It was going to take a massive helping of luck and some incredible turn of events to make this work, but both Nandita, from Airtel’s marketing department and me decided to go ahead and take the risk, because it promised to be a great show if we managed to pull it off!

We played in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa on the 3rd of April, and were scheduled to go to Coimbatore directly from there and then on to the M.A.D festival where we would play on the 5th. However, Airtel wanted to…

“It was meant to be you guys” said Vivek, of Soul Curators, the organizers of the Gulmarg Winter Festival. He was referring to us being the first band to play at such a concert in all of Kashmir, in the last 30 years!

It could so easily not have been us there on stage that night. The original dates for the festival were clashing with our tour in Sri Lanka, but it snowed on those days and the festival was pushed by a week enabling us to make it. The…