A round-up of all the mad action at Mumbai Mirror Independence Rock
You know you are in for an epic evening when the first sounds to grab you by the collar are delicious swathes of loud distorted guitars and heart-pounding kick drums. At the Mumbai Mirror Independence Rock on Sunday, six city bands blew 5000-plus minds with a dizzying array of rock and metal goodness.
Being the I-Rock competition's winner, the three-piece act, The Riot competition's winner, the three-piece art, The Riot Peddlers, opened the fest with a spitfire setlist that checked all the right boxes for a hardcore punk outfit. Thrash metal band Zygnema treated the headbangers to some killer grooves and mad moshing with tracks like Scarface and Shell Broken Hell Loose.
Next, metalcore mayhem ensured as Bhayanak Maut set off mass chaos with a bunch of brutal numbers like Chakra for Church, Tit For Twat, and a violent sweep of Ranti Nasha to top.
With a fender strat slung irreverently around his shoulders, Warren Mendonsa clearly made the most of Andheri's open-air Chitrakoot Grounds by apportioning delightful doses of classic rock and blues with the softest of licks, the smooothest of bends. Joined by wizards Karsh Kale and uncle Loy (of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy) for a couple of jams, Warren sounds sublime when he melted into blues and rousing when he hammered out crunchy, funky riffs. At one point, he chucked, "Are you guys too young to know who The Beatles were?" He then glided into Norwegian Wood, before drifting onto Two Sides Of The Same Coin and of course, the bright, breezy Ode To A Sunny Day.
The night soaked in more metal as Old schoolers Brahma dished out authentic thrash metal with tracks like You Must Die and Bomb. Agnee's lead guitarist Koko joined in for an anything-goes spin on Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
The 27th edition was meant to close on a feistier bang though. Vishal Dadlani harnessed his electro-rock group Pentagram's mad energy to its grooviest potential with crackers like Drive and lovedrug Climdown. Sporting a Superman tee and rockstar shades, Vishali lit up the ground. To mess around with the time-honoured BC-MC chants, he even suggested they switch to Banjo-Mandolin. That may have been silly, but his sign off was anything but. "Thanks for showing up guys. The scene deserves this. It's not easy to keep doing this for 27 years," he sais, cupping his crotch, "It takes balls man."
You know you are in for an epic evening when the first sounds to grab you by the collar are delicious swathes of loud distorted guitars and heart-pounding kick drums. At the Mumbai Mirror Independence Rock on Sunday, six city bands blew 5000-plus minds with a dizzying array of rock and metal goodness.
With a fender strat slung irreverently around his shoulders, Warren Mendonsa clearly made the most of Andheri's open-air Chitrakoot Grounds by apportioning delightful doses of classic rock and blues with the softest of licks, the smooothest of bends. Joined by wizards Karsh Kale and uncle Loy (of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy) for a couple of jams, Warren sounds sublime when he melted into blues and rousing when he hammered out crunchy, funky riffs. At one point, he chucked, "Are you guys too young to know who The Beatles were?" He then glided into Norwegian Wood, before drifting onto Two Sides Of The Same Coin and of course, the bright, breezy Ode To A Sunny Day.
The night soaked in more metal as Old schoolers Brahma dished out authentic thrash metal with tracks like You Must Die and Bomb. Agnee's lead guitarist Koko joined in for an anything-goes spin on Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
The 27th edition was meant to close on a feistier bang though. Vishal Dadlani harnessed his electro-rock group Pentagram's mad energy to its grooviest potential with crackers like Drive and lovedrug Climdown. Sporting a Superman tee and rockstar shades, Vishali lit up the ground. To mess around with the time-honoured BC-MC chants, he even suggested they switch to Banjo-Mandolin. That may have been silly, but his sign off was anything but. "Thanks for showing up guys. The scene deserves this. It's not easy to keep doing this for 27 years," he sais, cupping his crotch, "It takes balls man."
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