I love
listening to music. Perhaps good music might be the only thing in the whole
world that the same affect on everyone (except my husband, more on that later) and
today’s post is all about Sangrywords having fun at Dubai Music Week.
Saturday night
was the most spectacular concert night that I have been to in a real long time.
I was almost going give this concert a miss with us the house shifting, the
other headaches surrounding it and the hubby travelling, there was no chance. But
the lady luck smiled on me - The one sms to City 101.6 with an answer to a
question got me premiere tickets to the concert. But the biggest surprise was
the chance to meet Farhan
Akhtar in person.
Even with
tight schedules, the event manager in me made sure hubby landed just in time to
head straight to the concert. In my anxiety to reach the venue on time I ended
up 45 minutes early - as the saying goes, better early than sorry! Wearing a 5
inch stilettos waiting for the gates to open for concert must be easy-breezy
for most girls but for a mum of toddler who is always in snickers or flat pumps,
that was really a tough ask.
Once we
got in of course there was another customary an hour and half wait before it
all got going. So we managed to find a place to sit down and thankfully it was
not on the floor. After a while, I saw my hubby plugging headphone to his iPod,
and was nodding his head appreciating some good music, or so I thought. The
truth is hubby is musically challenged, I mean it’s something that he does not
really enjoy, he’d rather watch news channel.
The curious devil in me got me to ask him what was it that he enjoying
so much and it turns out that he was listing to "The Bo Xilai trial: End
of the road?" from the latest audio edition of the Economist. I can also
reveal at this stage that my hubby is the arguably the only person in the
entire universe with out even having a single song in an almost full 32GB Ipod.
The fun
had just begun, when I was swiftly escorted back stage to meet n greet Farhan
Akhtar followed by a photo opportunity. I did not miss this golden opportunity
to shake hands and hug him. Feeling ecstatic I ran back to the darling hubby
like a child who got her favourite gift.
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Pritam was
a bit late coming in and hence he really was the cause for the delay, however
it is understandable since he was wearing sunglasses at night, must have found
it difficult to find his way to the venue.
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Arijit
Singh’s Kabira song and Neeti Mohan’s act, kick-started the night and even my
musically demur hubby too was caught dancing (this time without the Economist
audio edition in the background). Next was Benny Dayal, my first time watching
him perform live and it was worth waiting every second of it. Benny and Farhan
Akhtar are two supremely talented boys and add up to that, these pappus can
really dance. Unfortunately we had to leave before Mohit Chauhan came on but it’s
was for an even more priceless reason Smera. It was past 1:20 am and I was
worried if she found us still missing from home then the baby-sitter would have
had a tough time to placate her.
Thank you
City 101.6 for making the evening so special for me and my hubby, it was a pure
prodigious night to cherish!
