U Mobile Unlimited Ideas groove with Urbanscapes 2017, Upfront, Good Vibes Festival and Ed Sheeran’s Malaysian Tour

Jasmine Lee U Mobile

I must admit, I’m a music fan. And if you’re one too, and happen to be a U Mobile customer, you’re in for a groovy treat. U Mobile’s Unlimited Ideas Groove Calendar brings some kicking music events including Urbanscapes 2017—the quintessential music, arts and culture festival. Other notables include the intimate Upfront concert series, Good Vibes Festival, and… Ed Sheeran’s Malaysian Tour.

U Mobile is possibly the most media-centric telco in the Malaysian scene, with services like Video-Onz, Music-Onz and App-Onz adding plenty of value to its customers.

Music-Onz enables you to stream unlimited music from 19 partners without using your data quota. Yes, for free. If music’s your thing, you’ll enjoy Music-Onz with Apple Music, Spotify, JOOX, Tidal, KKbox, Raku, BFM 89.9 and more.

Urbanscapes 2017

U Mobile x Urbanscapes 2017

This year’s Urbanscapes is presented by U Mobile. Now in its 15th  year, the music, art and culture festival is themed #RediscoverKL. The much-anticipated event will feature talks, thematic markets, workshops, experiential and interdisciplinary events. It will be headlined by home-grown, regional and international artists like Clean Bandit, Mew, Yellow Fang and Kyoto Protocol.

Naturally, as a U Mobile customer, you’ll enjoy some perks at the event. Firstly, you’ll enjoy early bird ticket pricing for select shows at Urbanscapes. These promos can be redeemed via the MyUMobile app.

Next, you’ll also receive exclusive U Mobile x Urbanscapes 2017 merchandise (whilst stock lasts).

If you’re worried a driving and parking and such, don’t. Take a Grab ride. As a U Mobile customer, you get MYR15 off Grab rides to and from key Urbanscapes locations like Urbanscapes House @ 2 Hang Kasturi, KL Live and The Bee, Publika.

You can redeem up to two rides daily from 5-21 May 2017. You can claim this deal by downloading a unique code from the MyUMobile app.

At the venue, you’ll have a dedicated charging station to charge your smartphones, as well as a photo wall for you to snap wefies, selfies and #OOTDs shots.

Also, you’ll get to enjoy F&B promos at the venue, wherever you see the “U Munchies” sign. Simply download the voucher code from the MyUMobile app to redeem.

U Mobile Upfront

Presented by U Mobile, Upfront showcases established and up-and-coming acts at the intimate space of The Bee, Publika. The next live show will happen on 19 July 2017, featuring London-based duo, Oh Wonder. Previously, Upfront featured The Temper Trap, Grimes and The Vaccines.

Similar to Urbanscapes offers, you’ll get early bird ticket p rices, Grab discounts, charging station and photo wall; and U Munchies F&B offers for Upfront.

Good Vibes Festival 2017

Good Vibes Festival 2017

Since 2013, Good Vibes Festival has highlighted international, regional and local music acts. Alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, electronic music stars Disclosure and indie rock stars The 1975 have headlined the festival in the past.

This year’s festival will take place on 12 and 13 August.

U Mobile customers will have access to exclusive ticket giveaways, special U Mobile prices for tickets and backstage passes to meet and greet artists, as well as watch their performances from the side of the stage.

Ed Sheeran Live in Kuala Lumpur

Ed Sheeran

Fans of this English singer-songwriter must be chuffed that he’s coming over to this region. This ÷ (Divide) Tour is in support of his third studio album of the same name. His third LP has birthed a Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit for six consecutive weeks—“Shape of You.” Ed is the first artist to ever have two singles to make simultaneous top 10 debuts in the charts 58-year old history.

And by the way, ÷ (Divide) also broke the 1 billion YouTube views mark, just two days after its release.

For more information on U Mobile as well as upcoming music events like Good Vibes Festival and Ed Sheeran’s Tour in Malaysia, visit www.u.com.my/.

Vernon
Vernon is the founder and chief editor of Vernonchan.com. A graphic designer by profession, he has a deep love for technology, cars, gadgets, food, and travel. He tweets too much and is also known as a caffeine bacterium ("life's too short for bad coffee"). Bleeds Blue (go Chelsea FC!) and considers BMW, Porsche, Alfa Romeo cars to have in the garage--hallmarks of a true petrolhead.