This Is What Subculture Looks Like In Kuala Lumpur

In the most surreal circumstances of live events rebooting among brands here in Kuala Lumpur is Fred Perry Subculture. An event that ventured into the digital realm for the past two years, has re-submerged to connect with the brand’s long time devotees. On 11 Dec, a Sunday, its stage was placed at Sentul Depot – a place that was once the world’s largest and finest railway engineering workshops.

The night of live music brings to LIVE some of Malaysia’s finest talents in the independent music scene again. Fred Perry’s night also featured the street culture that has always been a focus of its Subculture events.

Monica Tong, Kuala Lumpur editor of Music Press Asia commented: “There is something surreal about being in this sturdily still standing kind of metal structure. Fred Perry couldn’t have chosen a better spot to highlight the music that resonated with Malaysian musicians and other music makers. Its vast semi-open space with a roof at least three-story high allows us to view the performances and its sonic output in a different dimension.”

Rocking the stage till the peak of dawn were ska legends, Gerhana Skacinta. Their performance is a distinctly classic subculture of Southeast Asia’s musical identity, existentially inseparable from what is gripping the current sea of conscientious underlings who attends live music concert in 2022 and 2023.

The stage also featured indie rockers The Times and Pesawat, indie pop supergroup Joanna & Co, punk rockers Trophy Knives, cult favourite Hawa and JEMSON, and Fred Perry Malaysia ambassadors, the reincarnation of Amy Winehouse, Dani Komari as well as ‘fuzz rock n roll’ quartet, The Fatalis.

Pre-pandemic in 2019, Subculture was held at REXKL with over 2000 fans who turned up (Photo featured in London’s Design Museum at the Fred Perry: A Cultural Icon Exhibition in June 2022). In the year 2020 and 2021, the concerts were held online. The commitment to continuously celebrate raw and pure music will always be close to the heart of this brand.

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