themesongs mixing session no.1

last night wednesday began one of the first mixing sessions for the upcoming Ang Bandang Shirley album entitled "themesongs". present that night was mister love one another himself, joey santos as master engineer. 2 shirleys graced last night's mixing session -- heidi and yours truly. heidi was also with her friend and jv, who's a food designer. finally i was able to confirm that what they used for ice cream photo shoots was mashed potatoes, among other materials of choice.

last night's session was quite productive. we tweaked 3 songs namely, "patintero/habulan/larong kalye", "di ko matake", and "christmas lights". fixed levels, added some effects and compression to the said songs. turned out quite well. joey burned me a copy so i could test it on different players.

after mixing, the four of us went to mom and tina's because heidi and jv hadn't had dinner yet. i was able to grab a good burger (herb delite) before mixing began. heidi ordered (upon my suggestion) paella (which she found superb), while her friend jv had the rib-eye steak. i just had a brazo de mercedes for dessert, while joey just had a coke as he had eaten dinner as well, and he had a client at the studio who was going to record a campaign jingle for the upcoming barangay elections.

next mixing session's this saturday night.

love,

=jing=

CLICK FIVE

I saw the Click Five today at the alabang town center. It was a blast, singing along to the old songs like "Good Day" and "Catch Your Wave" with the rest of the pre-pubescent fans. there were funny moments, like when the vocalist was introducing the next song by saying: "this next song is about falling out of love.. it's called empty." (HAHAHA) or when he screams: "suh-lah-maht!" (crowd goes wild, HAHAHA) and really really cool moments like when the whole building was singing along to the choruses of the really good songs. No surprises, i'm coming clean. I'm a fan of the Click Five. I'm not the biggest fan in the world, i don't have real copies of their albums (i have mp3s though, i like the first album better!) and i didn't know the names of the members or anything (me and my sister called them click 1, click 2, click 3..). But at the gig today i was dancing and it wasn't ironic dancing, like how you dance when you're mocking somebody or like you're pretending to enjoy some music. I was enjoying the music. Derivative pop, yes. But very very good derivative pop. Lots of Ric Ocasek and Rivers Cuomo, bits of Lou Reed and Mike Love. Power pop!

Some songs really sucked, but their bread and butter material was very bread and butter. I know i probably won't get to watch the fountains of wayne anytime soon (maybe ever, but i hope not) so watching the Click Five and pretending that Click 1 was Chris Collingwood ranks a far second haha. I love the Click Five. haha.


I SUPER LOVE THEIR SETUP. I CAN'T GET OVER THAT I WAS ABLE TO WATCH THEM.

I remember thinking during their set that i would've paid to see them. I remember passing up Incubus, and Fall Out Boy haha. I remember regretting being too young when Sonic Youth were in town. And I remember thinking how in an alternate universe Ang Bandang Shirley probably sounds a lot more like the Click Five haha.

I'm really happy i saw the Click Five. And i'm glad that there are really really really good bands like the Click Five that are "mainstream" hahahaha, and that there are kids who are getting exposed to stuff that isn't so crappy haha.

yehey.

-owel

MISC SHIRLEY PICS

ang bandang shirley pictures through the years! awww memories! i love you guys! dagdagan nyo pa ng pics!

-owel

soundcheck

last night at cafe saguijo ang bandang shirley performed for ninja kiss productions! thanks for the invite guys.

we were on first, so we got to soundcheck for a bit and before we knew it we were playing a new song, something i wrote a while back but we didn't record it for the (long-awaited) album because it was something we hadn't gigged yet and it was new and we haven't practiced it much but it sounded really really really nice last night i wish all of you could have heard it! i want the album to come out and for the old songs to get retired so we can write new songs that we haven't played before!

last week we did the death cab for cutie night and i thought it was going to be fun but i didn't know it was going to be that fun, it was a monster sing-along-slash-cryfest haha thanks to all the bands that played, and to everybody who came! we'll have a part two soon!

-owel

shirley documentary and a rare occurrence that ean is the one intoxicated.avi

and so today i have decided to start the arduous and energy-zapping task of finding good performance footages and funny insightful upsounds from the 20 plus mini-dv tapes i have compiled from the time i bought versus the video camera (5 months ago) to come up with the ang bandang shirley witty documentary i promised the band i will make. i don't know where to start. haha. and i'm not even halfway re-watching and digitizing the tapes pero eto teaser haha:

one night on our way to las pinas for a gig. starring me, joe, zig, owel, jing and a very rare occurrence that ean is the one who is intoxicated. inside the jing mobile. enjoy!

love,
kathy