Halloween Fiesta

What do I do when I do go out for Halloween?

If you’re wondering the same then get yourself a ticket to the early “Tết Halloween” with us at “HALLOWEEN FIESTA” – organised by 71collective at Hanoi Rock City this October 29th.

It is an absolute feast-y night full of music – heavy, full of power beats by our super cool 5 Hanoi local original bands that would guarantee you not being able to help moving, plus head banging and moshing (if you’re up for going a bit wilder). Apart from music, there will also be face painting for you proper Halloween goers, as well as food and fashion stalls, nice beers and cocktails from HRC, and music docs screening.

So who are the bands playing?

1.WINDRUNNER

The band that “owns” the surely-will-make-us-all-go-nuts-for girl at this Halloween Fiesta. Only after 2 years being active, WINDRUNNER’s releases – quite a few singles and the EP “Vui” - have widely moved the domestic as well as foreign audience thanks to their modern metalcore sound mingling with some ambient and Djent twang. WINDRUNNER has been in plenty of shows and festivals in and out the country, remarkably their South Korea tour in 2016 and Cambodia in 2017. Currently they are on their way there with a full-length album and will play their freshest tunes at our upcoming Halloween Fiesta show.

 2.B52

It’s the B52 band from the very active club called “HUB”. Aside from Lê Hiếu (bassist), the rest of the band members all started as HUB’s collaborators. After a little while going on as an independent band, B52 was officially founded and has been playing since January 2017.

Genre: pop-rock

Band members:

Lê Hiếu (bassist)

Đét (vocalist-keyboardist)

Luộc (drummer)

Trần Diệu My (vocalist)

Tùng (lead guitarist)

Lê Minh Tân (guitarist)

3.BLOODSHED

A band that is heavily influenced by Dying Fetus, Katalepsy, Begging For Incest, etc., Bloodshed yearns for the sort of rough and somewhat violent sounds of Death and Slam. They will release their first EP album called SCROUNDREL at the end of this month on the occasion of their 3rd birthday.

Official members:

Quan – vocal

Duc – bass/backing vocal

Long – guitar

Ngoc – guitar

Hung – drums

Genre: heavy as hell

4.REVENANTS

Founded at Bo Tan’s rehearsal room, in this snaky windy yet sunny little Thong Phong alley. That afternoon, quite unusually, we were sat together having tra da and some chit chat, not at Bo Tan’s rehearsal place, the scenery was not anything special, then this not-going-anywhere chit chat came to an end and we all got back to our own homes. Though we went online and talked again, Revenants was founded here, just saying, not at Bo Tan’s rehearsal room.

Members:

Kiên Cua – Guitarist

Hoàng Việt Anh – Guitarist

Đức Lùn – Bassist

Hưng Béo – Drummer

Elly Trần Hiếu – Vocalist

Generally we pursue pretty much all the genres, except those we agreed that we would not pursue anymore. Revenants simply just wants to bring in whatever we can play; whatever we can’t play, we categorise them “the genres we used to pursue”.

Genre: everything

5.MXM

Another very multi-cultural band of Hanoi - MXM is a socially conscious progressive hardcore band, with vocalist from South Africa, female bassist from Vietnam, Synth and Drummer from England. In support of the local underground community and with strong DIY ethics, the band released its first Banana Island TV produced video single ‘Golden Scion’ in June 2016, receiving considerable coverage on HARDCOREWORLDWIDE, BlankTV and Unite Asia. It has released a brand new EP called “Golden Scion” and 2 music videos (‘Ships’ and ‘Shelter’) in 2017 ahead of a SE Asia tour.