TAAQing

And finally, the news that makes all other news pale in contrast. The curtains – which have been playing peek-a-boo with you for well over a year – are up on This Is It, our fourth album

TAAQ has been invited to play at the Java Jazz Festival ’09, Jakarta’s prestigious international Jazz festival. We will play pre-festival gigs on March 4 and 5 at the Sultan Hotel, Jakarta. Here, we will be joined by special guest Prasanna. Our festival appearance is on March 6, where renowned jazz guitar virtuoso Vinny Valentino will appear as a special guest on TAAQ material.

If Led Zep was a Hindi rock band, and “Chandrande irritu bhagam” was that great Floyd album and “Sakkaray magu nanna” or something like that, was the biggest Tamil/Kannada hit by Guns n Roses, if only it had happened like that, it would have helped me learn all our beautiful languages so much more easily.

Got this for the Dr. recently:
“Hey, I saw you guys at mood indigo 07 and it was an awesome experience!had..ahem..never heard of you till then but since , ive bin going TAAAAAQ TAAAQ TAAAAAAQ to all my friends. Anyhoo, the diddly-o is this..im going to (finally) learn how to play the guitar. I think i`m [...]

One Small Love is yours to keep. Download it off our website now. Go to http://www.thermalandaquarter.com/, click on the ‘Wassup’ icon and fill in your email address. We’ll send you a link from where you can download it. Go on, spread the love!

About the JD Rock Awards, hearsay has it that in inimitable Mumbai ishtyle, all the glitterati descended upon this gala event. Now, now… what should we make of that? We asked the boys what they thought of an Indian rock awards program, and got some surprisingly cerebral answers…

Before you start getting any clever ideas after reading that nifty headline up there, this is about our recent gig at the Hard Rock Café, Bengalooru.
Of course, we couldn’t let anyone know about the gig (really let ’em know) because we might’ve been busted. Bangalore denizens are of course aware of our wonderfully evolved government [...]

Boy Boy, girl girl… that’s all right
boy girl, girl boy… get out of sight
mono-sexual is ok
stereo-sexual only if you are gay
homo-sexual is fine for today
so better be gay, on Valentines day
India’s saffron culture’s not funny
San Francisco’s getting a run for its money
Deepa Mehta and her “Fire”
in Mangalore can only backfire
don’t ask a girl out for [...]