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'Eraserheads: Electric Fun Music Festival' is going to be an eight-to-ten-hour concert
Sulit na sulit!
These are words might best describe the much-awaited 'Eraserheads: Electric Fun Music Festival,' as it promises to be a mini-Woodstock concert of sorts.
In a message to GMA News Online, Joanna Mejia, one of the show's communications officers, said, 'for the total hours, including time for the audience to come in, it adds up to 10 hours, but we're hoping to keep the actual show to eight hours, from 3 PM to 11 PM.'
'I can't really answer all the technical questions, I'm as clueless as you are. I will just turn up at rehearsals and the actual show,' vocalist-guitarist and main composer Ely Buendia told GMA News Online in an online message.
Mejia, however, said the details are being finalized and they will be revealed soon.
But given the 12 guest artists, and the Eraserheads having a full two-hour set as recently announced — with a teaser to perform live their unreleased song 'Get This Love Thing Down" — fans are assured of a long, memorable experience at SMDC Festival Grounds on October 18.
It can be remembered it is the same venue when the band had its reunion concert on December 22, 2022, after nearly a decade of not performing together.
The guest artists for 'Eraserheads: Electric Fun Music Festival' are Itchyworms, Moonstar88, Basti Artadi, Imago, Dong Abay Music Organization, General Luna, Blaster, Party Pace, Carousel Casualties, Pinkmen, ALYSON and Sa Vie. If the Eraserheads will have a full two-hour set, in our rough estimate, for the six hours allotted each guest artist could be given a 30-minute to 45-minute slot to perform.
On 'Get This Love Thing Down,' Buendia told GMA News Online he and drummer Raimund
Marasigan collaborated on the music and lyrics. He didn't expound on its creation, giving more mystery to the song.
There's a You Tube video of a raw footage of the band performing it on April 15, 2000 in a bar in Parañaque City. It can be remembered it was the same year when they were recording what would become their last studio album, 'Carbon Stereoxide,' released March, 2001. However, 'Get This Love Thing Down' wasn't included. One comment said the band has been performing it as early as their college years in UP Diliman. Then again, it wasn't included in their self-produced 'Pop U!,' or what was considered their first album, recorded and mixed with their first manager-producer and professor Robin Rivera at a studio, in Faculty Center, UP Diliman, sometime in March, 1991.
Judging from the uploaded versions, 'Get This Love Thing Down' has a grungy, guitar-driven sound. For sure, the new version performed live will be wort the wait.
In an earlier statement, Buendia said, 'I'm excited for our new and longtime fans to hear what we came up with. We've each grown to different phases and explored different sounds, but this song reflects where we are now—emotionally, musically, and spiritually.'
And excerpt of the song served as a teaser at the end of 'Eraserheads: Combo On The Run,' the documentary directed by Maria Diane Ventura that was shown in around 200 cinemas all over the country early this year. In it, the band is seen rehearsing the first few lines of the song.
When the documentary was shown at the San Diego Comic-Con or SDCC in San Diego, California, in July this year, it earned the honor of being 'first Filipino film and the first music documentary' screened in the esteemed multi-genre entertainment event.
It can be remembered the band last released new songs in 2014 with 'Sabado' and '1995,' which were reportedly co-written with editor-writer-music scorer-filmmaker-producer Erwin Romulo.
The two songs were launched in a two-track CD and distributed as insert for the travel issue of Esquire magazine, in which Romulo was editor in chief, in September the same year. The band has been performing these two songs in their concerts abroad. We remember they performed 'Sabado' at 'Huling El Bimbo' concert in 2022.
Produced by WEU Events Management Services and DVent Productions, 'Eraserheads: Electric Fun Music Festival' is presented by PalawanPay, with Solaire Resort Entertainment City as the Official Residence and SM Tickets as the official ticketing partner.
For SVIP, priced at P12,500, and VIP (P10,500) ticket holders, they will be treated with exclusive
soundcheck experience access. Other ticket prices are P8,500 for platinum ticket; P6,500 for
gold; P3,500 for silver and P1,500 for bronze section. — LA, GMA Integrated News
