Time to headbang!
Every year, during winter, Indians are in for a special musical treat. Bacardi NH7 Weekender is here again with a crazy line up that would get anyone head-banging or dancing or swaying their arms to different melodies.
The line-up for the festival includes the likes of Meshuggah, Textures, TesseracT, Nucleya, Manu Chao La Ventura, Simian Mobile Disco and Indian bands like Parikrama, The Raghu dixit Project, Kailasa, Blackstratblues and Papon & The East India Company performing across the country over two months.
“We're honoured to be among the very few bands that have played at every single NH7 Weekender so far! It is a festival we look forward to every year and this year is quite special for us. We have a whole bunch of surprises in store for the weekenders, so we can't wait for festival to come around. We're releasing our new album later this year, so we’ll definitely be debuting some new tracks,” say members of The Raghu Dixit Project, who are set to perform in Pune and Bengaluru.
Vijay Nair, CEO, Only Much Louder, says the festival “is about giving fans a true music festival experience, and one that they will perhaps remember as the happiest music festival.”
Resonating the CEO's thoughts, Angaraag Mahanta, popularly known as Papon, from Papon & The East India Company says, “I've played at this festival before and have always had a great concert. It's a fantastic festival, with lots of music and a really great vibe. It really is the happiest festival around. I can't wait to perform at the festival in Delhi next month!”
Blackstratblues, a blues instrumental band based in Mumbai, have performed at the festival before. The guitarist Warren Mendonsa is looking forward to hanging out with other musicians. “A great band is a great band, be they from Delhi or Darwin or Detroit. It's always a fulfilling experience hanging out with great musicians,” he says.
Metal heads are excited about travelling to different cities to witness these bands live. “Having seen metal take extremely progressive forms like djent in the last few years, it is a metal head's dream to see the progressive metal pioneers come to India,” says Anand Dorairaj, an IT professional. “I've wanted to watch Tesseract for a long time. I missed them the last time. They have a great mix of clean vocals and growls,” adds Arun Jambunathan who plays guitar and sings for Benglaluru-based band, The Lies Inside.
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