Buzz Night March 4, Saturday @ Mayrics
here's the line-up...
candyaudioline
skies of ember
inflikt
soft pillow kisses
populardays
kings and pawns
shimmer
my science project
see you there...
Monday, February 27, 2006
Friday, February 17, 2006
BUSY Busy...
hi...
busy sorbra...
not enough time to post...
lot's of things had taken place...
sunday and monday practice sessions were held to ready us for this weeks string of gigs and to arrange the eheads song "light years" which we chose to cover on the 17th up fair night...
tuesday february 14. valentines day... pillow played up fair...
wednesday february 15. candy played 2 great gigs. an afternoon gig at the chino roces side of MCS, we played 6 songs all precisely executed. we did the "light years" cover... according to a friend, "wow ang galing, yung kantang yun nagawa nyong panrang sarili nyong kanta..." the next gig was at the up fair. we played at around 12:30am. did three songs. "felt so fine", was a good choice for an openning so coz it helped pick-up where soapdish took off, second song "my silver chair" was a bit of an embarrassment but i think nobody noticed (or nobody really cared) then we did the Eheads song again, this time much confident that the one we did earlier... the crowd liked our set i guess polus the usual "congratulatory" ceremonies everytime you go down stage after a decent performance... parokya buwi asked me if i was thinking of "selling out" mainly because we did cover a mainstream act's song and a local one at that... i just smiled at him and told him that we just did that because meron ngang "headsfest" sa feb 17 (that's tonight) at wala na kaming time magpractice... don't worry buwi anything we do will always comply with whatever i think is appropriate for us. tingin ko maganda naman yung version namin ng song. very candy-ish... even selena who dropped by at our makati gig was so delighted by it... hehehe...
tonight we'll be at up again... hope we get to do better than the one we did last time around... see you...
by the way buzz night will be on the 4th of march...
i'll give some really note worthy account of things that transpired during the past few days once i get to free myself from the rigors of a busy work-sched and habitual self-loathing...
busy sorbra...
not enough time to post...
lot's of things had taken place...
sunday and monday practice sessions were held to ready us for this weeks string of gigs and to arrange the eheads song "light years" which we chose to cover on the 17th up fair night...
tuesday february 14. valentines day... pillow played up fair...
wednesday february 15. candy played 2 great gigs. an afternoon gig at the chino roces side of MCS, we played 6 songs all precisely executed. we did the "light years" cover... according to a friend, "wow ang galing, yung kantang yun nagawa nyong panrang sarili nyong kanta..." the next gig was at the up fair. we played at around 12:30am. did three songs. "felt so fine", was a good choice for an openning so coz it helped pick-up where soapdish took off, second song "my silver chair" was a bit of an embarrassment but i think nobody noticed (or nobody really cared) then we did the Eheads song again, this time much confident that the one we did earlier... the crowd liked our set i guess polus the usual "congratulatory" ceremonies everytime you go down stage after a decent performance... parokya buwi asked me if i was thinking of "selling out" mainly because we did cover a mainstream act's song and a local one at that... i just smiled at him and told him that we just did that because meron ngang "headsfest" sa feb 17 (that's tonight) at wala na kaming time magpractice... don't worry buwi anything we do will always comply with whatever i think is appropriate for us. tingin ko maganda naman yung version namin ng song. very candy-ish... even selena who dropped by at our makati gig was so delighted by it... hehehe...
tonight we'll be at up again... hope we get to do better than the one we did last time around... see you...
by the way buzz night will be on the 4th of march...
i'll give some really note worthy account of things that transpired during the past few days once i get to free myself from the rigors of a busy work-sched and habitual self-loathing...
Friday, February 10, 2006
The Good News
hello everyone...
again, i've been very busy during the past few days. work has swallowed up most of my time not giving me a chance to tell you that candyaudioline is back together again. we started practicing again last sunday (feb 5) followed by another practice session 2 days after... we are prepairing ourselves for the next batch of gigs that we'll be having specially the one at miriam college this coming saturday and the 2 up fair gig nights that we'll be participating in. one on the 15th and the other one on the 17th. plus an afternoon gig at the makati cinema square area also on the 15th...
we have been on a slump during our last few gigs last january and have just gone thru one of the most serious dilemnas i've ever encountered for this band's in it's entire 9 years of existence. for 2 weeks everything was hanging in the balance. gladly, everything has been settled and set aside. the four latest members (kel, dennis, arjay and mavi) is now fully adjusted to their respective roles in the band. kel has been keeping his promise to keep things as steady as possible, dennis is showing more confidence, arjay has been adding more flavors to each song with his truly remarkable bass skills, mavi on the other hand has given the band a new voice, youthful and quite innocent. a stark contrast to the blissfully offensive sound that this band has been known capable of doing... plus the fact that this band has been drawing itself to a more solid yet non-personality approach to things relieving me of the heavy burden of being "candayudioline" myself... as for me, i'm beginning to feel really old and wasted...
in fact during the last practice session, they were able to commence practice without me directly participating... i was a bit preoccupied with soft pillow kisses who at that time was also having a practice session taking turns with candyaudioline every 30 minutes, in preparation for tonight's acoustic performance (we'll be doing 4 new songs tonight) at pasig kapitolyo, in a bar called "kamarada". the same venue wherein candy played one their most recent and chaotic but quite enjoyable set just barely a month ago...
seeing them play without me and executing each song as if they've been together for quite a long time made me really happy. at least i can be assured that this time around, candyaudioline be able to do more gigs with or without me...
by the way... today is dennis' birthday!
happy birthday dennis! thanks for joining candyaudioline... thanks for your patience and perceiverance... and thanks for the many great thing you did for this band and me...
Here's more to greater and happier future for YOU and an overflowing abundance of extra-RICE!!!
i would just like to thank selena for taking time to fix this blog last night and putting up with my rantings twice yesterday during office hours (hehehe) tama ka nga selena...
"why the FUCK should i give a damned FUCK!", that's me from now on...
ok... yes we've been talking to each other just recently...
and... yes, we're friends again...
"why should i give valuable time? to people who don't care if i, live or die"... and so goes a classic line from an old The Smiths' song "Heaven Know's I'm Miserable Now"
again, i've been very busy during the past few days. work has swallowed up most of my time not giving me a chance to tell you that candyaudioline is back together again. we started practicing again last sunday (feb 5) followed by another practice session 2 days after... we are prepairing ourselves for the next batch of gigs that we'll be having specially the one at miriam college this coming saturday and the 2 up fair gig nights that we'll be participating in. one on the 15th and the other one on the 17th. plus an afternoon gig at the makati cinema square area also on the 15th...
we have been on a slump during our last few gigs last january and have just gone thru one of the most serious dilemnas i've ever encountered for this band's in it's entire 9 years of existence. for 2 weeks everything was hanging in the balance. gladly, everything has been settled and set aside. the four latest members (kel, dennis, arjay and mavi) is now fully adjusted to their respective roles in the band. kel has been keeping his promise to keep things as steady as possible, dennis is showing more confidence, arjay has been adding more flavors to each song with his truly remarkable bass skills, mavi on the other hand has given the band a new voice, youthful and quite innocent. a stark contrast to the blissfully offensive sound that this band has been known capable of doing... plus the fact that this band has been drawing itself to a more solid yet non-personality approach to things relieving me of the heavy burden of being "candayudioline" myself... as for me, i'm beginning to feel really old and wasted...
in fact during the last practice session, they were able to commence practice without me directly participating... i was a bit preoccupied with soft pillow kisses who at that time was also having a practice session taking turns with candyaudioline every 30 minutes, in preparation for tonight's acoustic performance (we'll be doing 4 new songs tonight) at pasig kapitolyo, in a bar called "kamarada". the same venue wherein candy played one their most recent and chaotic but quite enjoyable set just barely a month ago...
seeing them play without me and executing each song as if they've been together for quite a long time made me really happy. at least i can be assured that this time around, candyaudioline be able to do more gigs with or without me...
by the way... today is dennis' birthday!
happy birthday dennis! thanks for joining candyaudioline... thanks for your patience and perceiverance... and thanks for the many great thing you did for this band and me...
Here's more to greater and happier future for YOU and an overflowing abundance of extra-RICE!!!
i would just like to thank selena for taking time to fix this blog last night and putting up with my rantings twice yesterday during office hours (hehehe) tama ka nga selena...
"why the FUCK should i give a damned FUCK!", that's me from now on...
ok... yes we've been talking to each other just recently...
and... yes, we're friends again...
"why should i give valuable time? to people who don't care if i, live or die"... and so goes a classic line from an old The Smiths' song "Heaven Know's I'm Miserable Now"
Sunday, February 05, 2006
wow and wow...
hello everyone...
i'm finding it very hard to sleep.
frustrated by a lot of things that had transpired during the past 17 hours...
buzz night didn't go on well as planned (what's new?)... some of the bands (at least 2 bands) that performed that night, judging from what my friends told me was too "far out..." sorry guys, i was given a very incorrect description of what those band were... just the same , i would like to thanks them for playing... at least it filled the space made by by other bands who couldn't make it last night. also it gave me enough time to catch-up, coming very late from a work related cavite gig...
i wasn't able to see the cactus garden and king's and pawns (mabuti nalang dumating kayo) perform...
i was so annoyed at what happened to us in cavite... moonstar88 was suppose to play at around 9pm so we arrived there at about 7:45pm. but because of some annoyingly uncontrolled stream of things (pertaining to how those people organized and programmed the entire proceedings) we were able to play at around 11pm... good thing that we were allowed to cut short our set...
soft pillow kisses set was a bit of a let down...
behind all these hang-ups was something more... some questioned were answered yesterday. i got so bothered to a point wherein i was so overwhelmed. distress took over and this made me feel very sick...
so this is how it feels when... nevermind... ill just have to get used to this for the mean time... i'm expecting it to stay with me for a very long time... i guess i'll just have to bare with it...
but to tell you frankly this is just too much...
i'm being tempted to clear a lot of things but i'm deciding to keep quiet this time around. from now on i will be my own witness, listener and believer...
again, THIS IS JUST TOO MUCH...
looking at the bright side, candyaudioline did play. we played last and it was quite an enjoyable set. we were supposed to do just 3 songs but the urge of wanting to end the set with bang made me do one more song...
first song we did was "an empty you" because arjay and dennis insisted on doing so. with a heavy heart i gave in to their request and now i'm beginning to regret it... na-confuse ako sa kanta to a point wherein i forgot the chords and the proper delivery of the song... next song was "felt so fine" (the old version) at this point we were back to our old form again save for the way i sang it... feeling ko flat ang delivery ko... hehehe i got so used to singing that song as a back-up to mavi's high tones... then i decided to do "better view" because i felt that i could sing it alone and it was the best choice for a last song... but in the middle of the song, my voice was starting to sound like a horny frog... nakakahiya!!! to my bandmates' surprised and also the rest of the venue's staff, i decided to do another song. kahit na ako rin ay nagulat eh hehehe... i wanted to do "flaming walls" sana pero baka magboses "helium" ako dun. so i chose "we've been there" because i thought i could do a different singing approach to it... hindi pala... what's worse is that i got a bit disoriented everytime i fail to reach the right note... i was obviously out of air... sa bridge part, kapos na kapos talaga. parang ganito "making __ans, __ u, shake your han__ do, dirty stu__, shut up, we've been _____..." hay naku talaga... pero aliw pa rin... kel kept his word and played really well... kung kumpleto lang kami sana... sana next time makabawi na...
i'm finding it very hard to sleep.
frustrated by a lot of things that had transpired during the past 17 hours...
buzz night didn't go on well as planned (what's new?)... some of the bands (at least 2 bands) that performed that night, judging from what my friends told me was too "far out..." sorry guys, i was given a very incorrect description of what those band were... just the same , i would like to thanks them for playing... at least it filled the space made by by other bands who couldn't make it last night. also it gave me enough time to catch-up, coming very late from a work related cavite gig...
i wasn't able to see the cactus garden and king's and pawns (mabuti nalang dumating kayo) perform...
i was so annoyed at what happened to us in cavite... moonstar88 was suppose to play at around 9pm so we arrived there at about 7:45pm. but because of some annoyingly uncontrolled stream of things (pertaining to how those people organized and programmed the entire proceedings) we were able to play at around 11pm... good thing that we were allowed to cut short our set...
soft pillow kisses set was a bit of a let down...
behind all these hang-ups was something more... some questioned were answered yesterday. i got so bothered to a point wherein i was so overwhelmed. distress took over and this made me feel very sick...
so this is how it feels when... nevermind... ill just have to get used to this for the mean time... i'm expecting it to stay with me for a very long time... i guess i'll just have to bare with it...
but to tell you frankly this is just too much...
i'm being tempted to clear a lot of things but i'm deciding to keep quiet this time around. from now on i will be my own witness, listener and believer...
again, THIS IS JUST TOO MUCH...
looking at the bright side, candyaudioline did play. we played last and it was quite an enjoyable set. we were supposed to do just 3 songs but the urge of wanting to end the set with bang made me do one more song...
first song we did was "an empty you" because arjay and dennis insisted on doing so. with a heavy heart i gave in to their request and now i'm beginning to regret it... na-confuse ako sa kanta to a point wherein i forgot the chords and the proper delivery of the song... next song was "felt so fine" (the old version) at this point we were back to our old form again save for the way i sang it... feeling ko flat ang delivery ko... hehehe i got so used to singing that song as a back-up to mavi's high tones... then i decided to do "better view" because i felt that i could sing it alone and it was the best choice for a last song... but in the middle of the song, my voice was starting to sound like a horny frog... nakakahiya!!! to my bandmates' surprised and also the rest of the venue's staff, i decided to do another song. kahit na ako rin ay nagulat eh hehehe... i wanted to do "flaming walls" sana pero baka magboses "helium" ako dun. so i chose "we've been there" because i thought i could do a different singing approach to it... hindi pala... what's worse is that i got a bit disoriented everytime i fail to reach the right note... i was obviously out of air... sa bridge part, kapos na kapos talaga. parang ganito "making __ans, __ u, shake your han__ do, dirty stu__, shut up, we've been _____..." hay naku talaga... pero aliw pa rin... kel kept his word and played really well... kung kumpleto lang kami sana... sana next time makabawi na...
Friday, February 03, 2006
Finally! February 4 Buzz Night Line-Up...
now here's this month's final BUZZ NIGHT line up:
the cactus garden
shimmer
day one movement
soft pillow kisses
my science project
candyaudioline
the news
populardays had to back out at the last moment because eric is down with flu... hay buhay!!!
MABUHAY!!!
a damage fee of 100 bucks will be charged. it comes with one free beer hopefully, everything gets going before 10pm...
the cactus garden
shimmer
day one movement
soft pillow kisses
my science project
candyaudioline
the news
populardays had to back out at the last moment because eric is down with flu... hay buhay!!!
MABUHAY!!!
a damage fee of 100 bucks will be charged. it comes with one free beer hopefully, everything gets going before 10pm...
Feb. 4, 2006 Buzz Night Update...
hello everyone...
here's some updates regarding this saturday's Buzz Night...
as of last night, this saturday's line-up has been trimmed down to just 6 bands... first to back-out yesterday was tether because their singer won't be able to make it for she'll be shooting a short film this weekend. sunsetdrive also texted me last night saying that some members won't be available this saturday... as for candyaudioline, i am still deciding whether to play without our vocalist... she also advised me (just barely 12 minutes after ekong of sunsetdrive texted me) that she's not available this weekend because of work related commitments...
oh well, this always happens to me... maybe i am cursed... whoever cursed me please take it off... it's really hard to put up an event when the participant's keep backing out at the last minute... i would really want this "buzz night thing" to blossom into something more that what it has been for the past few years of it's very sorry existence...
for me, at least, it's good to know that candyaudioline is still intact and hopefully be able to work things out together so that feature gigs will be played more better and tigher and a lot more enjoyable...
by the way, soft pillow kisses might be previewing 4 new songs this buzz night. actually it's just 3 new songs the fouth one called "taste like vintage wine" is actually the most recent candyauioline song i've done... this song has been played twice by candyaudioline already. one in pasig last jan 20 and the second time at mayrics last jan 23. i've decided to let soft pillow kisses do this one because it's more to their style as compared to candy's... infact, when we (SPK) did this last night during practice, i was so pleased with what came out of it... a bit different compared to what came out when pillow performed it last monday january 30. think of a more louder "ecstacy and wine" era my bloody valentine... the three other songs are called "under-cover angel" which is like belle and sebastian doing covers of rocketship and majestic songs. then there's another song, it's tentatively titled "your shoes are untied" which is like a beaumont song being clobbered by the trembling blue stars. finally, a song called "just like the sky". actually, this one's just fresh from last night's rehearsal session. think of 800 cherries, kahimie karie and remington super 60... yabang ano? pagbigyan nyo nalang ako... hindi naman masamang mangarap at magkunwari eh... hehehehe...
now here's this month's BUZZ NIGHT line up:
the cactus garden
shimmer
day one movement
populardays
soft pillow kisses
my science project
a damage fee of 100 bucks will be charged. it comes with one free beer hopefully, everything gets going before 10pm...
here's some updates regarding this saturday's Buzz Night...
as of last night, this saturday's line-up has been trimmed down to just 6 bands... first to back-out yesterday was tether because their singer won't be able to make it for she'll be shooting a short film this weekend. sunsetdrive also texted me last night saying that some members won't be available this saturday... as for candyaudioline, i am still deciding whether to play without our vocalist... she also advised me (just barely 12 minutes after ekong of sunsetdrive texted me) that she's not available this weekend because of work related commitments...
oh well, this always happens to me... maybe i am cursed... whoever cursed me please take it off... it's really hard to put up an event when the participant's keep backing out at the last minute... i would really want this "buzz night thing" to blossom into something more that what it has been for the past few years of it's very sorry existence...
for me, at least, it's good to know that candyaudioline is still intact and hopefully be able to work things out together so that feature gigs will be played more better and tigher and a lot more enjoyable...
by the way, soft pillow kisses might be previewing 4 new songs this buzz night. actually it's just 3 new songs the fouth one called "taste like vintage wine" is actually the most recent candyauioline song i've done... this song has been played twice by candyaudioline already. one in pasig last jan 20 and the second time at mayrics last jan 23. i've decided to let soft pillow kisses do this one because it's more to their style as compared to candy's... infact, when we (SPK) did this last night during practice, i was so pleased with what came out of it... a bit different compared to what came out when pillow performed it last monday january 30. think of a more louder "ecstacy and wine" era my bloody valentine... the three other songs are called "under-cover angel" which is like belle and sebastian doing covers of rocketship and majestic songs. then there's another song, it's tentatively titled "your shoes are untied" which is like a beaumont song being clobbered by the trembling blue stars. finally, a song called "just like the sky". actually, this one's just fresh from last night's rehearsal session. think of 800 cherries, kahimie karie and remington super 60... yabang ano? pagbigyan nyo nalang ako... hindi naman masamang mangarap at magkunwari eh... hehehehe...
now here's this month's BUZZ NIGHT line up:
the cactus garden
shimmer
day one movement
populardays
soft pillow kisses
my science project
a damage fee of 100 bucks will be charged. it comes with one free beer hopefully, everything gets going before 10pm...
Candyaudioline's Fine (I Guess?)
hello everyone...
bad trip... bitin tulog ko... 5am na pa lang pala...
it seems that candyaudioline's still intact. at least that's what i think based on what one of my pillow mates told me last night about a text message he received from our current vocalist that she'll be singing this weekend. although she did text me a few hours later that she'll not be able to make it... "... i can't be with you guys this sat, work is at my heels. hope you understerstand... next week will be better..." so goes her message... i'm still at a lost honestly... what if the line "i won't be able to be with us this saturday" meant that she can't hang-out with us and not sing with candyaudioline?
last tuesday, early morning, she texted me that she'll be with us this weekend. i asked her if she is still going to sing for the band... she replied with another text message pertaining to a yet to be sent message which she was supposed to send last night but wasn't able to... for almost two weeks now i'm so anxious to know as to which is which... will she or won't she...
oh well, i can still wait... for now... dennis is busy with work, kel is readying himself for this saturday's moonstar88 gig wherein he'll be sessioning as drummer. i think they'll be having a practice tonight. as for arjay, i've no idea as to what he is busy with these days but he was a bit under the weather last sunday and monday... we did talk over the phone last night and i adviced him to ready himself for this saturday's moonstar88 gig for i'll be having him as one of my crew... as for me, i'm still so depressed... inspite of the fact that i've been very busy with work. i'm also concentrating on soft pillow kisses. i got sick last tuesday until last night. now i'm looking foward to a very busy friday and saturday... then in the next two weeks i will be much more preoccupied with work related things...
i guess i just have to go to sleep again. but first another post regarding "back-ing out" buzz night bands...
"... is this the end of me? God in heaven help me..." - this one's a sampled line off a carter usm song... i forgot the title...
bad trip... bitin tulog ko... 5am na pa lang pala...
it seems that candyaudioline's still intact. at least that's what i think based on what one of my pillow mates told me last night about a text message he received from our current vocalist that she'll be singing this weekend. although she did text me a few hours later that she'll not be able to make it... "... i can't be with you guys this sat, work is at my heels. hope you understerstand... next week will be better..." so goes her message... i'm still at a lost honestly... what if the line "i won't be able to be with us this saturday" meant that she can't hang-out with us and not sing with candyaudioline?
last tuesday, early morning, she texted me that she'll be with us this weekend. i asked her if she is still going to sing for the band... she replied with another text message pertaining to a yet to be sent message which she was supposed to send last night but wasn't able to... for almost two weeks now i'm so anxious to know as to which is which... will she or won't she...
oh well, i can still wait... for now... dennis is busy with work, kel is readying himself for this saturday's moonstar88 gig wherein he'll be sessioning as drummer. i think they'll be having a practice tonight. as for arjay, i've no idea as to what he is busy with these days but he was a bit under the weather last sunday and monday... we did talk over the phone last night and i adviced him to ready himself for this saturday's moonstar88 gig for i'll be having him as one of my crew... as for me, i'm still so depressed... inspite of the fact that i've been very busy with work. i'm also concentrating on soft pillow kisses. i got sick last tuesday until last night. now i'm looking foward to a very busy friday and saturday... then in the next two weeks i will be much more preoccupied with work related things...
i guess i just have to go to sleep again. but first another post regarding "back-ing out" buzz night bands...
"... is this the end of me? God in heaven help me..." - this one's a sampled line off a carter usm song... i forgot the title...
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Buzz Night Feb. 4, 2006 Saturday @ Mayrics
hello everyone...
sorry for the late broacast. anyway, here's this month's BUZZ NIGHT line up:
the cactus garden
sunsetdrive
shimmer
day one movement
tether
populardays
soft pillow kisses
candyaudioline
my science project
a damage fee of 100 bucks will be charged. it comes with one free beer hopefully, everything gets going before 10pm...
see you there...
sorry for the late broacast. anyway, here's this month's BUZZ NIGHT line up:
the cactus garden
sunsetdrive
shimmer
day one movement
tether
populardays
soft pillow kisses
candyaudioline
my science project
a damage fee of 100 bucks will be charged. it comes with one free beer hopefully, everything gets going before 10pm...
see you there...
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