aling band? (photos)

ito kami (candyaudioline)


kings and pawns (a very blurry and amateur shot of them)


popular days, poster boys and rockstars of buzz night


soft pillow kisses, punk style

Kawawa talaga tayo!!!

hello peeps!

been very busy lately with some sidelines. depriving me the chance to share with you some really pissed-off moments and really annoying things that i had encountered during the past few days. the last one happenning just a while ago when our racket went puff just because of people who were very "siguristas". this cost me money amounting to... nevermind, it is very big an amount. to think that it just slipped past me... there goes another boo boo for me...

i just hope that the people responsible for such would be able to find a way to come up with what they wheren't able to produce last night. and that they'd be honest enough to give me what was already mine...

'nuff of that...

we had quite a successful BUZZ NIGHT last sept 24... the crowd was big and the line-up was something to bragg about... but...

ok. i really hate this attitude that bands have when it comes to "performing first". and the best way to avoid playing first in a certain event is to come late or to hide one or two of the members and tell the one in charge that you have one or two members missing... the worst is, kahit na kumpleto na sila, they'll beg the one in charge that they are are still waiting for their "pa-importanteng guest" to arrive... alisin na natin yung ganyang attitude... if we have to go first then so be it. kahit wala pang tao!

first come first play is the way we do things at buzz night and i want to keep it that way. but, because of the way things have been lately, i might impose a "time slot designating" approach wherein bands will be given call times. failure to meet these call times will result in the band being pushed to the rear order of the line-up which could result in them playing last or worst, NOT being able to play at all...

another thing that i hate is when a band don't show up... if you think your band won't be bale to make it. just advice me. ok lang naman eh basta valid yung reason. at least this would give me time to fill in the vacant slot or give the bands present a lot more time to perform...

so here's a short account of what went on during the sept 24, 2005 buzz night...

i arrived late and to my surprise and disgust, no band has performed yet although popular days was already complete, it was pretty obvious that they where being "rock stars" ... pero d uso sa akin ang rock star eh. so i had them play first... 11:15pm na yun charles! minsan lang kayo mauna! i made them play 4 songs taking into account that there were 8 bands up... if only the people from the two absentee bands informed me that they were doing the "no show shit stuff", i could've made popular days do 7 songs instead of just 4... tapos na yun eh... these four songs that popular days played was enough to give me a reason to award them "the best band of the night"... they were truly great that night!!! welcome back "insan"!!!

next up was kings and pawns. it's their 2nd successive buzz appearance... these guys didn't disappoint me. although they were lacking the confidence they displayed the first time they did buzz night, their songs carried them thru... this time, the songs where properly placed one after the other giving the audience a chance to properly digest each song as they went along with their set. unlike the first time around wherein i myself got confused as to what these guys were trying to put across... may sinabi ba sa inyo si BJ? hehehe...

sunsetdrive followed, they're back and 4 piece na sila ulit altough i wasn't able to watch their whole set because i was, from time to time, going in and out of Mayrics trying to get in touch with the guys from Daydream Cycle and Sugar Hiccup. it was really timely that mayrics had just finished having their PA system repaired. ayun, lumabas tuloy ang bigat ng tugtugan nila... as usual, another great set for these guys...

candyaudioline came next. to tell you the truth, feeling ko talaga magkakalat kami because we haven't practiced for quite some time na. taking into account that bago yung bahista namin and the night before, we did a somewhat amaturish set in the same venue. well, according to those present, we did very well. even i was a bit surprised that we delivered a very tight, almost flawless set.

soft pillow kisses followed. for most part, nakakahiya kami!!! pero okey lang kasi masaya pa rin. our singer was so drunk that i was almost sure that it was sid vicious and not eloha who was with me singing that night. it's not that she'd sang out of tune. it's just that, as if she was "somewhere else". aside from that, charles broke a string and my guitar was "trying to declare independence"... gilbert was having a hard time remembering the songs. i think he was drinking too. only lara was the steady one... although we were able to pull ourselves together by the 4th song "i don't know what to say". by the time we were doing the 5th song "i was right", we were back to our soft-pillow-selves... it was during the beginning of the last song "vodka ice #3" until it's end that we became gods once more. hehehe... kapal mo talga allan!!!

last band to play was my science project... now they are beginning to become what they have been attempting to do for quite some time now -- "a respectable indiepop band". konti pa dennis and company... lambutan nyo pa at konting ayos pa sa mga songs. try to be more unique as you possibly can. always bear in mind that soft pillow kisses and superminty are both quite unique and still at the top of everything else...

i would like to thank all those who where at buzz night. matagal na rin natin d napupuno ang mayrics. special mention goes to eric of popular days for that really cute poster he did, to kel for updating me while i was at work, to BJ for giving us Kings and Pawns who let us borrow their guitar. thanks...

that's all for now... next time, i'll write something about the newest, "in" thing happening in the local mainstream music scene. do you know what it is?

i'll be leaving you with a line which is not to be read but should be sung to the tune of the chorus of an obscure song by The Care called "Chandelier"... "unggoy, unggoy ako, magnanakaw ng tono".

blind item: may nakakwentuhan ako nung isang araw na isang kaibigan. naasar daw siya sa asta ng isang guitarista/music journalist nang review-hin daw nito ang album ng isang sikat na "local" new wave artist... i tried getting a hold of the said review and i do agree with my friend. pero sabi ko rin sa friend ko baka yung sarili nila ang tinutukoy nila dun sa hint na binigay nya? sabi ko rin sa friend ko na imbis na maasar tayo, ipanalangin nalang natin sila. ito ang idasal natin kay God:

"Lord God, ipinapanalangin ko po ang aming bayan. napapasalamat kami sa kakayahang ibinigay mo sa amin. hiling ko po sana na samahan mo pa ang kakayahang ito ng sapat na talino ng sa gayon ay makagawa po kami ng kahit anong bagay na tunay na manggagaling sa amin sarili at nang sa gayon ay di na namin kailanganin pang mangaya o manguha sa kung sino-sinong hindi kilalang mga artist. Amen"

oi tsismis oh!

ITS NICE TO BE BACK!!!
hay naku may mga kumakalat na balita
BABAERO daw ako!
kung cno man ang nagkakalat nun TUBUAN SANA SIYA NG BUHOK! hehehe!!!
dahil hindi totoo un! LOYAL ako sa girlfriend ko noh!

e2 seryoso na...

as for myself, im very much happy on our set! partida pa un wala kming praktis ng ISANG TAON! but we played an astounding set! from flamming walls to my silverchair na disco version. at take note ha ung bass line ng "weve been there" may buhay at nsa timing na ha since c joel nagbass sa candy!
and unti-unti ko ng naalis ung shadow ni JOGRAD DELA TORRE kapag tumutugtog ako sa Candy! naipapakita ko na ung style ko! kaya natuwa ako nung iniba namin ung version ng my silverchair kasi naipakita ko ung kakayahan ko! syempre with the help of my bandmates! THE BEST TALAGA YUNG MGA CANDYMATES KO! lalo na c Dennis ang "TAONG KANIN"!
galing ng KINGS AND PAWNS

...PERO MAS ASTIG YUNG SET NG DAY DREAM CYCLE AND SUGAR HICCUP! TALAGANG ASTIG! NAMUTI NGA MATA KO SA SOBRA ASTIG E!

hmp! excited p naman akong mapanood sila, buti nalang anjan ang POPULAR DAYS!
sila ang nagpatibok ng puso ko! nagpawi ng uhaw sa lalamunan ko at nagalis ng kabag sa tiyan ko!

galing din ng SUNSET DRIVE, which reminds me of "saves the day" and ataris.

ayos din set ng MY SCIENCE PROJECT, galing din nung drummer nila.
i miss TETHER!
SPK... no comment bka MALASING AKO E!!!
CANDYAUDIOLINE... may kumalat na tsismis na nadisband na daw ito! haller!!! d totoo yun noh! basta isa lang masasabi ko! hindi kmi disbanded! may bago lang kaming bahista! at higit sa lahat nagkakaisa kami sa pagkain ng chorizo!!!hehehe!!!

ang huli...

HINDI AKO BABAERO!!! OK!

Ruining it and stating the obvious

Hi everyone! FINALLY! Woohoo! I’ve been too busy at work to post and too tired during the weekends, but I’m glad I’m finally taking some time out to write this. I’m typing this Sunday night, though the time stamp tomorrow will say I posted it on Monday morning. Enough quibbling, though.

We had a great Buzz Night last night. The really pissy part was that Sugar Hiccup and Daydream Cycle didn’t show up, thought they had confirmed earlier, and they didn’t even let us know that they’d back out. I think that disappointed some people who specifically came for them, but I guess they had their reasons, which may remain a mystery for who knows how long… Anyway, these drawbacks weren’t enough to bring us down as we had a couple of really great acts lined up that night. Kings and Pawns gave a great performance again (love that song with the seemingly dissonant lead guitar and bass parts), and so did Popular Days!!! Jann Paul is alive again and Charles’s voice last night was positively gorgeous! I swear! Soft Pillow Kisses also did a great “Vodka Ice # 3” that enchanted everyone. I won’t go into more detail because Allan said he’d do the review, but let’s just say we really enjoyed last night.

The August ish of MTV Ink has finally come out and it has most of Allan’s interview about productions, namely, Buzz Night. Looking it over a few nights ago, I couldn’t stop laughing because Allan’s answers make him look like this mercenary asshole, especially his answer to the question What do you do it for?: “I do it for the money.”

Now, this isn’t a case of bad editing on the author’s part because I do remember that Allan wrote that, and he even posted it on this blog a while back :) The article was pretty faithful to the answers he had submitted. But it tickles me that he comes off as such a prick in this interview. He was ever so slightly worried about that because his reputation has always been kind of shot, and this digs his grave a little deeper, but I told him, what’s a little more dirt? Actually, his answers strike me as maverick… very indie *toothy grin here*. Liiiiiiiiiiiiike. Hehe. Arrogance suits Allan in every way.

Anyway, I still believe with conviction that he is the cliché of the giant softie. But of course, you’ll have to see it to believe it.

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We played last night, of course, but we haven’t been practicing due to sked conflicts. Still, it was a great, if hurried, set. It felt sooooooooooooo good. Hopefully, we’ll be spending more studio time in the coming days to complete the repertoire.

After Buzz Night, the gang went to Colasa’s for a chorizo food trip. God, I missed those! Jann Paul and Gilbert were back, too, so it was a revival of old times :) Ang nakakatuwa pa, the waiter sat us upstairs in the smoking section, where there was actually a videoke machine set up! I was choking on the perpetual cloud of smoke, but became giddily happy when I finally was able to sing New order’s “Regret” on videoke. Yay!!! We sang a couple more songs before calling it a morning.

Preparation for the"Calories for a Cause"event tomorrow

elow...lupit ng line ntin ngaun ahh..hehehe sna plagi ganyan saka sana makatugtog na kme ulit ng Tether na miss ko na ehh..haayy eto ko ngaun prang salimpusa d2 sa market market nag prepare ng mga id knina ng mga pupunta for 2mrow at ngaun gawa ng mga number ng mga baggage haayy..naiinip na nga ko antagal ng kainan hehehe...panay nga wiwi ko d2 anlamig kaya nag online muna ko wlang gnagawa ehh..tgabantay lng ko d2 ng nagseset-up ng projector gawin b kong aso huhuhu..wait pko till 3pm sa cute at sexy kong amo har! har!har! nainip nko gusto ko na mag gabi na pra buzznite na anu n nman kaya gagawin kong palusot sa amo ko?..last nite umalis n lng ako ng wlang paalam tinext ko n lng cla dun mukha kc clang aburido at kabado general assembly kc nmin last nite at nandun kc lahat ng mga sponsors nmin kinulit lng ako ni PONG na agahan daw namin kaya tumakas nako at ang aga ko nman sya nman ngaun ang late hehehe..sayang nde ko ma eenjoy masyado ang bizznite mamya kc maaga ko aalis at matutulog ako khit mga 3 hours lng maaga kc set-up nmin 2mrow na assign ako sa mga prizes na maghahandle nun at magbibigay sa mga winners ng mga contestant namin 2mrow yes!! hehe..sna magaganda ang contestant nyahaha..ui pnu b to medyo malate ako ng konte mamya pilitin ko mkapunta ng 10:30 o kya 11:00 mang gagaling pko d2 anlayo neto ehh kitakits n lng tyo mamya mga chong ingats!! D

Buzz Night
9pm,Mayrics featuring:

candyaudioline
daydream cycle
sugar hiccup
soft pillow kisses
popular days
my science project
kings and pawns
sunsetdrive...

Busy Pa Rin...

hello everyone.

quiet pa rin ang blog natin save for dennis' post na talaga namang nakaka-aliw... yang si dennis ay nakaka-aliw talaga. magkakasama kami nung monday with fellow candymates kel and joel sa mayrics. tutugtog sana kami nun but joel could not make it before 9pm that night. so i just called them to be at mayrics so that we could pratcice at around 11pm there while waiting for kamikazee's slot... d nga matuloy yung practice eh, so the boys decided to wait for my work to finish. after that we went straight to colasa's to be entertained by dennis' ritualistic manner of eating. (you guys should see it for yourselves. it's monumentally entertaining) grabe... bigla nalang pumasok sa isip ko itong idea about movie titles and dennis' love for rice... ayun, i think we were able to make up more than 30 album titles if dennis was to star in those movies most of which were taken from FJP's titles. it was so funny that me, joel and kel almost busted our heads laughing.

there so many titles blurted out that time but i forgot most of them. here are some that i still recall:

Iyo ang ulam, akin ang kanin (Iyo ang Tondo akin ang Cavite)
batas ng rice (batas ng 45)
kahit konti pang rice (Kahit Konting Pagtingin)
bukas, hindi mo na aabutan ang ulam (Bukas, Hindi Ka Na Sisikatan Ng Araw)
Kulang ang Pitong Gatang (Dito sa Pitong Gatang)
Kahit Puno na ang Salop, Kulang Pa Rin (Kapag Puno na ang Salop)
Hindi pa tapos ang kanin (Hindi Pa Tapos ang Laban)
Perlas ng sinangag (Perlas ng Silangan)
Bukas Luluhod ang mga Palay (Bukas Luluhod ang mga Tala)
Shake rattle and rice (Shake, Rattle and Roll)
Pati ba naman Rasyon ng kanin (Pati ba naman Tibok ng Puso)

sa totoo lang ang dami pa nun at mas nakakatawa pa pero d ko na maalaala. pero si kel ang lulupit ng mga hirit... eto ang ilan sa mga yun...

scorpio rice 1 and 2 (Scporpio Nights 1 and 2)
kanin sa banga (Halimaw sa Banga)
wild wild rice (Wild Wild West)
les mise-rice (Les Miserables)
lord of the rice (lord of the rings)

ang dami pa pero d ko na maalala... ang lupit mo talaga dens... tama na muna yun... mamaya nga pala candyaudioline will be playing at mayrics to morrow naman buzz night... hay naku... post ako ng masmari ulit as soon as i'm not busy na...

September Buzz

hello pips, here is this months final line-up for buzz night. i am very sorry kung ngayon lang, i've been very busy kasi...

featuring:

candyaudioline
daydream cycle
sugar hiccup
soft pillow kisses
popular days
my science project
kings and pawns
sunsetdrive...

thanks and i hope you can make it...

Calories for a Cause Sept.25 at Market Makrket!!

Calories for a cause is all about the Coca-cola program called "Healthy and Active Lifestle" simply preffered as HAL its a join't project of Coca-cola in partnership of Fitness First.Sobrang astig ng event na ito kasi lahat ng maburn mong calories lets say nka 220 calories ka the Coca-cola will convert it into peso and will give it to our nine benificiaries including Bridgettes Foundation(school of speacial children).Yestreday lahat ng Outlet ng Fitness First pinuntahan namin and nagpacontest kme,ako na assign sa Alabang hehehe...syempre nagpacontest tpos namigay kme ng premium items from Coca-cola,bale ang gnawa nmin ng cute kong partner ehh nagbigay kme ng 15minutes na workout sa mga members and non-members for example sa treadmill 15 contestant lahat cla 15mins mag treadmill then pataasan cla ng maburn n calories kung cnu ung may pinakamaraming maburn na calories eh syang winner hehe...at hindi lng khit na matalo cla nkapag donate naman cla sa charities kc lahat ng naburn nilang calories dun ay bibigay namin sa Coca-cola then they convert it into peso then they will give it to the charities di ba okey!!

Sali ka Allan hehehe..ang sarap sa fitness first pare hehe..nanluwa ang mga mata ko hehehe...andaming butterfly wahhehe..pero syempre nde ko pinakita ang pagiging monster ko kunyare kagagalang-galang ako imagine mo napasali ko c "Roselle Nava" hehe..anlupit ko dba!? harharhar..ibang klase ang hulas ehh..hehehe..pro ambaet nya ahh..kya nga tuwa sken c Mam Christine kc kme ang pinakamaraming nging participants,a total of 68 contestant ang napa join namin mula 2 ng hapon hanggang 7pm kaya naubos ang lakas ko hehehe..sa Sept. 25,2005 ang big event namin Allan invite kita pra makapag donate ka naman bawasan mo yang mga calories mo sa katawan hehe..guest namin na artist cla Aubrey Miles hehe..dba ang saya ska c Pransine Prieto! naloka ako ng nung sinabe samen ng aming project manager namin hehe...=)

The event is on Sept.25 at Market Market, it will start at 11am till 7pm iba-ibang ung program dun may bodycombat ng 1hour bsta mga ganun activities dko na ilalagay d2 wla sken ung script ko eh..basta masaya dun andami din chicks dun hehehe..Selena join ka din sa Sept.25 punta kyo ni Allan ako bahala sa inyo pramis c Ezikiel nde na pwede wla ng ibabawas na calories dyan mamatay na yan eh..hehehe peace tyo pare..pro punta kana din garantisado sabi ko sayo bigla kang babaet dun hehehe..kase madaming babae dun hahahaha!! mas malupit at mas ganado pa ang mga outfit nila kasya sa mga chikas sa 70's Bistro ehehe..andaming naka T-back shiet!! harharhar.. =)

yuck!!!!

This September's Buzz Night...

hi everyone,

tahimik nanaman ang blog natin ah... post naman kayo! actually nag post ako nung monday pero d na-save. bad trip talaga... ang ganda pa naman ng contents nun. pero d bali, try ko ulit mag post ng ganun in the next few days... eto nalang muna...

Buzz Night September 24, Saturday at Mayrics

featuring:

candyaudioline
daydream cycle
sugar hiccup
soft pillow kisses
popular days
my science project

hopefully we can still include kings and pawns and sunsetdrive...

i'll update this as soon as i get confirmations from both bands...

The Week That Was Again...

at last, my phone's been reconnected. wala lang...

okey... let's see... what's been happening with candyaudioline lately... not much really. but last thursday and friday we did some short practice sessions to help update joel of tether - who has been doing a great job as our current bassist for the meantime. during these sessions, we did some fooling around with some songs specially on "my silver chair" and in the process transforming this headbanging monster to a "butt-shaking-hip-swaying" dance number... actually it's our favourite baby right now... in fact, we even played it last saturday during our gig at Conspiracy.

speaking of that conspiracy gig. it could've been a great gig if only selena was there. she wasn't able to make it at the last minute because of a personal commitment. this got me really nervous because it's been more than a year since i've sang solo for candyaudioline. i had to drink one bottle of red horse to calm myself - straw and all. according to concerned friends, we did very well but for me, of the seven songs we did, i think i flunked in three. specially in "flaming walls" wherein i got confused as to sing it in it's original version or to sing it ala snow patrol... but i think it all went well and we really had a great time. eventhough the technician kept begging us to turn our guitars down (my god, my heart beat was more louder than my guitar during that gig)... we did miss selena on that one... after that we ate at colasa's and went home...

tonight we'll be at 7o's bistro. we'll be doing another stripped-down set. we're excited because we'll be playing a different, dancey "my silver chair" to a crowd to whom some are very familiar with the heavy version of the song...

that's all for now...