Purple Highway in Chennai
The British Council, as a part of the BUZZ series, presents Purple Highway -- featuring music from one of the greatest living rock legends, Deep Purple, by Powder in the Ashtray, Chennai and Evergreen, Kochi at the Courtyard, British Council, Chennai on Wednesday 9th February.
'Purple Highway' is an evening to celebrate the highroad that Deep Purple took as a band and their contribution to rock music. Rock today without Purple would have sounded very different and may not have been much to write home about.
Purple Highway will also be presented with a slight variation at the Unwind Center on Friday 11 February.
Evergreen:
The band has been recognised as a class act from Kochi and definitely has a great crowd following in Chennai and other parts of India. A quartet of amazing musicians with vocalist Joe Peter, the band has been through shaky hotel contracts, turbulent times, and yet the boat stayed afloat over the past 6 years.
Their repertoire includes music from Dreamtheatre, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Metallica and more of the classic/hard rock genre. The quality of the band's music comes from their mutual influences, (Deep Purple to Dream Theater and everything in between and beyond) and the common ideas they share and the fact that they all pretty much live and breathe music. Above all, there is an uncanny and invisible bond that pins them together and probably helps them in their quest to make music.
Powder in the Ash Tray
A relatively young band out of Loyola College would be an easy way to describe this foursome. But on stage they are a different deal altogether, and have taken various cultural level competitions by storm. With a repertoire covering Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Alien Ant Farm, Deep Purple and even a spruced up rock version of the Bee Gees classic Staying Alive, the band is a treat to watch.
The name of the band came out of some bizarre practice session when they found talcum powder in an ashtray and it tickled their brains.
Passes for the event are available at the British Council and Unwind Center on a first-come-first-served basis.
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