending yesterday... about when Mr Big is asked all over the world everytime by the media on the question " Where is some of the most amazing places you have played?"

Eric Martin is singing very well. He got a few mic problems at the first two songs. Some swaps done.

Matt Starr seems to be doing the backing vocals a lot, head tilted to his left to sing on the microphone and not looking at where he hits his drums and cymbals. LOVE IT!!!!! if he is going to be THE permanent"very special guest" for years to come.

There was a comedy when after throwing his drum stick to the sky he failed to catch it and he candidly blame the spotlights or something.

He wore a Motorhead England tshirt yesterday.

The songs.. They are on stage for about 2hr and 8 mins.

Six New Songs played.
I got worried when I saw their setlist for North America a few months back but then coming to the Asia part of the World Tour,

its all very good.. Six New Songs and a longer playing time. They even play Promised Her The Moon. This is not exactly a constant song on the setlist thru the years and even on the earlier part of this World Tour.

Setlist
Daddy Lover Brother Little Boy
American Beauty
UNDERTOW!!
Alive and Kickin
Temperamental
Just Take My Heart (Pat Torpey on drums)
Take Cover
Green Tinted Sixties Mind
Everybody Needs A Little Trouble
Price You Got To Pay
Paul Gilbert solo
Open Your Eyes
Forever And Back
Wild World
Damn I'm In Love Again
Promised Her The Moon
Rock N Roll Over
Around The World
Billy Sheehan solo
Addicted To That Rush
To Be With You
Colorado Bulldog
1992
Encore
Defying Gravity.

so six new songs from new album.
so no cover version of Deep Purple or Judas Priest or Grand Funk during the encore.
NO SWAPPING OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AT ALL.
Paul Gilbert does not play the drum last night.
Paul Gilbert does not sing Highway To Hell last night.
Eric Martin plays acoustic guitar for Forever And Back and Wild World and.. the next song? (I have forgotten).

THIS IS A CRAZY BAND THAT PLAYS ALL THEIR POP HITS FIRST, and FINISH THE SHOW WITH NEW SONGS!!!!! (because they know the audience will love the new songs as much as the old ones? haha)

(more photos right at the end with CAPTIONS at each photo, mostly not all... ok.. bye).

.
.
.
.Apa Khabar Semua..

Hai korang,
OK aku dah berbual kon cakap omputeh so mari cakap melayu lak.
Apa nak cakap eh?
Puaka kan, tetiba macam2 band nak perform.
So aku pilih nak gi tengok Mr Big la.
Pengsan la tengok semua kan..
Aku dah la kerja shift, everytime nak tengok band rock main je kena tengok rota kerja.

KELAKAR TADI BARU JADI..
kawan aku wassap Loudness Malaysia nye show kat KL pergi ke? pasal gossip nya ada May/ Wings dan Metalasia juga kan? Dia memang minat Loudness, rumah macam kedai cd Loudness aje dia kumpul mungkin dah lebih 20 tahun nye koleksi...
So aku cakap tak boleh..
aku bilang aku weekend tu aku kena kerja malam, dah la Sabtu aku nak tengok Belinda Carlisle main kan.. so aku tak boleh gi la..
Dia nye reaction " ERK??!! kau gi tengok Belinda Carlisle? "

Hah.. Jangan memain, kadang2 tu aku rasa Belinda Carlisle lagi best dari Iron Maiden. haha.

OK Mr Big, terbaik dari ladang kentang potato McDonalds Amerika Syarikat.
Dahsyat.
Terutama sekarang sokongan peminat makin kuat dengan kesihatan peribadi drummer Pat Torpey terganggu.
Tapi semalam memang nampak pada aku la, dia macam makin sakit sey....
Boleh tahu la kan... korang tahu " salah bantal? ", hah.. macam gitu la bila tengok dia, tapi dia ni macam " salah bantal " satu badan..
Dia lebih kepada main tambourine je, tapi ada lagu dia main percussion lain.
Drum kali ni dia main lagu Just Take My Heart aje.
Apa pun, SORAKAN PALING GEMURUH SETIAP KALI IALAH UNTUK PAT TORPEY.

So sila ambil perhatian bila kawan atau drummer sakit, tolonglah tiru Mr Big apa dorang buat untuk drummer bukan sakit sebarang tapi sakit Parkinson.

OK yang lain lain tu cammana nak cerita. ?
-Eric Martin hensem giler. Suara maintain.
-Billy Sheehan cam aku cakap atas, duit tiket tu kalau dia sorang je la naik pentas main live dengan backing cd pun aku akan bayar. Giler ah Billy Sheehan. DAHSYAT MAKDATOK! apa dia buat siot macam orang tengah main mahjong pun ada.
-Paul Gilbert.. hahahaha... ni kira tengok Paul Gilbert main depan mata macam aku ni beruk sarkis tengok belon terbang.. mulut melopong.
-Matt Starr kelakar siak, lambung stik tak boleh tangkap abis tu cam marah2 bumbung ke hapa entah hahahaha. Aku suka dia nyanyi backing ah.. tak pandang sey ketuk mana.
-Pat Torpey aku dah cerita atas, lagi sekali.. aku rasa kalau penyakit boleh sembuh dengan sorakan peminat, Pat Torpey dah sihat semalam.

Jadi tu je la....
setlist ke, apa aku tak berbual kon cakap melayu, aku dah cakap kat omputeh nye...
rasanya omputeh lagi banyak colok la aku..

nanti la aku cerita2 lagi k..

Hingga kelain kali bye.. nah layan gambo,,,

Paul Gilbert Cheers!!!!!!!

Eric Martin on acoustic guitar.........
This is the part with the nice new sweet song Forever And Back, (Billy Sheehan does sweet backing vocals) and then Wild World Cat Stevens.

Billy Sheehan bass solo and he can solo for one hour no problem....

One leg standing

Pat Torpey when he first appeared. I think after Undertow.. or was it before Temperamental. I had forgot.

Paul Gilbert solo.

Billy Sheehan with his very nice speech right at the end.
Final night of the Asian section of the Defying Gravity World Tour.

p.s - aku tanya Berteromber, dia baru review tu Defying Gravity kan?

So aku tanya... " ada lirik tak dalam inlet? "

so dia jawab " takde "....

OK.... hahahahaha... KIV je la dulu album "original." terbaru ni. tapi aku tak tipu la, sedap2 lagu baru, 1992, Defying Gravity...fuuhh aku suka aku suka aku suka Defying Gravity ni lagu ni..
dan lagu Forever and Back..

jiwang giler siot lagu ni... Billy Sheehan backing vocal ah ah ah tu..

"I am the Beast and you're the Beauty..."
" I've been a fool to my Princess.. "
sweet giler lagu ni siap lirik kelakar pasal kaki minum dan main judi... lepas tu janji nak jadi baik...siap bukak bank akaun nak save duit.
lawak.. tapi sweet giler

geng lipat kain mesti suka nye...

Salam and Hello to everyone. As usual a short review/ulasan and photos show-off for those who wants to see the packaging in English and then in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.

The photos will be to the end of the post.

Helloween's Sweet Seduction boxset total 4 discs (3cd + 1dvd) released only for the Japan market on 1st November 2017 and I got it on the exact day as they mailed it out much earlier.

It was reported that the selection of the songs for the 3 cds are voted by Helloween Japanese fans.

The cutesy Obi Strip for this release.

So below photo you get two seperate booklets,
one are informations and colour artworks in English,
the other one is a black and white for the Japanese stories and lyrics.

So you got fast songs, slow songs, mid tempo songs, exciting songs and boring songs packaged in a simply Pretty box with Cute booklets and inlets like only the Japanese knows how to do it.

I like the Kai Hansen / Michael Kiske era albums but when it comes to Andi Deris era its hit and misses.

Some albums of Andi Deris era I do not really like and have no interest in listening again, but some like Straight to Hell are simply for me one of their best.
Maybe I will revisit some Helloween albums and like them better next time.

Or maybe its just I prefer Helloween when they are making happy music? I dont know.

But if you are a fan of Helloween or constant listener of Helloween, this so called "Japanese fans Best Of Helloween" boxset will please you.

You ask 10 Helloween fans to choose their favourite songs to fill up 3 cds, and surely you got 10 completely different selections.
I for one would cramp more Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske singing, and I would definitely drop King For A 1000 Years and replaced it with Keeper of Seven Keys as the 13 minutes epic to fill up the 3 cds.

So you have
46 songs on 3 cds and 21 music videos on one dvd.

All songs are only from Helloween's studio albums so the breakdown is

for the 3 cds..,
4 songs from Walls Of Jericho

4 songs from Keepers Part 1
5 songs from Keepers Part 2
2 songs from Pink Bubbles
2 songs from Chameleon

3 songs from Master of the Ring
4 songs from Time Of The Oath
3 songs from Better Than Raw
4 songs from Dark Ride
2 songs from Rabbit
2 songs from Keepers Legacy
2 songs from Gambling with the Devil
2 songs from Seven Sinners
3 songs from Straight out of Hell
2 songs from God Given Right
2 more songs are also from the special edition of God Given Right but never released in Japan before so for the Japanese fans its like a 2 new songs introduction.

Meanwhile ,
The 21 songs that appears on the dvd are video clips that are quite different from the selections of songs on the cds, so you will have songs like Forever and One, and Light The Universe which never appears on the cds.

So basically this is a very well thought out packaged and songs selections for the 4 discs if you like Helloween.

Thats about it, enjoy the packaging of this Japan only Sweet Seductions photos till the end of the post.

All the 4 discs have different artwork....

They even have the Pumpkin United new song promotions in Japanese text...
so this is quite a last minute thing to be included in this packaging...

Songs selection of this release...

Hi Semua, apa khabar...

Apa nak cerita pasal Helloween, korang samada suka atau tak suka...

ni pun apa aku tahu adalah koleksi lagu Helloween dari semua zaman dari Walls Of Jericho sampai God Given Right,
yang khabarnya diundi peminat mereka di Jepun untuk rilisan istimewa Jepun ni.

ada 46 lagu dalam 3 cd, ada 21 lagu dalam sekeping dvd.

Senarai dia tak sama untuk cd dan dvd, jadi memang berbaloi la, banyak lagu berlainan dalam format berlainan, memang seronok.
Cuma aku tahu bila aku nak tengok bahagian dvd dia, mungkin tak tengok terus... aku rip je cd ni letak dalam walkman aku dan dengar masa jalan kaki dan dalam public transport..
takde la nak dengar atau nak tengok kat rumah....

Jadi macam aku cakap kat atas kat cakap omputeh tu, satu cd tu lagu2 zaman Kai Hansen nyanyi dan Michael Kiske nyanyi.
lagi 2 cd semua lagu zaman Andi Deris.

Aku ada muslihat sikit zaman Andi Deris, contoh macam lagu "Are You Metal " , aku macam... nak tido siot. Punya la boring..

"Are You Metal?".. apa siak? no.. aku kat kerja suka cerita ngan kawan yang minat Depeche Mode, dengar pandangan dia dan analisa dia pasal DM. haha.
So aku konfem tak metal. haha.
Walau aku punya cita2... ialah Depeche Mode headline Hellfest satu malam, dan malam lagi satu Maiden.
Ohh ye, Hellfest tiket dahbis, aku ada yo-yo-oh ingat nak gi lagi pasal gossip kat tenet banyak cakap Maiden akan headline macam 2014, tapi belum announce lagik tapi puaka tiket dah bis... Dulu tak macam ni, sekarang Hellfest makin popular kot dan Hellfest ni kecik...
dalam 45,000 je tak macam Donington aku rasa 100,000 tiket pun dorang boleh jual setiap hari nye event.
Aku suka Hellfest, sapa nak gi backpack tengok festival rock omputeh dengan macam2 band aneka ragam, Hellfest is alright even korang gi sorang. Kul 2 pagi last band korang tak mau camping, korang boleh balik bandar Nantes, siap ada kedai2 halal masih operasi kat bandar tu boleh makan2.. tapi besok nya first band main kul 11 pagi jangan tak bangun.. haha.

Apa pun, raya tahun depan ialah 14 Jun. Bulan puasa start 14 May.
Apa pun... gigih menabung untuk backpacking 2018 Legacy of the Beast Tour, tapi nampaknya tour ni ialah untuk Eropah saje.
Ceritanya Maiden dah tempah studio sama yang rakam BNW dan TBOS bulan feb tahun depan.
Jadi, rasanya akhir tahun depan ialah rilisan album studio mungkin yang terakhir.
Ni semua biasa la gossip dan khabar angin peminat2 tapi kadang2 khabar angin tu possible betul ye tak?
Dan 2011 tahun baru cina dah lama kan?
jadi aku speku 2019 punya tahun baru cina, Maiden main rantau ni.
pasal dorang tentu nak lari dari kesejukkan benua mereka tinggal, so gi la main rock konsert kat Asia ke Australia ke South America hapa ke yang panas sikit, sambil buat duit.
apa pun,
ni semua angan2 mat jenin je la kan..

tapi lepas album tu seven sinners yang ada Are You Metal kebabai tu, yang keluar lepas tu Straight Out Of Hell, aku mungkin pilih album ni sebagai antara terbaik atau terbaik dalam sejarah Helloween...
Apa aku tahu ni album dorang main kat Indon kot? entah.. aku ada dengar bootlegs rakaman di Jepun masa tour album ni, dashyat giler persembahan dan pilihan lagu2 dalam konsert untuk promote Straight Out Of Hell.

lepas tu keluar paling last tu, yang kulit album gambar salji tu God Given Right , aku dengar sikit kat internet... lagu2 dari album tersebut...
sedap la jugak, tapi malas nak dengar lagi sekali...

Tapi macam aku cakap.. mungkin lain kali dengar balik dan cukupkan korum Helloween aku..

so zaman Andi Deris ni aku ada sikit masalah sikit ada album suka ada langsung switch off,
zaman Kiske, Chameelon pun aku suka...
haha...

ohh yeah.... last Helloween datang main ialah tahun 2005, so aku speku Pumpkin United harapnya beraksi di Singapore/Malaysia ye tak?
Tentu boleh jual tiket kerana semua pun ada, dan lagu2 dalam setlist pun lagu2 pop hits mereka ramai yang suka.

Aku rasa ni koleksi sangat best la...

layan foto lagi.. dan bye...

Hi all. A short review and opinion of Belinda Heaven 30th Anniversary show last night...
I will just narrate in English for this one.

As I am bias, I will rate this show as my second favourite live show of the year 2017.

Number one will be all the Iron Maiden shows that I attend backpacking all over Scotland, Wales and England watching Maiden plays their full UK Tour in May.

Its a treat to able to watch Iron Maiden a few times and also Belinda plays in one year. Two of my favourite "white people" band/performer. But To say these two are my favourites is a bit understatement actually.. LOL!!

Firstly... lets get something out of the way..
BELINDA did you use backing tape for some of the chorus last night??
If you do, there is no need. Your audience are the Hardcore fans surely, they will do the backing vocals in their minds at least.
If you don't, Forgive me.
Anyway, her keyboardist did the live backing vocals mostly.

Secondly, Heaven On Earth is not my favourite album of hers, not even 2nd or 3rd favourite. Some great fast songs, but for me REAL will always be her best solo album.
I think many of her fans will be happy she did Big Scary Animal last night.
I also think Live Your Live Be Free and Runaway Horses are superior albums.
Still Heaven is a great album, but this is Belinda Carlisle and her solo albums are mostly great.
Though the new latest one, I do not understand it (yet!).

What a show last night.
The momentum is amazing from start to finish. She is a master of performing live.
The exciting and thrilling pacing of the show keeps going, even when she plays her slow songs.
There are abundant of nice fast numbers in the setlist.
Live the songs transformed to even better. Heaven Is A Place On Earth is stretched more with audience participation at the start and the band playing on at the end, Valentine is so punchy live and of course Big Scary Animal.
And I will never get tired of that Beatles' George Harrison guitar solo on Leave A Light On.

Belinda's backing band is made up of a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and drummer.
Really rocking band and they are simply awesome.

Belinda is on top form, over 90 minutes and her voice is amazing.
Just like Bruce Dickinson she gets better live with age. (LOL!!)

Minimum talk-cock with the audience, she just let the music do the talking.

Its lovely to watch her full show at last, and not some "sharing the stage with other perfomer" shows where she performed shorter sets.

Song selection wise, Singapore get more songs than most shows in UK for the current tour,
its the same amount of songs like the London show,
but she swapped Runaway Horses with La Luna for the Singapore show compared to the UK ones for this Heaven On Earth 30th Anniversary tour.

I Feel Free
Nobody Owns Me
World Without You
I Get Weak
Circle In The Sand
Fool For Love
Summer Rain
La Luna
Should I Let You In?
Vision Of You
We Can Change
Valentine
(We Want) The Same Thing
Leave A Light On
Heaven Is A Place On Earth

1st encore
Big Scary Animal
Mad About You
Live Your Live Be Free

2nd encore
Love Never Dies

so not even one Go-Gos song. No We Got The Beat.
no Lay Down Your Arms, no I Plead Insanity, no Little Black Book.., no Always Breaking My Heart (Roxette's Per Gessle wrote this song for Belinda use)
no so many songs!!... if its up to me she would spent the whole night singing the songs I want.

I was just feel she should do Falling Into You live.
THATS HER SONG!!!!!!!! before Celine Dion hijack it. Damn it!!
Maybe one day... one day..... hoepfully she will release the demo to that song she did.

so she plays the whole Heaven On Earth album.
Six songs from Runaway Horses (very happy she played Valentine)
One each from Real, her first album, and Live Your Live Be Free.
so that makes it NINETEEN songs.
Really no complaints, especially as its a Heaven 30th Anniversary celebrations.

She talks about Rick Nowells. She called " MAD GENIUS!!"

I always think she got the best song writers , musicians and backing vocals for her studio albums.
I especially like the songs written by the Go-Gos guitarist Charlotte something for Belinda.

Anyway, as its a Heaven tour, she should call up Wilson Philips all 3 of them to do her backing vocals. LOL!!

Thats about it, worth the ticket, worth it for not coming to work for the night. LOL!!

I have this crazy idea of doing a full backpacking British Tour when Belinda does her next British Tour.

Ohhh she did say " See you Runaway Horses 30th Anniversary "...
Hurray!!

Lastly, I really love the way the whole show proceed last night, I mean from the moment I take the escalator to go up, scan the ticket, security checks and everything.

The organiser/promoter are very good, and their staff superb too. Again no complaints but lots of compliments from my point of view.

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just in case anybody is interested...

This is the boots from last night... Its just for myself ok...
but there maybe be someone who understand how to listen to a fan bootleg..
though I am very happy with the outcome.

I created a rushed simple cover though -

This is the upload
((((((PLAY IT LOUD!!!!!)))))))

and this is the link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE82RlT9sCs

For fellows fans only..

(Firstly - Belinda Carlisle full audio bootleg of her Live In Singapore show on past Saturday, I have updated on my previous post. I hope you Belinda Carlisle fans will like the bootleg.)

OK, Salam and Greetings. As usual first in English and then lots of talk cock in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.

I enjoyed listening to the Hardwired To Self Destruct album, and I really love the Metallica show in Singapore supporting the then just released Hardwired album.

So it kind of rekindles my affection for Metallica big time and seeing them with Rob Trujilo live on the last two of their tours here I cannot deny METALLICA sounds so good live with Rob. Yes, Jason Newstead is sadly missed but its their band they can do what they like, if a fan do not like it, he can vote with his money and his time.

So I got myself an official LIVE METALLICA cd of Deehan.
I will give my short opinion review and photos of the packaging for those who have never seen the packaging...

Deehan logo is covering the Metallica logo on the cover..

It features the current foursome, and on the first day of the Orion Festival 2013,
June 8, Detroit Michigan.
it was scheduled as a band called Deehan, but its actually Metallica and they play the full Kill Em All album.

The sound is very good on this official cd. I like it. I really think this is a very fun and happy performance.
There is a pro-shot video on youtube but I dont really have time to sit down and watch it, I only listen to music, and I listen to music on the go using headphones while walking and on public transport so the audio is important to me. Visuals not so, if I want, I try to see the band live.

This is some of the reasons why I buy the original release for listening pleasure:
- I like the studio album so I want a full live album version of the same album.
No matter how you look at it, its impossible to find a live recording with all the songs played. So this is it.
- Four Horsemen is in full. Yes... in full with all the middle parts.
- No Remorse is in full as in FULL. I really have a fetish for this song. LOL!!! ATTACK!!!!!!!!!
- Pulling Teeth Anesthesia in full first time since 1986 final show of the Sweden show before the accident of Cliff Burton.

OK OK.. tukar cenel....

Cakap melayu lak, berbual melayu pasar je pun....

Giler ah, tetiba je berturut2 buat posting blog... Baru review persembahan terbaik dari ladang si Belinda Carlisle terus tukar borak pasal Metallica lak....

ok la kalau tak sendu blog aku, aku tahu kadang2 dua minggu sekali pun takde posting... haha..

DEHAAN ni kan, korang semua tahu kan pasal band ni, ni Metallica guna nama ni kat jadual waktu festival Orion 2013 hari pertama.
Tapi ada dorang tinggalkan clue gitu... so kalau sapa tahu, tahu la, sapa tak tahu tak tahu la depan pentas yang dijadualkan..

Jadi Dehaan ni nama pelakon pilem Metallica tu yang filem wayang tu.
So Metallica sambut Kill Em All 30 Tahun dengan main semua lagu dalam Kill Em All.
Jadi banyak lagu rare jangan di bawa, dan lagu2 tu semua dimain penuh, mana yang celah celah dalam lagu tu semua dorang main cam lagu Four Horseman kat tengah tu, No Remorse penuh, Phantom Lord siap ada intro tape, dan semua lain2 jugak.
Bass Solo Take One tu dimainkan pertama kali sejak last Cliff Burton main sebelum eksiden dia mati kena hempap bas.
Cuma Rob terus masuk mula bass solo, patut tunggu cakap "Bass Solo Take One" dulu kan...

Kira seronok ler dengar rakaman ni. Ada la lawak2 James Hetfield berbual dengan penonton.

So aku beli la rakaman rasmi ni, maklum berita banyak cakap Metallica rugi besar pasal buat festival Orion ni. Support sikit si Metallica ni... hahaha.

Metal Militia, Jump In The Fire, Motorbreath, dan lagu2 lain... No Remorse memang lagu kegemaran aku... ATTACK gitu kan... so senyum sorang2 dengar rakaman ni masa tunggu bas kat bus stop. HAHA.

K dah tu je.. nanti sambung k. Tengok la kalau aku dapat Black Sabbath Live last kopek tu ngan Iron Maiden live chapters tu aku berbual kons pasal tu semua dulu,
kalau tak aku sambung berbual kon pasal Metallica k..

Maklum macam aku cakap kat atas, aku dah kena badi suka kutuk2 si kangkang tu.
Sekarang aku dah minat giler kat dia sejak album Hardwired keluar, dan tengok dorang main yang kat Changi dan tu hari Indoor stadium...
cam jatuh cinta lak dengan si kangkang tu....

Sekarang pun dia dah jarang kangkang kan... haha...

K aku dah melalut!! bye dan ATTACKKK!!!!!! haha.

Salam and greetings. A short post first in English then in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.

A Very Happy Midnight just now.

Its 17th November and just after midnight Singapore time, Iron Maiden new live album "The Live Chapters" of the Book of Soul World Tour is released and its the "Mastered For Itunes" version.

This is what I like about modern technology.. Even in the "ass of the world" as far as heavy metal and hard rock is concerned, you can still support the band you like by paying for their music, and you got it at the struck of midnight of the launch day.

I use this to convert to mp3 and store it on my Sony Walkman to listen to while walking, waiting for and taking the public transportation of buses and trains.

This is basically the only way I am listening to music now.

I do hope to get a physical cd version just for keepsake also.

I will review this album once I got the cd version.

I immediately listen to The Red And The Black, and the instrumental section was amazing on the Tokyo recordings.
(I never notice the keyboards was so loud when I hear this live).

Now I am listening to The Great Unknown, and this is simply fantastic version.

Though I love Tears Of A Clown and enjoy the song on the live shows I attend in 2016, but I do agree it slows down the momentum and Great Unknown is a nice replacement for 2017 part of the tour. On this recording the song simply sound amazing. Its the Newcastle show, I was not there, I start my backpacking on the next show after that, Glasgow onwards.

Of course this being a audio version with constraints on CD and LP space,

so lots of Bruce chatter is cut.

Bring back great memories of backpacking alone to see them play all over in 2016 and 2017.

Ohhh I am listening to Book Of Soul title song now, Donington!! It was raining, it was flooding...

and as Bruce says.. " Welcome to DOWNPOUR Festival"...

OK stop here for time being...

I am just listening to this " itunes remasters" version for this new live Maiden, and I think its amazing recordings and performances...

Argentina singalong for the song Iron Maiden is something I have never heard before and this is going to be a new audience participation song LOL!!!

Anyway, the Legacy of the Beast 2018 dates are out, I guess I have to find a way, discipline myself to try to backpack for one or two shows.
its going to be tough as I just done the backpacking for the 2017 Scotland, Wales, England Book Of Soul Tour, and 2016 I was in Donington, plus catching Rainbow plays Germany,

but lets see how it goes...

Advance tickets for the Maiden European 2018 shows will come out on Monday, and if I can get my hands on some advance tickets, then I will see how it goes.

Ohh... Something to anticipate..

Probably The best Malay Language album of the year 2017 is coming out soon.

I am sure I will like the album a lot.

Its by a band called PRIME DOMESTIC, and they are from Malaysia.

I hope to get the cd soonest, and I already got a ticket to see them play in December with another rock band that I like, XPDC.

Hope I can make it though I am supposed to work that weekend. LOL!!!

And as can be seen, the ticket I obtained was not print properly.. it looks funny.

More to come....

Hi Semua.. tetiba je kan aku rajin buat blog... haha.

OK OK, macam aku cakap kat atas...

GIGIH ok tunggu tengah malam, pasal hari ni 17hb kan Live Chapters keluar...

So aku memang suka dengar lagu2 Iron Maiden versi "Itunes Remasters" kerana pada aku dia sedikit lembut untuk pendengaran aku

Pasal aku kan sekarang cuma dengar muzik kebanyakkan nya hanya waktu jalan kaki, naik bas, naik tren je

jadi keselesaan dan kemudahan mendengar muzik waktu jalan kaki dan naik turun bas dan keretapi adalah penting. Macam2 foto2 atas tu la aku pakai sekarang aku rasa aku pernah cerita dulu.

Jadi.. Book Of Souls tour, apa aku boleh cakap... terbaik dari ladang...

mungkin terbaik dalam sejarah Iron Maiden dari segi sambutan peminat satu dunia.

Dia cakap 2 juta orang tengok konsert dorang pada 2016-1017?

So dari 2 juta boleh kira aku tujuh kali dalam 2 juta tu. hahaha....

Ohhh dates Legacy of the Beast.. Aku ada plan giler.. plan giler nak backpack lagi...

Tengok cammana...

Aku dah pernah backpacking masa bulan Ramadhan tahun 2016 tengok Maiden dan Sabbath kat Donington, ACDC kat Manchester dan Ritchie Blackmore kat Loreley Jerman,

Puasa dari kul 2.30 pagi sampai 9.30 malam , dan buka puasa masa tengok rock band main, kurma standby dalam seluar jeans haha.

Kalau korang nak lahar aku, ni bukan blog untuk korang...

dan korang sila rasa besar diri dan megah sombong kerana fikir korang lebih mulia dari aku yang ntahapahapani.

so anyway aku rasa kemungkinan aku nak backpacking bulan Puasa lagi.... haha. Tapi tengok la sempat kot aku saving duit tiket konsert dan flight.

Kalau tak berjaya, takpelah, tapi aku akan cuba. Bak Cina cakap " JIA YU!!!!".

Hidup ni, kadang2 kita kena bermula dengan ANGAN ANGAN MAT JENIN!!!!

Orang panggil " Yoh Yoh Oh!! ". takpe... kita ketawa sama sama.

Ooohh kumpulan PRIME DOMESTIC nye album penuh nak keluar.

tak disangkal lagi, album Prime Domestic nye album ni aku speku akan jadi album terbaik Melayu untuk tahun ini.

Dan konsert mereka pada 9 Disember ni, aku speku akan jadi konsert Melayu terbaik jugak tahun ni.

Aku dah standby tiket. Print huru hara siak kedai... korang tengoklah kat atas tu...

kang Security kat pagar mesti tengok berkali2 tau nanti haha...

Tapi ok la kan, memang original pe.

Aku dah "laporkan" kat " duta" cawangan kedai tersebut. HAHAHAHA.

Tapi aku kerja siak hujung minggu tu.. kerja malam lagik.

So kena plan cammana.

Tapi aku harap aku dapat hadir....

Salam and greetings. A short post first in English and then in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.

Just for laughs,

I got myself an Instagram account.

Nothing serious,

just another avenue for me to talk cock, slander, gossip, and insult whoever and whatever with photos I took myself. ((snigger)).

its here.. https://www.instagram.com/catch_the_rainbow_666/

I think The Live Chapters of The Book Of Soul could possibly be the BEST EVER Maiden live album. Even better than Live After Death.

I cannot wait to get my hands on the physical version and then I will talk more.

I have been building castles in the air..

So this kinds of self-explanatory.

Taking into consideration..

- RAMADHAN for 2018 is 15th May to 14th June

- Eid Fitr for 2018 is 15th June

- priorities in life - family

- work/job - whether I still have one

- work/job - finding cover when applying leave

- money for flights, bread and fruits while backpacking

- sleeping - I will arrange my plans so I end up sleeping a lot in airports and minimum accomodations

- tickets - I GOT THEM last night during the fan club advance sales. No more physical tickets for me as I am trying to really budget and I just will use e-tickets. Its fucking expensive to obtain the real ticket, nice to keep as a memory but fucking expensive.

- so lets see how...

if my building castles in the air day dream fail to become a reality.. its ok. I have tried.

And the rumours going around the internet is that HELSINKI will sold out and there will be a second night added. (Thats why they have planned a 3 day gap between Helsinki & Stockholm).

Salam Semua...

OK, saje je nak bilang... actually aku speku blog aku ni yang baca berapa orang je... dan dorang semua pun dah tahu...

tapi saje je nak bilang kat sapa2 yang baca ni, aku dah buat instagram.

Macam real je kan... saje saje nak syok sendiri.

KORANG JANGAN GELAK AH!!!! Kasi aku chance k.

Nanti aku letak la sikit2 foto eh..... Takde benda personal pun...semua merapu2 je..

Kenapa CATCH THE RAINBOW?

Pasal tu la band kegemaran aku selain Maiden, aku tahu Rainbow sejak aku umur 7 tahun , so aku dah layan dan takut dengar lagu KILL THE KING sebelum aku kenal apa tu Iron Maiden,

dan juga... untuk aku, aku nak kejar dan tangkap pelangi... paham?
tak paham.... bagus. haha..

OOOHHH

Aku ada angan2 Mat Jenin macam aku cerita cakap omputeh kat atas...

Banyak benda nak fikir kan, pasal ni adalah syok sendiri aku. Dan aku harus pastikan dunia realiti aku yang paling penting. Dan itu bukan sesuatu yang mudah.
Maiden ni semua hanyalah satu mainan di minda.

ooo kalau jadi.. utara utara ni kalau summer mau puasa 21 jam 22 jam satu hari? haha...
tu hari aku gi tengok 2014 ACDC. Sabbath, Maiden, Rainbow semua tu.. puasa dari kul 2.30pagi sampai 9.30malam.
well... tengok la cammana....
aku tahu travelling dan kalau tak larat tak yah puasa...
tapi.... kalau aku backpacking sorang2 pasal nak tengok Iron Maiden main merata tempat lain2 suasana dan peminat2 semua giler babi nye standing section,
kalau aku tak puasa, kongajar gitu eh rasanya...
haha...
tengok la, ni semua angan2 mat jenin je dulu... haha.
kalau tak jadi.. tiket semua burn la... well... thats life.

K tu je..

Aku speku kan... bulan 11 dan 12 ni kan, dua tiga hari aku buat satu blog....

momentum datang balik gitu dan banyak benda nak borak...

k bye.

Salam and Greetings. As usual in English and then in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.
For value added, i try to make some differences in both content LOL!!

A photo laden and review/ulasan merapu merapek meraban.

I got this Black Sabbath The End 4th Feb 2017 Birmingham 5 disc boxset for two reasons.
Firstly as a souvenir as I saw them last on their very last Donington show with about 80,000 people in the midlands of UK, where basically Hard Rock and Heavy Metal has its foundation and is strongest historically.. Its as near to watching Sabbath plays in Birmingham as possible.

Side track a little same The End tour but the last Donington in Midlands of England...
This was the moment I got a big shock when I arrived on the Main Stage of Donington 2016 on the Saturday as I was checking out other bands on other stages,
and I thought I was fucking early 30 minutes before the headliners for Saturday play,
and this is what I see. It was like the whole Midlands Heavy Metal community was there waiting for Sabbath...

Lots of whole families are braving the rain which falls heavily later while Sabbath plays

What look like school girls was headbanging and singing along to every song. It was surreal.

Its a memorable environment so I would have wonder what its like to watch Black Sabbath plays Birmingham.

So I like this experience so much,
thats the first reason why I bought this boxset LOL!!!!
to remind of the live songs mostly are the same... LOL!!

Secondly, I want the 3rd cd, which is the ANGELIC SESSIONS. It has 5 songs that Sabbath re-record in the studio after their final show.

WICKED WORLD in the middle section is worth just to get Angelic Sessions.

So nothing much to say, I have not even seen the blue ray or dvd disc included in this boxset. But I love the 3 cds. I had ripped them all to my Walkman and enjoyed the songs tremendously while walking and on public transportations.
Sabbath added a few songs mostly instrumental medleys for the final Birmingham shows.

I was lucky, since even in my young days I have the opportunity to watch Sabbath plays with different lineups and singers in my life...

- Tony Martin/Iommi/Neil Murray/Bobby Rodenelli (Forbidden era in Singapore)
- Ronnie James Dio/Iommi/Geezer Butler/Vinnie Appice (Heaven & Hell in Singapore)
- Ozzy/Iommi/Geezer Butler/ Sharon Osbourne's drummer (Hellfest and Donington)

So no more isnt it?
Maybe with Sharon's Black Sabbath.

But I got a feeling Tony Iommi will continue Sabbath in either same name or any other name with other Sabbath luminaries.

and out of the 3 singers I saw them with, Ozzy singing for Sabbath, its my least favourite Black Sabbath live moment. He is very good, but... (LOL!!!)

Of course Ronnie James Dio with Sabbath is the best ever... irregardless whatever band name they use.
So I guess I will never see Sabbath with Bill Wards, and of course the late Cozy Powell.

But then, in the heavy rains and floods and a chaotic environment of Donington, with everything is happening, I have to say I will pick Sabbath show as the best sound I ever hear.
Its because their live sound is competing with the heavy rain, the floodings, chaos of the crowd, and still its so powerful and clear.
Its so bloody embarassing clear when Maiden plays the same stage the next day as the headliners for Sunday.
Heavy rains, floodings, chaos among 80,000 - 90,000 all being equal.

So lets talk about the boxset.
Its very nice.
- It has a photo book with some text written by some Rolling Stone reporter. More for the casual fans writting.
- It has three seperate folders which consist of 5 discs. All supported by a black paper holder.
- It has a Sabbath metal lapel pin or whatever you call it.
- It has 3 guitar picks
- It has a laminated pass or something.
All comes in a nice strong box.

These are the "unboxing" photos...

Contents for all whether the 3 cds or blue ray or dvd which make up these 5 discs...
are these songs...

Birmingham..4th Feb 2017

Black Sabbath
Fairies Wear Boots
Under The Sun/Every Day Comes And Goes
After Forever
Into The Void
Snowblind
War Pigs
Behind The Walls Of Sleep
Basically / NIB
Hands Of Doom
Supernaut/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/Megalomania
Rat Salad/Drum Solo
Iron Man
Dirty Women
Children Of The Grave
Paranoid

The Angelic Sessions

The Wizard
Wicked World
Sweet Leaf
Tomorrow's World
Changes.

OK OK
cakap melayu pulak...

Untuk aku Black Sabbath paling best ialah zaman Ronnie James Dio.
dan aku suka sangat zaman HEADLESS CROSS.
Aku harap betul Tony Iommi akan keluarkan balik album era FORBIDDEN...
dan aku harap dia akan tour zaman FORBIDDEN dengan pakai dua drummer iaitu Vinnie Appice dan Bill Wards.
Tony Martin masih ok je kan, so letak nama band Forbidden, panggil balik jugak Geezer Butler..

dan last kopek main semua lagu era Sabbath... zaman Headless Cross, zaman Ronnie Dio, dan zaman Ozzy dan boleh main lagu2 zaman Ozzy yang Ozzy sendiri tak boleh nyanyi.

Tapi dalam cd3 boxset ni ada Changes...

Aku pernah tengok Black Sabbath main lagu Changes, tapi Tony Martin, Tony Iommi main keyboards dua orang atas pentas.
Tu jam zaman remaja la kat Harbour Front Singapura,
aku masih ingat time Paranoid , Amy kat audience tengah joget giler giler nye haha.
Tu dia la kot haha....

So... macam aku cakap.. aku nak boxset ni pasal kenangan aku gi tengok tour ni sama kat Donington, yang macam aku pernah cerita paling dekat aku nak tengok dorang kat Birmingham..

macam aku cakap kat blog ni, kawasan midlands UK ni la jantung rock dan heavy metal dunia.

Macam aku cerita atas, keluarga semua datang tua muda lelaki pompuan macam gi piknik pun ada macam foto atas tu ,
budak budak pompuan headbanging dan nyanyi semua lagu ok lirik seketul seketul singalong keluar mulut.

Giler. Sebab tu, aku suka sangat Donington. Memang tempat huru hara macam puaka banjir teruk hujan lebat tak berhenti , dah tenggelam la kasut boot semua, paling selamat kena pakai kasut kuning Phua Chu Kang.. tapi aku suka...
Aku kan tinggal rumah orang kat Derby, aku pakai AirBnB, tiap2 hari aku naik bas, malam rebut bas patah balik Derby penat giler tapi aku sorang giler ah nak camping kat Donington haha..

Lepas malam akhir boot aku seluar aku semua aku buang kat luar rumah tu aku takut tuan rumah marah aku kotor kan rumah dia haha, besok pagi terus gi Primark beli baru haha. Lumpur rabak giler.

aku cita2 nak hat-trick nanti bila Iron Maiden aku speku akan main lagi sekali Donington sebelum mereka bersara.
ohhhh dan Live Chapters album live baru tu ada dua lagu dari Donington, ok la ada suara aku hahaha.

ok sambung balik pasal boxset ni..
Angelic Sessions kat cd ketiga ni...

aku dah dengar sekali cd ketiga dan aku suka sangat persembahan dalam cd ketiga ni.

Wicked World kat tengah nye section tu giler dahsyat best aku suka...

Changes... sebelum ni aku suka versi dalam Live & Loud yang Zakk Wylde main piano dengan Ozzy.
Paling aku nyampah yang anak Ozzy nye version haha.
Tapi version Angelic ni memang sedih... the last song dalam boxset ni

Aku belum tengok versi blue ray dan dvd ni lagi,, takde time lagik..

tapi dalam bas, dalam train, memang goyang kepala la dan orang mesti ingat aku giler jalan kaki tapi senyum sorang2 dengar lagu2 ni.

rumusan dan konklusi nya -
not bad la boxset ni, bagus jugak kalau korang minat
Sharon Osbourne's Black Sabbath.

#NoBillWardsNoBlackSabbath.

Hari ni aku nak cakap sikit pasal Search baru.
Sebelum type ni aku kena cek ejaan " Katharsis" cammana. Terbelit lidah jugak nak sebut nama album ni.
Machine Head nye album baru pun nanti nama album "Catharsis" jugak. Ejaan je lain. Rilisan Januari 2018.
KEBETULAN je kot.

Aku tak beli lagi cd physical album ni.
Aku cuma donlod Itunes pada pagi rilisan album ni.
Aku teruja ada logo " Mastered For Itunes".
OK, ni logo mengkonfiuskan aku.. betul ke? ada seperate mastering untuk Itunes?
Tapi takkan Itunes nak rembat sebarang letak logo ni kat page Katharsis kan?

Anyway,
So aku guna Itunes nye rip untuk masukkan album ni dalam Walkman aku.
Macam aku cakap...
Masa aku zaman sekolah dulu2, kaset2 album2 Search berada dalam Walkman aku.
Dan zaman ni, album terbaru Search masih berada dalam Walkman aku.
Zaman berubah, berpuluh tahun, teknologi berubah tapi ada benda tetap "the song remains the same",
Search dan Sony Walkman.

So aku dengar album ni cuma waktu

BERJALAN KAKI,
TUNGGU BAS, TUNGGU TRAIN,
DALAM BAS, DALAM TRAIN,
DALAM SUASANA HIRUK PIRUK KEHIDUPAN.

Ni aku nye pendapat or ulasan or whatever.

- Bunyi dan sound album ni tak membingitkan aku.
- Album ni lembut sound dia pada telinga aku. Aku suka.
- Aku suka tengok kredit2 cipta lagu ada membabitkan Search.
- Lagu2 nya bermula dramatik, contoh Jubah Pengantin.
- Ni album has a strong finish untuk beberapa lagu terakhir.
- Lagu2 laju dan rancak aku suka. Apologia pun sedap. Lagu2 slow pun sedap jugak.
- Aku suka ni album ada beberapa "time changes" dalam lagu yang kejutkan aku.

- Aku kekok dengar drummer lain, bila aku tengok Search bila dengan zaman Lola dan Pae main live memang dah macam heavy metal pun ada pada aku. Tapi tu live environment.
Tapi ni album studio, so kekok sikit dengar mula2. Pasal Yazit is(was) always the constant dalam studio albums.
- Aku suka rilisan Sidang Kangaroo sebagai first song, pasal pada aku tu la lagu paling aku kureng, so its a very very pleasant surprise bila dengar lagu2 lain semua gerek dari Kangaroo.

Pada aku Search tentu ada seorang Quality Control yang kasi final decision untuk rilis album ni, mungkin salah seorang anggota band atau mungkin producer.
Dan ni album tentu dorang QC lepas datang balik dari Mastering. Pasal aku tengok kredit ada mastering kot ni album. Dan terang2 Itunes dah letak "master for itunes"

(A Matter Of Life And Death, si Steve Harris dengan kepala batu suka tok nenek dia tak kasi tu album hantar mastering, jadi memang takde mastering langsung AMOLAD studio album waktu rilisan 2006 kerana kepala batu Steve Harris nak kena ikut cakap dia je dan dia memang tukang QC Firaun untuk Iron Maiden).

So kalau QC band ni dah approve ni la final product, maka aku hadam je la.

Macam aku cakap Peminat have the vote, dengan keluar duit untuk beli album or donlod album berbayar dan beli tiket, dan luangkan masa, tenaga, belanja dan susah payah gi sana gi sana tengok band main live.
Sebagai peminat, most important dorang nak sesebuah band dorang minat dapat carik makan.
So aku do my part, aku donlod ori. CD Physical... hmmmmnn.. ada empat so kena cek mana satu Nordin punye. haha.
Bila tengok Sess live pun dah tahu kan nak diri mana, diri belah bahagian Nordin (Dave Murray side). Kalau kat IB, kena paksa beli seat duduk, so again, beli seat kena beli pilih bahagian Nordin.
Tapi setiap orang ada feberet band member sendiri la kan. Ni aku cakap aku.

In conclusion.
Ni album is lagi baik sangat dari apa aku jangka.
Aku off long weekend ni so aku memang ada kat KL, tapi aku tak rasa aku dapat tengok Sess main nanti Sabtu ni. Korang pun tahu kan, gi kawasan Stadium Shah Alam kalau naik public transport memang macam pelarian ok...
siap seberang rail komuter, masuk bawah pagar, lari seberang highway... tapi kalau bola nye pasal memang sanggup la kan haha.

Well... some other time...

Next... PRIME DOMESTIC. (berdebar-debar tunggu).

Salam and Greetings.
First in English and
then a long gossip and slanders in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.

For added- value, both has different contents.

I am not going to re-read what I type, so it may have lots of incoherent sentences that dont make sense in both language.

my review and opinion,

Based on the strength of the 2016 and 2017 setlist, with six (seven for both years)
new songs from maybe the best Iron Maiden album ever plus some great classic cuts,
the live album for the Book Of Soul Tour could be the best Iron Maiden live album ever.

Unfortunately, though the running order represents the 2017 setlist of the Book Of Soul Tour, and the recordings taken from mostly 2016 except for the two songs that are included for the 2017 setlist,

I wish there are two things included which would seal this album as their best ever live album..

1) They should have included Tears Of The Clown and Hallowed Be Thy Name from the 2016 section of the tour.
-Tears of the Clown is deemed to slow down the momentum of the set, especially it coming early in the setlist but still its a great song and a superb live song in its own right.
-Hallowed Be Thy Name, maybe justified to be left out of the official live recording due to the ongoing court case with another member of Beckett who suddenly claimed ownership for six lines of the song after Maiden had settled copyright claims with another member of Beckett years ago and all these after 35 years HBTN is in existence.

2) There is enough space on the two cds to include all the Bruce chatters..
Surely he speaks a lot about Mayan Civilisation before Book Of Soul.
I was at Donington and he speaks a lot.
He has this long story about moms and dads which is actually the pun for Children Of The Damned.
He has lots to talk about before Blood Brothers.
I was at the Donington 2016 show and he speaks about the La Bataclan terror attack.
I was also at the Cardiff 2017 show which is the first after the Manchester terror attack and Bruce has lots to say too.
So I can confidently says that Book Of Soul and Blood Brothers that appears on this album are unfortunately cut on Bruce inspirational speeches before the songs.

So other than that, what a great album,
-Children Of The Damned has this awesome audience singalong..
-The Great Unknown transformed into a great song live with the improvisations after the solos.
-The Red And The Black, simply amazing, simply breathtaking instrumental section....
- Nicko drums sound is very nice to hear. Tony Newton and Steve Harris does the production.

Just worth it to purchase this collection..

Iron Maiden has make it a point to often release live albums on many different tours but this one is hands down a really awesome live album from probably their most successful world tour that takes 2 years, and the best band performance, and Bruce surviving cancer of the throat and with 2 million in audience, count me at least 7 times in that 2 million audience.haha

My own Iron Maiden backpacking alone for 2016 and 2017 Book Of Souls World Tour. LOL!!

Some nice arts of the event tshirts...
The Bike one is the 2017 UK Tour Event Tshirt.. with a superb backprint which has cute cow.
The Eddie straddling Paris and Donington is the Download Festival Tshirt... another awesome one which combines both Downloads and England and France are friends.

SPEAKING OF DOWNLOAD...

The rumour on the internet is Melbourne is getting its own franchise of Download Festival, and its in March 2019.
Standby Iron Maiden to headline it. LOL!!

Below are two photos of Download Festival..

all the craziness while Maiden is headlining overcomes the floodings and heavy rains of the 3 days of day and night festival.

Hi Semua, Ulasan panjang giler k, aku ada mood...

OK, pertama sekali aku nak luahkan rasa tak puas hati... ada dua.

1) Tears Of A Clown dimainkan setiap malam untuk tour 2016, ok aku paham Maiden drop lagu ni untuk bahagian 2017 pasal lagu ni matikan momentum main live Maiden.
Tentu Steve Harris dah tengok dari atas pentas reaksi peminat...
Tapi lagu ni tetap patut masuk dalam album live ni pasal lagu ni gerek, sangat sedap, dan Bruce sebelum mula lagu ni akan cerita pasal pelawak pelakon terkenal yang bunuh diri Robin Williams yang mana lagu ni dicipta pasal tragedi diri dia yang takde orang tahu sampai dia bunuh diri.

OK, aku paham Hallowed Be Thy Name yang dimainkan setiap show untuk bahagian tour ni 2016 tak dimasukkan,
lagu ni ikut gossip konfem akan dimainkan untuk tour album ni bahagian 2017 tapi pasal kes mahkamah yang dimana tiba tiba ada satu anggota kumpulan Beckett tampil selepas 35 tahun dah claim enam ayat dari lagu ni adalah tulisan dia dari lagu Beckett.
Dan memang claim dia tu dia nak duit yang sangat lumayan ganti rugi.
Jadi pasal nak elak masalah, dan kes ni masih kat mahkamah, maka Iron Maiden drop lagu ni.
Masalahnye dan herannya, Iron Maiden dah settle hakcipta lagu ni ngan lagi satu orang anggota Beckett berapa tahun lepas, dan heran tiba tiba ada lagi satu orang tampil dan claim benda sama selepas sekian lama.

Harap kes ni selesai cepat2 dan HBTN akan dimainkan live kembali pada masa depan.

2) CD ni ada dua kan, aku selalu heran kenapa celoteh2 Bruce semua kena potong... terus masuk lagu...
Aku boleh konfem Blood Brothers dan Book Of Soul kat album ni Bruce celoteh panjang, pasal aku ada kat Donington 2016 seperti foto2 atas tu foto huru hara dari atas pentas, dan jugak foto lumpur giler tu semua.. dan memang dahsyat keadaan.
So dalam cd ni aku dengar, semua dah kena edit...

Sejarah kan tu pasal Mayan Civilisation, dan jugak 2016 Donington Bruce aku tak silap celoteh pasal La Bataclan nye serangan.
Tapi tu je la aku nak komplen selain tu takde benda.

Pada aku Book Of Souls mungkin album terbaik Iron Maiden dalam sejarah.

Pada aku ni Live Chapters mungkin album live terbaik, seperti biasa Iron Maiden kalau support album tour akan main banyak lagu baru, dan pilihan lagu2 lama ni kali memang dahsyat.

Song by song nye pendapat

If Eternity Should Fail - Ni lagu ialah Bruce cipta, dan dia cipta bukan untuk Maiden tapi untuk masa depan dia nak buat album solo lagi.
Seperti biasa Steve Harris ialah FIRAUN.
Bila dia dengar lagu ni dia suka terus dia ambik lagu ni untuk Iron Maiden pakai. Sebijik macam lagu Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter, tu pun Steve Harris congkong dari Bruce nye solo untuk Iron Maiden pakai pasal dia suka lagu tu. (antara lagu paling bongok dalam sejarah Iron Maiden pada aku).
Ada gossip cakap, Bruce cipta dua lagu baru yang Steve suka giler.
Tapi ada lagi satu lagu Bruce tulis dengan ROY Z, jadi biasalah Iron Maiden mana pakai penulis lagu luar, jadi lagi satu lagu tak pakai la.
Nak dengar kena tunggu album solo Bruce lain kali.

Live lagu ni memang terbaik... sangat dramatik dan intro dia Bruce nyanyi atas intro tape.
lagu unik, pasal takde solo gitar seperti lagu2 Iron Maiden lain. Kecuali mungkin Journeyman. haha.

Speed Of Light - versi dari Afrika Selatan, tak kira la versi apa pun ni lagu memang sesuai live kan. Cuma versi video Live Chapters ni, korang kena paham setiap show Iron Maiden pakai dalam empat kamera untuk rakam dan siaran langsung masuk kat screen besar untuk penonton2 kat belakang nak tengok close up,
jadi live chapters ni dorang pakai video feed dari merata tempat... tu yang Dave Murray tukar2 gitar ketara sangat lagu ni. tapi audio dia tetap ori.

Wratchild - ni seumpama lagu rezeb lagu reserve iron Maiden, kalau apa2 jadi, dorang dah ada lagu Standby. Aku tahu lagu ni rancak dan popular semua orang tahu dan Steve Harris nak momentum pada permulaan show kekal, tak mau mati kejong, tapi PEMALAS nak mampos!! cubalah prektis lagu2 rancak lain kan? Tapi live, aku tengok 2017 UK Tour, setiap show lagu ni memang singalong happy happy abis la kan.... dan sorakan kuat giler. haha.

Jadi untuk 2016 dan 2017 dia , dua lagu kena buang pasal satu ikut cakap Iron Maiden perlahankan momentum dan dorang tak suka, dan lagi satu lagu kes mahkamah, ganti dengan Great Unknown lagi sebuah lagu baru dan Wratchild ni.

Children OF The Damned, kalau live 2016 dan 2017 Bruce akan panjang lebar bual kons pasal mak ngan bapak, pasal dia sebenarnya ada kata hikmah kat akhir borak sengsorang tu.. dia nak abiskan dengan kata "children of the damned " untuk sapa lahir tahun2 awal 1982 dan selepas tu...
Memang dahsyat lagu ni part audience,
dan rakaman kat cd dapat tangkap suasana dahsyat singalong lagu ni.

Dan ni yang buat aku angan2 mat jenin nak tengok Iron Maiden main kat Canada. Fans dorang kat sana dahsyat giler.

Death Or Glory - lagu pasal lagenda Perang Dunia Pertama The Red Baron. Ada orang ingat lagu ni lagu komedi, maklum live Bruce pakai topeng monyet siap offer pisang masa Dave Murray nye solo, tapi ni lagu penuh sejarah dan serious,
dan lirik "climb like a monkey" tu ialah dari catatan Red Baron sendiri tulis pasal diri dia.

Red And The Black - ni satu lagu dah cukup untuk beli cd ni. Lagu kedua terpanjang kot sejarah Iron Maiden? dan instrumental section lagu ni boleh menangis.
Live bila masuk bahagian instrumental lagu ni macam semua orang macam teruja... haha....

Setiap show aku pergi, bila lagu ni je kan, memang heaven.

The Trooper - tak payah cakap la kan.. Aku rasa susah Iron Maiden nak drop lagu ni setiap tour, pasal ramai orang nak tengok lagu ni dimainkan.
Aku pun suka lagu ni, pasal live memang seronok, dan solos dia setiap show Dave Murray ada je dia solo lain2 sikit memang exciting sangat.

Tapi kenangan paling best untuk aku sendiri tour 2016 dan 2017 yang show2 aku pergi ialah kat Donington - sebelum lagu start Bruce pekik "Happy Birthday Your Majesty!!!!" sambil kibarkan Union Jack depan 80-90,000 fans giler2 dari UK sendiri.

Powerslave - lagu ni takutkan aku pasal pengakhiran Iron Maiden.
Dan setiap kali lagu ni masuk balik dalam Setlist, aku macam rasa Nicko McBrain masih takde hal main lagu ni , maka Iron Maiden akan bertahan lagi bertahun2..

Aku speku, Steve Harris akan bubarkan Iron Maiden bila Nicko McBrain tak mau main drum lagi. Dia takkan pakai drummer lain untuk Iron Maiden dah.
Steve Harris aku rasa setia dengan Nicko aku speku walau dilaporkan Nicko dah cakap dengan members Iron Maiden lain untuk teruskan dengan carik drummer baru.
Nicko ialah paling tua kertu dalam band ni.
Ni la lineup terakhir Iron Maiden aku speku. Apa2 jadi, Steve Harris akan bubarkan ni band.

Dan korang perasan tour ni Bruce tak pakai topeng bulu ayam drama tu, tapi dia pakai Wrestling Mexico nye topeng kan?
OK, ada cakap ni cara Bruce buat lawak sinis, Power "slave" gitu kan...

Great Unknown, live lagu ni berubah siak, dorang seret lepas solo... audience participation tepuk non stop...
first time aku perasan aku dah suka giler, dan setiap show aku tunggu part lepas solo... best

The Book OF Soul - macam aku cakap kalau live Bruce celoteh panjang pasal politicians yang giler dalam dunia ni, pasal kehancuran dunia oleh pemimpin2 dan pasal sejarah Mayan Civilisation.

Dia cakap betul dalam sejarah - takde kuasa besar yang kekal. Semua akan hancur.

Ni rakaman kat Donington, memang hebat bila lagu ni masuk bahagian laju kat separuh jalan dan Eddie keluar tapi hebat giler part laju lagu ni. Macam2 ada dan terjadi.

Fear Of The Dark - tak payah nak cakap apa2 sangat. ni lagu lagi satu masalah, cammana Iron Maiden nak drop pun aku tak tahu.
Suka giler para hadirin semua.... bila part lagu ni aku akan jakun tengok keadaan keliling, boleh nampak betapa semua orang macam aku... suka Iron Maiden.

Tu pasal aku suka tengok iron Maiden merata tempat. bukan tengok band je,
tapi tengok orang keliling,
lelaki pompuan,
tua muda...
kurus , gemuk,
budak2 kecil , remaja, dewasa dan tua tua bangka,
yang sihat dan yang orang kurang upaya
dan cacat anggota badan...
berlainan kulit, bangsa , agama,
sudah tentu dari berbagai lapisan masyarakat
dan takde perbezaan.

tapi aku tak kenal dorang semua, aku sorang je, tapi aku rasa macam ni la orang2 paling best dalam dunia yang keliling aku dan takde orang yang bezakan apa2 dari segi taraf kehidupan atau status masyarakat atau kuat atau lemah atau cacat.
Pasal semua satu kepala.
Semua happy tengok iron Maiden.

Iron Maiden - giler dahsyat peminat Argentina ikut nyanyi melodi lagu ni.

The Number Of The Beast - lagi satu lagu generic yang mati hidup balik tak boleh kena drop. Memang sekarang aku cakap aku bosan ngan asyik lagu ni, tapi bila dengar balik, atau tengok dorang main, best giler semangat.

Blood Brothers - aku rasa Iron Maiden mati hidup balik tak sangka evolusi lagu ni berkembang dahsyat. Lagu ni mulanya lagu Steve Harris tulis bila bapak dia meninggal dunia, lepas tu bila main live, tour demi tour lagu ni dah jadi macam anthem dan satu arena ke, satu festival ke, satu stadium ke semua orang suka giler siap buat gaya tangan "wave wave" gitu hahaha... kelakar sedih ok.

Dan lagu ni tetap best pasal Janick nye solo.

Wasted Years, - ni tour ialah paling Iron Maiden ada bangun dari malas sikit dan rombak setlist, lagu ni diletakkan last
Terperanjat terkejut beruk...
Setiap show, Bruce akan buat lawak dengan microphone Adrian Smith..

OK dah tu je kot nak berbual kons....

Legacy Of The Beast 2018-2019 walaupun akan jadi tour "lagu2 lama", tapi aku rasa Maiden dah fresh dengan rombakan setlist dan pilihan lagu 2016-2017,

tentunya For The Greater Good Of God akan dimainkan, sebuah lagu sangat sesuai dengan keadaan dunia hari ni
dan, nampaknya lepas berpuluh tahun, lepas gaduh Bruce dan Steve pasal kelajuan lagu ni Flight Of Icarus akan dimainkan semula...

jadi kita tengok sapa menang, sapa yang turunkan ego, sapa yang lagi kepala batu dajal...

Bruce nak lagu tu ikut speed dalam album studio Piece Of Mind,

Steve Harris tak suka speed lagu ni dalam studio, dia nak lagu ni dimainkan laju. (sila rujuk Live After Death)

Nicko konfem akan sokong Steve. Dia pun geng suka lajukan lagu ni dengan drum dia.

Adrian, Dave dan Janick konfem tak kesah apa speed pun lagu ni dimainkan.

Jadi kita tengok cammana, aku speku Bruce akan menang dan lagu ni akan dimainkan slow ikut rentak album studio.
Pasal dia tukang nyanyi pe.

Sial nye Iron Maiden. lagu Flight Of Icarus pun nak bergaduh sampai berpuluh tahun tak dimainkan pasal takde kata sepakat pasal kelajuan lagu.

sekian ulasan merapu tahan cipanzi.

Salam and Greetings, two premier Malaysian rock bands Prime Domestic and XPDC share the stage for an awesome double bill 210 minutes of live performance. This is my review in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.

Sebelum aku lupa dan malas,
baik aku ulas dan bual kons pasal konsert Public Distortion 2017 yang melibatkan dua kumpulan terulung dan terunggul, iaitu PRIME DOMESTIC dan XPDC.

lokasi - Tempat Jin Bertendang (Oasis Square Ara Damansara)
Tarikh - Sabtu 9hb December 2017
Waktu - Mula nak kat kul 9 malam (total time 3hr 30min lebih)

Sapa tak mau baca aku merapu, ni setlist lagu2 dipersembahkan tadi.

1. Ku Cuba (Prime Domestic + XPDC)

2. Ntahapahapantah (XPDC)
3. Talam Dua Muka (XPDC)
4. Sakinah (XPDC)
5. Kita Peng-Yu (XPDC)
6. Doa (new song- XPDC)
7. Enter Sandman/ Orion (XPDC)
8. Selendang Merdeka (XPDC)
9. Teman (XPDC)
10. Kata Pepatah (new song- XPDC)
11. Semangat Perjuangan Harmoni (XPDC)
12. Semangat Yang Hilang (XPDC)

13. Intro (PD)
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name (PD)
15. Kau Masih Berdegil (PD)
16. Malam Berasap (PD)
17. Fenomena (PD)
18. Nasib Kita (PD)
19. MMLXXXVII (PD)
20. Tekno Dewata (PD)
21. Kurnia (PD)
22. Meniti Titian Usang (PD)
23. Lena Diulit Intan (PD)
24. Mentari Merah Diufuk Timur (PD)
Medley 25-28
- 25. Biru Mata Hitamku (PD)
- 26. Rozana (PD)
- 27. Ranjang Mawar (PD)
- 28. Isabella (PD + Amy)

29. Langit Dan Bumi (PD + Amy)
30. Kau Pergi (PD + Amy)

31. Drum Solos (Lola + Ainol, with Arif)

32. Ilusi Intonasi (PD)
33. Ameringo (PD)
34. Sedingin Pluto (PD)
35. Alam Barzakh (PD)
36. Sejati (PD)
37. Smoke On The Water/ Pasti (PD + XPDC + Amy)

Seperti show Prime Domestic yang lepas, lagi sekali malam ni dorang buat persembahan aku kerja shift malam kat Singapore pulak.
So Prime Domestic nye pasal memang kena ambik leave.

So lincah balik KL naik bas ekpress, gedebak gedebuk, ingat nak naik LRT gi tempat Jin Bertendang ni, last tukar, naik GRAB sua.
So memang Jakun la kan sampai tempat persembahan ni, tapi ok la facilities keperluan jasmani dan rohani semua ada, dan actually sampai malam lebih kul 1 pagi pun tak yah risau la kan tempat ni semua masih boleh access toilets dan sebagainya. Balik pun aku naik GRAB.
Aku dah standby dah nak kena duduk tempat jin bertendang ni sampai pagi kalau memang takde transport nak balik tadi...

Kehadiran penonton.... well... estimate aku maximum pun seribu lebih la kot. Mungkin boleh kot jejak 2000 tapi entah eh aku agak2 je.
Merchandise2 yang disajikan menarik2 design2 dia. Ni semua nanti lain kali la kan aku tunjuk...
Foto2 ke , bootleg full ke ni semua lain kali k.

Aku tengok siap ada camera crane. Dalam hati aku fikir rakam dvd kot?

Show bermula dengan seorang demi seorang anggota Prime Domestic dan XPDC iaitu Lola, lepas tu Hillary, then Arif, then keyboardist, kemudian Ainol, then dua-dua bassists Fauzi dan Eddie, kemudian Izo, dan baru Joe dan akhir sekali dua-dua penyanyi Ali dan Aweera.
Mereka build up intro kepada lagu Clique Fantastique Ku Cuba.

Lagu ni jugak ialah Search pernah cover untuk album Double Trouble 2. Ingat2 lupa.

Kemudian Prime Domestic nye anggota tinggalkan stage dan XPDC buat persembahan seperti setlist atas. Seperti biasa XPDC line up Izo, Arif, Ali dan Lola memang hebat main live. Cuma ni kali pertama aku tengok line up ni dengan Eddie, dan bukan Yan.

Aku nak cakap dua dua lagu baru iaitu DOA dan KATA PEPATAH memang sedap dan terbaik dari ladang. Kata Pepatah terutama sangat catchy 60an gitu.
Walaupun kali pertama aku dengar ni dua lagu, tapi sangat hebat dan vocal Ali sangat clear jadi siap boleh hayati lirik dua dua lagu ni.
XPDC bila keluar album terbaru mereka tahun depan, album ni aku rasa hebat dan aku tak sabar menunggu.

Kejutan ialah lagu Teman ada, Ali siap tanya ada orang Perak sebelum main lagu ni.
Jugak Enter Sandman sampai sebelum "doa nak tido" tu, terus masuk Orion bahagian bass solo.
Semua solos "Kirk Hammett" diterajui Arif. Dan Ali tu, kalau aku tutup mata, ada rasa James Hetfield yang nyanyi.

Tengok Live, dari dulu aku memang teruja dengan line up XPDC ini. Macam band omputeh.

Moving On... XPDC tamat lepas ambik gambar dengan fans, change over dan giliran Prime Domestic.

Dimulakan dengan intro tape siap ada bacaan puisi? kata hikmah? something like that...
Dan Prime Domestic gunakan satu?dua? backing vokalis awek.
Dan Prime Domestic pun memang bassist mereka boleh nyanyi jugak pe.
Dan Fauzi yang mulakan nyanyian seperti biasa dengan verse pertama Hallowed Be Thy Name, lagu Iron Maiden.
Seperti biasa jugak, Aweera- mintak maaf la eh, tapi English pecah, ok la senang cakap English hancur. Fauzi should sing the whole song.
Heran aku kalau gi tengok konsert la mana2 pun, aku cam kadang2 kritikal la kalau ada apa2 aku kureng, tapi untuk Aweera, aku macam semua ok je, so aku tak tahu "is this good? or is this bad? mentality".
Tapi support tetap support 666%, suka sangat suara dia kat album Prima Domestika, he is a very good singer, and he has Champions League nye band members behind him.

Joe - aku tak pernah nampak dia Shape-Throwing macam dia dengan Prime Domestic sekarang.
Macam bebas gitu kan.. nak buat apa pun dia boleh buat atas stage.
Dah macam Steve Clark dia nya posing2 dan shape throwing dengan gitar dia. Aku suka sangat.

Hillary - aku tak pernah nampak dia banyak jalan atas pentas seperti dalam band ni. Kejap2 gi tempat Joe.
Adakah pasal pentas besar, atau lagi sekali macam Joe, dia happy dalam Prime Domestic?

Fauzi - low profile kat belakang tapi boleh dengar permainan dia, boleh nampak keterror'an dia, dan boleh dengar suara dia.

Ainol - ni last ayat nanti aku cakap.

PRIMA DOMESTIKA - Aku berharap sangat Prime Domestic main seluruh album.
In fact aku nak setlist dorang main seluruh album DUA KALI!!!!
Pasal aku suka sangat...ooohhh aku belum review... Album of the year aku baik omputeh atau melayu. Nanti lain kali.
Tapi dorang main 6 lagu baru.. actually 3 lagu baru la Kurnia, Malam Berasap, Tahun Dua Ribu Lapan Puluh Tujuh yang tulis Roman Numerics tu...
Pasal lagi tiga lagu dah main kan tu hari bulan April kat G Hotel tu.. actually dua la, illusi intonasi tu dah biasa zaman Wings kan.
Aku harap lain kali Prime Domestic main semua 10 lagu dari album mereka pasal semua lagu gerek.

Fenomena - wahhh tak sangka kan. Ending ada NASIK TAMBAH. aku suka....
banyak improvisations when it comes to lagu2 Search. aku suka.... Even hisapbella.

OK cakap pasal lagu tu, Amy.. ok Amy ada...
Amy dan Hillary... side by side... Langit dan Bumi... dan Kau Pergi.
Apa lagi nak kan?
Last aku tengok Amy dan Hillary side by side zaman GME kan, yang Joe also takeover tempat Nordin untuk Search main live.
Dua kali kot ni line up main live? Stadium Tertutup JB dan Planet Hollywood. I was at both shows. Legendary shows. Ada cd dan dvd kot yang Planet Hollywood nye... entah dah lupa.

Drum solos tu Lola start dulu, Arif solos on guitar, Ainol join in dan All Hell Breaks Loose.

Ending... Pasti... tak boleh game weiii ni lagu...
dah la ulang ulang ulang ending korus....
Ali pun nyanyi k lagu ni hahaha...take turn la kan verse korus semua...
kelakar abis tu, sampai semua musicians toleh belakang kat drummers Lola dan Ainol macam bila nak game ni?
Aku rasa dalam 10 minit kot Pasti nye lagu tadi hahahaha. Aku tengok Izo senyum meleret seluruh lagu diri sebelah Hillary...

Ending pun sama, lama dua dua band atas pentas ambik gambar dan layan penonton.
Masa ending tu lagu dimainkan kat sound system ialah dua lagu Iron Maiden...
Blood Brothers dan Where The Wild Wind Blows.
Sapa pilih Blood Brothers nye lagu eh masa Prime Domestic dan XPDC tengah interact dengan penonton atas pentas?
Aku salute... what a choice of a song. Perfect ending to a perfect show.

Aku takde komplen apa2 semua alrite ni malam walau aku ada cuak sikit nak gi tempat jin bertendang ni tapi semua ok...

Last sekali...

MAN OF THE MATCH aku untuk show ni...

share la kan...

Ainol dengan Lola.

Dahsyat dua dua. Terhibur dan teruja tengok gelagat dan aksi mereka seluruh konsert.

p.s foto, boots semua lain kali k. bye..

Prime Domestic, possibly the hottest and best Malaysian rock band at the moment finally release their long-awaited first full studio album.

So my personal best studio album of 2017 & end of 2016 will be

1st - Prime Domestic - Prima Domestika

2nd - Bon Jovi - This House Is Not For Sale (Japanese version extra tracks)

3rd - Kreator - Gods Of Violence (Japanese version extra track).

This is my review in Bahasa Melayu Malay Language.

Macam aku cakap kat atas, Prima Domestika ialah album studio yang aku pilih terbaik dalam cd2 dan itunes album2 yang dirilis tahun 2017 dan akhir 2016, baik cakap Melayu atau cakap Omputeh.

(Aku belum beli Anthem terbaru so aku tak boleh include cakap Jepun punye la...)

Kelakar nya, Lagu2 dalam Prima Domestika ni aku hadam dahulu versi live sebelum betul2 dengar dalam album studio.

- Masa persembahan PD di G Hotel April lepas, mereka bawakan tiga lagu aku tak pernah dengar Tekno Dewata, Sedingin Pluto, dan Satukan Impian.

- Masa persembahan PD di Public Distortion minggu lepas mereka bawakan tiga lagi lagu aku baru dengar berapa kali round iaitu Malam Berasap , Kurnia dan MMLXXXVII.

Campur dengan Ilusi Intonasi yang rasanya semua familiar sangat dari dulu,

maka TUJUH lagu dah dimainkan live dari album Prima Domestika.

Semua pun GEREK - GEREK BELAKA... ye la dah terang aku nobat album ni album terbaik 2017 kan yang aku beli atau download.

Tinggal tiga lagi lagu yang belum dimainkan live (atau at least belum aku dengar lagi dimainkan Live iaitu Lu Baca Sendiri, Takkan Aku Begitu, dan Ritma Irama Kita.

Boleh tak aku cakap Tiga Lagu ni sangat atau mungkin lebih hebat dari lagu2 yang dah dimainkan live.

Ritma Irama Kita - Pada aku la, imaginasi aku cakap - Kalau Eddie Van Halen dengar lagu ni, dia akan terus pergi rumah Sammy Hagar dan Michael Anthony,

dia akan sembah peluk cium ni dua orang, dan pujuk mereka reunion semula Van Halen era 1985-1996.

Dahsyat giler lagu ni. Aku macam "makdatok!!" first time dengar.

Dan aku happy sangat lagu ni dicipta oleh Joe dan Hillary sendiri..

Sikit ulasan dan pendapat aku nasik tambah

- album cover rasmi yang iringi album ni pada aku la, pada aku la memaparkan seseorang sedang berdiri di atas sampah sarap, dah sedang tembak burung gagak.

- album ni secara terang lagi clear letakkan dimana album ni dirakam dan dimaster.

Aku suka baca mastering tu... clear sangat sapa yang master, di studio mana, di bandar mana, dan di negara mana.

Dan herannya, aku ni tidak aktif sosial media, tapi nampaknya Prime Domestic takde pukul canang nak bilang satu dunia album ni master kat mana pun...

Padahal dah hantar gi Sydney, siap letak semua maklumat dalam sampul buku lirik.

Takde la nak pukul canang bilang master kat UGANDA ke, NORTH KOREA ke, tapi... well... (cakap "well..." sambil angkat bahu). Tapi takde lak informasi sapa master, kat studio mana? bandaraya mana? ye la, peminat beli album nak baca segala toknenek informasi kan.

" You can fool everyone some of the time, You can fool some people all the time, but you cannot fool everyone all the time " ada ke omputeh nye peribahasa cakap cam gini??

Album ni kalau tengok susunan lagu, Prime Domestic bukan nak gi untuk pasaran lagu meleleh sangat. Faham maksud aku tak?

Sedang album2 band rock lain selalunya la, kalau dari segi trend, by 2nd atau 3rd song dah lagu meleleh cintan cintun...

tapi... album ni, kena tunggu giliran lagu keempat Kurnia untuk masuk sebuah lagu love song.

Sedangkan kalau band2 lain, agaknya kalau ada lagu hebat macam Kurnia ni silap2 letak 1st atau 2nd song dalam album untuk umpan peminat dan pendengar.

Lagi apa eh? album ni memang terbaik semua lagu, boleh dengar la semua instrument seronok, sapa minat Joe dan Hillary tentu tak hampa, tapi rhythm section pun hebat jugak.

Aweera dalam studio album, tak disangkal lagi, hebat dan sedap suara nya.

Tapi jatuh bangun band rock ialah bermain live, di hadapan peminat muzik yang bayar tiket, penat2 dan susah payah travel dekat dan jauh dalam apa keadaan pun nak tengok mereka main.

Dan aku tak tipu, Prime Domestic tak menghampakan live dalam dua show full mereka yang aku tengok Joe, Hillary, Ainol, Ainol, Ainol (aku cakap 3x pasal drummer memang superb live) dan Fauzi dan keyboardist mereka (aku suka dia punye piano solo sebelum Ilusi Impian kat Public Distortion tu hari..).

Cuma Aweera, please brush up your English ok!!

Tentu tak mudah nyanyi dua jam tiga jam kan, tapi ni dah band Champions League , jadi Aweera kena terima segala lahar dan improve improve.

Tapi kalau studio album 10 lagu ni Prima Domestika. Sila Beli kalau belum beli. Lagu2 semua sedap untuk semua lapisan masyarakat dan halwa telinga lain2 citarasa.

Dan packaging pun hebat.

Dan untuk dijual dengan harga yang sangat berpatutan. Aku rasa Prime Domestic deserves more.

Last sekali, mohon Prime Domestic akur dengan permintaan peminat dan letakkan lagu2 ni dalam Itunes.

Aku berani speku, peminat2 takkan beli satu satu lagu, mereka akan donlod seluruh album. Percayalah!!

Anyway untuk lagi satu review syok sendiri album ni tapi penuh hikmah, ilmiah dan informatif sila ke - http://tokancd.blogspot.sg/2017/12/prima-domestika-prime-domestic-2017-aku.html

(dia cakap orang kat cover tu tengah teropong? biar betik ye ke??

teropong anak bulan ke beb??)

Untuk review aku Prime Domestic main live di Public Distortion 2017 sila ke - http://deaf-angel.blogspot.sg/2017/12/prime-domestic-xpdc-live-review-9-dec.html

Untuk review aku Prime Domestic main di G Hotel bulan April lepas sila ke - http://deaf-angel.blogspot.sg/2017/04/prime-domestic-live-review-2nd-april.html

Anyway cakap pasal Public Distortion 2017...

ni ialah antara merchandise dan foto2 stall2 yang jual produk Prime Domestic dan XPDC.

cd Prima Domestika yang dijual hari tu, RM23 je saje untuk sebuah album rock melayu yang sangat terbaik dan sehebat mana2 rilisan band omputeh....

atas ni ialah tshirt2 " event" untuk hari tu..... belakang ada date dan lokasi.

ni XPDC nye dorang gi Europe kot tu hari.... belakang nye design.

MONGGOL DAH PULANG nye design...atas... aku dah lupa lak belakang tulis apa.. "monggol dah pulang" kot?
SAMURAI nye tak salah aku belakang tulis " militia".

Ni belakang nye design2 tshirt yang aku letak kat atas yang aku cakap " event " tshirts tu..

yang Prime Domestic atas tu belakang dia sangat simple logo kecil...

Popular jugak aku tengok hari show Public Distortion tu peminat2 pakai..

Yang PD logo kaler hitam tu belakang tulis nama2 lagu pun popular jugak....

Ni yang Hearty to Europe tu yang tadi atas belakang tu ada dates di Eropah...

Samurai pun lawa jugak kan....

K tu je la kot..... Bye.

gezek foto makanan di UK, Iron Maiden tshirt merchandise some tour designs, some live photos (my Maiden UK 2017 Backpacking trip part 3)

Photos galore - Birmingham UK flea/outdoor market, lots of photos of Birmingham, Islamic Relief HQ and more Iron Maiden live photos of UK 2017 taken by me me me (continuation of my Maiden UK 2017 backpack)

JARUM - HATI BONGOK EP, & KREATOR, VADER & MR BIG - Tickets show off.

KREATOR (w/ Vader) Live 31 Aug 2017 - Scape Orchard, Singapore.

Mr Big - RLS 113 Sendai Official Bootleg Nov 8, 2014 double cd - review

Masjid Al Rahma Mosque, Liverpool & more Iron Maiden live photos (Book of Soul UK Tour 2017)

ParadiseLost -OneSecond 20th Anniversary 2cd, HansenXXXWacken Live, Helloween Japan only Sweet Seductions boxset

Ghost -The First Ritual Demo 2009 bootleg & gezek foto2 Makanan aku makan masa Book Of Souls UK Tour backpack tu hari..

Def Leppard Hysteria Expanded 3cd Deluxe 30 Years & Iron Maiden Fan Club Magazine no 106.

Mr Big - 15th Oct 2017 Defying Gravity Asia Tour @ Singapore Kallang Theater - ulasan/review

Helloween -Sweet Seductions (3cd+1dvd) Japanese Only release - review/ulasan/photos...

Belinda Carlisle Live - Heaven 30th Anniversary 11th November 2017 @ Star, Singapore. Review/Ulasan/Bootleg

Dehaan (METALLICA using another name plays Kill Em All in full ) 8th June 2013 Detroit live CD.

midnite and Live Chapters is on Itunes/Prime Domestic / merapu meraban.

Instagram account/ legacy of the beast angan2 mat jenin building castles in the air

Black Sabbath The End Birmingham (5 disc deluxe version unboxing photos ) - review/ulasan tahap merapu meraban

Search - Katharsis - Itunes

Iron Maiden Live Chapters The Book Of Souls 2cd

Prime Domestic & XPDC "Live" review - 9 Dec 2017

prime domestic - prima domestika (ulasan) dan foto2 merchandise masa Public Distortion 2017