Fair Enough

Hello Everyone,

This week is UP Fair week... a week long series of gigs happening in UP Sunken Garden... During the past few years, i've always look forward to such an event but this year is a bit different... in fact, i don't feel like playing there anymore... Last year was a bit of a traumatic experience for me... The crowd really turns me off... I remember last year when i almost started a mini-brawl somewhere near the left side of the stage because i really got pissed at some guy who kept annoying me while we where playing on stage... Other reasons why i don't like playing there anymore is because of the way most orgs handle the event... Security is so poor, time slots aren't always followed, sequences always gets messed up during the latter part of every gig, so many bands are lined up, the sound system gets worse as years goes by... but the one that i don't like most is the chaos inside the artist area... the person to area ratio inside the artist area is always greater than that of the audience area... it's almost like a refugee camp there...

Sadly, even if don't let my band play there, i'm still obligated to go there since all of the bands we handle have been booked in almost all dates... so rather than just being there... i decided to play there also...

So tomorrow February 11, we will be playing... Our slot is sometime around 6:20pm... i doubt if that would be the exact time we'll be playing... probably it'll be late as usual... Elaine can't be with us tomorrow cause she'll be attending to her clinic's anniversary celebration... in preparation for tomorrow's gig, we Candy-boys had a quick run through of songs that we might do tomorrow... Some covers only although if i feel that the sound system sucked, then we won't be doing any of these song and would just do some really safe Candyaudioline songs just to avoid embarrassment...

It was Dennis' Birthday just a while, so after our practice session, we immediately went to Iceberg's Timog for a quick meal... Ex-Candy bassists Joel and ArJay plus a friend joined us in celebrating Dennis' 27th birthday... as usual, Dennis was effortlessly the life of the party with Rene tagging in a close second... Joel was drunk as hell while me, Kel, Deanna and Elaine religiously watched Dennis being hammered away by Joel's alcohol induced wordiness and Rene's Malicious glances as ArJay acted as referee painstakingly trying his best to mediate and put things into order using his China Eyes and newly trimmed hair... Stupid of me not to film the entire proceedings coz i forgot that i had my Super-Camera with me... Nevertheless, we settled with a simple Pictorial Session near Iceberg's parking area...

Here we are...



That's all for now, hope we all have fun tomorrow...