The Dorques in Saigon

It was still 2007 when the Dorques from Manila hit Saigon, made possible by Rupert/Tuung, who is bored from Vietnamese pop music and incredibly rich and therefore now and again flies in some of these fine underground rock bands that nowadays blossom all over Southeast Asia. Except Vietnam it seems. At any rate, the crowd at the venue was rather surprised that they could not sing along any of the Dorques songs, like they always do when their same band plays every same evening the same covers of the same songs. So I was pretty much the only one that screamed for the Dorques.

myspace.com/thedorques
myspace.com/tuung

Jakarta for me.

The Indo trip is already long over, but there is still one thing I want to share. One of my secret endeavours when I went to Jakarta this time was to find out what in hell it is that fascinates me so much about this city since I first lived there in 2005. After the trip it is now still not possible for me to list the exact formula of the drug Jakarta is to me. The impression is just too blurry. Instead of steam bubbling for pages about a vage idea, I publish this picture, taken from the blog of my good friend Dominik. This is the picture I have in my head when I think of Jakarta. Nothing less. Thanks so much, Dominik.