Navicula set cancelled last minute as opening act for Ian Brown

Di-copy dari note- NAVICULA

Last night Navicula was scheduled to open for the legendary British musician Ian Brown at Hard Rock Cafe, Bali. Less then an hour before the show, Navicula's set was cancelled by Ian Brown's stage crew because of technical concerns.

One week ago, we received confirmation that Ian Brown's management had approved Navicula as the opening act for their show in Bali on Aug 7, 2010. Of course, for us this was an honor and we were excited to be sharing a stage with an International rockstar.

On the day of the event, after Navicula's sound check at 11am, everything seemed to be ready for the show. Together with the local stage manager and the Hard Rock Cafe event team we worked around the demanding stage needs for Ian Brown's performance.

At 5pm we got a call from the event organizers giving us a heads up that Ian Brown was setting up their equipment and in the process had changed everything from the set up this morning – meaning our morning sound check was useless, and we would have to do a last minute sound check before our performance at 9pm.

Navicula members and crew were standing by, ready to set up, again. All our amps had been moved off the stage, the mixing board we used at sound check had been switched with another board – the stage was totally rearranged with no concern for our set up. Ian Brown's team finally finished their sound check at 9pm, Navicula was scheduled to perform in half an hour.

After their sound check, Ian Brown's stage manager let us know the we could not move our amps back on stage because they were worried it would effect their equipment and they would not give us any channels on the mixing board, so Navicula could not perform. Even though we guaranteed that we would not change their settings whatsoever, Ian Brown's team still would not let us perform.

By now the event had officially started… without support from the event organizers and without any flexibility from Ian Brown’s stage crew, we were stuck between a rock and a hard place. It’s one thing to cancel Navicula’s set, but waiting until an hour before the show is rude and inconsiderate.

Well, life goes on. Lessons learned.
From Navicula management: Apologies to all our fans for the last minute cancellation, thanks for coming out and supporting. Thanks to the team at Hard Rock Café and the event organizers for doing their best.

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Denpasar, 8 Agustus 2010

Di Copy dari note: Ishimine Cindy

Navicula gagal manggung semalam di Hard Rock Cafe, Bali - Musisi papan atas Ian Brown asal inggris semalam menolak Navicula manggung bersama. Alasan mereka membatalkan secara tiba-tiba oleh sebab paraoia akan terganggunya setting mereka padahal Navicula telah mendapat channel mixer sendiri dari pihak Hard Rock Cafe, Bali.


Navicula adalah band indie asal Bali dibentuk pada tahun 1996 namun pada tahun 2004, record label Sony BMG merangkul mereka untuk me-release album ke-4 yaitu Alkemis. Pada tahun 2007, Navicula kembali mengobarkan semangat idealisme mereka melalui jalur indie dan sedang mempersiapkan album mereka yang ke-7 untuk di release pada tahun 2011.

Kesempatan yang diperoleh Navicula bermain bersama musisi papan adalah hal yang cukup membanggakan, selain membawa nama Navicula juga ingin menyatakan bahwa kualitas band Indonesia tidak kalah dengan band mancanegara.

Cek sound pada hari H berjalan lancar di Hard Rock Cafe, Bali pada jam 11, segala sesuatunya telah diatur agar tidak mengganggu setting Ian Brown pada malam concertnya bahkan mereka menggunakan channel mixer yang dipersiapkan khusus oleh pihak Hard Rock Cafe.

Sekitar jam 20.30, crew Ian Brown masih melakukan cek sound dan merubah seluruh setting serta menggunakan seluruh channel mixer yang tersedia. Lebih mengagetkannya lagi saat mendengar kabar berita didalam bahwa Navicula kemungkinan besar tidak jadi manggung. Cek sound Ian Brown berakhir sekitar jam 22.00 yang seharusnya sesuai rundown, Navicula manggung jam 21.30.

Akhirnya Robi, vokalis Navicula mendatangi crew untuk membahas secara musyawarah dan menjelaskan bahwa tidak akan ada setting mereka yang berubah atau terganggu apabila Navicula bermain LIVE diatas panggung. Pembicaraan ini tidak berlangsung lama namun hasilnya nihil. Mereka tetap tidak mau berbagi panggung.

Panitia pada saat itu tidak bisa berbuat banyak karena dilihat dari situasinya memang crew Ian Brown serta Panitia-nya mengambil alih semua proses didalam.

Kekecewaan tidak hanya dari segi gagal manggung, tapi Navicula sebagai band local ditolak untuk bermain di pulau mereka sendiri adalah kejadian yang tidak masuk di akal. Harga tiket Ian Brown sebesar 350rb rupiah dan tidak sepeser pun untuk Navicula.

Sebegitu 'Dewa'-nya kah band luar sehingga band local tidak dihargai lagi kreatifitasnya?
Lalu siapa yang membela band local bilamana di negara sendiri mereka tidak memperoleh dukungan?

Musik di Indonesia sebenarnya sangat luas dan berwarna. Banyak band indie yang berkualitas namun tidak diberi kesempatan untuk didengar. Orang yang membuat lagu karena passion, itulah yang membuat mereka lebih bernilai dan kreatifitaspun berkembang, mereka adalah musisi yang sebenarnya bukan hanya sekedar main alat musik.

Dukung terus band indie, dukung kreatifitas musisi-musisi Indonesia agar dapat berkembang dan dihargai didalam negri maupun luar.


Peace and Love,

Komentar Robi Navicula di note:

yap, Cindy. That's was shit happens! Mungkin kita terlalu baik kali yaak... but i agree with you. Di jaman serba sharing dan fasilitas manggung serba canggih ini, masih eksis juga ketakutan2 tak beralasan untuk berbagi space dan channel di panggung... weleh, katanya sound engineer profesional kelas dunia, kok parno??....sharing space dipanggung mah udah wajar. Ini cuma berdua, gimana dalam festival yg puluhan band?... apalagi kita band sederhana yg setuju menggunakan cuma seiprit persen dari fasilitas yg ada, dengan tujuan mengedepankan kenyamanan pemain bintang malam itu. Melihat fasilitas mixer,channel, dan tata suara yg tersedia, sebenarnya itu bukan masalah.... yg ada hanya ketakutan tak beralasan dari 'team soundengineer profesional' tersebut kalo kita diberi kesempatan berbagi panggung. Aduh, jengkel jg... sampai amplifier kita juga diturunkan dan gak boleh naik, kita berbaik hati; okey maen direct tanpa ampli...ntar nya lagi...gak boleh juga maen direct pula, meski kita udah punya channel sendiri.... what?? emang kita cuman datang main gitar kopong+nyanyi tanpa tata suara memadai...sama aja dong kayak ngamen di lampu merah...hey, ini maen di Hard Rock cafe.... we play HARD ROCK, sama kayak nama venuenya....disuruh maen akustik, tetap aja set akustik kita akan membutuhkan line/mixer channel, mic, space panggung, dan tata suara layak utk bisa tampil maksimal. Siapa sih yg mau tampil memble? Yeah.... mau gimana lagi...dasarnya mereka aja under estimated dan parno nggak jelas dan takut nunjukin ke bosnya, kalo2 nanti ada masalah di panggung karena ulah 'para gerilyawan Kuta Cowboys' yang bersahaja ini...
Fukk it! This is not the end of the world. We still have more fun gig to come. Thanks buat sahabat dan fans yang udah datang semalam, dan kita tdk bisa tampil. Thanks juga buat sahabat team panitia dan venue yang sudah berusaha terbaik bisa dan meminta maaf langsung kepada manajemen Navicula. Kita emang terlalu baik karena mengusung budaya timur nrimo dan ogah bikin konflik...having fun aja. Rock n roll is about having fun, when not fun then it is not rock n' Roll anymore! Persetan dengan rockstar dan birokrasi politik dunia hiburan, we just want to rock and having fun!

Burgerkill At Hard Rock Cafe Bali

Burgerkill, the best metal band Indonesia play in Bali for the second time. This time they rock at Hard Rock Cafe in Kuta.

The Show was start at 11, there was a long queque at the gate, when I was enter the venue Parau was playing, so I missed the other opening act The Last One.

Hard Rock Cafe that night was full of Hardcore Kids, Metal Heads and Punkers, and most of them are wearing black t-shirt!

I can't remember how many songs they were played that night, but the band give the best show ever to all the crowd, I just remember that they covered 1 song from Panthera "mouth of war".
Eben, guitarist of Burgerkill was amazed with the Balinese crowd, he said: "If our President saw how cool you guys here, he must be proud!"

Burgerkill is planned to tour in West Australia this month, they gonna be the first metal band from Indonesia who ever toured there.

Good Luck, and stay metal!


Complete Bio of BURGERKILL

Jeanie

Jeanie is a glam rock band from Denpasar Bali Indonesia, it's initially consists Pitt Rose on Vocals, Metta on Drums, Ari Phoenix on Guitar and Ryan on Bass. The name of Jeanie is derived from Pitt and Metta's mother name; Yenny, this band is dedicated for their mother recovery who suffered from a heart disease at that time in 2001.

With several compilation albums, local and national and one full album; Prosperity of Life (released in 2005), they had been around stage to stage in Bali and Java.
Their latest album is Perfect Glory, it was release on December 2008, and they ready to rock again! rock on guys!

Booking & Contact :

redroomrockers

Phone : +62 361 74 62 62 1 or +6281 797 382 65

Fax : +62 368 21 34 8

Email : redroomrockers@yahoo.com

Website : www.myspace.com/glamrockofjeanie

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www.youtube.com/jeanierock

Dialog Dini Hari

Dialog Dini Hari was build by Dankie, Ian Joshua Stevenson and Mark Liepmann in the fall of 2008, Dankie is charismatic guitarist from neo-grunge band Navicula. Ian and Mark are from Kaimsasikun. And tonite this trio will launch their album at Ozigo country club in Renon - Denpasar Bali.