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Hiking with friends from Tripda, May 2015

I organized my first show this weekend! SEISMOS: a post-rock and math-rock gig.

The backstory to this is I’d just started discovering local post-rock and math-rock acts after a year of living in Manila. I’d also joined a Facebook group called “Post-rock/Math-rock PH” with hundreds of members. I posted there suggesting someone should organize a post-rock/math-rock themed gig that features local acts from the genre, who don’t normally get the spotlight. Things snowballed from there – a group chat of volunteers was formed, a logo and poster was made, a venue was booked.

And this Saturday, the gig finally happened. We honestly weren’t expecting much, since we’d organized this on a shoestring budget with no promotion apart from posting on the facebook group – but to our surprise a ton of people showed up and the venue got completely packed!

I wish I’d taken pictures…