Bittersweet held their Knights of the Round Table (I think this will be the title of their next album, scheduled to be released in March 2010) at Cloth n Clef on the 20th of February. Guest bands for the night were Deserters, They Will Kill Us All and Killeur Calculateur.

Deserters

Rina Omar, the emcee for the night.

Killeur Calculateur

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology held the second Heal The World concert at its main campus at Cyberjaya on the 10th of February 2010. It’s main purpose was to raise funds for the Haiti earthquake victims. The concert was held in conjunction with UNICEF.

Tiffanee Marie Lim, special assistant to Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Lim Kok Wing kickstarted the concert. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, A. Kohilan Pillay, Ms Choon Bow Bow from UNICEF Malaysia and Miss Malaysia World 2009 Tanuja Anandhan was also present at the event.

Students from various different countries took part in this 2 hour long concert. There were solo performances, duets, hip-hop, and also a rock band, which performed Knocking On Heaven’s Door. Besides that, there was also poetry recitals from the students.

Sam, performing an Arabic song.

Lien Ho, from Vietnam.

The last performer was Hope, who came on stage for the second time to sing Gemilang, in Bahasa Malaysia.

A mock cheque of RM30,000 was handed over the UNICEF representatives and after that, to end the concert, the Limkokwing International Choir, together with the audience sang Heal The World.

The Sony World Photography Awards in Kuala Lumpur was launched on the 4th of February 2010 at the Petronas Galeri, KLCC. The exhibition will be held from the 4th of February till the 28th of March 2010. Entrance is free, but no photography is allowed in the exhibition hall.

The winners from each category (Commercial, sports, portraits, etc) are showcased in the exhibition. One particular photograph which caught my eye was Dustin Humphrey’s commercial photography for Insight. The photo shoot was done at Bali and features prominent surfers on the surface of the water with interesting subjects underwater.  Check out http://www.reelsessions.com/dustinhumphrey_insight.html for more information.

The Super Junior Official Ticket Launch was held on Saturday, 6 February 2010 at concourse level, Sungei Wang at 12pm. Concert tickets were sold with a 15% discount.

At the ticket launch, a dance group named Progression from MY SJ performed the dance hit “Sorry, Sorry”. There was also a dance workshop on-the-spot so that all fans can warm up to the song before the concert.

A lucky fan got invited on stage to perform the dance and won herself an RM238 ticket!

Breaking the record ticket sales of Asian concert in Malaysia, Super Junior, the 2nd Asia Tour “Super Show 2″ Live in Malaysia 2010, nearly 40% of the concert tickets were sold out in less than a week during the Ticket Pre-sale. RM138 and RM238 ticket categories were totally sold out. Especially RM138 ticket category was gone within 2 hours of the Pre-Sale itself. Fans started to queue at 7am and the queue lasted for 12 hours, an unseen ticket-grabbing phenomenon over the past decade.

The 3rd edition of Innovation Enabling Transformation was launched at the Westin Hotel, KL on the 15th of January 2010. The book is a compilation of speeches gave by Tan Sri Dato Dr. Lim Kok Wing throughout the past few years.

A long and close friend of Lim Kok Wing, Datuk Paddy Bowie had the honors to be open the event. Her speech was delightful and casual, in which she humorously mentioned that she did not know what ‘Kok Wing‘ meant in Chinese, but the word ‘Wing‘ did definitely suit Lim Kok Wing as he did spread his wings to fly and excel in his career.

The first Sony Alpha Pro Shop was launched on the 9th of January 2010. It is in fact, Studio Zaloon (which was already open for business several months ago), operated by Uncle Chin, a name he is more commonly referred to as by the members of the Alphanatics forum.

Studio Zaloon was already popular with users of the Sony Alpha DSLR system, as his shop caters to and stocks loads to A-mount lenses and also Sony Alpha accessories. You can get Tamron and Sigma lenses for the Sony Alpha there, usually ready in stock or by orders (which takes only a few days to get to his shop).

Ne-Yo performed at the Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach on the 7th of January 2010 as part of his Year Of The Gentleman Tour. The concert was scheduled to start at 8pm but the crowd began to queue up at the Sunway Lagoon entrance by 6pm. The concert was organised by PhuturePhlow and co-sponsored by Celcom X-pax and Sunway Lagoon.

The over excited crowd was tagged with X-pax stickers by the unique rollerblading X-pax promoters.

The Mister Potato Fiesta was held at Mist Club on the 19th of December 2009. It was the final leg of the Mister Potato contest in which contestants took pictures of themselves and uploaded it to the website. After voting, the shortlisted candidates were invited to the party where the final competition was held in order to select the top winners.

Sham, the Mister Potato guy was also there at the event, but the Evil Assistant could not be spotted anywhere!

This is the second part of the 2-part coverage. Check out the coverage of the Indie and Chillout stage here: http://www.lifeinkl.com/2010/01/09/rock-the-world-9-indie/. The heavy afternoon rain forced most of us to take shelter in the media tent, foregoing performances by bands such as Blind Tribe (they were playing when the rain started, and continued playing), Saturnine, Yuna and Disagree.

There was the usual local clothing labels around the venue, this on in particular, the newer Envelove, who stocks the famous Badger (from Bandung, Indonesia) brand.

Republic of Brickfields is no stranger to the local music scene and is a staple band at the Rock The World series (no Koffin Kanser this year though). Recently, they opened for Search at Mon’t Kiara and today, they had a real surprise in store for fans.

Rock The World 9 was held at the Bukit Jalil Stadium Carpark on the 26th of December 2009, or also known as Boxing Day. The event was originally supposed to be held at Sunway Lagoon on the 19th of December, but things did not go as planned, hence the venue and date change.

If you might have noticed from the event flyers section, the Radio Rosak Grand Finale was also supposed to be held on the same day, but at Stadium Negara instead. It also faced some nasty hiccups along the way and had to postponed instead. From what I heard, it is scheduled to be held sometime during in March 2010.

Ray Gaban and Haniff of XFM taking control of the Indie Stage

In this part, I will concentrate on some of the bands which performed at the Indie and Chillout stage, the smaller stages at this year’s Rock The World event. The Indie Stage started out earlier in the morning, at around 11am, with Kyoto Protocol taking the honors of being the first band to perform.

You can check out the Main Stage coverage here: http://www.lifeinkl.com/2010/01/14/rock-the-world-9-main-stage/