“Alright, let’s keep it back in 1996 for a minute,” said Rob Thomas, the lead singer and songwriter of Matchbox Twenty during their first live concert in Singapore on Nov 10.
Against a theatrical backdrop of historic City Hall-grey and a deeper shade that colours the tendrils of a derelict economy, Chingay launched into a ferocious orgy of music, fire, costumes, and carefully choreographed colours.