The day started the night before, when I calculated for myself to sleep early, so that I can wake up at 6am and leave home at 7am. I actually left at 6.50am to get an 'ojek' ride to Adrie Subono's house.
Adrie Subono is this mega well-known promoter in Indonesia under the name Java Musikindo. He's brought Suede, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Alanis Morissette, Bjork, Arkarna, Muse, Black Eyed Peas and many more to Jakarta. Thanks to him too, lots of other promoters got inspired by him and are now doing a great job inviting artists that basically are not into Adrie's type of music.. hehehe.. Seriously.
I first enjoyed his first concert in 1997, when he brought Arkarna to Bengkel Nightpark. Truly, his professionalism in the business makes him the best of the best in the music promoter business in Indonesia.
Anyway, going back on that day, Sunday, 5 December 2010, I came out from the house at 6.50am, walked out to the portal to see if there were any ojek drivers waiting for passengers. Unfortunately, no one was in sight so I took a walk to the next station and took the ride from there. I then arrived at Adrie's house around 7.15am. Uh-oh. I saw cars parking, lots of them. Then the ojek took a turn to his house and UH-OH. Major crowd were already packed outside Adrie's house and when I got to the gate to get the Q number, I knew I was very, very, -waaay- late, there is no way I would get one of the 100 pre sale tickets given. My number was 685.
Holy %*#$@.. 685!!! Not 50, not 300, not 558.. But 685. I swear, I think I screamed in my head for awhile. The crew said people were already coming at 2.30am and some other people said that when they came at 6am, the number was already in 350 something. Amazeballs. People really like Maroon5. Or people are really hypnotized by Twitter. Yes, people. Twitter made all of these happening.
Adrie Subono was already standing in front of his gate talking to a couple of guys who seemed like they came very early in the morning. Think dawn.
Anyway, I approached that group to talk to Adrie Subono as well and he said that we should come back later in the afternoon, while he would tweet the numbers in waiting. Well, I had to go back since I had wedding reception to attend. One other thing Adrie Subono said. He's actually not so familiar with Maroon5 and he kinda felt that the type of music they play is too 'soft' or 'meye-meye'. HAHAHA.. I loved the way he said it :P . While talking to him, I knew that I won't be seeing him as relaxed as then and so I asked for both of us to take a picture together along with my Q-ing number in hand. Man, I kinda felt defeated. Happily defeated, at least.
Long story short, the fun actually began when Adrie started to tweet the numbers. I had to keep the updates so that my number would not be surpassed. It was 300smt when I arrived at the wedding and it was almost in the 600 range when I decided that all of us should leave the wedding (it was a cousin's wedding, so all the family came by too). Then it was 631 when I arrived at his house again. Wow. The power of Twitter.
These pictures can give you ideas on how hectic that day was:
Mrs. Subono, the lady of the house showed up in the front porch of the house to take a few pictures of the line. She was out for a few minutes, and I was looking at her from outside the gate, but I could see how beautiful she is. I think Adrie will never cheat on her. Ever. She's such a keeper :)
I got my tickets in 40minutes and I came out from the house thanking Adrie for my ticket, which is not exactly called ticket but voucher to be later redeemed at their office in Kuningan in April. *sigh* another Q in waiting.
Well, the story isn't that interesting but it does give you an idea of how complicated and hard working being successful is. You have to do the best for the people so they won't lose your trust. And Adrie Subono with Java Musikindo never fails to impress us. Kudos to him! Long live Maroon5 *lhooo??* Hehehehe.... Oh, and by the way, Maroon5 ticket sales was SOLD OUT to tha bone in 10 hours. Amazeballs. Thank Twitter again. Thank God for determination.
Peace out,
K.P. Bex
7 December 2010
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