future music festival asia 2013

a couple weeks ago, future music festival asia came to town. i missed it last year (as i had just arrived), but everybody said it was fun. in looking at the line-up, i was most definitely not excited. still, i wanted to experience it with my friends. there were four stages, so lots of music going on all the time but we stayed at one of the main stages.



first, of course, we had to feed ourselves with the most deliciously authentic barbeque you can find here in malaysia. andy's bbq is run by americans, and seriously delicious. a nice taste of home. we also found some amusement in the cigarette girls.



there was a ferris wheel, but we didn't try it, and a seriously beautiful sunset. you can see the ATC tower at the airport, something to make my dad happy :)



the first artist we saw was rita ora, from britain. she was pretty good. there were several problems with her mic that caused some issues, but she powered through it. we managed to squeeze ourselves right up to the front of the stage.



second we saw psy. yeah, THAT psy. he performed several korean songs and then "gangnam style" not once, but TWICE. i caveat this with the fact that i really dislike him. i won't get into the reasons why, but i don't find him to be genuine. that being said, he performed his one-hit-wonder song twice for the reasons that people would want to take photos/videos, so he wanted to provide them an opportunity to take photos/videos during the first performance, and then fully dance and enjoy the second. i thought that was admirable. he has to be completely tired of that song, and i'm almost positive his dancers are equally tired since one of them looked so unenthusiastic throughout the whole show i thought she might fall asleep on the stage, so to perform it twice purely for fan enjoyment says something. still, he peeves me. i'd post a video, but youtube has changed its settings such that i can't access my account and that's all a big mess.



after that, fun. took the stage. they lived up to their namesake. i also have a bone with one of their songs, but i let it go because they were all such great performers. the lead singer was so ACTIVE on stage, he was just fun to watch. they were pretty great live as well.

we left after that, as we were tired and there weren't really any other artists we were interested in seeing. it was a timely exit as well, as i had a little sinus issues and they miraculously disappeared for the five hours or so we were out there, and creeped right back in during the last fun. song. ah well, the concert made for a nice weekend!

Categories: concert, kuala lumpur, malaysia