The Unrelenting Urge Of The Unsigned (A Year-Ender Report)
November 2006 - We shoot a video of “CUANDO”? in our home and uploaded it to YouTube.
March 2007 - We shoot “MI ESTRELLA” & “NUAY ETU, NUAY MANYANA” and uploaded it to YouTube. Comments came pouring in. It was all good!!!
Summer 2007 - IFM contacted us and wants to give our songs a full air-time play. We we’re glad. We immediately gave them copies of our songs but it was rejected because of its quality. They told us to record it in a recording studio but there’s no decent recording studio here in Zamboanga City. So we waited…. Until….
November 2007 - Tristan Climaco contacted me (Zack) & Jeloh through e-mail via YouTube. Since then, we got into conversations thru phone. The three of us met at their residence and discuss recording matters. Recording went into works immediately. I called in my bandmates. “NUAY MAS” was the first song to be recorded. But we’re not satisfied with the way our drummer recorded the song. But in the end, he managed to pull it off, thanks to the magic of digital recording and to the ever-supporting effort of our sound engineer, Tristan Climaco.
December 2007 - We finished recoring “NUAY MAS”. We were happy.
January 2008 - We started recording “CUANDO?”. I brought in Mykel, my friend and the drummer of Bad Grass, to fill in temporarily for the drums sections for the rest of the songs, which has not yet been recorded yet. He exceeded to my expectations and manage to help me in arranging some of the songs.
March 2008 - We submitted our demo to IFM and they played it immediately. ”NUAY MAS” was the first to be played.
Summer 2008 - We recorded all of our songs already, except for “EL MUJER”. I was hesitant to record it because there was one missing component if we were to record it now. I thought of Marvin, the guitarist of Prorata & The Guild, and immediately contacted him thru Friendster. We got into talks and he agreed.
We recorded “EL MUJER” with ease. Now with Marvin. It was a wonderful experience.
June 2008 - “CUANDO?” was played on all local radio stations. It became No.1 for 4 straight weeks and eventually became a phenomenal hit. People were singing it especially small children. They knew it by heart.
July-September 2008 - Gigs came pouring in. We performed at various schools and locales. We were like celebrities. Hehehe!!! Oh yeah, its true…. it’s damn true.
October 2008 - We front-line Sponge Cola.
November 2008 - We got into talks with Councilor Gerky Valesco about holding a concert for us.
December 2008 - The concert is all-systems go.
December 16, 2008 - Then came our concert and it was a successful one.
Thank you!!!
The best is yet to come this 2009.
