Update !
Been busy as hell, so the update is late… Jan 27th was a nice gig at HRC Bengaluru with many fans turnin up for the gig. We played all our tracks except one from our debut album due to time constraints (and Neerajs wife broke his guitar on his head for not playing it as it was her fav) . But its nice to know the originals are so well recieved always…Wish we could have uploaded the vids, the audio is great but the lighting for some strange reason was sooo poor its almost a black screen, so its pointless.
Feb is an off month as Neeraj is off to the Big Apple and Jonk is off to the North East almost all month, so we had to refuse 2 gigs but the creative juices are still flowing and new tracks are being churned out, at this rate i’m not sure if we can ever keep up to recording the tracks :)
Next gig is Hard Rock Cafe Hyderabad on 24th of March…see you there …
Stay tuned and hope all is well…
Peace \m/
Vinay
Time to hit the road again
After two months of travel on work, vacation and recording our album which is still a work in progress , its time to hit the road again.
27th January we shall be rocking Hard Rock Cafe , Bengaluru, Will be playing all our originals from our upcoming album. Be there , we promise you a blast of an evening.
More gigs in the pipeline. Stay tuned and Wish ya’ll a Happy New Year
Peace
Vinay \m/
Awesome show at Take5
Thanks to all the peeps who showed up, as always Take5 is a gret place to play and we did have a blast playing there on Sunday the 24th . We played all our new originals, stuff freshly churned out and for the first time we had people dancing to the tunes, thats a really great sign. Most originals were asked for a repeat performance , simply goes to show we are heading down the right route.
The recording is still a work in progress, moving slowly. More work on the tracks will be done this month, Newer stuff to be written as well.
Stay tuned for more news and updates.
Peace \m/
Vinay
Rest time coupla weeks !
After a fab show in Kyra, time for another break, Ajit is overseas on work and comes back end Aug and then off I go on work for 2 weeks….So essentially no live gigs till end of Sept, In the mean time more new tracks are getting fabricated, the recording is going to be in progress and come what may, our album will be out in 2 months (we’ve said that many a time before ) but this time we are actually going to make it happen !
Next gig- Take5 Indiranagar - October 24th Sunday 8 pm with special guest - “Surprise”
Sonic Flare like never before, come to see us in a different avatar ;-)
Peace
\m/
Vinay
Thank You
Thanks for coming in large numbers and cheering us on at Kyra Theatre.
For those of you who couldn’t make it, it was a great gig as usual, but with some unusual “first-time”s for the band.
First up, Snehal Pinto, our good friend joined the jam on additional keyboards and piano - the first time we ever played with 3 Keyboards.
Next, the sound check took a good 2 hours even after which we weren’t too happy. The show finally kicked off at 9 PM and that for the record is the longest sound check the band has had & farthest we have pushed the start time for a gig in Bangalore.
Ajit debuted his new processor & firewire interface on a MacBook pro & lost the rear number plate of his car ( the latter, we believe, had no connection to the gig :-) ).
Vinay introduced his new Roland kick drum for the first time in a live show.
We introduced two new originals to some resounding feedback.
And finally, it was the first time where we recorded our live performance from start to finish.
To sum it up, an excellent show!
Thanks Snehal, Thanks Kyra!
More exciting things to come, stay tuned.
Upcoming gigs
Next show Kyra Theater , Indiranagar - August 7th ,Saturday, 8 pm. Many new original tracks and some cool old covers as well.
July plans !
July is a month off, for the band, from Live gigs…This is intentional, Its a month we have decided, no matter what, we will work on new original compositions, three new tracks are underway and they sound promising, the music is kind of done, the words are ready too, just needs to be put together.
Also more importantly In our quest to release a full length album, we think the time has finally come to get all the tracks together and make a release. However we will do it differently. We plan to record all the tracks played LIVE and release it as an album, This is the only way we can get it out , our busy day jobs and family lives simply do not permit us the time and the luxury of going into a studio and doing a track by track recording.
Plan is to try and release a “Sonic Flare - ‘Yet to be named’ LIVE DVD” with the MP3 tracks available as bonus material too. We will be hitting the studio end of July to Video shoot and Audio record the full album one shot…first time we are ever venturing into doing something like this and truly hoping this works well.
More updates as time rolls by…Stay tuned
Peace and \m/
Vinay
Brilliant gig at Take5 !
Oh…. what a fantastic evening yesterday at Take5 , one of our favorite places to play in Bangalore, The best part of playing here is the crowd who are so musically knowledgeable and inclined and love most of the not so popular tracks from the popular bands we cover. Whats even better is playing our originals here which usually get more applause than the covers we do… 28 tracks and killer vocal deliveries by Nikhil and Priyanka , mindblowing endless impromptu jams and seriously trippy guitar leads earned us many more fans….It was wonderful to see many fans of the band who are hard core loyals to specific pubs (other than Take5) come there to watch us play yesterday, they definitely deserved a dedication , so we did :-)
All in all , one hell of an awesome gig :-) , Not really dying to get a July gig, time to revisit some old songs and write new material of our own, way overdue…..
Hope all is well
Peace \m/
Vinay
Mercury levels rise in Delhi !!!
The onslaught of Sonic Flare in Delhi on the 29th of May at Tabula Rasa, the most happening Lounge bar in Delhi caused temperatures to rise (We mean Literally) !!
What an awesome show it was, gig started at 10 pm and we wound up at 1 am, a total rowdy crowd who wanted to let their hair down and have a total blast ..the gig was sponsored by a buddy Prashant Garg who runs a charity org called “Smiles for All” . Nikhil was at his best with killer vocal deliveries but the band missed Priyanka as hell as she did not perform due to a personal tragedy at home.We also had Saurabh (our previous vocalist) who is now in Delhi to sing four tracks with the band.
We also played many tracks over and beyond our setlist and some of them completely impromptu, songs which we havent played in years !!
We will rock delhi again in a couple of months \m/
Next gig in Take5, June 13th Sunday, Many many new tracks….Always look forward to playing there…
Peace \m/
Vinay
Upcoming gigs
May 29th - Tabula Rasa - Lounge bar in Delhi, Saket - Entry Rs 2000/- per person.
June 13th - Take5 - One of our fav places to play in Indiranagar…