Drip has become one of my favorite local acts in Manila because of their distinct electronica sound and the soothing voice of Beng. It’s exciting to know that the band will be launching 3 music videos for their songs “Turning Grey”, “Blind” and “Bloodletting”. All of these 3 videos took 2 years in the making so I am quite excited to finally see those songs as music videos. Another good news is that they will be performing some of their new songs from their Spanish album which they collaborated with Instituto Cervantes as a tribute to a Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez. The event is free so anybody can come and join us. By the way, this event is sponsored by Puma.

Please see details below:

Where: The Gallery, Greenbelt 5 (right across Cibo and beside Adora)
When: January 29, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Front act: Mark Zero
For more information about Drip, please visit these sites:

www.facebook.com/dripmanila or www.dripmanila.multiply.com

If you’re going to ask me, my favorite cover song would be “Ready to Go” by Taken By Cars which was originally sung by Republica.  I believe that the song really suits them because Sarah’s energy matches the fast beats of the song. Plus, I got the chance to see the their new bassist/singer Isa Garcia perform for the first time!

It was unexpected but Up Dharma Down covered a Hall and Oates song, “One on One”. Armi Millare gave the song a different perspective. Well, we know that Hall and Oates are males and when Armi sang the lyrics “One on One, I wanna play that game tonight”, it gave a bit of a kinky feeling.

On the other hand, Pupil decided to cover classic rock songs. They’re the last band to perform for the night and they covered 3 songs such as Queen’s “Under Pressure” and Alice Cooper’s “I Never Cry” and Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson”. I liked all the songs they covered. They punkified “Mrs. Robinson”,  I love it!

Drip performed “Dreams” of Fleetwood Mac and of course, they mixed it with their own electronic rendition. Beng’s voice is really breathtaking. I can’t help but stare at her with awe while listening to her.

The Camerawalls is a Brit rock sounding band and I was already assuming that they’ll be performing a song sounding Brit rock. They performed “That’s Entertainment”, a classic song originally performed by Paul Weller. I believe that they include this song during their usual bar gigs.

Imago performed their Filipino songs which they have already covered in their past albums such as “Bakit Ba Ganyan” and “Spoliarium”. I also like Sleepwalk Circus’ version of “Woman in Chains” by Tears for Fears. Armi Millare sang with them.

P. S. Thanks to Teresa Liwanag of Puma for the invitation!

Several bands will be uncovering differnt rock archives on September 18 (Friday, 9 pm)  at the Mag:Net High Street. The line up is really cool. Bands that will be performing are Pupil, Imago, Up Dharma Down, Drip, Taken by Cars, Camerawalls and Sleepwalk Circus. Hear them perform their own versions of songs from the past. See you all there!

Event brought to you by Puma.