After getting Firoz Syangden back, 1974 ad - the popular rock band of Nepal performed their reunited concert at St. Xaviers Ground, Jawalakhel in the chilled Saturday evening of Dec 29. This is their biggest concert since Rock Yatra which happened 10 years ago. Though the turn out was not that great as I expected, the concert was one of its kind as promised before by the band and all the audiences were true fans of 1974 ad who stayed till the last minute of the performance and proved that they really want their favorite rock band to be intact for long.
They kicked off the show with Bacha ani bachana deu and continued almost all of their popular songs. The concert started a bit late with lazy opening band, but it was worth the wait. Audience grooved to the rocking performance of the band, being together after 4 years. The band even dedicated the song Samjhi baschu to Firoz syagden saying they missed him when he was not with the band here. They performed improvised version of Pinjada ko Suga and it was awesome. The folk rock Chaubandi choli and Gurasai fulyo garnered big woos from the crowd that made them dance to the Madal beat and they even performed Lekali ho- a popular folk song as a big surprise.
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| Nirakar Yakthumba and Manoj Kumar KC |
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| Adrian Pradhan and Firoj Syangden |
Sanjay Shah from Hello Paisa - the organizer of the concert and a new shared mobile banking platform, demonstrated how to send money through mobile and even transferred thousand rupees to a random audience from the crowd.
All in all, a nice blasting evening to watch one of my favorite rock band's performance united after a long time.
Here is a performance of the band from the reunited concert, for the song Parelima.
