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Possibly 1 of the last few gigs that I have attended prior to the start of school in 2 weeks's time , I head to Esplanade to watch Caracal & SkiVe performed as part of a 3 days Power Jam Snakeweed Weekend & last night was the last day of the 3 days event with SkiVe having the honour in closing the event .

A few of such bands were handpicked by Leonard in which they graced the event . Power Jam Snakeweed Weekend took place at Outdoor Stage @ Power House which's situated near the Makansutra Food Court .

I came to the realisation that it's pretty pointless asking people whom I know to accompany me to such gigs cos what's the point when they never heard the artistes's material in the 1st place ? Or better yet , they never even heard of them before so I figure at the end of the day , it's best if I go alone . Call me selfish or anything but it saves me the time & effort to beg/pled with people to go & accompany me period .

On my way to where the gig was taking place , I chanced upon the poster that Esplanade has put up regarding Astreal's Lover & The Sea gig as part of late nite @esplanade series ! Wow they're pretty efficient . Astreal's gig's not scheduled to take place until 30th Nov , Fri but the poster is up & running .

I will definitely go for it once tickets will be released on sale from 18th Oct , Thurs . Hui Li has expressed interest in going for it too as she likes Astreal's music as well . Somemore frontwoman Ginette kinda insisted that I should go for it as she wants to see me in person for the longest time as I have been helping them out on the sideline for a while now so why not man . I will definitely buy the tickets as soon as 18th Oct kicks in !

Both Caracal & SkiVe played full sets last night , stretching at 45 mins set . I came late for Caracal , about 7.45pm or so & there were a lot of Caracal fans/people when I made my way to the venue .

I didn't realised that Caracal cut short their set by about 20 mins or so til Leonard told me after SkiVe's gig finished as Caracal has not been playing full sets for a while now . Even Caracal's frontman Chris said so onstage but they're cool , very energetic performance they put up last night but I think it's even better than what they did for Rock For Wayne since last night , the stage setup was so much bigger than Rock For Wayne's .

SkiVe took the stage at around 8.45pm or so & for once they start on time . I have been to countless of gigs & most of the time , all of them don't start on time so for once it's a nice change & the gig that SkiVe did last night was flipping heck tons more better than the 1 they put up at Bukit Batok .

They started the ball rolling by doing Standing In The Rain . I have heard the acoustic version before when I tagged along with them for the recording of 987 Home but not the live non acoustic version . It was very nice & the sound system was good !

Initally I thought Leonard would be manning the sound for SkiVe as I recalled he didn't do that for Caracal . But nope that happened for SkiVe as Soon told me the sound equipment in Esplanade's insured . Man I didn't realise even the sound equipment's insured . Since when such a policy exist ?

Next was an original song which I never heard before but I really like it . It's something called I Hope & it was followed by a cover of Hinder's Lips Of An Angel in which I die die hate the song but I like SkiVe's redition so I can pardon them haha .

Before that , I was telling Soon PLEASE don't do Hinder AGAIN as it's no secret that I don't like that song . I mean I like it before it was overplayed to death but let's just leave it .

It was followed by another original composition that I never heard before but I think outta the songs that SkiVe did last night , this 1's probably my fave . It's something called Won't Do Anything About It .

Frontman Marcus was backed up by lead guitar which was played by Soon & keyboardist Caleb . Won't Do Anything About It is a ballad but I really like No. a lot . It was followed by another cover in the form of a Don Henley's No. aka frontman of The Eagles . Something that's called The Heart Of The Matter .

After SkiVe's 2nd cover of the night , it was followed by 4 of their original compositions in the form of Curtain Call , Lost Again , Coming Over Me & of course the single that stared it all , The Same Old Sky .

I was hoping that they will do Stay leh but that's ok . At least they did Lost Again ! The attendance of the crowd would have been much much better but at least it's better than playing a gig with empty seats .

Songlist of SkiVe's gig last night :

1) Standing In The Rain
2) I Hope
3) Hinder's Lips Of An Angel
4) Won't Do Anything About It
5) Frontman of The Eagels Don Henley's The Heart Of The Matter
6) Curtain Call
7) Lost Again
8) Coming Over Me
9) The Same Old Sky

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