ramblingsoul: COME AS YOU ARE: A '90s Alternative Music Retrospective

Friday, May 29, 2009

COME AS YOU ARE: A '90s Alternative Music Retrospective

an all-cover, homage to the anthems, oddities, and one-hit wonders of the pre-millennium era. 8pm onwards, Saturday, May 30, @ mag:net cafe katipunan. featuring live performances by:

1. Taggu nDios

2. Wincy Ong

3. The Front Acts

4. Ang Papatay Sa Inyo

5. Los Chupacabras

6. Fat Acid Drop

7. Dissent

FREE ADMISSION. kitakits po tayo.

photo taken from www.hojohnlee.com

About Joel

Joel M. Toledo holds a Masters degree in English Studies (Poetry) from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he likewise finished two undergraduate degrees (Journalism and Creative Writing). He has authored three books of poetry – Chiaroscuro (UST Press, 2008), The Long Lost Startle (UP Press, 2009), and Ruins and Reconstructions (Anvil Publishing, 2011). Chiaroscuro was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Awards. Toledo was the recipient of the 2006 NCCA Literary Prize, and has won several literary awards for his poetry in English, including two Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, The Philippines Free Press Literary Award, The Meritage Press Poetry Prize in San Francisco, USA, and the Bridport Prize for Poetry in Dorset, United Kingdom. He was a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy in March 2011 and was the Philippine representative for the 2011 International Writers Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, USA. Toledo is the current Literary Editor of the Philippines Free Press. He teaches Literature at Miriam College.