Pepsi's 'Rock the New Year' concert held at the Army stadium Nafid Imran Ahmed From the beginning of this year's music season Dhaka was not flooded with concerts like the previous years. But world famous soft drink brand Pepsi did not let that continue. On February 1 with one of the largest concert crowds Pepsi celebrated the New Year 2002 with performances by the front ranking musical icons of the country.
In Bangladesh, Pepsi has provided the much needed platform to reach music to its' consumers, the youngsters. Not only in Dhaka, Pepsi has organised concerts in Rajshahi, Chittagong and many other cities of the country. With music, Pepsi
concerts always have a noble cause, such as helping the cancer clubs and blood banks. This time Pepsi came up with something similar. This concert was held for the raise of a fund for establishing a free Friday clinic. Front ranking bands LRB, Nagarbaul, Shadhinota, female singer Mehreen and upcoming bands Vikings, Steeler, Cryptic Fate and Glad Tiders performed at the concert
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Nagarbaul performing at the concert at Army Stadium |
The concert was scheduled to start at 3:00p.m.and long before that the music loving people started to fill the Army Stadium premises. With a heavy metal number Cryptic Fate kicked off Pepsi's New Year Fest. By then people were outside the ground and filling in the galleries in small numbers. Though new to many, Cryptic Fate started their journey into Dhaka's music scene quite some time ago. They already have two albums released and have performed in many mini and big shows. They are quite famous for their heavy metal numbers. The heavy metal fans in the audience loved their performance. The audience cheered as they started playing Iron Maiden numbers. Cryptic Fate played the heavy metal numbers in a unique manner. As always it was amazing to see three young musicians play such good music.
Glad Tiders took over the stage. With some all-time favourite rock English numbers and some of their own Bengali composition such as 'Psychotic Love Affair' the band performed at the concert. Beginning in 1991 the band came a long way and partook in the Benson & Hedges Star Search 1999. Recently they have released an album and have distributed 3000 copies of it free. The reason behind this was that they wanted the audience to listen to their music and judge for themselves whether they preferred it or not. Once again the drummer Daiyan fascinated all with his superb drumming.
Last year's Star Search winner Steeler was next. They started their performance with their own number 'Dukkho'. Next they started performing English numbers.
One after another they performed Dire Strait's 'Saultan's of Swing', Brain Adam's 'Summer of 69', Deep Purple's 'Black Night' and 'Highway Star'. One of their Bengali number 'Ratri' was next. The audience enjoyed their performance. With the number 'Tobuo' Steeler's performance came to an end.
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