WITH less than a week to go, the upcoming NusaFest 2023 is all set to rock Bandar Malaysia in Sungai Besi on July 8 and 9. Last week, NusaFest has confirmed that legendary local bands Search and Wings as well as Butterfingers are set to rock the crowd next weekend as headliners.
According to organiser Shiraz Project’s director Shirazdeen Abdul Karim, it’s been almost ten years since Search and Wings shared the stage together and it was the perfect time to bring the legends back. Butterfingers has also been included back in the Nusafest lineup after being first announced in the 2020 concert announcement, but the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The grunge legend’s last concert together was in 2019, the “Transcendence 20th Anniversary Concert” in Stadium Melawati, Shah Alam which saw them electrifying over 8,000 fans. NusaFest, which aims to bring forth talents from the Nusantara in a massive festival with 24 artists from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, had faced setbacks previously.
The concert was initially supposed to be held in 2020 but was cancelled due to the pandemic and was re-announced to take place in February this year with a new lineup, but was delayed again to July due to complications.
Meanwhile, Search frontman, Datuk Amy, said that it didn’t take them long to decide to join in the lineups of NusaFest as he sees the potential in the festival. “I just hope all parties involved give a good campaign because this NusaFest involves a lot of things not just music but food, arts and culture — it this involves the collaboration between three countries as well.”
NusaFest will be a celebration of music, arts and crafts with not just two stages but also a marketplace called Pasar Nusa where they will be selling arts and crafts from the Nusantara region. Food and beverages will also be available at their Warung Nusa.
A total of 12 local bands along with 11 bands from Indonesia and one band from Singapore are scheduled to entertain crowds at the two-day festival.
Amongst the artists that will be performing next weekend includes Iqbal M (Malaysia), Fourtwnty (Indonesia), The Pinholes (Singapore), Efek Rumah Kaca (Indonesia), Salamusik (Malaysia), MonoloQue (Malaysia) and many more. Tickets for the festival are priced from RM200 for two days.
