A rare pollenated weekend

Anything that is rare must be special.

Sheila and the Insects regrouped early last year under a condition that our commitment must give more priority to family, dayjob, and other businesses that help pay the bills.  We still wanted to write and play music.  But we are also grounded by reality.

And so Sheila and the Insects rarely do gigs these days.  But when we do, we aim to make it special.

Last Saturday in Saguijo was one of those.  It turned out to be a splendid pollinating moment for us and I hope it felt the same for the fans.

Photo by Laurice Alaan

Special thanks to Hillary Isaac and JAM 88.3 for the perky morning talk, Philippine Daily Inquirer for the huge print feature (we didn't expect this and strangely made us worked harder for the show), to Marty Floro for posting her video footage of 'Maude' and 'Quick To Panic'.


Video by Marty Floro

Thanks to Paranoid City - great electronic-rock stuff you got mga bai.  Thanks to the wonderful and warm people of Lilystars Records - Denise, Val, and of course Tonet, especially to The Camerawalls.  Thanks bai Clem for the time and commitment.  Of course, BIG BIG BIG BIG thanks to Ms. Kate Torralba for making our visit in Manila fun-filled.  Never had a dull moment when she's around.

To those who went there, I hope you enjoyed the pollination as much as we did.  Thank you very much for staying with us.

Video by Marty Floro

Softly Is Out In Kami nAPO Muna

This has been blogged at one time. The frustration was another thing but then again maybe promises are not really made to be broken. I admit that I had been waiting for this to happen.

At 10:49am on Oct. 27, 2008, my mobile phone received an SMS from my good friend Tonet saying (verbatim) - "Ung softly na version ng sati nakarelease na pala. They have ung the best of kami napo muna."

So immediately I forwarded the message to Bisoy, SATI's vocalist and in the afternoon of that same day, I rushed to the record store to check if the racks have it.

They don't.

Jerros (Jai), SATI's drummer mentioned a few weeks back (actually a week after the SATI tribute gig), that Universal Records will release the single this December. Why December? I didn't ask. Jai added that the label is supposed to send us a complimentary copy of The Best Of Kami nAPO Muna 2CD + DVD.

I'm still waiting for that. That would definitely be a perfect Christmas present.

Then yesterday Nov. 5, 2008 at around5:36pm, I got this text from an anonymous number. How it was said, I can almost tell that it's from a good lad named Michael Cubillas, a SATI fan/friend (he's using another number I suppose). He wrote (verbatim):

Sir, nigawas na diay katong dvd sa apo tribute. Naa didto ung cover nyo ng softly. Congrats.

Googling in the net I found the stores selling the stuff. It's in Kabayan Central and Divisoria. I hope the label can dump in a few copies in the brick-and-mortar provincial stores as well (if at all urbanized Cebu is still considered as one).

At least if I don't get the compli, I could opt to treat myself in buying my own copy.