Can't believe it's over now. I had so much fun with my Party Rock gang and blogger mates yesterday!
Brief introduction about this GREAT GREAT day : Arthur's Day was first organized in Year 2009 which took places in Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Lagos and Yaounde. As for 2011, this event celebrated worldwide in 40 cities, started in Dublin and the 24 hours "
To Arthur!" celebration is ended in Kuala Lumpur, not forgetting to mention we the Malaysian are fortunate to have the biggest celebration among all the countries! This concert is real epic for Guinness Fan in Malaysia to party rock with an exciting line-up of live performances from some of their favorite international artists and local arts.
This event is an experience-money-can't-buy which all fans needed to attain exclusive passes from radio stations as well as
Guinness Facebook Page! This year, it seems everyone is flowing into Speed City KL for Aurthur's Day! The crowd is super huge, more than 20,000 fans are partied hard that night to celebrate Guinness Great 252 years!
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Guinness! |
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My party rock gang. |
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Thanks to Guinness Malaysia for All Access Media Pass. |
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The Larger Than Life Globe that represents all 40 countries worldwide that joining the celebration of Arthur's Day. |
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The Arthur's Lounge |
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Inside the lounge. |
The opening set : DJ Sleletor
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A Live performance of DJ Skeletor! |
Our first performance of the day : Prima Yin
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A local artist that still fresh to some of the Guinness Fan. |
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But she rocks real hard and heat up the crowd with her strong voice! |
Prima Yin is one of the local artists line-up that voted by local fans to be part of this great celebration. She has been composing songs since 14; nominated for Best Female Vocalist (Overall) and Best Rock Vocalist in Year 2009 for VOIZE Independent Music Awards (VIMA)
Welcome your favorite Morning Crew - JJ and Ean!
Thanks to the media pass I have, my camera is not dependable for shots like
these in long distance. With the pass, we have access to the area between the stage and the crowd.
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Flying out CDs to the crowd! |
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Serena C - Sweetheart of Hitz.fm. |
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Ean. |
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Dragon Red. |
Many are thrilled with the performance of this twins brother,
Soler all the way from Macau! Been hearing alot from them since years ago and today (yesterday to be exact) I finally see them performing in front of me! Check out their Myspace
here.
The icing on the cake is
I GET TO MEET THEM IN PERSON!
in their special room backstage. (Kaboom!)
and we
HAVE AN ENJOYABLE CONVERSATION! (Ka-ka-kaboom!)
First, my sister came to the media area and she grabbed my hands, asked if I could bring her to the backstage to meet Soler. I do not hesitate and dragged her to the backstage immediately. We are super lucky! Soler was about to get out from their room and we caught them!
My sister was crazy about them and started to stuttered. I believe she was saying : "I love you guys so much and can can can can I I I I take a take take a picture ture ture with you?"
They are so friendly and calmed her down. When they first saw both of us they said : I'm sure you two are sisters. LOL! Had a short chat and they agreed to take a photo with her! I took one with them too.
The story is not end yet. So we both were happily go back to our table and showed the picture to my party rock gang. Remick and Yintse wanted to take a picture too so I brought them to the backstage again. Entered the room after permitted by the crew, Soler recognized me! I was amazed because myself have face recognition difficulties. My part rock gang then took picture with them and before Soler is going back to their hotel, they asked me why am I speaking Cantonese? I answered that most Malaysian can speak Cantonese. One of the brother explained that they are interested to know if I speak Cantonese with the family members. As usual, I told them my mom is an Indonesian and I sometimes speak either Malay, Mandarin and English with her but I speak Mandarin with my dad. I have friends that not Chinese educated so we speak English. I think they are quite impressed with our (the Malaysian) communication ability in different languages.
And so, the show continues with DJ Skeletor and our Hitz.fm crew rocking up the stage!
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JJ came down from the stage and join the crowd! |
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JJ with his groove! |
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See how the crowd crazy for them? |
Kuala Lumpur Babe - MizzNina!
Before introducing the final act,
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Yes, we are rocking hard in Black Lounge. |
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Free flow of Guinness and orange juice. |
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Meet this famous Blogger- CleverMunkey |
Check out his awesome blog
here!
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我的同党。 |
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Best friends since childhood. |
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My adik and I. |
All calling for
Taio Cruz! He brings some hit songs and also new songs of his upcoming album expecting to be released end of 2011! So, mark it on your calendar, put a big 'X' on every date from November to December, so you should have 61 'X's.
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I was 'K' from behind by this giant ball. |
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Taio Cruz came out again with his SUPER HIT SONG - Dynamite! |
The Encore part is expected. Before Taio Cruz, we were told that this thing (shown below) are fire crackers or something and we are warned to be careful during the final acts.
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Next time you see this stay away from it. |
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A toast to Arthur! |
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The fireworks! |
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I missed the Merdeka Firework show, so this is it! |
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Rolling Fumbling Thug, Jackie Loi and Dustyhawk. |
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Rolling Fumbling Thug and Dustyhawk. |
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JJ! |
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Ean! |
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Soler! |
This is my favorite song performed by Soler :
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The aftermath. |
Unexpectedly, many of my friends prefer SOLER performance than Taio Cruz's. First, Soler has better coordination in terms of harmonic singing as well as their instrument playing. Taio Cruz did rocked the stage but I believe different people different perspectives ya!
So before I end this post, raise glass and toast " To Arthur!!!!!! "
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Yours truly! |
It's such an honor to my friends and I to have the opportunity to attend this great event! Thanks to Guinness to bring all these talented artists from different regions together and rock hard on stage with Malaysian! Anticipating much for the next year's celebration : To Arthur!!
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