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In 2011, Ovation Productions was already talking to Ed Kowalczyk about doing a concert in Manila.  I’m not sure exactly what happened which caused the concert to have been postponed, not only once, but twice.  What I do know is that he finally came on April 28, 2012 and did a back-to-back co-headline show with Vertical Horizon. 

I couldn’t make it to the concert but i heard pretty cool things about it.  One thing that caught my attention was that someone said that more people came for Vertical Horizon than for Live’s Ed Kowalcyzk.  It got me thinking, what if Ed came alone?  How many people would’ve been there?

Anyway, here are some of the pictures that Atthewomb.com had taken from that night. 

All photos taken by: Joachim Salazar

I’ve been in touch with MCA Music now for a couple of years and they never fail to invite me to numerous events.  Many of these events are concert related, or press conferences.  However, once in awhile, they invite me to contract signings with some of the talents they sign. 

Today MCA Music signed Pupil.  I was instantly pleased and was happy to hear, that though Sony had closed down, MCA would continue the support of a major label, for a band like Pupil. 

Waking up in Calbayog on May 5, 2012 was easy.  There was no morning flight to catch, and check out at the hotel was scheduled at 12PM.  We were able to take a shower, get dressed, and even hang out at the hotel lobby and have breakfast while waiting for the entourage of Urbandub to get there. 

We were told the land trip to Tacloban would take around 4-5 hours.  At 1PM we got into the vans and began our road trip.  Nothing much to say about the journey, we stopped only to use the bathroom and to smoke a cigarette.  As we entered Leyte, we crossed the San Juanico bridge, which to me is the most beautiful bridge I’ve seen all my life.  There, we ran into some of the guys of Parokya Ni Edgar.

Oh dear sweet Calbayog, where do I begin?

First of all, I’m really sorry, but I didn’t even know where Calbayog was.  When I learned that it was in Samar, all I could think of was that when we were in Boracay also for the Tanduay T5 tour, I got to hang out with some bartender girls from Samar.  Didn’t even know if it was north, south, east or west. 

What I do know about Calbayog now though is very different.  These guys are the best and really know how to party!  I know we said that Bataan was the best so far, and I don’t want to compare anymore as it doesn’t really matter, but Calbayog was fucking awesome!

Bataan might have been great fun, but that isn’t to say that traveling to Bulacan the following day didn’t have its share of excitement and adventure!  For Urbandub, there was plenty of action to make for an interesting day.

For one thing, Franco was booked to play the afternoon slot of the PULP Summerslam, which meant that Gabby and Janjan had to leave early to make that gig, and then come back to play Tanduay’s T5 show in Bulacan, only to head back to the Amoranto Stadium to play Slam for Urbandub.

Read on to know more about Urbandub’s April 28, 2012!

APRIL 20, 2012. Family, friends, colleagues and fans came together on the eve of the late Karl Roy’s “40th day” to celebrate his life once more at the famous biker bar, Handlebar in Makati. The tribute show, PUTING ILAW (a title of Karl’s song, Advent Call days) was organized by ‘The Doctor’ Ramon Zialcita and F.E.A.R. Productions (the outfit who supported Karl’s latest gig tour throughout RP) and featured bands and musicians who were lucky to have worked and jammed with Karl as well as those who grew up with his music and words. The music that night was moving salute to Karl Roy of Advent Call, P.O.T., Kapatid and ‘Karl Roy’, whose decades of music formed part of the soundtrack of those who were in attendance.

The Doctor.

All photos taken by Miggy Matute of Atthewomb.com

Sergio Mendes played in Manila for a one night only concert with his band, Brasil 66.  Though I was looking forward to this concert, I was as well a bit hesitant as I didn’t know if he was going to play his boring love songs, or if he was going to treat the Filipino audience with his samba songs. 

Once I got there, I sorted out getting all the tickets that Atthewomb.com was going to distribute to our ticket winners from the contest that we held.  When I had all the tickets with me, I hung out at Padi’s Point and sent a message to all the winners to meet me there.  While waiting, together with Atthewomb.com photographer JC, we had a couple of beers each and prepared for a night of good music.

The ticket winners showed up soon after and it was my honor to have met everyone and been able to congratulate them personally.  Atthewomb.com really has the best fans.  Everyone was so friendly and one kind lady even gave me some goodies that she had brought from Batangas.

All photos by Juan Miguel Bernal.

I’m older than a lot of the kids in the music industry today.  I have different views on music and my vocabulary for music genres is very poor compared to how I hear people describing their music to others. 

When I was growing up, genres were very basic.  There was jazz, classical, rnb, heavy metal, punk, and rock.

Watching Marky Ramone with Michale Graves, Crazy Joe and Graham Vanderveen perform at the Hard Rock Café reminded me a little bit of my childhood and growing up completely immersed in music.  It was just my kind of punk, straightforward!  Punk to me is Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Sex Pistols, and of course The Ramones.

Hi guys!  Here’s the continuation of the Tanduay First Five Rock Royalty Tour.

Read about the 3rd leg of the tour, which took place on the beach of Boracay last April 14, 2012. 

Together with Myx, this part of the tour was called the Myx Summer Fest 2012.

That’s me with A Day To Remember at the end of the Meet and Greet.

30 Hours with A Day To Remember

Enjoy this exclusive behind the scenes feature we have on A Day To Remember.  I had the honor and horror of hanging out with the band while they were in town.  Check out this step-by-step account on what happened during the bands Manila visit, put together by Sonic Boom and Built By Sonic.