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Sunday Nite Live present Jaclyn Victor

A Nite of "Gemilang" on Sunday, 5th and 19th March 2006, 10.30pm

Planet Hollywood's Sunday Nite Live in March proudly brings you one of Malaysia’s fastest rising singing sensation, Jaclyn Victor in a two night solo performance on 5th and 19th March 2006. The soulful singing-bird is always branded as a singer known for her rich, gospel-tinged performance, captivating vocals and a remarkable voice.

Jaclyn Victor, or affectionately being known as Jac by her fans, is the winner of the first season of Malaysian Idol, a singing competition that was spawned from the Idol series that started off as Pop Idol. Last year since winning, the sassy Jac has seen non-stop success in the music industry. She has won numerous awards such as Hits 1st Best-Performance and Best Song that took place at Auditorium Perdana in Angkasapuri, represented Malaysia for the 8th Shanghai Asia Music Awards which she won a Gold Medal and on top of all, she proudly won the Best Song at the recent prestigious 20th Anugerah Juara Lagu.

Expect a mesmerising and a breath-taking performance from Jac, supported by the Malaysian finest musicians in the country. "I’m thrilled and excited to join the list of amazing and accomplished artistes to have performed for the Sunday Nite Live series. I’m going to give my best performance and I really hope all my fans will be there to support me", said Jaclyn excitedly.

"Planet Hollywood is very excited to present one of the most talked-about singer in this current music scene, under the Sunday Nite Live banner. We’re glad to collaborate with the management of ‘The 8 Unit’ to bring Jaclyn here. She has an incredible stage presence and it is our hope that music fans will be excited to watch her up, close and personal in Planet Hollywood", said a Planet Hollywood representative.

Sunday Nite Live at Planet Hollywood presents the best in live entertainment showcasing the most prominent and promising artistes in the Malaysian music scene. Sunday Nite Live creates an up, close and personal experience for music fans to watch their favourite artistes’ vocal prowess, performance versatility and style in an intimate setting.

So, don’t miss this chance to be blown-away by this soulful songbird at Planet Hollywood this coming 5th & 19th March 2006. Showtime at 10:30pm and will present two forty-five minutes sets. Entrance fee for Sunday Nite Live with Jaclyn Victor is RM35, inclusive of one drink. For further inquiries call 03-2144 6602. Planet Hollywood is located at KL Plaza, Jalan Bukit Bintang

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Super Performance with Superfriends at Planet Hollywood

Superfriends, currently one of the most talked about young club bands in the country will hit Planet Hollywood for the month of March and April. This is a band that has already made waves in the local club scene and has been able to attained a faithful following.

This superb 7 piece band is headed by vocalist Najuib. Their versalite act with a repertoire of Rock songs from three decades and also crowd favourites to the current hits of today is set to mesmerize the crowd.

Catch the energetic performance of Superfriends nightly at 10.30pm except Sundays.

Planet Hollywood is located in KL Plaza, on Jalan Bukit Bintang. For further inquiries, please call 03-21446602.

Fort Minor: Live In KL

Live In Kuala Lumpur!
Proudly Presented by Hotlink!

Lushington Entertainments and Jojo Entertainment are proud to announce Fort Minor's first dates in Asia, which will kick off at the Indoor Arena, Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club on Tuesday, 28th February 2006 in Kuala Lumpur.

"It's called Fort Minor, instead of my name because there are a bunch of other people involved in the project. But I only wanted to work with family and friends; people that I feel are really close to me and we see eye-to-eye. Besides that, Fort has a militant meaning and Minor in music is a smaller, darker, sadder note, so the name is a reflection of the music." Mike Shinoda

How do you thrive in the shadow, substantial and arena-sized, of a group that has sold over 35 million albums? If you're Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, the answer is: shine your own light. Shinoda is half the vocal firepower of the multi-platinum, Grammy-winning band Linkin Park, trading diaphragmatic diatribes with singer Chester Bennington and infusing the searing alternative rock with equally intense hip-hop. From album to album, Shinoda and his bandmates have garnered a reputation based on their appetite for striking new ground. On his first outing alone, Shinoda is ready to show people that he is still hungry.

Shinoda's rap roots have always had to share space with other elements-until now. Fort Minor is a wholly unique, unadulterated hip hop album, owing as much to Shinoda's polished lyricism as his musical adeptness. The variety of themes, styles, and moods he creates make this "side project" likely to do much more than simply satisfy existing LP fans; it threatens to expose Shinoda as a rap devotee who is as at home in hip-hop as he is in the cross-genre hybrid of Linkin Park.

The Rising Tied, the much-anticipated debut of Shinoda's Fort Minor, is released by Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros., on November 22, 2005. Executive Produced by Jay-Z (who collaborated with Linkin Park on 2004's Collision Course), The Rising Tied is produced and mixed by Shinoda, who wrote every track, played nearly every instrument and "slaved over every detail."

While Shinoda chose the name Fort Minor to reflect the dynamic between opposites - something big and strong vs. something small and slight (or musically dark) - the name of the album is also a play on words. All of the guest artists on The Rising Tied, says Shinoda, are coming up together in the music world. Among them are Machine Shop acts Styles of Beyond and Holly Brook, as well as Common, John Legend, Kenna and Black Thought (of The Roots), among others.

While remaining an essential shard in the mosaic of Linkin Park, the desire to create songs that resonated with his youth as a hip-hop producer and MC led Shinoda to write, then record, a progression of hip-hop-rooted songs. As they began to coalesce into an album bearing Shinoda's solo imprimatur, he also felt it was essential to keep it "organic," making his own samples and breakbeats with live instruments, and avoiding sequenced keyboards. The Rising Tied, channeling some of the signature dynamics and frustration of Linkin Park, reveals a more personal range of themes slagged inside a distinctly hip-hop crucible.

Not to say that it's an entirely homogenized collection. On the track "Believe Me," excerpts from a decaying relationship tremble over a seismic breakbeat, infused with Latin percussion and a cello-bass line that reflects Shinoda's love of classic rock. "High Road," bouncing to Billy Joel-like piano progressions, adopts a humorous tone even as it gives the finger to someone who once told him to "stick to keyboards, don't rap."

Clearly, the most unique song of this album - or any album, for that matter - is a rap-flavored recollection of the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II. "Kenji," featuring the voices of Shinoda's aunt and father who were interned in the U.S. during the 1940s, paints a bleak picture of those who lost everything after being thrown into what were known then, euphemistically, as "relocation camps."

With Fort Minor and The Rising Tied, Shinoda appreciated the chance to tackle a new theme outside the normal subject matter of Linkin Park.

Tackling big goals seems to be Shinoda's modus operandi. Notwithstanding an expectation to pursue a career in the visual arts, Mike decided instead to become a musician while working toward his B.A. in Illustration from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Having already taken ten years of piano lessons, he first began to work as a hip-hop MC and producer. In the mid-1990s Shinoda joined with guitarist Brad Delson, turntablist Joseph Hahn, drummer Rob Bourdon, bassist Phoenix and vocalist Chester Bennington to form Linkin Park. The band's debut, Hybrid Theory, became the worldwide #1-selling album of 2001, earning a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("Crawling") and various other awards. Its subsequent albums - Reanimation, Meteora and Live in Texas - have continued to widen the band's fan base and critical acclaim; all together the catalogue has sold upwards of 35 million albums. On July 2 in Philadelphia, Linkin Park performed as part of the African aid/debt relief effort Live 8, to a live audience estimated at nearly one million people.

Don't' miss this Golden Opportunity of this decade's most dynamic and remarkable band in A one-day only exclusive concert, proudly presented by HOTLINK and supported by Red Bull, Hard Rock Café Kuala Lumpur, Hitz Fm, StarWorld and Channel [V].

Hotlink will be providing FREE Shuttle Services between the Bangsar PutraLine LRT station to Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club on concert date, from 5.00pm to 8.15pm, at intervals of 15 to 20 minutes.

The return shuttle services from Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club will be from 10.00pm to 11.15pm.
Places available are on a first-come basis. Look out for the colourful Hotlink Shuttle Coaches (A) and (B) when you come off the Bangsar LRT station on the Bangsar Utama side of the station.
Fort Minor's debut album 'The Rising Tied' is out in stores now from Warner Music Malaysia.

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Defining World’s Number One: Paul van Dyk at Zouk Review

What: Paul Van Dyke
Where: Zouk KL
When: 3 February 2006

As expected, Zouk was packed with masses of people on 3rd of February as the World’s Number One DJ, Paul Van Dyke of Germany, came down to Kuala Lumpur as part of his Politics of Dancing 2 Album Tour.

Talking to the people outside, some had waited since 7.30pm to get the ‘privileged’ entry but somehow many were left disappointed when the organizer messed up the distribution. Ain’t no mountain high enough for the pleasure of PVD’s magic though as fans waited patiently to get in. At around 11.00pm, the inside of Zouk was banging with the excellent handy work of its resident DJ. You can feel the anticipation in the air as the crowd started to scream everytime the ‘mat salleh’ technician came on the console.

Superstar show from this world-class DJ, the man everybody was waiting for hailed the deck at exactly 12pm and the crowd went wild. The crowd already hyped up and tease by the resident DJ’s session, was ready to party!

Looking very much the picture of perfection, PVD, in his white-stripped collared shirt and cool demeanor started the session hard and thumping. With just the right touches of breaks in between to let you catch your breath (Coldplay track), the dude’s first half was intense. By this time Zouk was so packed, you wished that the roof would just open up to let some air in.

In the second half, PVD mixed a heady selection of old and new, with some of his own (I Know You Want Me) with club anthems (Reflekt’s “Need To Feel Loved”). The crowd was flying high from all the intensity, as he teased the crowd with a lull of (almost) silence and then pounds on the beat, spreading raptures all across the dance floor.

PVD is no Carl Cox. You won’t see him bouncing and grinning away while he spins but he is a sincere and passionate DJ. His music is strong and full of emotions. He subtly interacts with the crowd by spying them mockingly with the console lights, he gives a glance and a glint of smile that slips. You wished he would just keeps on going. It was already pass 3am and though the Zouk people was already signaling the time, he went on three more mixes, ending it with the profound and very fitting “Time of Our Lives” from his Reflections album.

As the night ended (with some lucky punters coming out with their awesome PVD T-shirt that he gave away and other goodies – I was so envious) you can see that the crowd did had the time of their life. PVD deserves to be crowned World’s Number One. He was amazing. The gig was amazing. If only the venue was an open field rather than a over packed super club. Now, THAT would make it all amazing!

By Lind "Bunny Hopping" Shah
Edited by Johan "JD" Nasir

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Sunday Nite Live: M Nasir

Planet Hollywood's Sunday Nite Live in February brings you the legendary M. Nasir for two nights, 12 and 19 February. The incomparable M. Nasir needs no introduction, a household name that has continued to hold his mark and presence in the music scene since the late eighties. He still lives up to his reputation, not only as a great singer but also as a renowned songwriter, composer and producer. His unique style of music has made him stand out above the rest in the industry.

Fans can expect a "trademark" M Nasir performance, accompanied by a magnificent ensemble of highly skilled musicians. So, don't miss this chance to be enthralled by one of the foremost artists in Malaysia.

Show dates : 12 and 19 Feb 2006
Showtime is at 10.30pm.

Entrance fee for Sunday Nite live with M. Nasir is RM35, inclusive of one drink.
For further inquiries call 03-2144 6602.
Planet Hollywood is located at KL Plaza, Jalan Bukit Bintang.

This is a club gig, no proper seating required. Ample standing room available at the bar.

Zouk February Highlights

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