By Hasan Faridi
RDB (“Rhythm Dhol Bass”) consists mainly of three brothers, Surj, Manj and Kully, hailing from the small city of Bradford in the UK. RDB are now known across the world, with a successful discography and even a clothing brand.
RDB came to Pakistan two years ago in 2010. Now they’ll be coming back to perform.
1) RDB started in the small city of Bradford, which has a highly populated Asian community. What was it like growing up there?
Bhangra’s original and best international super group RDB is exclusively set to rock the Urban Asian music scene as they plan their next series of headline gigs in the new music hotspot of the world – Pakistan. Surj, from RDB said: “We are so excited and thrilled to include Pakistan in our next series of performances. We love the country and the fans there are so pumped up whenever they hear our songs – it’s great.”
GO KOSTAL
– By Khaver Siddiqi
A member of Co-Ven, frontman for the band Mauj, a guitarist for Ali Azmat, guest musician on Coke Studio (and part of the house band, a year later as well), and member of a musical collaboration known as Kostal. No, these aren’t a group of people, in fact, all of these musicians are actually one and the same; Omran Shafique.