One Night Stand live at Hard Rock Mumbai on Thursday, July 29

One Night Stand was formed in May 2003 as a result of a chain mail sent by MTV looking out for professional rock musicians who could be part of a classic rock jam session for a particular event. An enthusiastic set of responses was followed by a quick short listing (by leader and vocalist Kartik Chintamani) and the rehearsals kicked off. The gig was well received with an overwhelming response. Aimed to be a One Night Stand in its true sense, the band had no intentions of doing anything together seriously. But after the gig everyone in the band realized the potential and decided to carry this effort forward. Since every member was already a professional musician and also had been part of earlier rock bands from various parts of the country, the sound was always tight and the vibes on stage were fantastic.

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Indian Ocean India Tour at Hard Rock Bengaluru on Thursday, July 29

Over the last 21 years, this quartet from Delhi, India has attracted a huge following for its superb performance of original music that ranges from rocking political anthems to meditative spiritual ballads. The bands lyrics celebrate individual journeys to transform the self as well as collective struggles to change to world. These songs of liberation and redemption combine memorable melodies with compelling rhythm's that bring audiences to their feet even as they inspire the mind and soul.

Indian Ocean has performed in over 450 concerts across five continents they have had the honor of performing at such venues and festivals like:-

- Edinburgh Fringe festival (Pick of the fringe’01)

- Trafalger Square, London

- Inaugural concerts at the Melbourne (’02) and Perth (’03)

- Sold out concerts in New Zealand (’02), Indonesia (’02), Singapore (’01, ’03), Germany (’04), Reunion (’04), Japan (’02) Recent triumphant ICCR tour of East Asia: China, Japan and Vietnam (’07)

Along 600 concerts across India, including all the metros, playing in full range of audiences from Schools, Colleges, Clubs, Corporate Houses and stadiums.

Indian Ocean has also done 5 American tours – 50 sold out concerts including the special 4th of July concert at the Smith Sonian folk life festival 2002. they have played at some of the most celebrated festivals like chico and some of the most famous venues like carnigie hall , BB king club in new york

Albums:

Indian Ocean (’93)

Desert Rain (’97) – the only live album by an Indian Band

Kandisa (’00)

Jhini (’03)

Original sound track for the feature film Black Friday (’05)

Indian Ocean is the only band in India to have a documentary made on them which was released

on cinema screens all across the country the docu titled “Leaving home” is the only

music docu to have been given such national importance and exposure the film is

slated to release in the USA in the coming months.

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Fire Exit & Paradigm Shift live at Hard Rock Delhi on Thursday, July 29

Fire Exit

Though for purposes of entirely official nature, we like to categorize Fire Exit as a band that plays “Progressive Alternative Rock”, we truly believe that it falls in the category of bands that are almost impossible to categorize under one single genre of music. Our music is a combination of rock, metal and electronic sounds. The band essentially blends great vocal melody along with instrument harmony, and is based on experimentation with varied time signatures, jazz-influenced bass-lines and an Indian percussion instrument. But at the same time, we like to keep our music simple. As a group of musicians brewing our styles together, we also lay equal focus on the way we “sound” live and on record, giving importance to not just what we play, but also how all that playing comes together and mixes when it comes out on speakers; hence immense stress is laid on the production of our tracks. Our focus as a band is to create a sound unique to the band, with varied styles of rock, metal and psychedelia coming together for great listening pleasure to both the common listener and other musicians. We lay stress on improving our songwriting and playing as we grow together as a band, looking to create mature and sensible music.

Paradigm Shift

Sometime in early 2008, Paradigm Shift sprung into existence. Blending the infectiousness of funk, crunchy rock n’ roll and staccato of progressive with hints of Indian classical in a musical kaleidoscope that deftly ventures out of the realms of each. Despite their straightforward approach to composition, Paradigm Shift’s technical arsenal is singular that never alienates the listener. In fact it causes unpredictable, if not consistent bursts of head banging, violent foot tapping and vigorous cheering. With the drummer providing a bedrock foundation, the guitarists bringing forth melodic irresistibility, the bassist, unrestrained energy and the vocalist musical rapture, Paradigm Shift hopes to keep evolving with their drive and love for sound.

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The Realms live at Hard Rock Hyderabad on Thursday, July 29

They came together with a mandate to send a message through their music. We realize that their skills and talents are unique and cannot be wasted away in obscurity. Their inspiration comes from the One above and their passion is fuelled by the need to make quality, meaningful music that leaves you thinking and WANTING! They like experimenting and that is what brought them together. Their original compositions use subtle dynamic to demonstrate the fact that they love being creative and transcending genre boundaries.

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Illuminati live at Hard Rock Pune on Thursday, July 29

Illuminati is a pune based rock band formed in 2006 started of as a college band but made their mark by winning almost all the competitions since then. illuminati is greatly influenced by blues, rock n roll and alternative.illuminati has been rated 6th overall on myspace charts.

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The Colour Compound Live at Hard Rock Mumbai on Tuesday, August 3

They never thought chilling could be so productive. Bradley (Ex-Thrice9) and Rohan (Ex-Something Relevant) soon found themselves singing and playing guitar together as they formed an acoustic duo. Aditya (Rosemary) and Adil (The SOS) soon joined them to move their sound in a direction in which they saw it going. This lead to what is called 'The colour compound'.

After having found their sound, which they find hard to classify, they began to move forward to spread their music and the message of life as it is. Fresh and with a few shows lined up, they hope to see you there, as they have moments and melodies they'd love to share. ‘The Colour Compound’ is, Rohan Mazumdar - Vocals / Guitar Bradley Tellis - Vocals / Guitar Adil Kurwa - Bass Aditya Ashok - Drums

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Jester & Lazy River Live at Hard Rock Delhi on Thursday, 5th August

Jester
Sharing space with a Indian classical choir and a rather quirky bunch of musicians in Musoc,Kirori Mal College, Jester is a funk band open to a lot of experimentation. Jester finds its inspiration in everyday ironies and general tomfoolery. The vocalist, Dhruv- Nawab of the band, is an air bag with a lunatic glint in his eyes. He's quite good when it comes to crazy harmonies and he always wants to change everyone’s parts. He’s survived the band in spite of the on-off button he carries hidden somewhere within his 'nawab' intellect. Our lead guitarist, Pahwa (no one knows his first name) wants to shred a lot, though we really don’t let him. He does manage to play the coolest chords with some quirky melodies some funky phrasing yes a little shred thrown in. AND yes, he has 253 guitars. For Shiv, struggling to keep his keyboard from perishing because of voltage fluctuations, its all about the groove and his unique one legged dance. Akshay, on bass, is the color quotient of the otherwise sober band. He owns a fluorescent green bass,an orange sweater and yellow eyes. Shantanu ‘shanty’ Sudarshan with his South Indian awesomeness keeps it trendy with Swirlies, high fives, fist bumps, soccer calves and crazy hits.

Lazy River

Lazy river is a 4 piece indie-rock/ funk blues-ish outfit that started as a bunch of friends jamming. formed in 2006 and a few line up changes later, lazy river has been actively gigging and has worked towards a groovy, blues laced psychedelic jam-band oriented sound thats only gotten clearer since. The band draws it's influences from artists and bands such as john scofield band, arctic monkeys, led zeppelin, hendrix, franz ferdinand, john mayer, etc.

Farid Singh- Drums
Meg D'Souza-Vocals
Jeffrey Laloo-Bass
Chaitanya Bhalla-Guitars

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Cirkles Live at Hard Rock Mumbai on Thursday, 5th August

Cirkles is the brainchild of Teemeer Chimulkar (ex-vocalist and lead guitarist and founder member of Sceptre, one of Mumbai's decade old Heavy metal band).

The Mumbai-based band was formed as a result of acoustic jams at various house parties with Teemeer and his circle of friends jamming together songs encompassing a wide genre of rock music using only acoustic guitars. That's when friends suggested taking it more seriously and try doing more professional performances with the jamming theme intact. So here’s the end product, Cirkles, an acoustic experimental rock band which covers music from a whole variety of sub-genres of rock and tries to put its own personal/acoustic touch to the songs.

The idea was also to bring heavy and thrash metal music to the masses and non-rock lovers and play music at a very basic/acoustic level. The current band line-up started performing with its launch gig at the Furtados counter at the Palm Expo in June 2008. The talent of the band lies in how the band performs covers in their own unique style. Songs are as diverse as thrash classics (Memory Remains by Metallica and Tornado of Souls by Megadeth) to classic pop covers (Wicked Game by Chris Isaak and Ordinary World by Duran Duran). The band has since performed and headlined various shows in Government Law College (GLC), Palm Expo May 2008 and at Club D'ultimate August 2008 and most recently in most of the annual events at Mithibai College and NM college with performances at the Jasoda Rang Mandir and rocking students at the KEM medical college and VJTI, Matunga in Dec-Jan’10 with a mix of English and hindi/bollywood rock music. All the shows ran to packed houses with patrons choosing to join in the fun and singing along with the band throughout the set. Cirkles always has an active crowd participation.

They are regulars at NOT JUST JAZZ BY THE BAY, Firangipani(Andheri-w), Hard rock café and Gadda-da-vida in Hotel Novotel, Juhu, Mumbai. Influences for the band as a whole range from Metallica, Megadeth, Slipknot, Pantera to Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Sting, The Police, The Doors, Hindi Rock, Bollywood, etc.

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Thermal And A Quarter Live at Hard Rock Bengaluru on Thursday, 5th August

Thermal And A Quarter is a rock band based in Bangalore, India, and is notable for their focus on original music at a time when the nascent Indian rock music industry focused on cover songs and their innovative use of the Internet to reach out to new audiences. They were among the first groups in Asia to make their music available under a Creative Commons-like license.

In its ten-year career, TAAQ has earned the enviable reputation of being a pioneering Indian Rock band that has consistently defied categorization. Encompassing styles as diverse as Carnatic to Jazz-funk, Thermal And A Quarter has three albums and hundreds of live performances under its collective belt.

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Indian Ocean India Tour at Hard Rock Pune on Thursday, 5th August

Over the last 21 years, this quartet from Delhi, India has attracted a huge following for its superb performance of original music that ranges from rocking political anthems to meditative spiritual ballads. The bands lyrics celebrate individual journeys to transform the self as well as collective struggles to change to world. These songs of liberation and redemption combine memorable melodies with compelling rhythm's that bring audiences to their feet even as they inspire the mind and soul.

Indian Ocean has performed in over 450 concerts across five continents they have had the honor of performing at such venues and festivals like:- -

Edinburgh Fringe festival (Pick of the fringe’01) - Trafalger Square, London - Inaugural concerts at the Melbourne (’02) and Perth (’03) - Sold out concerts in New Zealand (’02), Indonesia (’02), Singapore (’01, ’03), Germany (’04), Reunion (’04), Japan (’02) Recent triumphant ICCR tour of East Asia: China, Japan and Vietnam (’07) Along 600 concerts across India, including all the metros, playing in full range of audiences from Schools, Colleges, Clubs, Corporate Houses and stadiums. Indian Ocean has also done 5 American tours – 50 sold out concerts including the special 4th of July concert at the Smith Sonian folk life festival 2002. they have played at some of the most celebrated festivals like chico and some of the most famous venues like carnigie hall , BB king club in new york

Albums:
Indian Ocean (’93)
Desert Rain (’97) – the only live album by an Indian Band
Kandisa (’00)
Jhini (’03)
Original sound track for the feature film Black Friday (’05)

Indian Ocean is the only band in India to have a documentary made on them which was released on cinema screens all across the country the docu titled “Leaving home” is the only music docu to have been given such national importance and exposure the film is slated to release in the USA in the coming months.

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Evergreen's Performing Live at Hard Rock Hyderabad, 5th August

Evergreen's music can be classified as slightly progressive, mildly heavy, and for the most part, melodic hard rock. It's roots lie in their individually varied tastes in music. What makes them different is their approach to music as it is targeted both at musicians and the common ear.

Their first album, "Between and Beyond," is a product of their unique intuitive style of song writing. "Between and Beyond" speaks about the multi-universes, the physical and meta physical, things we see and yearn to see, and about the many lives and personalities inherent in us all, and how our lives are connected in our choices and the experiences resulting from them.

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Indian Ocean India Tour at Hard Rock Mumbai on Friday, 6th August

Over the last 21 years, this quartet from Delhi, India has attracted a huge following for its superb performance of original music that ranges from rocking political anthems to meditative spiritual ballads. The bands lyrics celebrate individual journeys to transform the self as well as collective struggles to change to world. These songs of liberation and redemption combine memorable melodies with compelling rhythm's that bring audiences to their feet even as they inspire the mind and soul.

Indian Ocean has performed in over 450 concerts across five continents they have had the honor of performing at such venues and festivals like:- -

Edinburgh Fringe festival (Pick of the fringe’01) - Trafalger Square, London - Inaugural concerts at the Melbourne (’02) and Perth (’03) - Sold out concerts in New Zealand (’02), Indonesia (’02), Singapore (’01, ’03), Germany (’04), Reunion (’04), Japan (’02) Recent triumphant ICCR tour of East Asia: China, Japan and Vietnam (’07) Along 600 concerts across India, including all the metros, playing in full range of audiences from Schools, Colleges, Clubs, Corporate Houses and stadiums. Indian Ocean has also done 5 American tours – 50 sold out concerts including the special 4th of July concert at the Smith Sonian folk life festival 2002. they have played at some of the most celebrated festivals like chico and some of the most famous venues like carnigie hall , BB king club in new york

Albums: Indian Ocean (’93)
Desert Rain (’97) – the only live album by an Indian Band
Kandisa (’00)
Jhini (’03)
Original sound track for the feature film Black Friday (’05)

Indian Ocean is the only band in India to have a documentary made on them which was released on cinema screens all across the country the docu titled “Leaving home” is the only music docu to have been given such national importance and exposure the film is slated to release in the USA in the coming months.

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