Last Friday, got to catch JD Fortune live with INXS at Stadium Negara. Definitely the most "comfortable" concert I've been to. Just about 5000 people so you had room to breathe and enjoy the music.
All I wanted most to was to hear and see how JD would do the the old INXS numbers. To hear INXS live again with their new RockSt*r belting out "Need You Tonight" and "New Sensation"... phoarrrrrr, best. Mouth-watering.
(pictures "curi"ed from arong the net. Sorry my handphone has no camera, cheap phone)
JD did well, establishing his own style. He is no Michael Hutchence but he's got his own presence and definitely has the strength to carry the band. Afterglow was a huge hit with the crowd.
We (Mel, Willy and yours truly) bought the tickets at the final hour and did some shopping at Top Shop - all so cool and never in a rush. Juz was supposed to get the tickets but we ended up having to do it, and we even went to Ticket Charge instead of Ticket-whatever to buy the tickets... thankfully the girl employee at Ticket Charge was nice enuff to direct us to the right place in Mid-Valley.
But I tell you what-I have to say the opening act was well... to be polite ... just plain BAD. Gawd. I mean obviously we the audience would be in trouble when the very "handsome" lead singer says things like ..."I wrote this song so you can jump" ... and when he "ordered" the uninterested audience to get up their lighters and phones for one of his songs, the power went off. Thank GOD. It took divine intervention to stop the hurt from getting to us muahahhaha. The irony is I bumped into the lead singer in a lift when i was going for dinner at luna bar last nite. What a coincedence. I didnt even know the name of his band or who he is.
Was it deliberate on the part of the organizers to get a band who was so band so that INXS would look like rock gods? I wonder.
JD being the true ROCKSTAR - came on, strong and powerful... and it was fun.