I find it a bit weird to post long messages at our small tagboard so I'll just type my replies to the tagboard msgs here at the main blog...
To MARC PAUL---G-Spot is a bar that's open for bands during Friday nights--I think I got that right.. But I'm a bit confused about your post. Was it your intention to promote a gig at G-Spot (but forgot to mention the gig itself) that's why you posted about the place--not only once, not only twice,but thrice! (TV infomercial voice)
Or...did you post it in order to let the readers of this blog (including us) know that we are all free to contact the place anytime if ever we have plans of scheduling an event that we organized to be held at G-Spot (or kung makapal talaga mukha na namin at desperado na sobra puede kami mag sked ng mismong sariling tugtog namin para lang magka gig)
Pardon my being too inquisitive (ganyan kasi ako tuwing hindi ako nakaka uwi ng bahay ng matagal). I just thought that it would be good for both G-Spot and the readers of this blog (including us) if you can clarify that. Who knows, baka may nagbabasa nito na may balak mag put up ng event jan.
To everyone else who need to post something that's non-Candy but is music scene related related anyway, feel free to post them at our tagboard (minsan kasi walang nadadagdag na posts) or better yet, post a message at our mailing list (lalo na ngayon walang bagong pinag-uusapan sa ML namin).
(Us, members of Candyaudioline are really helpful to others. But if you caught us at a bad time (which is most of the time) and we don't feel like being helpful, we pretend.)
To NO. 1 FAN-- Before I proceed to my reply to your flattering posts, in behalf of Candyaudioline, we want you to know that we really, really love the ID that you're using on the tagboard. It makes us feel so admired and no longer ignored and invisible to the local music scene. We surely are hoping that people from our mailing list or the tagboard could come up with nicks that are similar to your nick. (Sagarin ko na ha) You know we don't even mind if "all" of our listeners would all use "NO. 1 FAN" as ID whenever they write to us. Really, we won't mind. So if you're really lazy to come up with an original ID, feel free to use "NO. 1 Fan." It's okay :)
Bullshite aside... with the albums... we actually have three albums to boast. However, two of these were never released so one can actually claim that they never really existed and that technically, we only had one album for the past years. But we like it better, if we consider the two unreleased albums as something "existent." We think that telling people that "we have three albums" actually sounds a lot better (not to mention that it makes us feel better about our band too) than just being contented in telling the truth flat-out, "we only have one album." This gives us a feeling of accomplishment and that makes us happy. And we're one band that is in dire need of anything that would put a smile on our faces (so at least we can stop looking like a bunch of problematic individuals that we really are and hopefully gain a few more fans out of our friendly aura).
(Also for people who might be interested, aside from NO. 1 Fan)
*Candyaudioline albums (both real and imaginary):
Paint Your Silver Smile (released mid-2000)-- it's an 8-song album that was available only in cassettes. Copies were dropped at Mayric's or sold during gigs. It got sold out. Unfortunately, the band was not able to produce enough money for the production of another batch of copies of this album. But if you have the guts to befriend Allan, you can ask for a burned/recorded copy of the 8 songs that caught the attention of the indie fanatics in Metro Manila (nabasa ko lang to ha), he'll be more than happy to provide you with a burned copy. If you don't feel like kissing Allan's arse, the mp3's of some of these songs from PYSS might still be available for downloading at the Pinoycentral.com (music page) website. Might. I'm not really sure if the songs are still there but you can always check.
Alone Again at Last LP (recorded late 2001) this was supposed to be a 9-song LP that includes some of our most kick-ass songs (according to us), but it was never released in the end. We really hated the vocals that was added during the last days of recording sessions at Pink Noise. There were other reasons too for not releasing it, but this is the only one that I can remember.
An Empty You EP (recorded late 2002) this is a 4-track EP that gave us a really hard time in deciding on what to do with it: to release this EP or nevermind this piece of shite?. In the end, this was just a few weeks ago, we settled on the final decision, which is to cancel it's release (supposedly for this year). That's because we're not satisfied with the final mix and we thought that it sounded really crappy when it was played on NU about a month ago. We felt really bad about it whenever we remember how much money and time and effort were spent on the recording. But we later on figured, that our tough decision is for the better. Besides, how on Earth can we boast about it if we release it even if the fact that it can sound better will only continue to haunt our minds? See, we only boast about things that are boast-able (?). We don't want to take the risk of being laughed at because we're boasting about something mediocre or just plain crappy. If it's supposed release date still pushed through, this could only be a source of something to regret and rant about for the rest of our lives... something that we'll try to justify and explain to others in hope of redeeming ourselves by desperately trying to convince everyone that, "we're not supposed to release it because we also think that it is crappy but ended up releasing it anyway because *insert some excuse*" Who wants to be bothered by something like that?
--Some of the songs from all three albums can be searched and downloaded from Soulseek. If you don't know what Soulseek is, it's like 'MIRC for music lovers.' Here, one can browse other chatters' files and download a file (like mp3) that you like and have it copied to your own computer. Yeah, kinda like a "Napster and MIRC in one thing." You can download Soulseek from the net.
Once you're connected to Soulseek, you can start searching for Candysongs. I suggest that you log on to the#tweefolks channel (or some other pinoy indiepop channel) because most of the people, who have Candyaudioline mp3's in their shared files, park in this channel (including Allan himself).
An alternative access to free candy songs: If you're at our gigs, you can approach us anytime. You can ask for a burned copy of any of our albums/songs from Allan. He'll be more than happy to provide you a copy. If other members have burners/recorders, they can do that too if they're not feeling too lazy. But that's actually a rare thing to happen. We all have this unspoken rule among us that everything that requires us to move (but is not pertaining to our set) and is related to Candy--should be passed on to Allan. Sha na bahala.
Thanks for liking our set at the EMERGENCY gig at the UP Bahay ng Alumni. We also think that it was a good set.
We are all hoping that we get invited again for a UP gig. We surely enjoyed playing at the UP Fair and at the UP FA Week gig, this is also because some of us are students/graduate in UP Diliman. It never fails to amuse us whenever our profs/classmates (who have no idea that we're in a band) would catch our sets and recognize us. We also like pretending that we're "rakstars" and sometimes try to convince some people that we really are. This works well whenever we bump into a clueless high school looking kid who is drunk enough to tell us that recognized us from a band that had played.
---We've played in 70's Bistro and I don't know when we're playing there again. Usually, whenever we have gigs there,it's only just for a front-act stint for another more famous band. Whenever I think of 70's Bistro I see images of us, attempting to ride on the popularity of the band that we're fronting for.
CANDYONLINE Candyaudioline's Official Site) .
http:www.geocoties.com/candyaudioline_ph
(or click mo nalang yang "candyaudioline site" na nasa taas ng Zonkboard).
*Upcoming Gigs (na alam namin):
+September 27 -- Buzznite, Mayric's (with other indie bands)
+October 3 -- Fox Square (with Kid Auto, Ciao, Matilda; 50 pesos entrance)
-Teacher's Vill, near Glori's, Molo Grille..
*Check mo lang lagi itong blog for update ng gigs namin and for other Candyaudioline news, etc...
---->Yung mga to pinost ko lang just in case may interesadong manuod talaga.
Hindi namin kayo pinipilit
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