The first time we had attended Off the Roof — an annual multi-act event in the city's musical calendar — was in 2014, its second edition. It was the first time that a gig was being held at Byculla's Richardson & Crudass, a defunct manufacturing unit for engineering goods. And it was also our first year in Mumbai, having moved here from the comparatively barren musical landscape of Kolkata. So, we were naturally curious about how a big-ticket concert in a funky new venue would pan out and eventually — it must be said — our socks were knocked off.

That's why we went back there the next year with high expectations. But such was our luck that the heavens opened up during our cab ride to the venue. It hadn't been a gentle pitter-patter either. So by the time we reached, the gig had been called off mid-way, leaving nattily dressed youngsters sloshing in the mud, scampering for cover from fat blobs of rain.