And then the next to impossible thing happened....
(thursday-friday) 28-29 August 2008
The Eraserheads concert was held last 30-Aug-08 at the Bonifacio Open field. Two days before the event I didn't know anything about the concert, all i know is that you need to apply for membership at Marlboro website (or sort) to get your free ticket. Lo and behold my friend told me that Marlboro/Phillip already backed out to the event and the new promoter are starting to sell the tickets! Omaygasabelgas, so it was Thursday evening i frantically searched the internet for the news about the concert, and then Friday noontime, after i lined up for the ticket at ATC, get mad at the cashier for being soooooo late in her job and ang haba-haba na ng pila, even end up being late at the office (together with my other colleagues), i got my pair of tickets for the event (clap! clap! clap!). Ang galing ko diba? =D
saturday (30-Aug-08)
My day start at 9:00am today. To those who know me very well, me waking up at 10:00am or earlier is a miracle already. But being an obedient child i have to wake up early to do our grocery in the morning, buy office clothes at sm, and hurriedly dash to ATC to buy the cool shirt for the concert. I finished doing this errands at around 4pm, only an hour before I meet up with my friend to go to the concert.
6:30pm
We arrived at the concert scene, while walking down the street of the fort you can sense the excitement of the people going to the concert venue. It's funny also because you can actually distinguish the people whose going to the concert and whose not. Actually I was looking forward to meet up few old friends at the concert, especially it's in The Fort (teritoryo ata ng PCS ito eh hahaha!), but sadly i didn't see any familiar faces. Security was tight at the entrance, ballpen, camera, perfumes are not allowed (daw!), and you have to undergo 5 times security check before you can enter the premises. Upon entering, there were no chairs pala! Yikes! I thought they will provide chairs kaso wala!So we end up sitting our a$$ at the ground. Oh well, i hope all our hardwork is worth it =D.
10 minutes countdown
when the giant screenboard shows the 10 minutes countdown, everybody went wild! yes! sa wakas matutuloy na sha! and when the timer click 00:00:00 a wave of flash basked the concert arena (and i thought bawal ang camera!) coming from both cellfone camera and digital camera that was sneaked inside the place. I overheard one girl at my back comment "good times with eraserheads are back", and so it was. The band start to emerge from under the stage then they start singing, and I was like "wow dreams really do come true!"....
Here's the list of first set of songs:
1. Alapaap
2. Ligaya
3. Sembreak
4. Hey Jay
5. Harana
6. Fruitcake
7. Toyang
8. Kama Supra
9. Kailan
10. Wag Kang Matakot
11. Kaliwete
12. With A Smile
13. Shake Yer Head
14. Huwag Mo Nang Itanong Sa Akin
15. Lightyears
Ely Buendia looks very thin on the giant screen, but his outfit (preppy type plus dark aviator shades) is far more different than his t-shirt jeans kind of guy style before during the eraserheads time. Heck, what the hell, as long as he sings nice okay na yon! Buddy, Marcus and Raimund are in their natural form, super galing parin tumugtog eventhough it's been years since they perform together.
I've post some of the pictures I've taken during the concert. It's a little bit blurred or too far away (we're in the patron kasi and in front of us is VIP and SVIP section pa) but nevertheless maganda parin ang kuha =D.
I'm very happy that they choose ALAPAAP as their intro song, it's one of my favorite eheads song kasi hehehe, especially the chorus portion "masdan mo aking mata, di moba nakikita,..", ang galing at nakakatuwa! It brings back my high school memories, we used to dance with this song during our presentation (thanks to jennifer calingo who always insist to use eheads song as our song in our presentations) and since i constantlly hear this song i fell in love with it na eventually.
Hayyyy i was teary eyed when i sang this song during the concert, naaalala ko lang my kabataan days in the company of good friends (magreminisce ba! lol!). But still i have really good memories with this song. Ilabet bigtime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ligaya was the second song they perform, whenever i hear this i remember Chippy. LOL. But still ganda parin kantahin and the song meaning is da best.
Sembreak was nicely performed, when Eheads was singing this song snapshots of UP diliman wa shown on the giant screen, its like paying tribute to the great University by producing the best Pinoy Band ever =D.
Im not sure what song it was (Toyang or Hey Jay) when they shown on the screen the different pinoy komiks character naman. Ang galing talaga! Anyway Eheads is considered part of the pinoy pop culture kasama nila Pupung, Aksyong Aksaya, Wakasan komiks atbp.
Well, the rest of the song was ok naman but i was still expecting Ang Huling El Bimbo na obviously was not played due to what happened to Ely. Oh well all well that ends well naman. Dapat talaga may part 2 ito para masatisfy ang Eraserheads fever ng mga Eheads fan.
Para sa Eraserheads, you rocked dudes!!