Well the visayas leg of the Tower of Doom Siege Tour has officially been concluded, and let me tell you, it has got to be one of the greatest rock tours ever in Philippine History!Ok maybe at least for all of us who were in it...This leg of the tour brought many first for a lot of us.From first plane rides to first swedish massages or just coming to the places we went to for the first time.But let me start from the beginning.
We all met up at the airport at 4am last wednesday. And after a lot of hi's and hi-fives we went to check in for our flight which actually took longer than expected because we were all just goofing around the ticketing area taking pictures and joking about how the airline staff would react to seeing such a diverse crowd of passengers.imagine the horror of two nuns getting their tickets and then seeing big guys with long hair,beards,tattoos and dressed in metal shirts like slayer,kreator and cradle of filth and thinking they would have to share the plane with them.well unfortunately they were on a different flight. So after all the necessary procedures we finally got on the plane. I guess the two flight attendants didn't expect anything like us on the flight because we got so rawdy that the other passengers started to complain,too bad we outnumbered them so we just got our way.It was the first plane ride for some of the guys so a lot of pictures were taken even during take off when it was supposedly not allowed to have electronic equipment on but like I said,we outnumbered them.Oh,and we had bouncers!(Even Rex,the bouncer who looked like he-man couldve beaten everyone on the plane up on his own!)
And so after a quick but memorable flight we arrived in mactan airport where our surprisingly small bus picked us up.After cramming everyone and everything on the bus (there was about 38 or more of us and our gear double that) we went off to our hotel where we just unpacked and rested a little then we went out to see what was there to see. Earl,Bets,Jem and I went to Tabo-an where they sold Cebuano dried goods to buy pasalubong for our families.Then after a lot of dried mangoes and otap we went to get some grub. We spotted some people eating on the sidewalk near our hotel so we checked it out. It was basically just a man with a couple tupperware containers which contained some puso(rice wrapped in banana leaf) and some fried breaded varieties of meat. We tried it out and it was a great idea,we quenched our hunger for under P30!Believe me we ate a lot!
So after a taste of the local food we went back to the hotel to rest up for the gig.And around 8pm we went to the venue which was NUVO bar.By the time the first front act took the stage the place was packed!I got to chat with one of the locals and she told me that it was actually always like this when there was a rock show which made it extra cool!We kinda had nothing to worry about.So there we were waiting for our set to come,the bands that came before us gave kickass performances!The kids were slammin the mosh pit and just made us more excited to play.And then we were up.We set up our gear, did our intro/soundcheck and prepared to play our first song,"the test",everyone in the bar focused on us.Then Jem counted down on the hi-hats,1-2-3-4 and then...DISASTER!!!!I friggin played the wrong part!And I did a whole friggin bar too!then I noticed the guys lookin at me like they smelled shit.That was when I realized I messed up!I just froze!then I finally caught up to what they were playing!It was probably the worst thing that couldve happened that night.Something I didn't even expect.I didn't know what I was thinking,I felt like a total moron!So after that we basically just tried to wrap up our set as fast and as unhumiliating as we can but I guess God wanted to punish me more,again I fudged up on our last song,it was our staple song too!"Thea"!And at the beginning again!This time I wasn't playing in sync with the tempo of the drums.I stank up that set and single-handedly ruined our first ever gig in Cebu!I guess we can kiss any chance of us getting invited there again goodbye.But hey,we move on.And moved on we did.And thats gonna come up on my next entry.until then,CHEERS!
-Darwin
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