LIVE YOUR MUSIC WITH HEINEKEN
It was a weekend packed with good music from Honne and Kodaline, and good company with friends and Heineken
IN ANTICIPATION OF the year’s upcoming Good Vibes Festival, which is set to take place again at the old haunting ground of The Ranch at Gohtong Jaya, Genting Highlands, the organiser has brought forth two backto-back satellite shows early last month, featuring dance pop collective Honne and Irish pop rock band Kodaline, to get music lovers hyped up for the festivities on July 20 and 21.
In conjunction with the Heineken Live Your Music global movement, a new experiential music platform built on the collective passion for experiencing music born of different styles, Good Vibes welcomed Honne back to the region, (and the first time to Malaysia), as part of their Love Me / Love Me Not
Asian tour Part 1, as well as Festival alumni Kodaline for the Politics of Living world tour.
Despite the technical difficulties fans faced online, when tickets for both shows were released in December, leaving quite a huge number of them devastated when they failed to secure their tickets, KL Live was packed to the brim on the first weekend of March, as fans of each or both bands came out in full force for a night (or two) of great music and good company.
On the first two nights, (an extra date was later added for the duo’s Malaysian leg of the tour), Honne quenched the musical thirst of many with crowd favourites like ‘Warm on a
Cold Night’, ‘Coastal Love’ and ‘Someone that Loves You’, alongside newer hits like ‘Day 1’, ‘Me & You’ and ‘I Just Wanna Go Back’ from their sophomore album Love Me / Love Me Not, released in August last year.
As warmly as fans embraced Andy Clutterbuck and James Hatcher’s emotionfuelled and romantic pop when they released their album debut Warm on a Cold Night two years ago, the concert goers took in their music just like the title suggests, with the theme focused on the duality of life’s ups and downs, and the balancing act of navigating between two states at once, with lyrics dialled in at the reality of most people’s lives.
The following night, and one that finished off the week with, say, “high hopes”, Irish band members Steve Garrigan, Mark Prendergast, Jason Boland and Vincent May took to the stage with chart-toppers ‘High Hopes’, ‘Love Like This’ and ‘All I Want’, together with newer numbers from their latest and third album Politics of Living, released in September last year: ‘Follow Your Fire’, ‘Head Held High’ and ‘I Wouldn’t Be’.
The energy from the crowd had not fizzled out in the slightest, for the band that has seen much during their relatively short music career thus far, since the 160,000-strong singalong when they performed with Ed Sheeran for two nights at Dublin’s Croke Park Stadium in 2015. A genuinely lovely band consisting of a supportive and music obsessed group of friends, whose music ‒ filled with sparkling sounds, huge choruses and waves of emotion, has over the years strengthened their relationship with one another in and out of the band.
Good Vibes Festival has recently announced part of the lineup for its 2019 instalment, which includes headliner Rae Sremmurd, alongside international acts like Cigarettes After Sex, Nothing But Thieves and Cashmere Cat, as well as local heayweights BATE, The Impatient Sisters and Dizkopolis. AM
“THE CONCERT GOERS TOOK IN THEIR MUSIC LIKE – FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS – “WARM ON A COLD NIGHT”, IMMERSED IN THEME OF HONNE’S MUSIC”