April 5, 2020: Priyadarshini Bishnoi, Indian Music Diaries If nothing else, we are all experiencing something frighteningly dystopian at this time. While we rest within the four walls of our houses, nature is busy birthing means of catharsis for mankind. It is in the cacophony of the birds, tingling drops of water, the whoosh of […]
Tag: Human Bondage
With Love to Bangalore
Ranjani Govind, The Hindu, March 3, 2020 Jazz musician, Radha Thomas, speaks of her album Bangalore Blues, where seven tracks has her take on the city. Bangalore Blues is the latest album by Jazz vocalist and author Radha Thomas who is all set for the release. It all started in 2011 as a Google search […]
Tune in, turn on, drop out
When Sidharth Bhatia contacted me about a year ago armed with a bunch of probing questions about my life as a rock’n’roll singer in the band Human Bondage some two centuries ago (well, I exaggerate, it was in the mid-70s), frankly, I was astonished. “I’m writing a book about rock’n’roll in India, back in the […]
Sounds of the Indieground: Human Bondage
Sounds of the IndieGround: Bondage, Human Bondage September 10, 2013 It was the late seventies in India, and much like a rolling stone, the rock movement in the country was swiftly gathering momentum. A young teenage girl by the name of Radha Thomas was about to see her wildest fantasy become a reality – little did she […]
Back in 1974 when there were no cellphones, barely any computers, lots of live music and gigs that went on for 6 months at a stretch, we played at a place called The Wheels in Ambassador Hotel in Delhi. ‘We’ was Human Bondage, a rock band that is still remembered with fondness and nostalgia by […]
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