The musical fiesta will go down as Love Festival Vol. 3: LOVE IS LIVE, 9 Concerts in 1 Night, scheduled to be held at the Jakarta Convention Center on Feb. 8.

The bands will play career-spanning sets celebrating their legacies on three stages, and some of the performances will feature former members.

The participating bands include Yovie & Nuno, Element, Padi Reborn, Nidji, Kerispatih, Maliq & d’Essentials, Project Pop, Gigi and Pure Saturday.

Each band will play sets to a respective theme that they themselves chose.

Nidji’s set, for one, is called the “Nidji – Hello x Goodbye” show, addressing the fact that vocalist Giring Ganesha left the band in 2017 to pursue a political career. This will reportedly be Giring’s last gig with Nidji.

Element took the opportunity to extend its 2018 reunion tour after the band announced a hiatus in 2010.

Meanwhile, bands like Pure Saturday, Kerispatih and Yovie & Nuno will employ collaborative approaches, with Pure Saturday collaborating with Suar Nasution and Yovie & Nuno collaborating with a myriad of singers that have sung under bandleader and songwriter Yovie Widhianto’s direction over the years.

Kerispatih is expected to take a unique approach by integrating solo touches of its breakout solo members Doadibadai "Badai" Hollo and Sammy Simorangkir.

Many of the sets' concepts revolve around the idea of celebrating anniversaries through tributes to band members that have propelled some of the bands to stardom.

Maliq & d'Essentials' set will feature original keyboardist Ifa Fachrir, who left the band in 2011, and guitarist Nur "Satrio" Satriatama, who left in 2007.

Yovie Widhianto surprised many when he announced his departure from his own project Yovie & Nuno in 2018. 

Anniversary sets will be held by Gigi, celebrating 25^th year in musical action, along with Maliq & d’Essentials looking back at 17 years and Element commemorating its 20^th anniversary.

Gigi is notable as the most “senior” band in the lineup, and all its members are alive and kicking.

Its set will revolve around an all-stars theme, meaning all former members will take to the stage in an act frontman Armand Maulana claims will “crowd the stage with all the Gigi goodness of the past quarter century”.

“This means we’ll have two bass players and three drummers on stage. If that’s not something I don’t know what is,” the musician joked during the Love Festival Vol. 3 press conference on Tuesday.

Two bands will honor their fallen comrades in their sets, namely comedy pop group Project Pop, which lost member Muhammad “Oon” Fachroni to diabetes in 2017. Their Love Festival show will honor Oon through its theme “5 Buddies, 6 Souls” in reference to its current five-head composition.

Kerispatih, which lost bass player Andika Putrasahadewa in 2018, also to diabetes, will mark the first year as a band without Andika.

"But I won’t give you too many details as to what our set will look like. We prefer to use the element of surprise!" said former Kerispatih vocalist and solo artist Sammy Simorangkir.

Tickets to the festival, promoted by Berlian Entertainment, HYPE Festival and Panorama Live, range in price from Rp 553,000 (US$39) to the Diamond section seats for Rp 3,800,000. Audience members are expected to adhere to a dress code relating to their relationship status to emphasize the "love" theme. (ste)