Man where is the government leading us guyz , we the people who rarely taste the sounds from hell...... The people who once in a blue moon get to gnaw at a headbangers ball .........
Are having the only supply of air confiscated...........
Minutes before opening act Prestorika were due to plug in and crank up their Marshalls at the I-Rock gig at the Gateway of India on September 3, Farhad Wadia made one last desperate attempt to save Bombay’s best-known rock festival, I-Rock.
Wadia, who organizes the festival, walked into the office of the Bombay Commissioner of Police, A.N. Roy, hoping to convince the police that I-Rock was an institution, that tickets had been sold, that 15 different clearances – from fire department officials to the archeological survey of India, had been obtained, and that this was the 20th anniversary of the festival.
All the talk or even the sheaf of official sanctions hardly seemed to matter when, soon after, a posse of khaki-clad coppers pulled the plug on I-Rock 2005, and the Delhi act Prestorika were stopped a few minutes short from kicking off what was to have been two days celebrating the spirit of Indian rock.
Again, that didn’t seem to matter because in the confines of his office, Roy, according to Wadia, said rock was “inappropriate music” to be played at the Gateway.
It didn’t matter that the 4000 black-clad fans that had come into Bombay from Bangalore, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune and Shillong had to go back home...
Info gathered courtesy RAVE magazine
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