Since I can’t afford to get that Timex watch, I just bought an ORIGINAL copy of  Sino Sikat’s debut album arner Music Philippines which contains 10 soulful-jazzy-funky-rock-ish cuts. I’ve seen them live for the first time at the Hard Rock Cafe in  Makati City last July 26. I think they played a set only before Pupil went onstage.

Sino Sikat’s music is influenced by jazz, liitle bit of blues and rock. The album is great, some songs are feet-stomping while are too mellow. But it’s still nice. If you want to relax, in a sense that you don’t have to sleep, better listen to this album. Their’s first track on the album, “Akin Ka” is obviously jazzy piece.

Since 1993, I’ve been a fan of the Pinoy rock music. It was then the era of Yano and Eraserheads, they reigned the airwaves. Almost every morning, I could hear most of their famous songs. Well, aside from those legendary bands, I was (and even until now) also a fan of many Pinoy rock of the 90s — Wolfgang, The Youth, Datu’s Tribe, FrancisM, Rivermaya, POT, Razorback, among others.

I regret that I lost most of the tapes I had before. Only few of those tapes left today. It would have been one my best treasures. During those high school days, I used to collect different albums of any Pinoy rock artists. But when I was in college, most of them were borrowed permanently! Continue Reading »

After shooting for Katakus’ products exhibit at SM Entertainment plaza, I dropped by at the carpark (lot C) at the back of the mall to check the live band as well as the place itself. Globe telecommunications company is the main sponsor of the enclosed gimmick area.

I was there to shoot but I didn’t expect that the sound was good. I’d rarely hear good sounds of the locally organized gigs in Davao. Most of the time, I’m frustrated with the poor sound engineering in most of the concerts here in Davao. But last night was so far the best sound I’ve ever heard in local gig. Continue Reading »

On July 26, Pupil made its first performance with their new drummer — Wendell Garciaof Barbie’s Cradle.  Wendell replaced Bogs Jugo after a year as Pupil’s drummer and programmer. Bogs was also the drummer of The Mongols.

 It was a great performance. Power. The band played couple of new songs from their upcoming second album.  Pupil’s bassist Dok Sergio said the album will be released maybe within a month or two.

The new songs are great, t’was really Pupil sound.

After watching Pupil gig last Thursday, I jumped in at Dok’s car along with Jerome to watch their gig with Ebe (Sugar Free) as their vocalist at Saguijo. The two were already late, about 40 minutes as we were told by Mike Dizon. Saguijo was jampacked, no space move around. Jerome told me to stay beside him so that I can get good pictures.

I wanted to get a frontal shot of the band but I couldn’t move where I was because the crowd was already right in the front of their face. I remeber moving backward for few inches because Ebe nearly hit me with his guitar when he jumped.

The song “Darating” was really awesome. Even Dok admitted he misplayed some chords because he was filled with emotion as he was strumming his bass guitar. For the finale, they played “Shooting Star” then Rico Blanco suddenly came in! Check photos here.