First Leg of the Siege Tour!!!In the History books!

Home sweet home again,just got back from the first leg of the siege tour which took us from Naga to Laguna in four days!And what an awesome four days it was!Thank you to Conrad of Boy Elroy for playing bass for us this whole leg,you the man bro!Thank you to Los and Diego of OBS,Tim of AMS and everyone else who helped us in our set in Laguna when Betong lost his voice! Thank you to all those people who came to the shows and partied with us through the night,now you can call yourselves true siege survivors!But that's just the tip of the ice berg,there's still many miles to go for us and that's coming up this week!So get ready Baguio,Dagupan,Olongapo and Bulacan because we're gonna drop the Siege on you soon!!!
PEACE!

-Darwin

Here it Comes!

The 2008 Siege Tour is ever so closer now!In a day's time actually!Im blogging about it now because my bandmates and I will be going early to Manila tomorrow to do some last minute jamming with our session bassist, Conrad who sings for Boy Elroy and plays bass for Plane Divides the Sky both of which will also play on the tour.We just hope we cover everything we need to deliver great sets for the tour.Then we'll (try to) get a good night's sleep and in the morning we'll be on our way to the first stop of the tour (Quezon Province I think) and hopefully we'll have a great start. Pray for us guys!Pray that the tour goes smoothly and that it will be one of the greatest tours EVAAH!!!

-darwin

New Breed of Crapheads!

So, after going thru hell from losing my cellphone to a pickpocket you'd think I could move on and hope for better things. Well, I did move on a little bit. I decided to use my old Globe sim for a while and everything went well until I found out some Sh*thead found a way to steal my load! And he (or maybe even she) even had the nerve to text me and insult me and even sent crap messages to my girlfriend! So I trashed that sim and bought a new and authentic one from the Globe shop and I found out that I wasn't the only victim of these load thieves! Turns out Globe has a hole in their system and they still don't know how to prevent these hackers from stealing our cellphone loads. Well Im using the new Globe sim now but im being careful on how im loading it up. You gotta be careful with where you get your prepaid loads. The safest way would be to just buy prepaid cards instead of getting autoloads at some corner store or street stall. But it's still not an assurance. I guess to survive something like this you just have to have a backup sim ready preferably from another network. Well hope you all learned something from this informative entry of mine. Believe me, it's based on experience!Be safe!

-Darwin

Chaos!

What an unforgettable weekend, especially for me. We played the Red horse Rakrakan gig last saturday at Kublai's in Katipunan. The place was packed!So many kids were in the mosh pit that it got so friggin hot that you'd lose a couple of pounds from sweating while trying to get to the restrooms. Unfortunately I lost more than that on the way to pee. Amidst the freakingly crowded floor were vultures of thieves. On the way to the restroom someone stole my beloved cellphone! What hassle! What an asshole whoever that was who took it! And how stupid of me to be so careless! Well I can at least be sure on one thing, mamamatay din yung kumuha!!!...someday hehe. Well my phone wasn't really that flashy,what made it priceless was that it was a birthday gift from my girlfriend. And it just feels terrible to lose something so imporant to me, well like I said MAMAMATAY din yun! At least we still played an awesome set, the kids were awesome too.Singing and moshing to our songs. Sorry to that one kid who wanted my pick, I would've given it to you if you didn't try to steal it from my hand while I was still playing! Have some respect bro! But despite all that happened, I'd still play an event like that. It was still an awesome night! Thanks to our friends who cheered me up that night! You still Rock! And to all who read this blog, you rock the most! Thank you! See you on the SIEGE TOUR!!!

-Darwin

Happy days ahead!

This is so cool! Check out our gig sched for the next couple months!

11 Oct 2008 imbuenokudos @ Kublai’s Bar (rakrakan series)
23 Oct 2008 imbuenokudos @ quezon province (SIEGE TOUR 08)
24 Oct 2008 imbuenokudos @ naga city gym (SIEGE TOUR 08)
25 Oct 2008 imbuenokudos @ la corona,lipa batangas (SIEGE TOUR 08)
26 Oct 2008 imbuenokudos @ venue bar,calamba laguna (SIEGE TOUR 08)
30 Oct 2008 imbuenokudos @ baguio (SIEGE TOUR 08)
31 Oct 2008 imbuenokudos @ dagupan astrodome (SIEGE TOUR 08)
1 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ lincoln masonic temple (SIEGE TOUR 08)
2 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ power plant bar, malolos bulacan(SIEGE TOUR 08)
8 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ kaguluhan festival, cavite
12 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ SIEGE TOUR 2008 cebu
13 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ SIEGE TOUR 2008 dumaguete
14 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ SIEGE TOUR 2008 bacolod
15 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ metal mania rock bar,ilo ilo
21 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ manila homecoming show (SIEGE TOUR 08)
22 Nov 2008 imbuenokudos @ Olongapo (venue TBA)

see you there!!!

-darwin

Homecoming!

Hot damn!After almost a year INK got the chance to play in our hometown of Olongapo again! And what an awesome night it was. We were just overwhelmed by the support given to us from our hometown friends. The house was packed and when we took the stage the floor was all faces just happy to see us. It was just a very heart-warming experience. It was a night for all Olongapeños to be proud of. We have come a long way and we're taking Olongapo with us!KAMPAI!

-Darwin

Birthday SUPPLIES!!!=P

What a weekend it was, had a couple gigs that pretty much went well even though we had a session drummer again. We had the honor of having Donnie of Concrete Sam play drums for us and what a drummer he is. Surprisingly he already knew our songs pretty well so when we practiced we really just ran through the songs a few times then we just jammed around after. Then we went to a friend's place for a bon voyage party for a close friend of ours.Mama Shi take care in Singapore ok!Keep in touch!Send us clothes hahaha!

Ok, so after getting stuffed with chicken rosemary and baked mac we headed to the first gig, It started pretty good until some kids began fighting outside the bar and almost half of the people inside went out to watch while we were playing, talk about an action-packed night! After that we left for the next gig which was at our good friend, Ms. Mona "Arcee" Muñoz' new bar. Which turned out to be a surprise birthday gig for our vocalist, Betong, who celebrated his birthday a couple days before. But unknown to the people there it was actually my birthday that night and it became a party for both of us and everyone else who had september birthdays.So we had cake that night and a lot of fun!

Then the next day I spent the whole day with my girlfriend and she gave me an awesome gift!She knew I needed a new phone so that's just what I got!How I love her for her thoughtfullness =) Well all in all it was a great weekend. Things are looking up!See you this Thursday at Saguijo!Cheers!

-darwin