Friends in the US, are you going to go to the Explosion 2009 show?
Here’s the list of dates I found for the tour:
24th July 2009 – Washington DC/Fairfax
25th July 2009 – Dallas/Garland
26th July 2009 – Boston – The promoter has cancelled this show
31st July 2009 – Chicago/Rosemont
1st August 2009 – Atlantic City
2nd August 2009 – Los Angeles
7th August 2009 – Houston
8th August 2009 – San Fransisco/Oakland
9th August 2009 – Denver
15th August 2009 – Orlando Canceled? :(
16th August 2009 – Minneapolis Canceled? I’d like to hope postponed
23rd August 2009 – Minneapolis - NEW DATE - Sonu Niigaam LIVE in Concert
15th August 2009 – Phoenix - but not confirmed til now
16th August 2009 – Los Angeles – NEW DATE
25th September 2009 – Boston – NEW DATE but not confirmed til now
The main Explosion Information from Sonu bhai’s page keeps changing, so go HERE to keep updated.
It seems like there’s no centralized promotion of this tour and you’ll have to track down tickets via local promoters by clicking on the city of choice above or go through Localfiles. I hope to make it to the Minneapolis show to see and hear Sonu Nigam. Unfortunately the promotional flyer for the August 16th show doesn’t list Hard Kaur or Sunidhi Chauhan, so who knows if they’ll be there. If Hard Kaur is at the Minneapolis show I’ll try to find her back stage so I can free style with her. Once the tour has started and you’ve seen a show, please stop in with your comments to share.
Stop over to Filmi Girl’s blog, where she’s doing a daily countdown featuring each of the artists from the tour: Sunidhi Chauhan, Hard Kaur and Sonu Nigam. She’s also posted an excellent SHOW REVIEW with setlist and photos!
Looks fantastic! Have fun and do post some photos from the concert.
Bhargav Saikia,
Thanks, and let’s hope the tour actually makes it here (seeing that Boston cancellation makes me wonder) and if so I’ll post some pix.
What a combo! Of course the chances of a truly first-rate show like that making it up here to Aotearoa are about the same as the chances of SLB or KJo making a movie that isnt total sh*t or Himesh actually learning to sing, so I will restrain my raging envy and wish you great enjoyment! :)
stuartnz-ji,
Hey you never know! All those things could happen! If the ending is not happy then the movie is not over. :)
Ooo! Where did you find the tour dates? I might link to those tomorrow for people who are not in DC.
It’s so strange to me that these tours go along with no centralized promotions. I asked my local promoter for a list of tour dates and he got really confused and then never got back to me.
Actually, the promotions for these types of tours in general are very poor. I actually missed A.R. Rahman a couple of years ago because I had no idea he was coming through town! That shouldn’t happen!
(And I’m totally going to freestyle with HK! Ek Glassy, Do Glassy, Tin Glassy CHAR!)
Filmi Girl-ji,
Thanks for stopping in and hope you don’t mind my heavy linking to your page, but the posts were so cute and comprehensive, why try and duplicate, hai na?
I found the dates by googling “explosion tour” and followed the Sonu link here:
http://www.sonu-niigaam.com/component/content/article/39-news/531-explosion-2009.html
As my local link suggested, I emailed the address with a ticket request asking where to buy, and he just replied that tickets were available at the stores, not what stores, no addresses. I’ll track them down though at an Indian grocery soon.
Too bad about the Rahman tour miss. The organization is really non existent and uncentralized for these tours. As an outsider gori, I am not on the inside track, you know hanging out at the mandir and Indian grocer regularly. I just happened to see the ad when I went to see Kambahht Ishq at the theater, so you see there was a point to sitting through it after all. ;)
And yes about the free stylin’. LOL. Since I am a clearing house for tracking all incidents of Johnnie Walker (drink not the actor) in the movies, and now songs, this particular line in Glassy caught my ear:
(here are the rest of those Glassy lyrics)
Hope you get back stage and meet her in DC. Flow on sista!
Filmi Girl-ji!
You DID meet her! WOW! Super cute picture of you 2.
http://filmi-girl.livejournal.com/247746.html?view=1603522#comment-1598658
Of course the Boston show is cancelled…we don’t have any Indians here, according to Abbas Tyrewala :-D
memsaab-ji,
Is this true, non of my people are there? What made Abbas Tyrewala-ji say this. When did he say it, and what happened when he said it?
He was supposed to shoot his new movie in Boston, but changed his mind because there weren’t “enough Indians” here. His producer was not too happy since he had already spent a good amount of money for the location scouting trip :-)
Deewani-for-Bollywood and I are hoping to come down to Mpls to see Sonu! Feel free to email if you’d like to get together, because that would be awesome…
Anarchivist-ji,
If you make it down here, I insist that we get together. I will email you soon to iron out the details. That will be fun!
*dies of jealousy* The nearest one to me is D.C., and that’s almost six hours. :-( They’re wise not to come here, we have a very small desi population in this part of the country. I’m surprised Atlanta isn’t on the list though!
ajnabi-ji,
Well I will bring you along in spirit! I did finally manage to get some tickets today, but I still won’t believe it will go through until I’m there! When they cover this one I’ll think of you:
As close to Atlanta it gets is to Atlantic City.
Jump over to Youtube, there are a lot of little clips of the shows, like this:
I’m most looking forward to Sundihi’s cover of
as was included in Filmi Girl’s setlist of the show.
You know I’d go NUTS if it was Shreya Ghosal coming, but I’ll “settle” for Sundihi. :)
“*dies of jealousy* The nearest one to me is D.C., and that’s almost six hours. The nearest to me is Los Angeles, a snip at over 13 hours to cover the 6508 miles of ocean.
stuartznz-ji,
Sorry yaar, but I’m not feeling too bad since I know you live in the beautiful land of Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai! Hai na? :) To live in paradise, one must make a few sacrifices. :)
There’s some relevance, I think, to Johnny Walker the actor too… Because just like Johnny Walker, Hard Kaur made her big breakthrough playing a drunk… Assuming she was just playing one. :)
I heard her hit(s) coming out of car radios in Jackson Heights about a year and a half to two years ago… You’d think they would have scheduled a New York City date. Or maybe they’re just waiting until they can make sure that the NYC date is a big deal because, you know, shows in New York always have to be some big deal.
Richard S.-ji,
Good Johnny Walker connection. And Richard, when I think of HK I think of MIA and and when I think of MIA, I think of you. Sooooo, I wonder if MIA and Hard Kaur have ever met? There’s a remotely similar back ground from living in England and being from turbulent situations back home (Sikh troubles in 1984 for HK, and Tamil Sri Lankan trouble for MIA). I read a bit about hard Kaur here:
http://www.sikhchic.com/music/hard_kaur
and here:
http://www.mid-day.com/specials/2009/mar/010309-Hard-Kaur-interview-rapper-female-rapper-London-Uk-Punjabi.htm
BTW, do you listen to:
http://www.dhoomfm.com/
I’m sure she’ll eventually get to NYC, how could she not?
Assuming she was just playing one
Im my small town of 55K there are 3K Panjabis, almost all of them Sikh, and I’d nearly bet that the number of kaurs among them who drink is in no more than double digits, much like the number of singhs who don’t.
stuartnz-ji,
Perhaps they are doing it on the chupke chupke. ;) You know though Europe is the corrupting force, so maybe she does have an occasional glassy.
Hey y’all-ji,
Check out Filmi Girl’s site here and listen to her mini interview with Hard Kaur and see some show related photos.
http://filmi-girl.livejournal.com/247746.html?view=1603522#t1603522
Exciting. :)
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memsaab-ji,
In response to “He was supposed to shoot his new movie in Boston, but changed his mind because there weren’t “enough Indians” here. His producer was not too happy since he had already spent a good amount of money for the location scouting trip :-) ”
Doesn’t he realize that there may not be enough Indians for him, but what about the rich supply of gori extras? Duh!
Yo Boston and memsaab-ji,
Looks like your village has been added to the tour:
25th September 2009 – Boston – NEW DATE – but not confirmed til now
LA was cancelled today and was postponed to aug 16th so minneapolis must’ve been moved as well. in fact i think its going to move other dates.
taz0914-ji
Thanks so much for alerting me to the changes. I hope you get to see the show!
Yes, taz0914, that was bad news for those of us in L.A. :(
Here’s more info, Sita-ji:
http://www.superentertainmentinc.com/concert.htm
Nawab theBollywoodFan-ji,
Thanks for that link. I just went to Sonnu’s site and used the information there to update this post.
http://www.sonu-niigaam.com/component/content/article/39-news/531-explosion-2009.html
The only thing that take the dard in my dil from the show’s cancellation, is knowing that at least you will be able to see it in your city of angels. :)
How about you stop by here, Sita-ji? It’s been due for quite a while. Gee, I was so frustrated yesterday because I’d rescheduled a work-related trip to ensure I was going to be in L.A. last night, but nooooo!
And it’s very bad for news for those of us who took the day off work and were going to Minneapolis. Mpls isn’t listed at all in the updated tour schedule. Nahiiiin!
http://www.sonu-niigaam.com/on-tour-2009.html
Anarchivist-ji,
I’m sorry about that! I hope it’s rescheduled and you can still get work off to see the show I am using my ESP to still get to Minneapolis. I commented on his site to please come to Minneapolis. It can’t hurt, right. Thanks for that link too, I like it better than the one I had here.
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Minneapolis show moved to August 23. All August 16th tix will be honored. (No word on whether there will be reimbursements for those who can’t make the Aug. 23 show, though I imagine it won’t be hard to “get rid of” those :-)
Thanks rj-ji,
I updated this post with another here:
https://bollywoodfoodclub.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/sonu-please-reschedule-the-minneapolis-explosion-2009-show-bhai/
Also, here’s updated information that ticket holders were emailed: