Nepalunites is organizing another campaign, ‘Mero Desh, Mero Dayitwa’ to clean up Kalmochan temple in Thapathali. Nepalunites is an inclusive activist organization of Nepalese citizens from all walks of life that first started off as a movement towards the delay of the constitution writing. Since then, Nepalunites has been functioning via mostly Facebook and also YouTube to locally carry out tasks of national significance. Kalmochan Ghat is a temple next to the religiously pious yet infamously polluted Bagmati River. With the pledge ‘This Saturday we will exhibit one more time that the Nepalis just don’t ask others to perform their duties; as citizens, we perform our duties as well towards our nation’ the members of Nepalunites will be working with the administration, local guthis, local clubs and nagarpalika to clean the place up. The event is set to take place on 20th August 2011 beginning on 1:00 pm. People are invited to come in their casuals with cleaning materials including brooms, buckets, gloves etc. Besides cleaning, there are plans to repaint the walls.
Category: Events
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Mero Desh Merai Dayitwa Let’s Clean up Kalmochan Temple
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ktmROCKS e-mag
Not only does ktmRocks organise concerts but also they also release an e-mag at regular intervals. And that too is very popular among people. The e-mag focuses on different themes in every issue, and in the current edition (published August 2012) they have focused on local drummers. They interviewed different drummers from the local scene and some from Bangladesh, Srilanka and Germany. The team asked the drummers about their influences, how they started, their current playlist, their kit shell, etc. The team also managed to know about their practice routine, which I think has certainly helped some struggling drummers. Some of the drummers that were featured were ‘Surya Pun (Antim Grahan/Define Mental), Kiran Sahi (Jindabaad), Mike Parker (Ayurveda, USA), Lille Gruber(Defeated Sanity, Germany). I would recommend any music lover to download the e-mag via internet from different locations. (Facebook, ktmROCKS website). The drummer special issue also features drummers/bands from Hetauda and Pokhara too. The e-mag, however did not just cover everything about drummers. It managed to pull off an interview with John Gallagher (Guitarist for Dying Fetus) one of the biggest death metal bands right now, thanks to its team. The mag also covered some interviews with some other bands/guitarists too. And yes, one name that no one ever forgets to mention when talking about ktmROCKS is Mr. Umes Shrestha, who has been there since the very beginning. Many thanks to him for what he has done till date and wish him luck to continue his great effort.
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House of Music Birthday
To mark its second birthday, House of Music shared the love on 4th August hosting one of Kathmandu’s newest music sensations, Lyrics Indy alongside established rockers, Albatross. Lyrics Indy kicked off the night with a remix of ‘Spit Your Game’ by Notorious b.i.g. followed by Triumph, an original composition. While rappers, Gaurab Subba, Yanik Shrestha, Aidray and a brief appearance from 15 year old Dougie Adhikari, maintained a tight set, Abhisek Bhadra on keyboard/synth provided the music to get the crowd going.Kiran Shahi joined in on drums as B’boyin acts rightly stole the show at the front of the stage. Albatross then hit the stage with some of their originals Chaina, Khase kaa tara and Timi Bhane, before the artists collaborated with some Linkin Park and Rage Against the Machine inspired riffs such as One Step Closer and 99 Problems to bring the night to an explosive end.
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Final Step of the Stairs
As a tribute to their drummer Prabin Lal Manandhar, who is leaving for India to pursue his further studies, Stairs Of Cirith performed a farewell gig at House of Music, Thamel on 29th July. It was the last gig for Yuskey K.C (vocals), Bhavin Pradhan (guitar),Nikhil Sikarmi (guitar), Prabin L. Manandhar (drums) Kritagyan Shrestha (bass) and Yuvash Vaidya (keyboard), to be playing together as Stairs of Cirith for a long time to come. They entertained the house-full crowd with their original numbers like Annunat, Niskarsha, Hamile hideko Paila, Madhyam, Ek raat harek raat and Yak Cheese. Also they covered songs like Highway Star, Perfect Stranger and Open Car with Bijent Bikram Shah on the bass guitar and Shailesh (Haku) on Keyboard. The band, along with Anjesh Shrestha, performed a humorous song ‘Laley’ to show their affection for Praveen, aka Laley. Towards the end, the band members of Jindabaad- Sunny Tuladhar, Abhisek Bhadra, Rajan Shrestha and Kiran Shahi surprised the crowd by performing together after a long time.
