A Day In The Life Of An Oblivious Ape.: Brotha made me work it ALL out.

WHOA.

Like...WHOA.

FRICKIN' UNBELIEVABLE WHOA.

AWESOME FUCKING CONCERT, THAT WAS.

"I say 'Wicked Aura', you say 'Batucada'!"

Wicked Aura!

BATUCADA!!!

Now that was one gig that should have been paid for, and still be worth it. Wicked Aura Batucada had a concert at the Stage @ Powerhouse at the Esplanade today (or yesterday. Damn it!) in conjunction with the release of their new EP. We had half the samba dudes come down for a night in town.

Fortunately, for me, this wasn't just any other concert where most of the audience members turned out to be deadbeats; let's just say the benches they put there didn't get sit on very much throughout. We danced and grooved our hearts out to the songs of Wicked Aura, such as Pedestrian, Brotha's Gonna Work It Out, and of course the crowd favourite, You Make Us Wanna. Oh yeah, tonight the Oblivious Ape revealed a side of himself few have gotten to see; he danced. Well, it wasn't more of 'dance' than it was 'swaying from side to side with extreme spasmodic nodding of the head'. Still, I had the balls to groove. In your face, fucking poseurs who think they're too cool to gyrate in public.

Kudos to the juniors too, who made an effort to join us in both the coming to the concert and the gyrating. I didn't see anything. Nope, nothing at all.

We spotted some of the Bloco performers there too; since we were pretty much newbs at practice, they didn't really notice us in the crowd. Ah well, to each his own.

To end this post, if you want a gig to remember, come for one of Wicked Aura Batucada's. It's a solid guarantee from the Oblivious Ape that you won't regret it.

"We make you swing so good...
We know you like it like that...
And everybody say eh, eh, eh, eh..."