Ahmad Faris, founder of TapauFest music festival, has spent the past 15 years promoting Malaysia’s indie scene and regional musical talents
Growing up in suburban Kuala Lumpur, he would listen in awe as his parents reminisced about the electric performances of local icons like the Alleycats and Sudirman Arshad. Those were the days, they told him, when music wasn’t just heard – it was lived.
Few moments captured that spirit more vividly than Sudirman’s 1986 legendary Chow Kit Road concert, where more than 100,000 people gathered on the streets to sing along to classics such as the aptly named Chow Kit Road and Pertemuan Abadi. It was a moment of shared euphoria, etched into the national memory.
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