During a Symphonic Show that both Olive and Midnightblue members attended, a crazy idea leapt to Feras (the guitar player of Olive) he had an idea revolved around the potential of organizing a participatory show consists Olive and Midnightblue, these two bands decided to make this show so near. The show date came after a short time of Midnightblue's debut show. The organizers from both two bands determined to be a monophonic style. A Classic Rock that was the accepted style under a show title "An Evening To Remember". A few days later Abd-al lateef (the guitar player of Midnightblue) talked with Aram (the drummer of Nuclear dawn) and they accepted to add Nuclear Dawn as a guest band in this participatory show, thus the list becomes: Nuclear Dawn, Olive and Midnightblue. On 1st of October the three bands decided it as a date of the show in Homs city, the city wherein the first two bands live in.

In Safir Homs Hotel the venue and the concert took a place, Nuclear Dawn members did the sound check for their instruments and equipments as well as the sound level of their album's level, then they began playing some songs chosen from their album and some cover songs, the second band was Midnightblue then the sound check ended by Olive.

Olive:

The show started at 6:15 Pm by Olive who played seven songs, the first part of the songs was theirs from The Awaking album, then they played five cover songs. The show first song was The Falling, the instrumental recorded in Olive's album but the songs performed as a semi acoustic one, Feras add some oriental melodies by his oriental styled voice then Olive played Unknown wish also semi acoustic but with some changes in the end of it. the most so-called song was Communicate a song belongs to Blend the Lebanese band, wherein the hall had an earthquake when Feras began the well known rhythm of the song then the fans were in raptures when Eleanor (the female vocals) began (Maw'wal) the oriental vocals melodies. The other songs chosen from Anathema, the Gathering and The Cranberries, Olive played for 30 minutes thus the end of their performing was at 6:45. About the atmosphere in Olive time it was somewhat quiet, the fans acclaimed and clapped so hard specially when Olive played Anathema and Blend Songs.

Midnightblue (MNB):

Intuitively Olive left behind the stage to welcome their friends from Midnightblue the later who started the show at 6:50 while the attendance were hardly clapping and whistling cause they performed the last show before a short time nearly before a month, but the beginning of the song's melody incurred Audience silence to listen to the most song they ever like which is chosen from Anathema last album entitled Natural Disaster, the song was Are you there?, Nawwar the Vocal of this band did his parts perfectly and the rest were the same, the atmosphere was generally the same in the four followed songs, but the state changed when Midnightblue began the famous song Open your heart, the songs that brought on a ear-splitting whistles and hysterical screams and the like for the last song which was Heart of Steel. The new two buzzwords which uttered loudly from the whole attendance were Olive & Midnightblue, Midnightblue left the stage after 30 minutes of playing the most classic and soft songs that fans like.

Nuclear Dawn (NCD):

A short pause is planed to let people have a rest smoking and doing W.C deeds. Then the guest aforementioned band who came from Aleppo city entered the hall whilst the awesome screams and the unfailing whistles, their part began at 7:40 with the five stars famous song (I wish I was a poet) the song that all of the band members joined their feeling with the feeling of fans especially Amer (the Vocals), then they performed rebirth, the powerful song that their debut album Poem of A knight included, the receptive audience became crazy cause this is the first time Nuclear Dawn played in Homs city, their banging heads harmonized with the heavy riffs of the guitars, this once was not Shant, because he is overseas studying, this once a new member joined the band named Tareq. The meeting song which also belongs to Nuclear Dawn debut album, was the last track which played in this wonderful hilarious show, their play continued to be 45 minutes to end the show at 8:30.

Reviewed by Qasim Eisa

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