Monday, July 27, 2009 Schezee Zaidi Islamabad A new musical spot ‘Rock Musicarium’ opened here Saturday night with a spectacular display of jamming sessions and homegrown music, with a stellar line up from Coven, Hash, Farhad (from Overload), Shehzad Hameed, Simt, Qiyaas, Natasha, Arieb Azhar, Zeejah Fazli and Ali Hamdani.
The Sweetleaf City Jam this year was surely the biggest Jam session ever in Islamabad if not in Pakistan. It was also the soft launch of the new hangout spot for musicians “THE ROCK” (Zeejah‘s vision and execution). It featured performances by: Ali Hamdani Natasha Ejaz Sallahudin Hash Arieb Azhar Haroon Shahid with Farhad Humayun […]
Drummer Farhad Humayun leads the line for Overload, one of the major bands on Pakistan’s rock scene. The band releases its second album, Pichal Paree, next month through Universal Music, and fans are eager to see how Overload has evolved from earlier incarnations: new members include Meesha, a vocalist. This is a departure from Overload’s […]
The Darker Side of Light Two bands. Two sounds. Four musicians. Having organised a few concerts in Pakistan, it seemed sponsors and some event managers would forget to do their math and assume that if one would ask co-VEN to play, that set list would multiply to include Mauj. It took some time for the […]
“The music scene is bad and almost defunct. There”s a lot of potential in new Pakistan and young budding artists are with me on this.” – Overload drummer Farhad Humayun speaks on spearheading ‘The System’ and its importance for the music industry Maheen Sabeeh Karachi The brainchild of Overload drummer and seasoned session player Farhad […]
The MTV Brrr Music Awards held recently in Karachi amused, shocked and at times even horrified the audience. Although the blunders that happened were too many to list, we’ve shortlisted a few that stood out. By M.R.S. When getting music acts to perform ‘live’ (which in the case of the MTV Music Awards meant a […]
School “S” Right , so I hear some of u wanted to read about my childhood or silly school stories including jman from the last blog’s first post . Ironically an old school friend tagged me today in a few group pictures of me with my pals back in school .
Interview: Mauj, Coven with Talha Bhatti More by Mauj
Noori, at present is a two member band by the brothers Ali Noor and Ali Hamza. Initially when it started the band consisted of four members including Louis J Pinto (AKA Gumby) and Ali Jafri apart from the brothers. The name Noori is not derived from Ali Noor. Noori is a Persian word which means […]
Plan B [Live at AAG] More by Coven
