Eraserheads reunion cut short, Buendia rushed to hospital

Eraserheads reunion cut short, Buendia rushed to hospital

By Erika Tapalla
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 22:12:00 08/30/2008

MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE6) The Eraserheads Reunion Concert was cut short Saturday night after lead singer Ely Buendia was rushed to the Makati Medical Center due to overfatigue.

The concert’s sudden end was announced by Buendia’s sister Lally who went onstage after a 20-minute intermission of the planned 30-song concert.

Raimund Marasigan also came out onstage, followed by Marcus Adoro and Buddy Zabala who assisted Buendia’s sister in announcing that the concert would no longer continue. The band members apologized to the audience for cutting short their performance. They asked for prayers for the band’s lead singer and songwriter.

“He had a slight attack because of stress due to the recent passing of his mother, and their sound check which lasted till 3 a.m. today (Saturday),” said officials from MTV Philippines, who added that Buendia is now in stable condition. MTV Philippines is the concert’s organizer.

“We have gotten word that he is now stable,” said MTV Philippines director for marketing Ronald Esguerra in an interview with INQUIRER.net.

According to Jing Garcia, former music journalist and currently technology editor at Manila Times and a friend of the Eraserheads members, Buendia collapsed backstage after singing “Fruitcake,” the last song before the intermission.

“He sat onstage after singing Fruitcake. The audience thought he was acting,” Garcia told INQUIRER.net, quoting MTV Philippines officials.

Buendia has suffered a heart attack in the past and has undergone surgery.

The concert, which was staged at the Fort Bonifacio Global City open field in Taguig, started at around 8:15 p.m. and stopped for a break at around 9:30 p.m.

MTV Philippines’ Francis Lumen eventually went onstage to ask the audience for a minute of silence.

The Eraserheads opened their much-awaited reunion concert with their usual high energy level, opening with fireworks and the songs “Alapaap” and then “Ligaya.”

After waiting at the open field for an hour hoping for further developments, loyal fans of the band calmly left the concert area after being treated to a thrilling first set.

MTV Philippines’ Esguerra said that while he is hoping for a second Eraserheads reunion concert, there is still no word on whether another one would be staged.

Eheads Reunion Concert Site Map

Here’s the site map of the Eraserheads Reunion Concert. Click to zoom!

Got it from Markus’ blog.

Eraserheads VIP Lists will be honored!

Soon as I woke up, I logged in to my Multiply and immediately checked Markus’s blog. Finally! Some good news! The VIP’s of the four (4) Eheads will be honored.

vips HONORED

We’re posting it today. we’re just thinking of ways how to protect you. alam nyo na IDENTITY THEFT hehehe. But I guess we have it figured out. So relak lang ulit.

M

How to get tickets to the Eraserheads Reunion Concert FOR REAL

The Eraserheads: One Night Only will be on August 30, 2008 (Saturday) 7pm at the Fort Bonifacio.  In order for you to watch the reunion concert…

1. You must be 18 years old and above
2. You must have a government issued ID (e.g. driver’s license, SSS, TIN)
3. You must be in the VIP List of Ely, Raimund, Buddy or Markus.

How to be part of the VIP List?

• Either you ask any one of the four (4) Eheads to put you in their VIP List. Or
• Ask someone they know to get you in their VIP List.

Please don’t ask me to put you in their VIP List. My friend just got my name and birthday. He told me he’ll add it to one of the Eheads VIP List.

Sings: “Sa Wakas a-ay…!” See you on August 30! Yahoo!!!

Ehead Markus Adoro Speaks!

Raims blogged about the rehearsals :

“last monday the eraserheads met and rehearsed for the first time.

nobody knew what to expect. it was a little uncomfortable since we havent communicated for a long time. but im pleased to announce that the band was playing better than i ever remembered. i guess we all did our homework haha.

i wont say how many songs we finished but it was a lot. there was a lot of drums and no drama.

raym ”

yeah, ganun nga nangyari, parang walang nangyare. hahaha. At one point during the start of the rehearsal Ely smiled and looked at me and said “Di ba “Futuristic” ang first song?”. I requested for that song to be the first song as a sort of inside inside joke pero kami lang yata dalawa nakagets hehehe. So it was scratched and replaced with a more deserving number. I have new gears na hindi ko pa napag-aaralan gamitin so everything was stripped down to a clean sounding guitar at distorted guitar. saka ko na iload yun mga jumbo jets.

Taken from Markus Highway blog.

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