Hastang of Yesteryears

In two days time, Hastang will be playing live for the first time …

Yep, we’re booked for the Plugged-In Party on April 1 at Handuraw (that little shop beside Kahayag Café that vends yummy home-made pizza). Actually, we were originally slated to play on April 2nd (Plugged-In Party is a two-day event), but Zarah Smith (the gig’s organizer and a feisty musician in her own right) informed us about two weeks ago that we’re playing on the first night.

I, for one, am very excited to play this Friday night. For weeks, we had been so preoccupied with polishing our original material, and this gig is a welcome reprieve from the immense pressure and the endless hours of brainstorming.

However, this interval doesn’t mean that we can goof around and delay our songwriting efforts. It’s just that, sometimes, when you’re in the process of molding something, you need to take a breather to make sure that you’re on the right track. And for my part at least, I think this upcoming gig would boost up our energies, not to mention give us more confidence, for future songwriting (or otherwise) sessions.

Suffice it to say that we want to play a sonically tight set for this gig. As of this writing, we are including the songs “When Misery Speaks”, “Ghost Of My Waking”, “Virgin’s Orgasm”, and “Plot” in the set list. Unanimously, we have decided that we are confident enough to play these songs live. Personally, I think it would also be cool to witness the audience’s reactions to our original material. It would be a perfect opportunity to gauge if we’re doing it right as well as determine (once and for all) if all those late nights spent meticulously figuring out the arrangement for the songs are worth it.

And I must have mentioned this a thousand times, but playing music live produces its own unique high (hehehe at least for me). While the act of writing a song elicits its own rewards, performing that same song on the stage is something else entirely (akin to the feeling I get whenever I watch a quirky Jean-Pierre Jeunet flick). I’m not sure if Mark, Roy, Tessa and Jayson exactly feel the same way, but I bet they’re as keyed up as I am.

And one last thing, would they serve free pizza for the bands performing? Hmmm, questions, questions.

~Guile

guile loves his girlfriend, adores (er, adored) Michael Jackson, and wants "to be complete". When he's not playing bass for Hastang, he creates thingamajigs for icomm and writes gibberish in his not-so-secret diary.
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