Last month, we kicked off the Kick Out Corruption Music Video Competition. Here’s how the media covered it.
Will your music video win the big prize money? To find out, make it. And then go to www.kickoutcorruption.com and upload it!
After making their stash of funny money, the greasy-palmed triumvirate of Thermal And A Quarter have retired to their own private island. It’s a lavish life that many would envy, but for the ennui. They want to be entertained. So go ahead and make the most kickass music video for Kickbackistan, the song that made them filthy rich. And you could too if your video wins the 2 lakhs on offer for the Kick Out Corruption Music Video Competition. Go on, shoot!
In the slick, smoky kitchens of Kickbackistan, another kettle of fish has been simmering quietly — and powerfully. The scent trail leads to YouTube, where Thermal And A Quarter has proudly announced the release of the official anthem of Uncommon Wealth: Kickbackistan. Yours to listen to, yours to sing along to, but not yet yours to download. That we’ve saved for later. Start salting away your funny money to pay up on the big day. Under the table, of course!
Let the games begin! Let the shame begin! Kickbackistan! Learn up your lines – there’s a lot of action to come.
TAAQ feat. Amit Heri, Amyt Dutta, Tony Das and others – Blue Frog, Mumbai, 9 PM, Nov 11. Wednesday, 11/11/09 – 9 PM: Thermal And A Quarter joins guitar players Amit Heri, Amyt Dutta, Tony Das and others at Blue Frog, Mumbai on the occasion of Eleven Guitar Day. In the afternoon, Guitar Doctor Bruce Lee Mani will test-drive the new Digidesign Eleven Rack. Free workshop on guitar technique and technology from 3 PM – 5 PM at Blue Frog, Mumbai.
May 17. It’s the night of the big election result, and the CEC is likely to call off the dry day at 6 PM. That means a lot of us are going to be very thirsty indeed. Flipside: the roads are going to be a lot less safe if all the tipplers get behind the wheel after celebrating or mourning or whatever.
This Sunday, Thermal And A Quarter and Kyra raise a toast to the spirit of responsible drinking.
If you stand up for your tippling friends and stay sober, and if you volunteer to drive them home, you get a free drink coupon from Kyra (redeemable, of course, on your next visit – if you are not driving again, that is!). Also, the first 1o lucky Unstoned Heroes get a free, autographed copy of This Is It, the hottest rock album by the coolest Indian rock band.
Don’t worry, if you don’t have the liver to abstain, there’s help. You can hop into a cab arranged, by the management, at a very special fare.
Go on, be an Unstoned Hero! Drink. And be driven.
Catch Doctor Bruce doing a small workshop at the Furtados store in Koramangala, Bangalore, tomorrow April 30th, 6pm. Free entry.
It’s not always that a weekend drops by in the middle of the week. Or that we drop by both Mumbai and Pune. But here we are (and the edge of the world isn’t so far).
Mumbai: Tuesday, April 7, 8 pm onwards
Pune: Tuesday, April 8, 8 pm onwards
If you know anybody on Facebook who has changed his/ her profile picture to the One Small Love smileyface, ask them for the image and change your profile pic, too. And don’t forget to change your status message to: ‘One Small Love is all it takes… in a tired world’. Spread the love. Draw the line. Watch this space.
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!
Yessir, RJ Bruce will be spinning some tasty tunes on Bangalore’s Radio Indigo 91.9 FM this Saturday (that’s tomorrow), 26th April. Catch him between 11am – 12 noon. True to his pedigree, he will be spinning some originals along with the covers .
Some tunes from This Is It will make it, for the first [...]
Catch us on WorldSpace Radio this Sunday 2 – 3pm IST, on the Radio Revolutions show, hosted by the one and only Hari Adiveraverareareaverakar. (Sorry Hari, couldn’t resist )
Lots of songs from the new album This It It should be played, interspersed with sparkling conversation and inside stories (on the mega roach too).
Tune [...]
Check our new site www.thermalandaquarter.com.
The shop isn’t up yet. But will be soon. We thank you for your patience!
Be sure to check back sometime next week…
Cheerio!
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Catch the exclusive preview of Thermal And A Quarter’s new album ‘This Is It’ only on MySpace.
Our site should be up soon. Then you can listen to it there as well. And buy it too! (fingers toes eyes etc crossed here)
Keep the good vibrations. Spread the love. After all, This Is It.
Awrite, we know you’re [...]
We’ve found time to get our lazy butts off the couch. Ergo, in answer to your oft-asked question “Where can we buy your CDs?”, we now have one smug answer.
Here.
And depending on whether you’re in India or anywhere else on ThirdRock, you have the option of buying from CDBaby (US, UK) or MusicYogi (India). And [...]
The Ten Stories
The TAAQ FAAQ (Frequently Always Asked Questions)
Specially written and performed for The Reporting HIV/AIDS Awards Ceremony of The Thomson Foundation on November 30, 2006.
The boys opened the programme last evening at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Along with two surprises – Nate on sax and Sunil Chandy on keys.
The song’s most poignant stanza goes:
It’s only a twisted little ribbon
It’s not everything [...]
Respect is something Split Magazine is drawing from us, and not simply because we’re their cover story this time round.
The interview is one hell of a mood swing. Highlights:
Angst: Delhi has 15-20 gigs happening a month, but Bangalore really sucks with its foggy laws that can’t differentiate between live bands and cabaret bands.
Pontification: If your [...]
Split Magazine has a snazzy new look, and some fine writing too. Here’s a review of the ‘This Way’ gig at Razz, Mumbai.
Also read their January 2006 review of Plan B.
The October issue of our newsletter is out.
If you haven’t checked your mail yet, here it is.
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