Be cool, be undead at the Palate
Er Audy Zandri, The Jakarta Post | Sun, 12/05/2010 4:08 PM | Supplement
There will always be that time when we want to go back to our childhood. With no real problems to deal with, our days were mostly divided between gobbling down food and dissecting toys.
Yet adult life has its own merits. Things that were formerly forbidden are now free to enjoy, from something as simple as driving a car, entering the local pub or buying tickets for a gore movie at a local theatre to witnessing Marilyn Manson peeing on stage at his concert.
Come to think of it, you won’t see anyone peeing on stage or biting a chicken’s head off at the event we’re talking about here. But with a quirky name and a scary poster to start, it’s going to be awesome.
The Undead Series, is not about half-rotten-humans stupidly staggering in your direction. It is in fact a series of concerts held annually to keep independent music alive in Malaysia.
Bands who want to show what they’ve got — ranging from skills, merchandize to hair style — perform here for the masses, who can shop at the surrounding bazaars if they are bored.
The idea is to have a melting pot for the pot-heads, a gathering for the independents, an event that is aimed at building a community, a fellowship of musicians and music fans alike to share their works, useful information about the music scene and sell their band’s merchandize.
Taking place at the Palate Pallete restaurant at Jalan Mesui No. 21, 50200 Kuala Lumpur, this year’s The Undead Series 1 will present local indie stars like The Maharajah Commission, Pusher, The Garrison, Swampy Zombie Fever and The Fridays. The event will last all night from 9:30 p.m. on Friday — after a special request posted by The Fridays —, Dec. 10, 2010. Purchase a drink, and you can go in without paying for tickets. But here’s the thing, you’d have to be older than 18 years old to buy that drink.
It’s an interesting place this restaurant. Voted as “One of the Great Bars of the World” by Lonely Planet, named “Best Bar” for three years in a row by Juice Magazine and recognized as “one of Asia’s finest restaurants” by the Miele Guide in 2009 and 2010, Palate Pallette stands out because its menu items are backed up by dozens of interesting events, including free movie screenings, book signing events and psychedelic trance parties.
An event named “Ink and Drink”, a special gathering for those with tattoos, takes place every Wednesday night at the restaurant, offering special discounts for tattooed customers, presenting a fully tattooed belly dancer and inviting a different tattoo studio every month to show off their bits, do tattoos live and offering special tattoo deals for tattoo-less hungry lads who desperately want a meal discount.