16.12.2011
It was quite a nice surprise when Float –a “sweet” folk band whose songs “Pulang” in 2004 melted the hearts of those both in the indie scene and general audience– gave an intimate, acoustic performance at Antara gallery that cloudy Friday night.
Personally I hadn’t heard about them for a while, and in fact I had never seen them live before, so I was more than happy when I heard they would be playing downstairs.
The performance started rather late unfortunately, at 9 in the evening, but the gallery’s cafe was still jam-packed with people. Mostly they were the band’s friends or their loyal fans, so no wonder everybody sang along to their songs.
Also, at the start of their performance, one of their friends gave away a green book filled with their lyrics. So people could sing along just as if they were in a church. This green booklet was much nicer of course, since church booklets are often not really well designed, usually made using ms word with either times new roman or comic sans fonts.
Float performed in two formations that evening; Meng with the original members Bontel dan Remon and with the new folks who looked so pro they seemed to have been graduated from music schools.
*just checked their website, the new members are from the band Ecoutez! (Leo Christian on bass and Iyas Pras on keyboards) and Chlorophyl (Timur Segara on drums and David Q Lintang on guitar)*
The songlist included “Sementara”, “Surrender”, “Stupido Ritmo” “3 Hari Untuk Selamanya”, and of course people all got gooey and giggly (oh dear I’ve been watching and reading too much of Blackadder) as they played their hit “Pulang”.
During that evening the gallery also displayed album covers with stunning artworks from the world’s greatest bands. These albums are a part of Bang Oscar’s extensive LP collection.
link to the band’s website: http://floatproject.com/
link to youtube documentation
for more photos from the cozy gig, click here.
