Pub Rock Fest 2009 'mezz' new delhi

To start off with the gig rigging I have chosen “Pub Rock Fest” gigs. Being in New Delhi I attended the one held at ‘Mezz’ in New Friends Colony.

The first gig was at ‘Mezz’ in New Delhi which was on September 6th featured Arcane Deception, Acrid Semblance, Phobia followed by Guillotine. Mezz had a great environment the stage was set on a low height and the sound system was great which made it feel like that the bands were playing among the audience and there was good crowd that made the atmosphere electric and the stage was set for  the bands to unleash the metal within. First up was Arcane Deception which I missed because I was late and by the time I arrived they were packing their equipment off the stage. After ruing the fact that I was late and missed a band I headed right in the front of the crowd as I was adamant not to miss any more of the show. The stage was being set up again and this time it was Acrid Semblance.  The first song they played was from their album ‘From the Oblivion’. It was after some time we were into their first song that I realized that like the others around me I had warmed up and was banging my head. And by the time they played ‘Genisis’ I was head banging full on right in the front of the crowd, there’s something I call getting high on head banging that began taking over my senses I was to-tully lost in it and was high. By the time acrid were finished I was pretty high and the crowd was filled with energy leading to a small moshpit by the end. Next up were ‘Phobia’  which had local crowd support they put in a medley of songs to which there was headbanging and moshpit( although forced by their manager) the energies were flowing when the falling of people on the monitors meant that one of them stopped working and one of their vocalists had to bear with it. Phobia had got the crowds all charged up by the end of their performance but this had an abrupt break when the changing of the stage took an awful lot of time because of the monitor’s non performance. Last up was ‘Guillotine’ who despite the break which made the crowd disperse put up a good show and witnessed lot of headbanging and some moshpit.

By the end of the show I was pretty high and had difficulties in lifting my neck as it was tired of the headbanging, partially out of my senses I headed to Mc Donald’s to stuff up my growling stomach. The show got over at 1 am and was great head banging zone
Hope we get bigger crowds and wilder moshpits the next year.