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You can stay in Male’ and still rock out on New Year’s Eve, as CountDown 2010 offers live music show at Olympus starting from 30^th December 2009.

CountDown 2010, which starts at 9 p.m., on 30 Dec 2009, and continues again on the next day at 8 p.m.

Also, buffet dinner will be available from the Olympus Café during the show on 31^st December 2009.

Featuring Bands include:

On 30th Dec 2009

• Qube
• BYT
• Odder Bee
• RedVex

On 31^st Dec 2009

• Brain Damage
• 3MA
• Agents of Orange
• 1 Knight Stand

Ticket Prices:

Ticket per Night:                     Mrf 30.00

Ticket for 2 Nights:                 Mrf 50.00

Ticket on 31^st with dinner:      Mrf 100.00

Make sure you don’t miss out on this event and see you there!

Have a nice countdown

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A German journalist is looking for children (between 8 and 15 years of age), who are engaged in environmental activities, to be featured in a documentary.

This documentary will be about three such children, one each from the Maldives, South Korea and Germany.  Interested children must be directly engaged in environment related activities, such as tree planting or must be expressing their message via an art form (such as song writing).

Please contact henriette.bornkamm@fechnermedia.de from www.fechnermedia.de, for more information.

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I hear people saying that “Old is gold”. I don’t really know what it means. I didn’t even think about it. Because It doesn’t make any sense to me, so i didn’t want waste my time thinking about it.

Nowadays we see many music bands in Maldives. The 3 neighbours are also a music band now. We see teenagers hanging out with guitars. Playing some good stuffs by Alexi Laiho, James Hetfield, Jimi Hendrix, Slash Hudson and goes on. But the question is, Is it worth to spend time on playing those stuffs?

I met a Musician, Who started playing mid 90s. He told me that, the kids who are playing music is nothing other then some shit, because they know all the guitar chords, but they cant even play their own 1 song! Whats the use of wasting time, playing music composed by others? and also he told me that, when they started playing music, they only know the guitar chord “E” but they have created their own stuffs. Really good music. I asked him who taught you music. He replied me. “Nobody. Music is something you create”.

Most of the band’s still play covers on shows. But there are few Maldivian Bands coming up with their own music, Bands like Sacred Legacy, Fasylive, 1984 etc.

I still like old Maldivian Bands. “Kushehnooney”, “Violet Addiction”, “Zero Degree Atoll”. Those are really legends. Yes! Old is gold.

I hate the program music in Maldives. I wish luck for Maldivian Musicians who are trying to create their own music.

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“The Guitar Gig 2009” is the unique event organized by the Maldives Entertainment Co. Ltd. The main purpose of the event is to showcase the talented guitarists of the Maldives in a very unique and vibrant atmosphere. This event would be showcasing guitarist Anil, Xia and Shahyd who are of different genre for their unique style and talent while playing the guitar.

The three guitarists mentioned would be backed by a band of their choice and would be performing with their cover songs and their original material, some which had not being released to the general public. Some well known faces who have being in the music industry would also be featured with the bands during the event.

This show will be at “Olympus” from 9:00pm onwards till 00:00am on the Saturday 31st of October 2009. Tickets available @ Olympus. Ticket Price Mrf 75.00.

As the name defines, “The Guitar Gig” would be a musical extravaganza performed by one of the 3 most accomplished guitarists in town with their respective band. The event concept is that these three groups getting united and setting aside the differences among them to enjoy and applaud the live music performed by the youngsters in a disclosed. Maintenance of friendliness and brotherhood, unity & harmony is our goal.

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With the success of the Olympians come-back show, the show DVD is going to be released on 1^st October 2009 at Olympus.

This is a FREE entrance (with limited seating) show with DVD releasing ceremony performing Dinba Family and DJ Ashu.

To promote the DVD, there will be a musical event on 2^nd and 3^rd October 2009 at Olympus. Performers include some of the talented musicians and famous singers including Theyrava, Kuda Ibbe, Ilham, Asfa, Shaani, Lahufa, Liusha, Raafiyath and Lahufa. Tickets will be available from Olympus from 30^th October 2009, 9:00am to 11:00pm.

Ticket price is Rf 50/- and Rf 100/-. The DVD’s will be available from Olympus during the show on a special price.

For more information call 3322497, 7466194

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‘Please’ is a campaign to help people with disabilities in the Maldives.

These children and young adults do not have sufficient services available to them. They are treated at best as second-class citizens and we aim to create awareness amongst the general public and raise funds for CDC (children development center) in Care Society. We need your support to successfully manage this and in turn help kids who are in such situations. Please, Help!

Under the ‘ Please’ campaign we have organised a Read-a-thon in all the school in Male’, Villingili and Hulhumale’. ‘Read-a-thon for charity’ commenced on 13th of September 2009. Students of all participating school are given the opportunity to raise funds to help people with disabilities at CDC, by reading books. Parents are going to sponsor their child to read books. They are going to donate MRF 3.00 to every book the child reads over the following two weeks.

Please campaign is also centered around raising awareness about people with disabilities in the Maldives. Five documentaries are being produced depicting the hopes, dreams and every day lives of five different children with different disabilities.

Further more, a MUSIC show will be held on the 1st of October 2009, to emphasize the importance of this campaign. Helping people with disabilities is not only their families’ responsibility. It is our responsibility as a nation. Through this campaign we hope to mediate away for people to learn about these disabilities and help them via donations.

So far, the bands confirmed to perform for this cause are,

Shiuz
Fa’thu
Vijan
1984
Damned ones
Brain damage
Rock paper scissor
Moonstone

Please click here for more information

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Photography by Hani Amir

Finally, 1984’s debut DHIVEHI album “E’ku E’kee’s” CD’s are being made available for Sale on wholesale and retail basis from 10th September onwards.

Where? You can get it at a special rate at Olympus that night.

Those of you who got CD vouchers on our album launching event, bring them to Olympus when u come and get your E’ku E’kee CD for FREE!

Photography by Hilath

Tickets will be available at Olympus starting 3rd September.

Ticket price MVR84

Opening act – Fa’thu & Faya

Click on the link below for more information
http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127053357866

This event is held in Collaboration with the Maldives Entertainment Company Limited (MECL).

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