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The most exciting act of the night other than Whitney herself was Shaggy (Orville Richard Burrell) - the main man! He was rocking the floors back in the day when I myself was a youngster hopping in the clubs to classics like Oh Carolina and In The Summertime, and of course the ever classic Boombastic!

He burst on to the stage with a huge amount of energy and rocked the crowd from start to finish, definitely 100% the most exciting and entertaining act of the night. He was on stage with his regular partners in crime Rikrok (famous for 'It wasn't me') and Rayvon (The voice on 'Summertime' & 'Angel').

The crowd was absolutely jammed in by the time Shaggy came on.

He straight away got the crowd pumping with his energy and ragga stylin hip thrusting.

Just look at his expression and the mic position, caused quite some shaking of heads amongst the more conservative party attendees apparently.

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Next up when it was getting dark before the big guns of Shaggy and Whitney were a few local acts. Namely Joe Flizzow (of Too Phat fame) and M8 with Jaclyn Victor, Noryn Aziz, Nikki and a bunch of others (Yes both of the pictures on Wikipedia of Joe and Jaclyn are mine!).

Joe Flizzow came out first with his crew and performed for quite some time.

He had this cool shirt on which emulated a thick gold chain - and of course his trademark KL Cap.

It was a fairly energetic performance with hats thrown to the crowd and some break-dancing.

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Well I have a chair and a tidy appartment now...so I can continue with what I was doing! Live and Loud it happened to be..

So back to Live and Loud 2007!

Things really started to heat up when Project Pop came on from Indonesia - absolutely hilarious.

Really energetic and very entertaining, non-stop costume changes.

Who can fault 2 guys in dresses and blonde wigs!

A bit of atmosphere.

They really knew how to get the crowd moving.

This lady was large, and knew it and used it for comic effect

They did a hilarious techo vs rock skit as well - the drummer was fantastic breaking between a hardcore techno beat and classic rock seamlessly.

Excellent stuff - definitely one of the most entertaining performances of the night!

Lot's of things to catch up with now...so hopefully I'll be able to get the rest of live and loud done, then I can get onto the waterfalls - and various other things.

Merry Xmas!

The act a lot of people have been waiting for! Elliott Yamin! If you don't know much about him you can read up more on Wiki Elliott Yamin.

He was third-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol and is famous in the mainstream for his song "Wait for You". You can check out the song on Youtube here - Wait for You.

It's the performance of the night a lot of people were looking forwards too and the artist a lot of people specifically came to see.

It was unfortunate on two parts - it started raining as he came on, which wasn't too heavy thankfully. And he didn't cross over to the main stage - so the people there didn't get to see much of him.

He came on with his band and started setting things up, got things going.

It was fully dark by the time he came on which made the lighting much more dramatic, especially with the rain.

Pretty big crowd when he started singing, and pretty pumped.

Even wet and sweaty he continued singing like a true pro.

Well the concert was 'rain or shine'.

He spent some time on the catwalk thing right in the middle of the crowd, which they really appreciated.

He really rocked the show.

There was quite a crowd - umbrellas and all.

And that was Elliott Yamin.

A very soulful guy, very humble and nice too. I managed to pass him my card in case he wanted any of the pictures and he actually e-mailed me!

So I've sent him some pics over, looking forwards to seeing them on his Myspace when time permits.

More on Elliott's Myspace here.

So after James Taylor Quartet at Live and Loud 2007 came Hannah Tan!

Thanks so much Hannah for getting me access to the stage, backstage and the chance to mingle with the stars. It was an awesome experience!

To all the detractors Hannah CAN sing, even Suanie said so and she's brutally honest (mentioning Whitney's belly).

The setup was good, nice choreography, some piano work and some up-beat songs.It was a shame it was still daylight though as the light was rather flat and she had some good AV stuff and lighting.

She came on initially amongst a flurry of dancers decked in Blue and White.

Working the small but enthusiastic crowd (Plenty of shouts "Hannah we love you").

After that she got a bit warm and took her coat off - much to the crowds delight.

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Ah so Live and Loud 2007 - the most anticipated music event of the year! The largest stage to hit Asia - the same one used for Live Aid.

It had a pretty start studded line up with International favourites like Whitney Houston, K-Ci & Jojo, James Ingram, Kool & The Gang, Mint Condition, Dionne Warwick, Shaggy, Elliot Yamin, Lil’ G of Silk, Rick Price, James Morrison, James Taylor Quartet and more of course.

Alongside well known local talents like Hannah Tan, Dayang Nurfaizah, Jaclyn Victor, Joe Flizzow, Anuar Zain, Adibah Noor, Hazami, Noryn Aziz, Zainal Abidin, Nikki, and Dina (of Malaysian Idol fame).

I managed to catch the first night which was An Evening with Dionne Warwick in Shangri-La.

But Turn on the Pop was the big day with all the big stars and my friend Hannah Tan of course.

Hannah managed to get me full access so I could wonder around on the stage, backstage and basically wherever I wanted to. This went for ALL acts apart from Whitney Houston - but more on that later.

I went to explore around the stage and see what it was like, sadly the light was a bit flat in the beginning - we reached there about 4.30pm, Hannah was set to go on at 5pm. There was hardly anyone there so early. The weather was pretty nice though so it was good just to hang out.

Some dudes were playing when I first arrived but I had no idea who they were, shortly after that James Taylor Quartet came on and rocked it up with some jazz.

James Taylor himself tuning up.

The rest of the quartet strumming away.

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Well it's about time I started sorting out my folder for pictures to check, it's reaching 30GB.

So here's the first blast from the past, some pics I took at Mon't Kiara Jazzfest, I did pretty ok looking back with the noise on the D70s and just the kit lens!

It was the last gig for Cosmic Funk Express and great it was, some people actually danced, there was a large crowd and we had a bottle of Swing, so I assume Paul must have been there too!

Yah of course by the end of the night it was gone..

With the help of the staff from Clear.

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