Source: Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo

To rock and roll fans, they are known for their outstanding concerts. To musicians, they are the friendliest promoters of our country. All the new bands in Bangladesh salivate at the possibility of playing in one of their concerts. They call themselves a music and entertainment ecosystem company, which makes a lot of sense considering they had a lot to do with bringing back live shows. They are known to all as Live Square.

Live Square has been in our country's music scene for quite some time, but their journey started with introducing the concept of unplugged music. “I always had a passion for live shows. It gives you a kind of adrenaline which you will never find anywhere else,” says Nafis Ahmed, CEO of Live Square. He also adds, “I think we were lucky in terms of our 'Wireless Session' because we were the first ones to start unplugged concerts in lounges. And Wireless Session was the first step of Live Square as a company.”

Live square organised a number of shows over the years but the show that caught every one's eye was 'Rocknation', the biggest rock show in Dhaka. 'We couldn't do Sound City's concert because of the countrywide hartal. To make up for that, we hosted Rocknation. We received a lot of positive feed back about the show so we decided to do it more often,” says Nafis.

Nafis Ahmed and his music ecosystem have brought some major bands back to glory such as Arbovirus, the ABC Generation, and many more. “I am a die-hard fan of these bands so it was more of a biased choice to arrange concerts for them. They are great musicians,” says the CEO.

Live Square has been an inspiration to many amateur promoters of the music scene. And most of the credit goes to Nafis for taking up the challenge. To this Nafis Ahmed says, “Right now a lot of sponsors have shown interest in this field so I would ask all new comers to arrange shows for new artists and if they need any kind of support, our team will be more than happy to help.”