Photography by Rizwan Baig (Deevees)

Strings duo Faisal Kapadia and Bilal Maqsood are currently going through the major cities of Pakistan as part of a concert tour. Having played a Valentine’s Day show for the Isloo crowd, Strings made their way to LUMS in Lahore on February 17, and sent an already keyed-up audience into absolute adrenaline-rushed mode.

While it is always fabulous to hear Strings sing – this particular performance was made even better by the fact that Bilal and Faisal sang a medley of pop songs by various Pakistani artists of yore. {Read More…}

Courtesy: Arijit Mondal, Shantanu Ghosh, Bhuvan Prasad & Dinesh Poddar

Pakistani band ‘Strings‘ and Indian band ‘Euphoria’ share the stage while performing for the ‘Aman Ki Asha’ concert at Nicco Park in Kolkata on January 20, 2010.

Strings front man talks to Instep about touring India, the local concert circuit and the high of performing at the recently concluded Twenty20 match between Pakistan and New Zealand…

Maheen Sabeeh
Karachi

Before Jal’s tour of India, Strings were touring across the border and have returned home this week. “This was our first Indian tour since the 26/11 attacks. We performed in Delhi twice, once in Jaipur and once at Bangalore,” Faisal Kapadia told Instep in a telephonic conversation.

The long-term consequences, as Faisal Kapadia (Strings front man) had pointed out earlier, stand true. It took eight years for cultural exchange to develop between the two countries. It was because the door to India was finally opening up, enough for a Lollywood diva to debut in Bollywood with Mahesh Bhatt’s Nazar. Atif Aslam’s career took off and he is flying high since. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and so many others became bigger entities at home and across the border as a result. Since 26/11 attacks, things have been at a standstill but it seems the fog is clearing. Slowly, things may be changing once again. {Read More…}

By Asif Khan

Strings fans could be seen in full force last Friday evening at the Royal Rodale Club in Karachi where Faisal Kapadia and Bilal Maqsood got off to a bumpy start amidst the muffled voices in the background. They belted out their first track of the evening, Humsafar, from their album Koi Aanay Wala Hai, which is somewhat fast becoming a signature opening number for their performances. The sound system too was good enough to pump energy into the audience.

Sans any glaring glitches or behind the scenes blunders, it was an amazing experience to be at the concert. Although the entry of stags and boys in groups was refrained following the club’s policy, the energy level wasn’t missing. {Read More…}

Photographs taken by: Sonakshi Yajurvedi & Sakshi Kumar

The song has been written by Bilal Maqsood and will be done by Strings and Atif Aslam. Following is the news publication by HindustanTimes

Fashion rocks!
Strings put in a surprise appearance at the Veet Celebration of Beauty show

Saba Imtiaz
Karachi

From a very personal perspective, I hate surprises. Particularly surprise phone calls, where you spend at least three agonizing minutes while the caller makes you guess his/her identity. Or surprise birthday parties, which are a pain to organize and by the time the victim is ’surprised’, one’s fake-ooh-look-at-what-we-pulled-off expression has been plastered on for hours. And even though surprises at a fashion show are rare, the organizers of the recent Veet show pulled a rather lovely one off. {Read More…}

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