MEW - The Farewell Shows, Zepp KL

First angmo gig this year.

When it was announced that this iteration of MEW was coming to an end (frontman Jonas is leaving to pursue other endeavors, but the rest of the band are still gonna be playing as MEW?) and farewell shows in Denmark were announced, the global fanbase was sad. I was kinda sad too, but otherwise I was like... "ok lor". Then they slowly announced stops all over the place. If nothing else, I thank them and whoever the organiser was for making the KL show happen, cos I'll be annoyed if I have to go down to Singapore again, even though I would not have minded going to the durian/Esplanade Theatre.

Bought a ticket back in late April (I KNOW!) cos the "premium" seats (first few rows upstairs la, really) were already sold out after the first day of ticket sales. All I know was that I die die did not want to be in general standing area, cos I CANNOT. I REFUSE. So got a "standard" seated ticket like toot suite. 

If nothing else, at least now I got excuse to check out Zepp KL, which I've not been to yet (I KNOW). But the parking situation was gonna be tricky. There was SOME traffic getting there, but that was cos I refuse to play by Waze's instructions, and I didn't want to go around the block to get to the designated entrance or whatever.

Ended up parking at Menara Ecoworld basement parking (eh?) at B4, triggering the Setel LPR parking function cos I forgot to switch it off and it's one of the places that you can use Setel wallet to pay for parking. I'm annoyed cos Lalaport parking was free after 5 p.m. leh. 

Took this pic after the show

After some confusion in the foyer area (there was a LONG line, but it was for folks in the standing area), I saw some signage that tickets in the seated areas are to check in at a different floor (had to check my printed ticket, cos it had been that long). So I went back down a couple of floors (no queue), show them my printed ticket, and got checked in, wrist-banded, and bag checked pretty quickly. The lack of ushers to guide people to their seats was kinda disappointing, especially as a first timer to the venue and when you bought the ticket MONTHS ago, etc.

Sadly, could not find legit merch for sale by the time I got there. Dunno if sold out or what. 

I can't remember if I got to pick the seat or what, but I'm glad past me went with an aisle seat. FWIW, the upstairs seats are ok lah, if too old and short to be standing in the GA area (I did that the last few times they were here, I cannot anymore la)

Show started not long after I found my seat (to be fair, I was kinda late lah, only got there close to 8 p.m.), about 10 minutes past the hour? 

NGL, it was a nice surprise that they brought on Yuna (yes, THAT Yuna) to sing the female part in Symmetry (she confirmed it in her IG stories). 

They played a bunch of tracks from And The Glass Handed Kites, which is my favourite, and not just for the conceit of the album. 

It's like the Best of MEW setlist, which I've no complaints about. 

The view from upstairs. I say it's not bad la.

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I laughed so hard when I saw that the show finished before 10 p.m.. To be fair, it is a school night and I read that the mall (and mall parking) closes at like 10.30 p.m. or whatever, so I get it that people still got school or work and just needed to leave/catch the public transport back at a decent time. 

Despite parking where I parked, it still took me awhile to leave the area. And only got home around 11 p.m.. 

It's nice to leave a concert not more exhausted than when I went in. (I still went to work, okay; had a small bottle of Coke before I got there to make sure I didn't fall asleep at the show, but still be able to sleep later)