Wicked Aura at Rouge
Instead of spending a quiet night in and catching up on much-needed sleep as planned, I ended up at Rouge (the former Milieu; that place sure brings back memories) with the Xtomic people. It wasn’t my kind of scene at all, I didn’t really want to club (ok fine, I want to, but not at Rouge). But the temptation to hang out with stomic was hard to resist since I have not seen them for quite some time. Besides, I was curious about Wicked Aura Batucada, a percussion band, who was invited to perform a few sets there. And I need to let off some steam.
Wicked Aura was impressive indeed. I found myself staring awestruck at them from the moment they started playing. The beauty of their coordination, the precision, the way they swayed to their music, the rhythm that they drummed up which pounded into me… I could just go on and on. They are good. Unfortunately when I looked around Rouge, it seemed to me that most of the NUS BizAd people (it was the BizAd bash) didn’t know how to appreciate this kind of music. Hmmmm, what a waste.
That was the only highlight of the night though (actually something interesting occurred but that’s a story for another time). We left the place before 12 midnight cos the place was boring and Rouge started playing house music which was horrible, at least to my ears. Sister and I headed home in an NR5 shortly after; the cheapest way home.
- the bimbotic reviewer , the clubber , the fun xtomicer
s t a r m | s t August 14th, 2004
