What’s the best, fun and right way to celebrate friday the 13th if not by attending the biggest gig of the month or can we say by going to The People’s Party, event which organise and promoted by Untitled Asia together with Soundshine Event and in partnership with British Council.

After hitting Hongkong and Taipei, last friday (13/1) was Jakarta’s turn to experience the ‘mini’ indie rock – dance festival. The show started around 7PM with first performance from Jakarta’s own local band, Roman Foot Soldiers. Even though the band still a rookie, but we think they’ve quite succeed warmed up the audience with their friendly interaction with the audience along with their hits such as Street Without Signs, You Make Me Feel Like Summer and Waterfront.

Though its still hard to describe their genre or if we can quote them as they said that they can be called “intensindie”, this Sydney based band The Jezabels succeed made the audience (or most of the front row) to sing along that night with their hits such as Hurt Me, Easy to Love, Disco Biscuit Love. Hayley Mary the vocalist was able to amused us with her high unique voice that stay stabile until the end of their nine songs.

Probably this is the second most wanted band of the night (which mostly by the girls). Bombay Bicycle Club may represent what British indie rock sounded like nowadays. Started with their new hits such as Shuffle, and Your Eyes and continued with songs from their previous albums such as Dust on the Ground, followed by Leave It then fasting their tempo with Lights Out, Words Gone, Ivy and Gold, Evening/Morning, Cancel on Me, Lamplight, How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep, What You Want,Always Like This and What If. Even so the audience couldn’t stop sing and dance along with them. And surely they do really knew how to rock the stage.

The fourth band of the night might get or probably gain more of this country’s attention after this show. The Naked and Famous with their vocalist Alisa Xayaith really mesmerise us, no wonder even though they just have one studio album their name already get well – know around the planet. That night they played most of the songs from their Passive Me, Aggressive You album such as Frayed, All of This, The Sun, Girls Like You, Eyes, then they play their rock side with Spank, and A Wolf In Geek’s Clothing continued with No Way, Jilted Lovers and last but not least their most waited songs Punching In A Dream, followed by Young Blood.

The party isn’t started until this British electronic music group, Metronomy heated up the stage. Joseph Mount, Anna Prior, Oscar Cash, Gbenga Adelekan played most of the songs from their Nights Out and The English Riviera albums started the show with We Broke Free, continued with Love Underline, Back on the Motorway, Holiday, She Wants, Heartbreaker, The Bay, and after that we could hear another awesome talent of Anna Prior when she sang Everything Goes My Way, and continued with The Look , You Could Easily Have Me, A Thing For Me, Corrine, and finished up with song requested by the audience Radio Ladio, which made most of us sing loud and dance through the beat. We think Metronomy is one of the band that have the  package of what (at least) should a band take on stage. Well one word describe that night even though it’s raining after was happy enough. Not much of an euphoria but not less than we’ve expected.