The Unbreakable Tour

Listening to: Matt White – Anybody Else
  “Didn’t mean to play with your head.”

This is gonna sound reallly uncool but

OMG THEY WERE THE AWESOMEST I HAVE EVER SEEN THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure there was some lightning and thunderstorms in the beginning, and it took me about 20 minutes to get from Monash to Sunway Pyramid when it’s like a 5 minute drive and sure I had to wait like one and a half hours for our tickets but

OMG IT WAS SOooooooooooooooooooo TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!

BSB still got it going on, I am quite happy to say. They did the whole shebang; songs from both current and past albums, the chair routine, the sitting at table playing poker and singing bit, the whole dramatic chest grabbing synchronized movements (which sounds totallly cheesy if you weren’t there but my 12 year old self LOVED it), solo bits, a bit of pelvic grabbing ala Michael Jackson, kidding around, top hat twirling – and all of it live.

I don’t think their talent has aged even a bit although their fan base definitely has. Three quarters of their audience probably discovered them when they were in primary school (i.e. me) about a decade ago and sort of grew up with them. Plus the whole beach concert concept was pretty cool.

The audience definitely knew the words to almost every old song – I know I sang at the top of my voice (and very out of key because I could barely hear myself) to almost every song.  In the middle of it all, some chick tapped me on the shoulder and yelled at me, “I thought there were 5 of them?” she asked.

Hahaha, halfway through the show. Wouldn’t have been funny if she had come all the way out to see Kevin? 

I got a crook in my neck as I strained to catch every single one of them in action at every moment in time and this is Another Con To Being Short. You get one big haired guy or some idiot sitting on the shoulders of their boyfriends right in front of you and you got problems.  But as the show went along a lot of people shifted around and I soon found myself with a clear view and stubbornly stood there for the rest of the night.

They were awesome.
Best RM88 I have ever spent that’s for sure. At one point I realised that I was standing with my hands clasped together like a prayer singing “All I Have to Give.”

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That’s how into it I was. If you have to say anything, you have to admit that these guys give it their all at a show. I know many many years ago I watched them live at Frankfurt (on disc of course) and remembered telling myself so many times that I one day wanted to be there watching them live. I’m so happy I got over myself and went last night.

Though I came back at midnight, partially deaf, with a sore body, sore throat, jammed memory card and had to wake up at 5:15 am this morning, it was so totally worth it. I cannot stop saying that enough.

They still got it man, even with one member less. Whatever else, they know how to entertain.
Heck, even a  bit of bum wiggling and cheeky smiles sent the audience, which were about a few hundred people strong, raving mad.

And I was finally at an age where I could watch them sanely enough with the just the right excitement without constantly killing myself with ideas of the best way in which I could catch a glimpse of them backstage or hijack their limo with them in it. Yeah, I had some serious issues growing up

Anyway, there was some drama at the escalators on the way back from the surf beach as can only happen in Malaysia. Some of the escalators were jamming or something because of the number of people on it so security had to get hordes of people to stop getting on until the rest had gotten off at the top, which in the confusion sort of translated to, get off get off now! to the people on the escalators, which turned into, run run!  cepat lari!! which led to packs of sweaty, paranoid people running down the escalators in the opposite direction… yeah… it was a bit hectic. I cannot italicize enough how amazing the entire episode was.

Forgot where our parking bay was and then after getting in and driving almost to the entrance forgot that we still had to pay our tickets… the things I do for them.

Anyway, all in all, twas a good night – one I will fondly remember but fortunately seeing as how I am now 22, not one I will tattoo willingly on my body as a memorial (which I would have done at 13 I bet).