Concerts

One thing i miss having around in Brunei is a good concert despite having the oppurtunity to attend only 3 concerts in Brunei i.e. Michael Jackson's History Tour Concert, Westlife's World Tour and A1's Concert. The one that stood out for me then, would definitely be Westlife's concert cause back then, they were pretty much at the top of the music industry not long after their debut. Plus, it was my first concert that my dad gave me money and approval to go attend the concert. As far as i know, here are a list of international artists that have ever peformed in Brunei.

-Michael Jackson
-Whitney Houston
-Seal
-Stevie Wonder
-Westlife
-The Moffatts
-A1
-Blue

Ever since after 2002 or so, there hasn't been much great large scales international concerts going on. It's always been either some Indonesian rock groups / artists or some Akademi Fantasia people.

This is pretty much a random rant from me because i was browsing around Brunei Times few days ago and saw pretty much a good number of advertisements of international artists heading to Kuala Lumpur for a concert. Obviously the one that's being advertised over and over again on television would Whitney Houston's comeback with Elliott Yammin and Shaggy as her opening act. I'm not a fan of either one of them so no biggie for me but what's bothering me is the fact that our local newspapers are advertising concerts of international artists performing not here but rather in our neighbouring country. Come to think about it, we're like Malaysia's wasteland for music talent. They bring in international artists from all over the world to entertain them and then spit out their local talents like Mawi to entertain us.


That's just....sad.


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