Welcome to Thespo 12

Welcome to Thespo 12

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
(Last line from the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams.)

Once again, not for the first time since 1999, Thespo found itself struggling to make ends meet. Team Thespo knocked on many doors and waited in numerous swanky corporate reception lobbies. We were offered a variety of items from a cup of coffee to 4,000 packets of potato chips! But no cash.

So we took a desperate leap of faith and turned to the world at large with our FRIENDS OF THESPO initiative. We first approached ex-participants, ex-volunteers and the ever dependable theatre community with a unique proposition. We offered them part ownership of Thespo for a nominal amount in exchange for a t-shirt, magazine and 2 free tickets to one of the shows. The response was reassuring. But what was overwhelming was the outpouring of support – from strangers, from one time audience members, from musicians, from theatre practitioners in foreign lands. It has been a truly humbling and energising two weeks. We are still far from the target amount. But the clock has been re-wound and we are ready to strike Twelve!

Live Bands

Thespo 12 present to you, third year in a row, Live Band Performances: Red FM Band-o-Mast!


Froydn Slip–
14th December, Tuesday, 2010
Prithvi Cafe
6pm


Genre: Hard to define


Froydn Slip basically started out with Jason & Joel looking to expand their musical repertoire by extensively looking for like-minded band mates their long search yielded Naama and Niall who within a few jams confirmed their presence amidst our musical sound scape.The bands music is influenced by a very wide and diverse range of artists and musicians right from Porcupine Tree and Pearl Jam to B.B. King, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles. All in all an extensively exhaustive list!

Members: Jason (lead guitars, backing vocals), Naama (drums), Joel (vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards), Niall (bass, backing vocals)

Blech –

15th December, Wednesday, 2010
Prithvi Cafe
6pm

Genre: Alternative/Grunge

Formed in the summer of 2009, Blech is an all original grungish trio with no idea of what their genre really is. this 3 piece act is made up of Jared Juan Creado on the bass, Varun Iyer(Split)on drums, and Rishi Bradoo on guitars and vocals. Their meeting was a result of idleness, flunky frustration, and the failure of one of them to speak un-anglicized hindi (guess who?). Each of them bringing a different style and influence to their music. Rolling Stone magazine refers to them as the Bombay based cousins of The Supersonics and the best way to experience this band is to watch them perform live while they execute their trade-marked monkey dance.

Members: Rishi Bradoo, Jared Creado, Chirag Vachha

Rang –

16th December, Thursday, 2010
Prithvi Cafe
6pm


Genre: Alternative/Mash-up


Rang is a versatile six-member Band from Mumbai performing a variety of genres, allowing them to converge into one unique spectrum of sound. Based in Mumbai since late 2008, they can broadly be classified as a Alternative/Mash-up band with Progressive undertones. Their strength lies in versatility, easily in the running for being one of the Top Hindi bands in the city, but delivering a punch with their English belters as well.


Members: Ronit Chaterji & Arjun Nair - Guitars and Vocals, Ajay Menon - Bass, Neil Gomes - Wind, Brass, Strings, Paul Paul - Drums/Percussion, Shannon George - Lead Guitar.

Jazz Like That –

17th December, Friday, 2010
Prithvi Cafe
6pm


Genre: Jazz

JAZZ LIKE THAT is a relatively new pure acoustic set-up which relies on the harmonic nature of music and  the rawness of the acoustic and nylon string guitars, alongwith other acoustic instruments like flute, violin,  saxophone, harmonica, synthesisers, etc. It covers predominantly jazz standards and also acoustic renditions of evergreen songs ranging from Beatles, Queen, George Benson to contemporary Coldplay and Maroon 5,  alongwith a few Portuguese classics.


Members: Pushpanjali Sharma- vocals, Neil Gomes- vocals, guitars, keys, violin, flute, saxophone, harmonica, etc.

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