This is Sneha Narayanan, 22, from Kochi, currently working in the Hospitality line.

The best days of 2012, for her, were August 27th (the Wine-and-Dine event with the Poets) & 28th, the concert at Kolkata. It was a significant event for her as she was leaving for Mumbai the next morning. “So, I left the city I love, with memories of the band I adore! My best friend and I had good food and drinks, and managed to click snaps with the Poets”, she says.

How and when did you discover the Poets?

I first discovered the Poets some time between late 2008 and early 2009. I heard two of their songs then, ‘Carnival of Rust’ and ‘Illusion and Dream’. A friend had transferred these two songs on my phone and I kept hearing them on loop. I particularly connected with these two songs then, as I was going through a bad breakup. I still maintain ‘Illusion and Dream’ to be in my Top 3 POTF songs list.

Which song of theirs do you connect with the most?

I have connected with a few Poets songs over the years. It’s amazing that if you search, you have a POTF song for every moment, emotion and equation. I’d say I connect with ‘Kamikaze Love’ the most. This song took me by surprise. My best friend asked me to listen to the song. I added the song to my phone (I always listen to songs on shuffle). So here starts off this amazing song and I am hooked. I don’t know the name as yet as I haven’t looked at my phone, but as they say, the rest is history.

Who is your favorite band member? If you were to ever meet him, what would you like to tell him?

I love Marko’s voice and versatility, but I’d like to be a bit biased towards Jari. I didn’t know who he was before 27th August 2012. But meeting him on the 27th and viewing him in action live on the 28th was love at first sight. I don’t think I’d be able to utter any words if given the opportunity to speak to him. Mustering up the courage to ask him for a snap was just me following suit of others around.

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D’ you breathe the name of your saviour in your hour of need,
And taste the blame if the flavor should remind you of greed?
Of implication, insinuation and ill will, ’til you cannot lie still,
In all this turmoil, before red cape and foil come closing in for a kill

Come feed the rain
’cause I’m thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah, feed the rain
’cause without your love my life ain’t nothing but this carnival of rust

It’s all a game, avoiding failure, when true colors will bleed
All in the name of misbehavior and the things we don’t need
I lust for after no disaster can touch, touch us anymore
And more than ever, I hope to never fall, where enough is not the same it was before

Come feed the rain…
’cause I’m thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah, feed the rain
’cause without your love my life ain’t nothing but this carnival of rust
Yeah, feed the rain
’cause I’m thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah, feed the rain
’cause without your love my life ain’t nothing but this carnival of rust

Don’t walk away, don’t walk away, oh, when the world is burning
Don’t walk away, don’t walk away, oh, when the heart is yearning
Don’t walk away, don’t walk away, oh, when the world is burning
Don’t walk away, don’t walk away, oh, when the heart is yearning

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Life progress. Fun with languages, something you might not have known. Poets of the fall rocks!!

Today

Went down to the employment offices, and i’m now instituted (I think that’s the right word to use) into it. Going to call the social services (Don’t know the English equivalent) tomorrow and hear what they might say. That’s all i can really say about it. Let’s hope for the best.

Looked up lexial similarities today. It’s a measurement you use to see how alike two languages are. Norway and Sweden has a 95% similarity and Amerian and british are 99%! So i think that should tell you just how similar Norwegian and Swedish are. 85% being that of a dialect. So that was pretty fun.

I gave a friend on twitter a link to a great song i love (Which will be in the feature) to see if she would like that one. Since she had dissed the great rap songs i sent her last time, i felt that i should try to find some music she likes. Turns out that the first song i sent her, she loved. So much so, that she wanted to find out more of their songs. I’ll list some of my favorite ones at the end of this post.

So yes! I’m feeling a bit better, after having stayed here for a while now. So that’s good.

Tomorrow

I will be heading home tomorrow, and call the social services.. or whatever they’re called.

Just for fun, if i can remember, i should write a script for youtube which will make it easier to get embed code for videos on youtube.

Feature

Another video post for Poets of the Fall
Anything I say about these guys is not enough

This is Adhidev Mukherjee, a 22-year-old, living in Kolkata. He works for a leading television channel. He loves his music, time in the swimming pool and going out with his friends and having a good time. Other than the Poets (of course), he is a big fan of Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree and several other artists. He aspires to head his own television channel some day. He dabbles in photography and is into theater technical direction and production.

How and when did you discover Poets of the Fall?  

It was 2006, when I was still in school and heavily into music as I still am. My friends and I were practicing for the school band and were struggling. It was then that we discovered this new band and their new video was amazing. ‘Locking Up The Sun’ was the song and I quickly caught on to them and we were soon jumping with ‘Lift’ as my friends and I became big fans of the band.

What do you love most about Poets of the Fall? 

Everything about their music is just so great. For me their music lifts me up every morning and it’s great after a hard day at office. POTF has been special to me because they remind of times when I was a kid and their music has a perpetual place on my iPod. The recent and the biggest reason why they blow me away, is the fact that they are amazing human beings. This is something I saw when I was near them during their performance at Kolkata (which I may add was one of the best evenings of my life).

Marko’s voice, Jaska’s attitude, Olli’s crazy riffs when he plays those solos. They are an experience.

If you had the power to decide their next music video, which song would you choose? Why?

I was about to say ‘Kamikaze Love’ because of its sheer brilliance but then I thought, they should complete the missing song and do ‘Signs of Life’ (apt isn’t it?) This one song is an amazing bit of music and has honestly been one of their best compositions in recent times along with ‘Temple of Thought’.

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No I’m not talking about a miracle, but more of a ah-ha moment, a moment where the veil is lifted and your vision clears long enough to realize that there are other humans among the masses that understand, at least in part, and for a few brief minutes you don’t feel so alone.

Art by Stephen

~∞~

Shades of honesty

Silent blended emotions  

Comfort from strangers

~∞~

Today I am grateful for the kindness of strangers and the universe that steers them into my life.

(thank you listeningroom9)

kindness shared has away of moving forward and touches far more that you know.

be kind, it makes a difference.

♥♥

While darkness may engulf 

it takes but one candle

to illuminate 

the lost

~∞~

Poets of the Fall’s new album is out
something I have been waiting for a while
Its a sweet song, hope you enjoy it
just viewed it on youtube

This is Aditya Iyer, a 20-year-old computer engineering student, who aspires to be an entrepreneur one day and travel the world. He writes his own blog, is a photographer, gamer, movie buff, tech lover, and loves traveling. Apart from POTF he’s a die hard fan of Linkin Park and loves various rock and metal artists from Aerosmith to Green Day. 25th August, 2012 was the best day of his life, as he saw POTF live for the first time.

How and when did you discover POTF?

As I’m a hardcore gamer and a lover of good literature and music, I often search for music that I hear in video games, movies and TV. That is how I came across POTF years back during my school days, thanks to the critically acclaimed game Max Payne 2: Fall of Max Payne. ‘Late Goodbye’ totally blew me away, and after further digging I heard the first 2 albums, Signs of Life and Carnival of Rust and have been in love ever since.

What do you think separates POTF from other artists? 

POTF makes phenomenal music, which holds deep meaning that I can relate to. Not every artist can do this. They are not just versatile, from melodious ballads to screaming thunders, but every song relates to you, making one go, “That’s POTF!”

POTF is one of the sole examples of Cinematic Rock, as every song has a story of its own, which one can visualize in their minds when listening. No wonder they make awesome music videos.

I love Marko’s voice, he sounds heavenly especially when he sings songs like Cradled In Love and The Beautiful Ones. And watching him do his theatrics on stage is fun and truly awesome. Their live performances make them stand a class apart.

What is your favorite POTF album? Why?

Tough question. Though I have a preference order, I’ll cheat a bit here and go with Alchemy Vol. 1 as it’s the compilations of some of their best songs which are the band’s personal favorites, and the fact it was first released, here in India as a ‘Best of POTF’ CD which became vinyl as we know today. To be honest, my favorite is Signs of Life, as most of my favorite songs are from that album and that was the one I first heard.

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Poets of the Fall are one of the bands my new friend Dan oddly introduced me too. Well he got a load of bands and shoved them on a usb, gave them to me and said listen (probably said more than that but you get the idea). And so I listened and listened and this band in particular stuck out to me. The whole album is brilliant.

They are a rock band from Finland, formed in 2003. They have five albums out, and Signs of Life is their first album.
Usually band’s first album is all about discovering themselves and their music. When I first heard this, and then found out it was their first album, well I’m really surprised, because it is really good. Like really really good. Like Oh my dear lord of all the heavens. This is their first album? Wow.

It’s got a excellent mix of tracks, some really up beat ones like “Lift” and then some really slow songs like “Sleep” My favourite song from the album is probably “Illusion and Dreams”. I must insist that was really hard to pick, I spent ages just thinking, and listening to all the songs for several times. Ha I make it sound painful.

I think that if you’ve never really discovered this band, starting at the beginning is brilliant, so this album is well where you start m’dear.

Other songs (from other albums) :

• Dreaming Wide Awake
• Dying To Live
• Save Me
• Clevermind
• More
• Roses

Beens

What does tomorrow want with me/What does it matter what I see

”The dance of flames and shadows in the street

Make poetry nobody’s ever heard
The weight of loneliness stands on your feet
The cage already there around the bird

So why don’t we join the masquerade
Before it all falls apart before our love becomes insatiate

What does tomorrow want with me
What does it matter what I see
If I can’t choose my own design
Tell me where do we draw the line

Where’s the cooling wind
Where’s the evergreen field
Where’s my mother’s open arms
Where’s my father lionheart
S’like the sun’s gone down
Sleeps in the hallowed ground now
With the autumn’s browns leaves
With the one who never grieves

What does tomorrow want with me
What does it matter what I see
If we all walk behind the blind
Tell me where do we draw the line

Whatever tomorrow wants from me
At least I’m here, at least I’m free
Free to choose to see the signs
This is my line ”

This is Shaswata Ray, a 16-year-old student from Kolkata. He is an avid music fan. Apart from Poets of the Fall, he loves Green Day, MCR and The Offspring. He also plays the guitar. 28th August, the day POTF played at Kolkata, was the best day of his life.

How and when did you discover Poets of the Fall? 

I discovered POTF during September 2011. A school friend suggested I listen to “Lift”. I watched the video, and that was it. It was one of the best things I had ever heard. That was the start to all the POTF madness.

What Poets of the Fall music video do you like the most? Why?

Tough one. Maybe I’ll go with Carnival Of Rust. Mainly because I think the video was ingeniously thought of. With references here and there to most of the other tracks, it is certainly one of the best videos I have EVER seen!

Which song of theirs speaks to you on a personal level? How?

I cant choose just one! I’ll have to go with “3 AM” and “Cradled In Love”.

“3 AM” gets me every time I listen to it. It seems to speak out the story of my life. Of some of the little fights I have with a certain someone, whom I happen to love very much.

“Cradled In Love” is simply mindblowing. It’s like a gust of fresh air. Every time I listen to it, it “Lifts my spirits, takes me higher, makes me fly”. Undoubtedly the BEST love song I have ever heard. Again, it reminds me of that “someone special” with whom I share a great bond.

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The news that the Poets of the Fall (POTF) were going to tour India to promote their new album Temple of Thought was unexpected and met with a lot of cynicism. It could’ve been one of the many rumours that circulate around major cities about our favourite bands coming to play. It sounded too good to be true and resulted in furious online research – almost as frantic as the search for the Holy Grail. Like some of the fans admitted, we were so starved for quality music that for a moment in time, all of us went insane so much so that tickets to these events were sold out two days into the band announcing that they were, in fact, going to tour India.

Tickets in hand, the vibe around the cities where the Poets were going to play was spectacularly magical. Fans would play songs from albums old and new in their cars, fellow fans would sing with each other across vehicles when stuck in traffic and the inter-web forums went berserk. I know I could come across as biased, having been a fan of the band since 2007 when a fellow POTFIST admin gifted me the Carnival of Rust album but you will have to see the POTF live to know the kind of madness they inspire.

Apart from all the official concert and band reviews that have been popping up on the internet, we found it interesting to listen to these from a fan’s point of view.

Bangalore –

1. “To describe the notes Marko hit, each one flawless or how Captain played, with his very groovy looking ring, or Olli who transformed the guitar into yet another marvellous voice, or Jaska and Jani who sounded and may I add, looked awesome, or Jari whose beats gave my heart a rhythm to follow, to describe these things would do the band injustice” Read More …
2. “I woke up this morning, wondering if the events of 22nd August were all a dream. I met all the members of the best band there is for this generation, Poets of the Fall, including Marko Saaresto – in front of whom I lost all rational thought and turned into a stammering fangirl. POTFIST made this meet up possible” Read More …

Delhi –

1. “Rushing straight to the day of the Delhi Concert- 24th August, 2012, even though the show was supposed to start at 10 PM, I skipped my classes and left for the venue at 4PM, hoping maybe to catch them outside the venue or during the sound check, which I had confirmed a day before from the organizers would be happening around that time. So I enter the mall where Hard Rock Café was, and I saw Marko strolling right in front of me! He was walking casually with a bottle of Coke in his hand, bouncers surrounding him as he walked, absorbing the environment that’s so new to him.” Read More …
2. “They opened with Kamikaze Love and their set-list included a good mix of old favourites and new songs : Diamonds For Tears, Temple Of Thought, Locking Up The Sun, Roses, War, The Lie Eternal, Stay, Illusion & Dream, Gravity, Late Goodbye, Dreaming Wide Awake, Cradled In Love, Carnival Of Rust & Lift. Quite a heady dose!” Read More …

Pune –

1. “A day which will forever be embedded in my soul for I witnessed one of the greatest acts” – Read More …

 Kolkata –

1. “The atmosphere at the venue was nothing short of electric. All of us were waiting with bated breath. Some, like me were hoping to catch a glimpse of the band. We got there around one pm. The crowd started forming shortly after that. My friends and I were doing all we could to bottle in our excitement. We tried playing memory games, word games, chatting with random unknown people; aimlessly drinking coffee…..it didn’t work.” Read More …
2. “The events of that night have yet to sink in completely, but it was undoubtedly the best night of my life.” Read More …

Overall, while there were a lot of complaints about tour management on the side of the Indian hosts, “a resounding success” would be somewhat of an understatement. However, this meme captures all our feelings perfectly.

Source

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