candyaudioline birthmonth!!!

it's already june of 2005, and eventhough candyaudioline was conceptualized sometime may of 1997, i consider june to be candyaudioline's birth month. i can't really recall the exact dates but it was at the last week of may 1997 that i and then aspirin guitarist dino talked about forming a side project mainly because dino wanted to play drums and i had some songs that won't fit in with our mother band aspirin. within that week, while on duty for backbeat band teeth at club dredd, a friend of mine, obie introduced me to her sorority sis cheng and said that cheng wanted to sing in a band. i told dino that a line-up was almost complete and that we only need a lead guitarist to complete the line-up. i immedialtely thought of kelvin who also plays lead guitar for aspirin to join the band. he agreed. so it was me on backing vocals and guitar, cheng as lead singer, obie as the bassist, kelvin on lead guitar and dino on drums. armed with alarmingly goodlooks and without slightest clue of what we were all about, we decided to take over the world (...of our own). we had our practice during that last saturday of may 1997 at obie's place and would you believe that after more than 2 hours of noise, feedbacks and laughter, nothing came out of it... after that, we proceeded to sharkey's for a bonding sesion. another practice session followed a few days after (that was June already) which produced three songs (nearby town, painful and a cover of beatnik filmstars' 1 minute and 16 seconds track "skill")and a "ghost of a song" ("do we have to" although this song was actually jammed during the first practice session ). after pratice obie told us that she'll book us for a June "No Zone" gig and we all said "sige!". that same night, the band name was coined during another drinking session by dino and me. after naming many names which i seriously suggest to be left "unknown", dino suggested a title of a steroelab song, coming from an album that i recently gave him (or sold him i guess). the song was "jenny ondioline" from the album "transient random noise burst with announcements"... i like the sound of that name but there's something about the name jenny that i did not like so i suggested the name "candy". so it was "candy ondioline". still i wasn't satisfied and by pronouncing it in fast repetitions "ondio" began to sound like "audio" so it was settled right there and then that the band was to be called "candyaudioline" and as a single world only. we had another practice session and it was independence day of that year. this we did in marikina at "roberto's" there we where able to clean up the first three songs and complete "do we have to" (which we now call "we've been there") plus two new songs "painful" and "together"... "No Zone Nigh"t came and we were at club dredd early so that we could sound check but obie did come early. during sound check many of our then "indie" scenemates watched and after the soundcheck they were impressed although they thought we were a "lo-fi" outfit... (lo-fi was the in-thing that time). then came the actual gig... forgettable yet memorable...

that'll be it for the meantime... more canyaudioline trivia next time around...

fuck!!! candyaudioline is now 8 years old!!! anu kaya kung magpa - candyaudioline birthday bash ako this month's buzz night.





the original candyaudioline line-up taken at roberto's rehearsal studio somewhere in marikina.