Philippines Stand Up. A total of 10 bouts are slated on the undercard of this Sunday’s “Battle of East and West” boxing mega-event featuring Hatton vs Pacquiao, a boxing website reported today.

British star Ricky Hatton said his upcoming bout with Manny Pacquiao is the biggest fight of his career.  Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton is even more massive than his tussle with two former pound-for-pound greats he said.

It has all been planned out by a trainers who understands the time for planning is gone. Now it is time for execution for Pacquiao vs Hatton, and that part is not up to him.

At the MTV-Philippines press conference January 19, held at Italianni's restaurant on Bonifacio High Street, Taguig City, the band announced that the big event will be held at the SM Mall of Asia concert grounds in Pasay City on March 7.
Tentatively titled "The Final Set," the concert will once again feature Ely Buendia, Marcus Adoro, Buddy Zabala, and Raimund Marasigan on one stage.

The band's first reunion concert last August 30, 2008 at the Bonifacio Global City open field in Taguig ended abruptly after 15 songs when lead singer Buendia suffered chest pains and had to be rushed to the hospital. The band was supposed to perform 30 of their original songs, which comprise the bulk of their entire catalog.

All four members graced the press conference and though the band retained that trademark nonchalance in answering questions, they collectively expressed excitement about playing together anew as one unit in front of a large audience.
"Playing with these guys is just like riding a bike," enthused Buddy. "You come on stage, remember all the old songs. It's pretty normal. But it became more exciting, a lot more exciting, when people started counting down and people started singing."

The one-night affair will feature only the Eraserheads Band with Jazz Nicholas of the Itchyworms serving as auxiliary musician to complement the arrangement of some of the songs. When they were still active as a group, the Eraserheads used to enlist the services of multi-instrumentalist Noel Garcia to tighten their live set. Unfortunately, Noel passed away a few years ago after a heart attack.

Raimund dismissed the impression that the upcoming event will only serve as a continuation of the first reunion. He argued that the band and the production team prepared something new and different from last year's concert.
The fact that preparations are being laid out this early also means that the concert is more organized. MTV announced that further details will be made public in the coming weeks.

As for Ely's health, the enigmatic singer-songwriter assured the press that he's doing fine."I'm just doing all that I can to prepare myself physically, at least," said Ely, who just like his former comrades came to the presscon sporting a pair of dark shades. He confidently added, "So far, yeah, I'm in good condition to play

Popular Pinoy pop-rock group The Eraserheads Bands will reunite for their second and last concert set on March 7, a television report.
QTV’s “News on Q” said Diane Ventura, manager of vocalist Ely Buendia, confirmed this after Buendia was given a clean bill of health by his doctors.
The concert will be called “The Final Set,” but the venue has yet to be finalized.
“To the fans, I know I’m speaking for the whole band when I say that they’re looking forward to seeing you on March 7. See you there,” Ventura said in a phone interview aired on “News on Q.”
Ventura said the concert would be held to give Eraserheads fans closure.
The band’s reunion concert last August 30 was cut short when Buendia was rushed to the hospital after suffering chest pains in the middle of their performance. He later underwent angioplasty.
Ventura assured that Buendia, who is also her lifelong partner, is physically prepared for the upcoming concert after his doctors gave him the go signal.

The opening ceremony Dekada Cinemanila last Oct. 16, was the beginning of film, the goal of the world's best film. In his speech that evening of the festival Cinemanila Director "Tikoy" Aguiluz VI,told the public on the theme of this year.

"Filipino filmmakers are now able to tell unique Filipino stories.Ang aming theme sa taong ito."Isigaw ang kuwento ng Pilipino sa mundo". Raise your voices tell our stories. Filipinos are spoken in Pusan [South Korea] and Berlin [Germany].

"Hindi kami nagsisisi,not once did we regret on the crazy idea of organizing of an international film festival without the support of Imelda Marcos. Our goal is to promote the Philippine cinema and I believe that we been able to achieve that goal. Nagpapasalamat kami sa inyo dahil kung walang audience sa mga pelikulang ito ng mga independent films, Hindi kami tatagal ng ten years. "

Another innovation this year is the introduction of the Cine-barangay, an experiment that the organizers Cinemanila will be doing - making films more accessible to the public.

Director Tikoy explains: "We are currently working with the mayor of Marikina [Fernando Maridi] to dalhin ang mga pelikula sa barangay. Susubukan natin ang mga independent films kung kayang tanggapin ng masa".

One of the guest that evening was Ely Buendia, a former vocalist of the band Eraserhead. In the unfinished August 30 concert by the Pinoy rock band, Ely suffered chest pain had to be urgently hospitalized. PEP (entertainment portal of the Philippines) had a chance to speak to Ely for the brief period of the program of Cinemanila.

"I'm here for the Cinemanila and the local indie film scene in general," said the rock icon said he recalled the Cinemanila of last year.

Earlier this year,Ely's eight short-minute film entitled Spoonfeed. How he was part of the project?

"Yes, Parang favor lang yun lang Kay Saab Magalona [Francis Magalona's daughter]in her workshop. I've never played before, but the material was good," said Ely, is now the frontman of Pupil.

On the question whether the staging of another concert for the Eraserhead fans, he briefly replied: "We're still waiting for the right people to organize."


The host of the night was Ana Capri and Kenneth Moraleda, a Fil-Am actor who played Cambodian refugee in the film Lucky Miles.

Eraserheads performing "Huwag Mo Nang Itanong" during their reunion concert on 30 August 2008 at The Fort, Taguig City

Eraserheads performing "Kama Sutra at their reunion concert on 30 August 2008 at The Fort, Taguig City

Eraserheads performing "Toyang" during their reunion concert on 30 August 2008 at the Fort, Taguig City

Eraserheads performing "Harana" during their 30 August 2008 reunion concert at the fort.

This is a short news piece done by "The Beat", a local music-feature program on QTV channel 11, on the Eraserheads 2008 Reunion Concert.

And the final installment of my pre/post Eraserheads reunion documentation: the Eraserheads and Dancel brothers doing Minsan. Back to original programming for me, then. Thanks to everyone who've said kind things about these posts, and I'll see you at take 2 of the reunion :)

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