The Possessive 90's: A '90s Alternative Music Cover Night

paying tribute to the decade of grunge and plaid, Beavis and Butthead, and the smell of teen spirit. 9pm onwards, Saturday August 22 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan. an all-cover evening of anthems and rarities, featuring performances by:

1. Glenn in Distant Cities

2. Bullman and IndieBoy

3. JohnoyDanao

4. Los Chupacabraz

5. Ward9

6. Inner Volume

FREE ADMISSION. kitakits at makiwasak!

Definitely Sigur Ros

Happy Mondays LIX

featured readers for the 59th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights tomorrow, August 17 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. JC Casimiro

2. Lawrence Bernabe

3, Corin Arenas

4. Kash Avena

5. Wincy Ong

6. Larry Ypil

7. Mikael Co

8. Angelo Suarez

9. Yol Jamendang

10.Petra Magno

11. Keith Cortez

12. Waps San Diego

13. Drey Teran

14. Khavn Dela Cruz

15. Carlomar Daoana

16. Patrick Rosal

*plus other regular guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 7:30 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays Acoustic Night featuring

Johnoy Danao
Roberto Nicolas

Patience, Dear Juggernaut

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. Kitakits po tayo. :)

YEARS LATER XI

taking you back to the shadow cabinet of the '80s for the august installment of the monthly Years Later, a retrospective spinning and cover night of anthems, ditties, oddities, and rarities from the great new romantic decade of bad hairstyle, speak and spell music, and XB 102.

featured bands for this month's installment are:

1. The Superchongs
2. XLuthor
3. Tey's revenge
4. The Harutas

mag:net cafe, 9pm onwards.

FREE ADMISSION.

kitakits, mga chong.

Happy Mondays LVIII

featured readers for tonight's 58th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Andrea Teran
2. Pancho Villanueva

3. Gelo Suarez
4. Sasha Martinez

5. Joseph Saguid

6. Keith Cortez
7. Waps San Diego
8. Carlomar Daoana

9. Emman Nobleza
10. Lawrence Bernabe
11. Wincy Ong
12. Khavn Dela Cruz

*plus other regular guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 7:30 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays Acoustic Night featuring

Roberto Nicolas

Patience, Dear Juggernaut

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. Kitakits po tayo. :)

'90s Grunge/Alternative Night

Reliving the plaid decade of Beavis, Butthead, and the Butthole Surfers. 9pm onwards TONIGHT, July 25 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan. featuring the following bands:

1. The Front Acts
2. Patience, Dear Juggernaut
3. Gustavo Project
4. Inner Volume
5. Shotgun Lola

plus spinning of anthems, oddities, and rarities c/o TCP (the trusty CD player).

Free Admission. kitakits!

*photo from dancing.net.au

Happy Mondays LVII: Book Launch of The Long Lost Startle

The 57th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights at mag:net cafe Katipunan kicks off with the book launch and signing of Joel M. Toledo's second volume of poetry titled The Long Lost Startle from 7 to 830pm. Cocktails will be served with an open bar courtesy of Tanduay Rhum, also until 830pm.

Readings will follow from 830-1030pm, featuring the following:

1. Gemino Abad
2. Krip Yuson
3. Marne Kilates
4. Benilda Santos
5. Patrick Rosal
6. Neil Garcia
7. Mikael Co
8. Khavn De la Cruz
9. Pancho Villanueva
10. RJ Baliza
11. Mia Tijam
12. Waps San Diego
13. Angelo Suarez
14. Wincy Ong

featured bands for the evening are:

1. Ang Bandang Shirley
2. Goliath (featuring Lourd De Veyra and Jay Gapasin of SAGO)
3. Los Chupacabraz

Hosting the event is Kris Lacaba.

The Long Lost Startle is a collection of poems from Toledo's NCCA Writers Prize grant, as well as verses that won for him/were shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (UK), the Meritage Press Prize (USA), and The Philippines Free Press Literary Award.

The 59-poem collection is published by the University of the Philippines Press, with an introduction by Dr. Gemino Abad.

The book is P150.

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. kitakits po tayo. :)

YEARS LATER X: A New Wave Music Retrospective

The 10th installment of the monthly cover night of anthems and oddities from the '80s New Romantic scene this coming Saturday, July 11 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan features the following bands:

1. XLuthor

2. Tey's Revenge

3. Inner Volume

4. The Superchongs

+ spinning of New Wave tracks from the shadow cabinets of the chong decade.

the show commences at 9pm. FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. kitakits po tayo. :)

Happy Mondays LVI

featured readers for tonight's 56th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Andrea Teran
2. Gelo Suarez
3. JC Casimiro
4. Larry Ypil
5. Hussein Macarambon
6. Cathy Candano
7. Keith Cortez
8. Kash Avena
9. Waps San Diego
10. Mia Tijam
11. Pancho Villanueva
12. Emman Nobleza
13. Sasha Martinez
14. Lawrence Bernabe

*plus other regular and surprise guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 7:30 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays Zonghitz Night featuring

Roberto Nicolas

Jonar Sabilano
Patience Dear Juggernaut

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. Kitakits po tayo. :)

photo from merryswankster.com

WhiteOut V!!!

The Last Remnant rocks!

Happy Mondays LV: Book Launch!

Mag:Net Cafe Katipunan will be hosting the launch of two new books from Milflores Publishing, Inc. on June 15, 2009. The books, Vlad Gonzales’s A-Side/B-Side and Carljoe Javier’s And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth are the latest additions to Milflores’s line of humorous Creative Nonfiction.
Gonzales’s A-Side/B-Side is a collection of music-themed Creative Nonfiction evoking nostalgia, the joy of music, and fond memories of loved songs, while providing rollickingly funny stories. It’s the kind of collection that will have you laughing to yourself awkwardly in public places.
Javier’s And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth chronicles the adventures, or misadventures, of a geek in the Philippines. With essays about being a reality show contestant, spending time with men’s magazine models, teaching at an all-girls’ school, and many more funny predicaments, the collection is sure to leave the reader giggling.
The program is part of Mag;Net Cafe’s Happy Mondays Poetry Nights, and will begin at 7:00. Cocktails will be served during the book signing. Then there will be readings and performances. Everyone is invited to come.

Confirmed readers for Happy Mondays Poetry Nights are as follows:

1. Yol Jamendang
2. Khavn De la Cruz
3. Pocholo Goitia
4. Allan Popa
5. Seej Gomera
6. Donna Miranda
7. Adam David
8. Mikael Co
9. JL Poquiz
10. Totel De Jesus
11. Ali Sangalang
12. Eros Atalia
13. Marguerite De Leon
14. Alessandra Miguel

Hosted by Angelo Suarez

followed by live band performances by:

1. Nerdita
2. Tom Estrella Sr. and the Shadows
3. Los Chupacabraz
4. Broken Sauce
5. Ivan Theory
6. Giniling Festival
7. T.E.A.T.S.
8. Goliath (featuring Lourd De Veyra and Jay Gapasin)

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. kitakits po tayo! :)

Mon(soon)day

photos above from the 54th installment of Happy Mondays. kitakits po sa next installment on June 15.

Happy Mondays LIV

featured readers for the 54th, advent-of-the-monsoon edition of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan TONIGHT, June 1, @mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Totel De Jesus
2. Waps San Diego
3. JC Casimiro
4. Larry Ypil
5. Pocholo Goitia
6. Hussein Macarambon
7. Petra Magno
8. Mikael Co
9. Keith Cortez
10. Ramil Gulle
11. Mia Tijam

12. Jonar Sabilano

13. Allan Pastrana

14. Angelo Suarez
15. Emman Nobleza

(hosted by Drey Teran)

*plus other regular and surprise guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 7:30 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays BayawAcoustikZoundz featuring:

1. Jonar Sabilano
2. Waps San Diego

3. Roberto Nicolas

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. Kitakits po tayo. :)

photo above courtesy of rlv.zcache.com

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

Rainy Days and Mondays

photos below from the past two installments (52nd and 53rd) of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights. maraming salamat po sa patuloy na pagsuporta. kitakits po sa susunod na installment on June 1.