Beer Fest: To Tribute with Pride

Steal with pride has been a repeated motto in many corners of the software development industry. It is a bit of a twist to “avoid reinventing the wheel”. Use what is out there and make it fit your needs. 

At Beer Fest Asia the music appeared to be very much around that idea. Bands fully dedicated to the oeuvre of legendary pop and rock formations: Abba, Beatles, Blues Brothers, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin. Tribute bands galore at Beer Fest Singapore.

 

It was an impulse buy. I saw some notification on Beer Fest a week or two ago and just decided to buy tickets. That in itself was already interesting. 

Tickets were available at Sistic. So I went online reviewed the rates and decided to get the 4 day package “click next”. I got a view with 4 lines, one for each day and a number 1 next to it. 

After increasing the number for day one to 2, because I wanted 2 tickets all others changed. All others but Saturday. Saturday had only single seats??? available. I called and got nowhere. Saturday was full. A bit disappointed, I figured "what if I act stupid ignore the system and book for one person twice". Bingo! I will deal with the disappointment of not being able to sit next to my lovely companion later, I thought

Arriving at the entrance of Beer Fest I fully expected to be received by a host who would take us to our assigned seating. But alas, no such thing. We had to sort it out ourselves. We opted to ignore our “seat assignments” and hung our armpits over the fence that separated, later it turned out not always successfully, the crowd from the stage. From there we soaked in whatever thievery the bands came up with. 

 

From:

Local band Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd)

To Australian Blues Brothers and Soul Sisters (The obvious) 

To also local Day Trippers (Beatles)

To ABBAFAB (equally obvious, equally Australian, equally familiar )

To the utterly amazing Lez Zeppelin.

 

To me "utterly amazing" because, where all bands did a great job representing their chosen bands and the repertoire for that evening,  the ladies of Lez were the epitome of steeling with pride! Performing the songs with a high level of credibility of it being Led, the all women band Lez added personality and creativity in the production of sound as well as stage performance.

 

I felt mostly treated and maybe a little bit vindicated by the final song. With of course “stairway to heaven” being Led’s all time favorite tune for most people, I was super thrilled by Lez’s rendition or almost recreation of my favorite song “whole lot of love” where creativity in sound and stage drama came to a height.

So from here, from me, to proclaim with the Australian Soul Sisters, to the women of Lez; r.e.s.p.e.c.t.

and my tribute to them: