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PentaTV S02E03 “Osculate My Posterior”
Pentagram live in Ghaziabad! “Where’s Ghaziabad?” you might say! This episode, the band visit the small town on the Delhi-U.P. border to play a gig at the engineering college IPEC. Watch as the band tackle Kenny G, shady silver-shirted fixers, Ghaziabad “dignitaries”, shiny disco balls, awful sound and a hindi crowd who were promised a [...]
PentaTV S02E02 “Fuck that! fire him later chut…where are we going man?!?”
This episode, the band travels to New Delhi to play a gig at St. Stephen’s College. They encounter cops at soundcheck, fainting drivers on their way to the hotel…and of course getting lost on their way to the hotel itself which is in the middle of nowhere. They get through to finally play a banging [...]
PentaTV S02E01 “BLO.ODY.WO.OD”
This episode has Pentagram running around Bombay in a guerilla photo/music video shoot. Watch as the band comes across bemused citizens, angry cops and obsessive fans as they try a no holds barred (and no permissions either) photo/music video shoot. In fact by filming PentaTV, it became a shoot within a shoot within a shoot….Inception [...]
PentaTV Episode 11 “I can’t believe I went left, Bhenchod!”
PentaTV is back with Episode 11! This episode features Pentagram’s experience of opening for The Prodigy at the Eristoff Invasion Festival 2011 in Bangalore and Delhi. We follow the band as they meet their heroes and play on one of the biggest stages in India.
PentaTV Episode 10 “Chairs Freak Me Out”
Episode 10 features the band playing for the Times Bandra Festival at the MMRDA grounds at Bandra Kurla Complex. Highlights include a soundcheck that features Randolph on drums and Shiraz playing bass, songs off the new album and Vishal taking over shooting duties from us for a special one on one with the crowd.
PentaTV Episode 8 ‘Sunshine is free’
This episode takes us to where Pentagram rehearse. Randolph explains what happens in the jam room and how this is the best way he can think of to spend his evenings while Shiraz talks of how hard a drummers life is. Watch more here and now!
PentaTV Episode 7 “Nocturne”
This episode we’re back in the recording studio with the boys as we sit in on the continuing progress of their new album ‘Bloodywood’. We get a taste of an as yet untitled track, and the soon to be finished ‘Nocturne’ (which was in its birthing stage in Episode 2), and from the little we’ve [...]
PentaTV Episode 6 “Hello, Rang Bhavan? Koi Hai?”
In episode six, Vishal takes us on a midnight bike ride on Bombay’s beautiful empty streets. We visit places significant to Pentagram’s past, like his childhood home where the boys first jammed and Sophia College lane where they all hung out. We stop to have a look at the now defunct rock mecca Rang Bhavan [...]
PentaTV Episode 4 “Two butter chickens?”
After a canceled gig in Chennai the band hires a mini-bus and heads over to Puducherry for a bit of R&R and butter chicken.
PentaTV Episode 3 “You can gargle my balls”
Episode 3 of PentaTV features the band on the road. They head to Chennai only to find out that their outdoor gig has been cancelled due to a sudden incessant rain shower. With no work and only play on their mind, see how they choose to “pass” their time. Watch how Randolph and Shiraz go [...]