The Red Horse Muziklaban has been widely known to be a battle of different rock bands from all over the Phillippines. Now after a decade of focusing on rock bands, Red Horse has decided to expand its horizons by also catering to other lifestyles such as tattoo design, extreme sports and indie films. Interesting huh?

Aside from Joey “Pepe” Smith being the endorser of Red Horse beer (representing the Pinoy Rock lifestyle), he will be joined by RA Rivera (indie film), Armand Mariano (BMX Rider) and Ricky Sta. Ana (tattoo designer) in endorsing the different lifestyles that Muziklaban caters to its audience. The reason for adding other lifestyles in Muziklaban is to be able to let non-rockers to relate to the brand. The new ad for Muziklaban with the Pepe Smith, RA Rivera, Armand Mariano and Ricky Sta. Ana is already being aired in local television.

The kick-off party will start on May 15 simultaneously at Super 8 Parking Lot, Rosario, Pasig; Service Road, Balibago, Angeles; Robinsons Lipa, Batangas and Rizal Park in Dumaguete.

Rock band auditions will start on May as well. University organizations and band may contact Carla Diaz de Rivera (0917-962-1414 / 02-7181304) while amateur bands may get in touch with Rona Beano (0916-7095475 / 002-854-5578).

For the Tattoo Challenge, activities will be held on May 22 (White Beach, Puerta Galera), June 12 (Generator Bar, Panay Ave.) and on July 17 (Philippine Trading Center, Roxas Boulevard).

Meanwhile, Extreme Sports fanatics may take the challenge on May 30 (Starmall Parking, Las Pinas); SM San Fernando, Pampanga (July 25) and Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall Parking, Cainta (September 26).

For the Indie Film Challenge, see the Red Horse Beer team on July 31 (Mogwai, Cubao); August 14 (Saguijo, Makati); September 18 (Club Dredd, Eastwood, Libis); October 2 (6 Underground, Pearl Drive, Ortigas) and on October 23 (Mag:Net, Bonifacio High Street, Taguig).

Queso 

Saturday, November 29, was the big day for the finalists of the 10th Red Horse Muziklaban. The event was held at the Marikina Sports Complex and actually started at 2 pm until 5 am the next day. Me and other bloggers (Juned, Azrael, Jaydj and Karla) were there to grace the occassion and we had all access passes! Thanks to Juned of course . Karla and I were there at 6 pm but we weren’t inside the sports complex, we’re waiting for the other bloggers to come. While waiting, punks were all around the complex. Security was very tight as bouncers and policemen ( as in anti-riot team ) were around the vicinity. We were able to witness some rumbles while we were outside the sports complex and seeking for safe grounds away from them. Juned and Jaydj were waiting at Mcdo near the entrance so we immediately went there and went inside the sports complex with our passes. It felt more secured inside as people there were “behaved” compared to the people outside. Punks were chanting “Open gates! Open gates” but their plead weren’t granted. The entrance fee for general admission is Php 350, that comes with a free cup of beer while the VIP section is Php 3,000 which comes with food and beer. I’m not surprised the very few people bought the VIP tickets because it was way too expensive unlike the San Miguel Oktoberfest with Third Eye Blind performing (it was Php 1,500 then).

Slapshock

Greyhoundz

Radioactive Sago Project

Kjwan

While we were waiting outside we were able to hear some of the finalists perform. Too bad we weren’t able to take pictures and even see the finalist perform live. By the way, the Grand Champion was EVEN. ( Congratulations ) They have a lady vocalist and her voice is phenomenal, she can sound melodic and can growl too. Isn’t that cool? The bands I was able to catch were Kapatid, Fastpitch, Kjwan, Radioactive Sago Project, Queso, Slapshock, Greyhoundz and of course Sepultura!

Sepultura

The Karl Roy of Kapatid

This event was also the return of THE Karl Roy. I loved the AVP that was shown before Kapatid performed. It was morbid but it was awesome! As we all know, he had a ‘heart’ problem (no, not heartbroken) so he had to stop performing for awhile. Welcome back Karl!

It was a tiring night but it was definitely fun.