This is Me and behind me, Charles, Maggot, Rene, Kel and Dennis... Yup, This is how close Candyaudioline and Soft Pillow Kisses really are... Just look at the empty plates and the Happy Faces... Janpol didn't made it to the practice while Marian had to leave early... Cuckooh on the other hand did something during this practice session that made me and my bandmates (in both bands) decide that she isn't the vocalist that's right for Candyaudioline...
hello peeps...
last night we played at vida de malate... it was a bit weird because of the bands that were lined-up that night... well, i didn't actually had an idea that it was a decidedly ROCK affair... arriving at the venue, i noticed throngs of black-clad kids... not the typical Goth types but more of the local rock crowd that you usually see at local rock events...
well i got a bit uncomfortable because for one, i just remembered that Candyaudioline was playing without a vocalist that night and second, i was to meet Sir Michael, a frequent reader of this little blog of ours, who i invited to the gig... Sir Michael by the way is from Germany (he just arrived yesterday) and likes C86 type of music, Sarah and Postcards Records stuff, reason for me to be a bit embarrassed at making him watch us play at such an event... hehehe... he was quite cool though... he even gave me three 7"vinyls of German bands that we released through his own label (Blue Records) back in the early 90's... we weren't able to talk too much because by the time he arrived (together with a friend) we are about to play already...
...so there we were setting up, i can't help but be annoyed at how my amp sounded and at maggot's bass amp too... i was beginning to smell trouble... also the crowd made me feel uncomfortable but i guess they were there just to have a good time... so we made a go at it with "an empty you" and boom!!! i felt like melting because i can't hear myself singing and my amp too wasn't within hearing range... good thing rene (soft pillow kisses) was there to make sure that i was doing well... we were a bit lost after that first song so we had trouble deciding what to play next and settled doing "something wrong" which i think alienated the crowd a bit but i thought the song helped us settle down a bit... we were supposed to play 4 songs but i thought that i wanted to do something that we don't usually do (at that's playing cover songs)... we did "light years", yup the eraserheads song, as our third song just to loosen us a bit more... as expected, the crowd liked it... i admit that i enjoyed it as well, hehehe... then we did "felt so fine" and ended the whole thing with "my silver chair" due to insistent (minority) public demand... after our set i went outside the venue to breathe air and smoke... it wasn't bad at all and i tried convincing myself that we did a decent set... went back to the venue to find Sir Michael about to leave... i hope that he enjoyed our set even with just me singing... i felt we would have been more confident if we had a proper vocalist that night...
i just wish we could find one the soonest possible time... a vocalist who'll be more interested in the thing that we're doing and not use the band as an image builder or an escape form whatever...
kel, did well just as he promised... maggot too, she was up to it i guess... dennis too, inspite of the constant feedback coming from his amp... thanks rene... reneh!!!
Again, thanks to Sir Michael for coming and for the 7" records... and also to his friend Ma'am Mabel... hope that the Soft Pillow Kisses gig at Freedom Bar pushes through next Wednesday (June 27)...
that's all for now... i'll leave you with a quote from Mr. Rotten Espiritu (Philippine Violators) - he was the event organizer last night and also the emcee... he kept asking me as to how he should introduce Candyaudioline... i declined though... "walang descriminasyon!!!" - yup pero...
Thanks Sir Rotten and more power to you and your Production...
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