RD 2 RETRO

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ABANDONFRIDAY: 1st Dec - BLUE RONDO
a retro night from the 60's to the early 90s
madhuri: vocals, dwight pattison: bass, ramesh: drums & precussions, avinash grubb: keys, adrian dsouza: vocals & guitar

FLING SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER .. DJ Dance Nights...with DJ ROBEN
with some retro mixes...so put on your dancing shoes

SUNDAY THE NEW ORLEANS BRUNCH 11.00am- 2.00pm
a warm hearty breafkast of egg, bacon, sausages, pancakes, baked beans, juice and coffee....
while listening to some great jazz and blues with RJ Carlton Braganza on Radio Indigo.

(don't miss the jazz appreciation session on 91.9FM with HOMI MEHTA this sunday)

JAMPOT: sunday afternoons host musicians that want to play together ... from 2.00pm onwards, featuring " FREEWAY 69"....with a sunshine buffet of khao suey... pasta... dosas..

ganapathi: vocals & guitar, pupu khakuga: guitar, jeetu: bass, harsha: keys, sunil: drums,sanjay das: vocals

WEDNESDAY Castle KroaKnight with MARK
SUNDAY Castle KroaKnight with CARLTON

THURSDAY BOOZE & BRAINS: hosted by MARK REGO with DJ VINAY on the console brought to you by blenders pride
the winning table gets its booze on the house.
labelled by BBC as the best pub quiz in the country.

For Reservations Call 080-23442580.
follow all the links for more details about OPUS and lots of pics up of JAMPOT

bangalore's big band

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ABANDONFRIDAY: 24th Nov - JAZZ REVIVAL
col.tommy john: piano, denzil bentley: trumpet, max rose: guitar, domnic saldanha: sax, victor francis: drums,
s raman: alto sax, freddy: keys, dr. tom chandy: leader and vocalist

FLING SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER .. DJ Dance Nights...with DJ Misha
with some retro mixes...so put on your dancing shoes

SUNDAY THE NEW ORLEANS BRUNCH 11.00am- 2.00pm
a warm hearty breafkast of egg, bacon, sausages, pancakes, baked beans, juice and coffee....
while listening to some great jazz and blues with RJ Carlton Braganza on Radio Indigo.
SUNDAY JAMPOT: sunday afternoons host musicians that want to play together
from 2.00pm onwards, featuring " ZEPHYR"....the infosys band with a sunshine buffet of khao suey... pasta... dosas...

.... a guitar-obsessed User-Interface designer, an “I-can-play-anything-you-give-me” guitarist-cum-keyboardist-cum-bassist-cum-vocalist (whew!), a keyboard prodigy, another witty guitarist cum bass guitarist, a drummer who can’t keep his sticks down, vocalists who double up as “band managers” and you have ZEPHYR!!
Zephyr in Latin means “a cool gust of wind” …. And they intend to do just what the “Zephyr” does…. “Blow our audiences’ minds away with our music”…... They are a group of software engineers who have a joint passion... “MUSIC”..!!!!..

WEDNESDAY & SUNDAY Castle KroaKnight

THURSDAY BOOZE & BRAINS: hosted by MARK REGO with DJ VINAY on the console brought to you by blenders pride the winning table gets its booze on the house. labelled by BBC as the best pub quiz in the country.

For Reservations Call 080-23442580.

follow all the links for more details about OPUS and lots of pics up of JAMPOT

Calling ELVES!

its that time of the year again !!!... when i have to abandon my vests and shorts and wear horrid long sleeved clothing and track pants...... when i have a constant blocked nose ... when my feet look really hideous ... actually thats not true ... it looks like that all the year round (though its nice that there's an entire season to blame it on)but most importantly .. CHRISTMAS is coming !!... so its mistletoe and magic and marzipans and merriment and of course ... music!!!

its also a big big time for opus cos we opened 3 years ago, 2003 with a festival called the 8 days of Christmas... we were young then and didnt know the ways of the world... (read running a restaurant), didn't have a thatch over our heads, didnt have a liqour license (whats xmas without liquor, i say) but we managed to pull something off nonetheless...

2004 was better .. with a goan flea market, some great xmas goodies, and some great bangalore music talent ... choirs, bands, kissmass kroaknights, stand up comedy, pantomimes .. we were on our way!!

last year 2005 we kicked ass ... i'm a lazy goan bum and its against my religion to type so much ... so, check out the action that we managed to line up ... and the review of those 8 days of christmas
we are in the process of figuring out what this year is gonna be like ...the 8 days of christmas are from the 17th to the 24th of December ... not to leave anything to speculation, the theme this year too, will be christmas :Dso if there is anyone who would want to be part of it in any shape or form (talent, elves, sponsors) pls call/mail shonali 9845244610.a part of what we collect will go towards charity.cheerscarlton



ABANDONFRIDAY: 17th Nov - PARADIGM SHIFT
christopher rodrigues: guitar, vivek menzel: drums & vocals, Niranjan Joseph: vocals, herbert paul: guitar, gaurav vaz: bass, karan joseph: keys.

FLING SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER .. DJ Dance Nights with DJ ANGIE
some super retro mixes...so put on your dancing shoes

For Reservations Call 080-23442580.

follow all the links for more details about OPUS and lots of pics up of JAMPOT

Paradigm Shift

ABANDONFRIDAY: 17th Nov - PARADIGM SHIFT
this bunch of friends will perform at opus for this first time this friday night. they do a wide range of numbers. their show at opus will consist classic rock favourites from Doobie Brothers to Iron Maiden
christopher rodrigues: guitar, vivek menzel: drums & vocals, niranjan joseph: vocals, herbert paul: guitar, gaurav vaz: bass, karan joseph: keys.

FLING SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER .. DJ Dance Nights with DJ ANGIE
some super retro mixes...so put on your dancing shoes

SUNDAY THE NEW ORLEANS BRUNCH 11.00am- 2.00pm
a warm hearty breafkast of egg, bacon, sausages, pancakes, baked beans, juice and coffee....while listening to some great jazz and blues with RJ Carlton Braganza on Radio Indigo.

more pics up at SUNDAY JAMPOT: sunday afternoons host musicians that want to play together from 2.00pm onwards, with a sunshine buffet of khao suey... pasta... dosas...

WEDNESDAY Castle KroaKnight with MARK
SUNDAY special Castle KroaKnight with CARLTON

THURSDAY BOOZE & BRAINS: hosted by MARK REGO with DJ VINAY on the console brought to you by blenders pride
the winning table gets its food and booze on the house.
labelled by BBC as the best pub quiz in the country.

For Reservations Call 080-23442580.
more about OPUS

RETROnome, kROCKSTAR barry, and Ceasars palace

ABANDONFRIDAY: 10th Nov - RETRONOME
A well known band in bangalore...playing some 80s popular hits from cold play, no doubt, INXS, bon jovi etc. A show that you must not miss.
chris avinash: guitar & vocals, ryan colaco: drums, prakash kn: bass, uday jose: keys & vocals, sherin: vocals

FLING SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER .. DJ Dance Nights...
featuring the one-n-only bharat krishna aka BARRY in an exclusive masala mix special

SUNDAY THE NEW ORLEANS BRUNCH 11.00am- 2.00pm
a warm hearty breafkast of egg, bacon, sausages, pancakes, baked beans, juice and coffee....while listening to some great jazz and blues with RJ Carlton Braganza on Radio Indigo.
special interview this week on air with international jazz guitarist bill wurtzel

more pics up at SUNDAY JAMPOT: sunday afternoons host musicians that want to play together
from 2.00pm onwards, featuring " Ceasars Palace"
unni: vocals, anurag: guitar, kenny: bass, kishan: drums, jason: keys
with a sunshine buffet of khao suey... pasta... dosas...

WEDNESDAY Castle KroaKnight with MARK
SUNDAY special Castle KroaKnight with CARLTON

THURSDAY BOOZE & BRAINS: hosted by MARK REGO with DJ VINAY on the console brought to you by PartySmart
the winning table gets its food and booze on the house.
labelled by BBC as the best pub quiz in the country.

For Reservations Call 080-23442580.
more about OPUS

woodstock weekend

ABANDONFRIDAY: 3rd Nov - RAINBOW BRIDGE
The Rainbow Bridge is an Audio/Visual production house offering music through producing artists and bands covering Original Indian rock and its different forms apart from its ventures in Commercial Music.
The Bridge is pioneered by Sanjeev Philip Thomas, who has been a full-time musician and composer since 1998. His expertise ranges from live musicianship to music direction. He has been the pioneer to many famous Rock and World music acts such as Buddha’s Babies, Buddha Blown and the Rainbow Bridge. He has performed and composed India’s First Rock Opera “The Fallen” performed at the Hindu Theatre Festival in August, 2005.
The current band being produced at the Rainbow Bridge at chennai self named after the Studio.

Buddha’s Babies and Buddha Blown have won many laurels in its early days at prestigious competitions like IIT (Madras), National Law School (Bangalore), RAIT (Bombay) etc and also played at many venues such as the “Great Indian Rock” festival in Delhi for 2 years in a row, OAT, Chennai, Rang Bhavan, Bombay and the Pragathi Maidan in Delhi spreading the message of Original Music in India.
Wayne Fernandez has been the bassist of the rainbow bridge from the start. He has performed and been a part of a lot of bands produced from here like Buddha’s babies, Buddha Blown and also was the bassist of No Idea who won the GIR competition in 2004 to perform in Norway at various venues.
Salwin Alfred is a percussionist capable of performing various percussion instruments, the floor tom being his original idea to add a new sound to this band. He plays the Djembe, the Bongos, and his specialty the “Rain Stick”.
Benny Dayal is a professional singer singing for both Rock and commercial acts performing since a young age. He is the singer for The SS music produced band “S5”, the mudskippers and “on vibrator mode”. Benny has provided the band with his harmony arrangements and his carnatic and folk Flair.
Swathi is also a professional singer and she has a couple of commercial jingles and serials to her credit. She was one of the lead singers of the Fallen at the Hindu Theatre festival and has provided for a lot of soul and carnatic elements in this band.The Band showcases Rockn’roll, Indian carnatic and Hindustani Folk, Funk and Blues giving it an edge in its genre of world music.
wayne: bass, salwin alfred: percussions, floor toms, djembe, benny dayal: vocals & shakers, and swathi: vocals, sanjeev: vocals & guitar, Jeremiah: udu(African Ghatam).

FLING SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER .. Retro DJ Dance Nights...with Dj VINAY
with some super retro remixes ... with a special 70's rock tribute this weekend

SUNDAY THE NEW ORLEANS BRUNCH 11.00am- 2.00pm
a warm hearty breafkast of egg, bacon, sausages, pancakes, baked beans, juice and coffee....while listening to some great jazz and blues with RJ Carlton Braganza on Radio Indigo
SUNDAY JAMPOT: sunday afternoons will now host musicians that want to play together
" from 2.00pm onwards. with a sunshine buffet of khao suey... pasta... dosas...

SUNDAY special Castle KroaKnight with CARLTON
woodstock hippie theme night ... with songs from the rock bands of the 70's .. prizes for best dressed and best singer
WEDNESDAY Castle KroaKnight with MARK

THURSDAY BOOZE & BRAINS: hosted by MARK REGO with DJ VINAY on the console brought to you by PartySmart
the winning table gets its food and booze on the house.
labelled by BBC as the best pub quiz in the country.

For Reservations Call 080-23442580.