1.Jaw-dropping Line-ups

Eventhough this is the very first volume of Dyandra Entertainment’s concert festival, Big Sound Festival has shown its fangs on the very first time they released the line-ups. The event will be featured big names like Blur (UK), Van She (AUS), The Temper Trap (AUS) and Tegan & Sara (CAN). Did you just say “Is this really happening?”. YES, IT IS!

 2.The Reasonable Price

We know at some point you’ll whine about the price of the ticket, but guys, take a look to the line-ups one more time! They got Blur, Van She, the Temper Trap, and Tegan&Sara. Four bands and it only costs you IDR 950.000 for the regular festival and IDR 1.250.000 for the VIP festival. And there are so many offers that give a discount (Check Dyandra Ent’s twitter to find out the offers). It must be out of range for some people, but if you want to experience one of the most anticipated music festivals in 2013, this is one hell of a “You Shouldn’t Miss” event.

 3.Completing the series

If you went to Road To Big Sound Fest 2013 (the pre-event for Big Sound Fest 2013), we really think you are in a halfway to complete your music festival series. You started it with a good experience in April with the Kooks, Delphic, and the Radio Dept., why not wrapping it up with Blur, the Temper Trap, Tegan & Sara, and Van She?

 4.One Of the Biggest Events in South-East Asia

People from Singapore, Phillipines, Malaysia and some neighbour countries, are coming to Jakarta just to catch this festival. They have to get some extra fees just to get in to Jakarta, meanwhile, you, who live in Jakarta, only need to pay for the ticket concert. And if you are a live music enthusiast, this should be on your must-see concerts in 2013. The excitement waves from international visitors have confirmed how BIG this festival is!

 5.Blur!

This is the strong point of why you shouldn’t miss Big Sound Festival 2013. Blur is a legendary band who have made a remarkable career in the music industry. NME also put Blur as one of the 50 artists that you have to see before you die. The chance is just right in front of your eye balls! Furthermore, we live in a country where it’s very seldom to have a super legendary band to come to your city. Psst, Blur’s set in Jakarta will be 2-hours long!

After reading the 5 ultimate reasons above, you might have an eye-opening moment and start realizing how must you have to attend the Big Sound Festival. Save your spate of “thank you” words to us, the only thing that you have to do now is rushing to the nearest ticket store or buy it online as soon as possible. See you at Big Sound Festival 2013!

Go to Dyandra Entertainment‘s website to know more about Big Sound Festival 2013

Payung Teduh, the local act who were chosen to be the starter for the international bands, were up on stage at 6.33PM. Heated on the crowd with their sweet melodic and of course, shady tempo. The atmosphere was pretty calm and very comforting when they performed their swinging set, even more the festival was filled by fifty people only at that time, which made Payung Teduh’s show became very intimate.

The local listeners had been soothed by the local act, it’s now the Radio Dept.’s turn. That night was the third time for them to be in Indonesia and their second time for Jakarta. The swedish’s pals transferred their traditional indie and dream-pop sounds through an electronic haze. The band performed the dreamy shoe-gazy to the crowd (with their shy yet solid acts). The songs blended together evethough there were some technical difficulties in the middle of their performance.

If you were at their show in Jakarta in 2011, last night was actually your perfect time (and maybe the band’s time) to pay some redemption after the lame experience of seeing them live (as if you remembered the event was poorly organized). All in all, the shoegaze listener would give them an “A” for last night.

From shoegaze to alternative dance! Delphic, the second international band highlited the crowd into some dancing scene. The band who released their second album, Collections, in January, seriously had some business to do in mixing all the crowd to stomp their feet and bust the moves. They also performed their mixing skills by playing some remixed intros over the songs. If you are not familiar of them, we are that you could easily get along (or even tap your foot) with the beats as the drummer , Dan Hadley, dropped some hook over and over again. Songs like “Doubt”, “Counterpoint”, and “Halcyion” were performed flawlessly. And yes ,they performed the energy which most of the bands on their genre would pretty much end up in showing just an “OK” show.

Here comes the king of the show, The Kooks! After experiencing a long wait and as we saw some people started yawning for getting a real sleepy for waiting them, the Kooks finally arrived on stage. Luke Pritchard cs’ appearance invited the big cheer from the crowd. The crowd erupted into screams as lead singer/guitarist Luke Prichard who showed up wearing a lurik clothes ( Indonesia’s traditional costume), jumped onto a higher stage, shaking his hips in Mick Jagger-like fashion.

They picked “Ooh La” from their debut album, Inside In Inside Out, as the first song. Luke totally performed a good communicative skills to the crowd and his pampered dance. For song “Seaside”, he did an acoustic solo and followed by a crowd’s choir to the song, it was a pretty smooth move. Hugh Harris’s vocal also strongly shone and balanced the performance. The singing along’s session still much happening for the rest of the songs, especially for “How’d Ya Like That”, “Sway”, “Shine On”, and “Do You Wanna”. After performing “Do You Wanna”, the encore’s typical shout out was cheered massively, the crowd seemed still hungry since the band had not performed their hit songs from their previous albums. After shouting for a couple of times, the band returned to the stage again then played the riff of “Junk Of the Heart”. The crowd went into a jiggling-machine and bobbing their heads to the song. Without having a time to catch a breathe, the band played their hit-maker song, “Naïve”, which was the icing of the show. The Kooks totally nailed the night and they surely knew how to make it “big” for “Road To Big Sound Festival”. Despite the fact of the not so crowded, Road To Big Sound Festival has given us something what the young listeners have been waiting for a long time. And remember, this is not over yet, since Big Sound Festival will be up in May 15th with the Temper Trap, Van She, Tegan & Sara and the legendary, Blur, to mark the history in your 2013’s concert list! See you ate Big Sound Festival 2013!