Heavy Water Homerun 2012
- February 07, 2012 at Yumnam Leikai Lampak, Imphal -
Heavy Water was quite a regular at the Sunday Jam, the Freedom Jam, Live gigs and Legends of Rock (all popular rocks events and popular hangouts in Bangalore) around the year 2006 upto 2009. Their most recent gigs include a run of 3 Metallica tribute concerts in October 2011 culminating in playing alongside the old Imphal metal act, PostMark. This is a Bangalore based band whose members are Manipuris.
Bolin, Meg and Martin met in a party sometime in late 2005. They found themselves having similar notions about music and ended up jamming at Bolin's shack along with Mocha, Amar and Hari. They played impromptu covers from Bryan Adams to Dire Straits to Deep Purple to Guns n Roses to Joe Satriani... no kidding - thats the range of their individual tastes in Rock music.
HeavyWater preparing for Homerun 2012
Source: HeavyWater FB page
Their musical direction has stayed crazy since then. Abu joined in and brought in influences from Metallica. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica forms the prefered sounds of covers during their concerts. They would do a Pearl Jam or a Bullet For My Valentine in between too.
Heavy Water believes, they move through their music sequentially and Chronologically. That is what they call the method to their madness and what defines their sound.
Sometime in early 2009, the band members connected back with their school friends and found themselves discussing the rock scene of Manipur and what used to be when they were trying to play in the early years. This sparked off an idea within the members to organise a getting together concert at Imphal, where old friends of music would reunite and revisit the place where they all started from. The idea was for Heavy Water to be the main band with various other rockers moonlighting the stage. This would give the rock lovers a definite high.
Thus came the idea of Homerun 2009. Martin and Amarzyt were the main vocals but Romi and Shanta joined us in that concert.
HeavyWater - Homerun 2009 - Imphal
Source: HeavyWater FB page
They group thought they could organise a Home Run every year but due to the work commitments of the band members, it didnt materialise until now.
the second innings of Home run is on 7th Feb 2012. Its being organised at Yumnam Leikai Lampak by Oriental Pumpkin and in association with PEEL.
Original materials:
1. One Tune Down - a song about total abandon and rebellion..written by Amarzyt
2. HeavyWater - strains of blues throughout..lyrics by Martin
3. 1993 - as mystifying as the title sounds, 1993 was a significant year in Manipuri history...Martin wrote this on a bus from Guwahati to Imphal in the same year
4. Forsaken - the title says it all - that's where we come from and we're not happy about the present state of affairs
5. Tears of the fall - this is Meg's rant while soul searching in the US
The band is:
Martin - Vocals
Amarzyt - Vocals
Meg - Guitars/ Backing Vocals
Abu - Guitars
Mocha - Bass/ Backing Vocals
Bolin - Drums
HeavyWater - Kyra Bangalore - Metallica Tribute - Oct 2011
Source: HeavyWater FB page
For more information about the band, visit their facebook page.
Read about the Homerun 2009 here.
Vist their website here
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