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Sugarfree's Farewell Concert @ Eastwood, 03.01.2011

The Sugarfree Farewell Tour

Sugarfree bids FAREWELL this February

Message from the band:

     After a lot of contemplation, we have decided that it's time to say farewell to all of you. Sugarfree will always be grateful for the twelve years of love and support we received from you. Hinding hindi namin ito masusuklian. We'd like to invite all of you to our farewell tour this February. We'd love to see you to properly bid you goodbye.

     This may be farewell, but the memories, the music will live on.Mula sa Sugarfree, ang aming taus-pusong pasasalamat.

     Paalam Pilipinas!

01 (tue) - 70'S BISTRO - with ITCHYWORMS
10 (thu) - SAGUIJO - with PERYODIKO
12 (sat) - CHECKPOINT
15 (tue) - ROUTE 196 - with CIUDAD
24 (thu) - 19 EAST - with SANDWICH.

The end of Toto

It's not like I didn't expect this; the end - and change - was inevitable. It's just sad to see it in black and white. I may have loved them too late, but I do love this band to pieces.

Steve Lukather: "I would like to make a formal announcement as I have been barraged by e-mails and speculations on various websites.

The fact is yes I have left Toto. There is no more Toto.

Read the rest of Luke's blog entry at stevelukather.net.

Remembering Toto, Live in Manila (April 2008):

Tuloy ang ligaya

Oh no, wait, that's another band...Ehehehe...

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Hmmm...I guess mahal ko nga talaga OnL despite everything else, heehee. Because this statement (see below) makes me happy.

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Subject: An Official Statement/US Tour
Posted by: "thegardenfellow" clementine@orangeandlemons.ph
Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:37 pm (PST)

Dear Friends,

The recent ballyhooed misunderstanding between me and my band mates including No Seat Affair and Universal Records has yet to reach a conclusion.

I'm sorry if it took me a while to post anything official since I am still trying to assess the situation and settle our differences. Time is a very important element. I assure you that this is not a publicity
gimmick.

However, our scheduled performances in the United States will push through and I will be joining the band on stage once more which I hope will delight many of our fans in the West Coast.

Here are the tour schedules:

July 29 - East County Performing Arts, San Diego
August 4 - The Grove, Aneheim, Los Angeles
August 10 - Solitas Restaurant, San Francisco
August 11 - Plaza Hotel Ballroom, Las Vegas

We will be performing alongside MYMP.

Our album Moonlane Gardens is still available and I hope, despite of the dust-up, you and your friends/family will not deprive yourselves of that unique listening experience and pleasure one can only get from Orange & Lemons. After all we are only but human and we do make mistakes as well. Mistakes that are sometimes huge and there is nothing left to do but accept, pick ourselves up, learn from it and be a better person.

To end this I would like to share a few lines i wrote and read in the recording of our song "Tomorrow" from the album Strike Whilst The Iron Is Hot:

"Look into the eyes of the Present
And anticipate the jollities and challenge tomorrow could bring.
The Past is unimportant
There will be time to recall
The enigmatic and beautiful process called Life
When you realize everything indeed do happen for a reason."

Much love and fervor,

Clementine
Orange & Lemons

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Here's a related article from Philmusic.com: *Click*

Clem out of OnL???

Why? Why? Why?

Will the gods of music enlighten us please?

But for whatever reason this sh!t came from, I just hope it all ends well (if that's still possible). It's really sad to see friendships go that way.

O kaya, sana, hindi nalang ito totoo at tinetesting lang tayong mga tagahanga ng OnL. Hehehe.

Here's the segment from TV Patrol:


Here's an article from GMANews.TV:
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/48743/PEP-Orange-and-Lemons-bound-to-disband

Falling, breaking into pieces

Quite a lot of folks know how much I love the band called Twisted Halo. And, as they say, some good things never last.

It's official.

Vin's message on the Twisted Halo Yahoogroup:

ey folks =) musta na kayo? hope all's well.

it's Twisted Halo's 7th year. i started with an idea and a couple of songs. jal and ichot joined me. nag-jam kami "Hiram". yun na yun. sumama si jason at joey. umalis si ichot..pumasok si monmon...tapos umalis si al..pumasok si buddy..umalis si monmon..pumasok si abe..umalis si buddy..pumasok si nix..gulo no hahahaha pero sarap kasi daming nagawang mga kanta.

dami na rin nangyari. one EP, one full length album, Admit One is now on its 5th year, VIVA (hahaha), davao, cagayan de oro, baguio, cebu, olongapo, batangas, lotsa great gigs (EDSA Dos!!! at marami pang iba!) and fond memories, having played with bands we've admired and respected. at sobra astig na nakilala ko ang ilan sa inyo dito sa list - kayo na nagtyaga at nagmahal sa tugtugan at sa banda. astig kayo sobra. kung maaari ko lang kayong akapin lahat ng isa-isa para pakita ang pasasalamat ko eh gagawin ko...kaso hirap ata gawin yun
hahahaha

been thinking bout how i'm gonna say this to you guys for the past couple of nights...but yeah there's no way around it. simplehan ko na lang haha

magpapaalam na po ako sa Twisted Halo. nag-usap na kami a couple of weeks ago. and my bandmates understood (i hope haha) and know why i had to leave. ayun. whether or not tutuloy and Twisted Halo is all up to jason joey nix and abe. ayun.

salamat sa inyong lahat. mahal na mahal ko kayo! salamat sa lahat ng sumuporta sa Halo. kakatuwa kasi i've met a number of really wonderful people because of the band. =)

here are our last few gigs sana makadating kayo!

May 17: gweilo's eastwood
May 19: Jam 88.3 anniv (baka sa UP Bahay ng Alumni abang kayo details)
May 20: Admit One @ saGuijo
May 22: Mayrics
May 25: Public Service Announcement video launch @ Big Sky Mind

yup Public Service Announcement will be our last single and video. sana suportahan nyo. party tayo sa 25th kasi last na yun hahaha tas magre-restock kami ng Bolo Brigade albums sa Tower and M1 soon. ayuz.

pislabenkenrol,
vin

p.s. hindi ako titigil magsulat at gumawa ng musika. ayuz.

p.p.s. was informed by MYX last night that they will hold the first MYX Music Awards sometime in June and Twisted Halo has been nominated as best indie artist..hmm..pano kaya yun hahahah ayuz

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For those of you who've never catched Twisted Halo live, scroll up for the dates to catch them one last time (with Vin).

As for me, I've got some sort of tribute to this awesome band.