A report on last weekend’s KLue Urbanscapes 2008, the city’s all-day creative arts festival held at KLPac (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center). Although I’ve heard many things about KLPac from friends, but this was my first time to KLPac.

The place blows my mind away. Situated at Sentul, which is in the middle of busy KL city, but once you are inside you will loose all notions that you are still in the busy hectic cosmopolitan city known as Kuala Lumpur. On the way in, you are greeted with beautiful greenery landscapes, clear lake and an old A’ Famosa colonial-esque building. KLPac with its huge spaces of greenery is perfect for events such as this.

KLue Urbanscapes 2008 on the other hand was a kaleidoscope of sights, scenes and sounds. It is as if all of the city’s creative communities gathered at KLPac and do their thing. Also it seems as if everybody in KL who has Digital-SLR cameras are there at KLPac, Urbanscapes. All kind of camera was present. Everybody all trigger happy, including myself.

We were early for Urbanscapes. This is notable, because rarely do I manage to come early on such events. There are goodies for early birds, we got a paper doll thingy from Urban Cr3atures.

First we watched the short documentary, 10 Tahun Sebelum Medeka by Fahmi Reza. This documentary deserved a blog entry of it’s own in Jiboneus. Then we watched the fun short film, My Indie Rock Darling by Razaisyam Rashid.

Walked around to check out the cool art installation throughout the event place. Then we went to the marketplace. There are some really cool stuff selling there. The food was ok. I like the lamb hotdog.

Went back in to the Xpax Box stage to catch The Other Side Orchestra‘s performance. Their performance were electrifying. A short break then it’s Komplot‘s turn. “Disko tanpa risiko” indeed. These two bands are currently some of my favorite indie music acts.

Went to the Xpax Lawn Stage next, got to catch Estrella and Seven-collar T-shirt. Next was Bittersweet’s turn to rock the crowd, and they did. The crowd goes wild with non-stop stage diving and mosh-pitting everywhere. Love Me Butch, One Buck Short, They Will Kill Us All and The Times keeps the crowd entertain till midnight.

Of cause there are other parties elsewhere at Urbanscape. All type of performance happening everywhere throughout the event. There is something for everyone.

A disappointing moments for me was that I wasn’t able to catch any of the performance in the Acoustic Livehouse room. Each time I went, the room was pack to the door, can’t get in. Wasn’t able to catch Yuna and KokoKaina.

Overall it was a enjoyable whole day event that everybody can enjoy. Klue should organize Urbanscapes event more often.

I’ll upload more photos on my Flickr photostream later, when I have the time.