Remember 13 AD? the cochin boys who played gigs with Rock Machine way back in the '80s. I think they were also the first Indian rock act to record their own album. Rock Machine did theirs little later.
By some strange quirk of fate i met the ex-lead vocalist of 13 AD at a Christian Retreat Centre in Kerala last year. Glen has given up commercial music and is now a full time gospel musician for the Divine Retreat Centre. Praise the Lord! The old folks at the centre apparently had a tough time praising the Lord while keeping pace with sizzling guitar, drum & keyboard riffs & vocal harmonies. Anyway good fun, all in all.
Anyway I found some stuff on what the band is up to these days. 13 AD are all set to reunite. The band will have the same line-up as their last, with George Peter on vocals, Eloy Issac on lead and rhythm guitar, Paul KJ on bass guitar, Pinson Correa on drums and Jackson Aruja on Keys. They have completed 6-7 songs and are in the workshop for a brand new album. The album will be bilingual, with a few songs in Hindi. it will be recorded at AR Rahman's studio in Chennai with Sridhar manning the controls. The Hindi lyrics are being written by Mehboob. They plan to play lots of gigs before and after the release of the album
