“Arash” Concert Review

Not everything, and different or out of ordinary is interesting; as a matter of fact, some innovations would be anything but interesting!

“Arash,” is what I would consider as a phony innovation.
“Arash,” is a new Swedish band with a male Iranian lead singer named “Arash” which had its first north Californian concert at the “Avalon” club in San José, on Friday, Nov. 21.

Unfortunately, everything about this event, from the very beginning part, to the ending, was a bogus indication.

The band’s music style was an unharmonious mixture of Rock, Pop, folk and the lyrics of more than a few songs, such as “Boro,” “Naro,” “Dasa Bala” and “Tike,” was an array of rubbish Iranian expressions.

The worst part of all was the fact that everything we were hearing during the performance was coming right through a record player and the band members were just bunch of amateurs, who were acting as if they were playing instruments or singing on the stage; they were performing a fake live show, right in front of our eyes!

Couple of incidents confirmed the live “Arash” performance was a fake:

First of all, during the entire performance, I could hear the flute playing, but there wasn’t any flute player on the stage.
“How embarrassing! If they had recited their performance, just once, before the show, they’d figure out, that they should have some one out there, as a flute player?” said Habib, an audience.

And the second fact was the female Swedish singer, “Rebecca,” who was inexpertly reciting in ‘Farsi.’
In the meantime, she left her microphone on the stand and started dancing on the stage and, but we could still hear her singing throughout the record player!

The hardly tolerable high volume of the show was also an unwelcoming matter for the audience.

There was only one thing that kept me standing still till the end of the show, and that was the unintentional ridicule, presented in this performance.
All I was waiting for was another hilarious incident, on the stage and apparently, I didn’t have to wait long for that moment to come along.

Since all the band members were are Swedish excluding one, so they didn’t understand the meaning of the lyrics they were singing together, so as they were all singing a gloomy, restrained song, the band, started jumping up and down, as if they were reciting a harsh rock song.

I should also mention that, before the show started, the security guards purposely wouldn’t let the people who had come to see the show, inside the club, in order to make a big line out there to create a center of attention in the neighborhood.
So even though, we’d purchased our tickets beforehand, we still had to stay in that huge line, for about one hour.

The bartenders, were also working deceitfully, in their own way; the common bar rule “first come, first serve,” Was not applying back there, so it took us almost half an hour to get our first drink, even though we were in the first row, right in front of the bartender.

“What else could possibly go wrong in a performance?”


“Arash,” was an actual thumbs-down!