We are now in Facebook

We now have a Facebook account, This for you to get the latest updates and happening around the bay city area. So if you happen to have an account on Facebook you can check it and like our page. Here is the link; http://www.facebook.com/043HCPUNK. If you support what we are doing here, don't hesitate to spread this page to your friends.

If you have any materials and want to be featured here on our site. Send us an email at batangashcpunk@gmail.com

Wednesday Weekend

You  heard it right Wednesday is the new weekend. Our friends from Settle Down and Walk Me Home will be playing at B-Side in Makati this July 6, 2011. Save the date, this is a night nothing but punk rock. 150 to get you in, they will be selling some merch at the venue so check it out.

Aya Skate Park

First, congratulations to Aya Skate Park. Finally a real skate park at the heart of Batangas. 

I was really stoked when I heard that there is a skate park being built at the town San Jose in Batangas. It is the country's first dedicated concrete skate park. Though the park is only on its first stage, it is now open to the public and to our skaters. Entrance fee is only 50 bucks, very affordable to any visitor.

Haven't been to the park yet, but the pictures from their website is promising. Local and nearby province skaters, bmx riders and inline skaters will benefit a lot from this park in enhancing their skills. Our skaters can have the luxury to enjoy riding without being harassed by security guards or other people. The park is also accessible and its like an hour drive from Manila via SLEX and Star Tollway.

According to their website, the park is on its Stage - 1 and have corner concrete quarter-pipe, a friendly 5-meter-long stair/ramp hand rail, wooden half-pipe, grinding rails, fun box/ wedge ramp, slack-line, and outdoor rappelling. Stage 2 of the project will feature bowls, 3-step, 4-step, snake line, ledges and other street elements.

There is also a camping ground if you want to spend the night at the park and enjoy the beauty of nature.

I just hope we can also set some local D.I.Y gigs on this skate park as well in the future. 

For more info about the park please visit their website at http://www.ayaskatepark.com.

* Photos taken from their Facebook page with permission.

Freedom To Unite

Another Hardcore show for all of you Batangas peeps. June 25 at Greenhut Bar in Malvar (its along the hi-way near BSU campus). A lot of bands will be playing and don't forget entrance is free. 

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I Don't Know What It Is... By: Chuck Baclagon

The saying: “first come, first served,” is very elementary.

But what is interesting about it is that it speaks about the very tenet of what is supposed to be the normative expression of justice in an avenue where consensus is supposed to be built, it is very similar to a situation when you fall in line to avail of something. Where of course it is only fair for those who are at the front of the line to be accommodated first since they did made an effort to be on time or at least to qualify them as deserving of the commodified service because they came first from the others.

Now it would be a different story if someone is to cut corners.

If the interest of justice is supposed to be fairness. Then those who choose to cut corners should be reprimanded, while those who are in the line that have been deprived of what they ought to be getting at the right time since they’re on queue should at the very least be rendered an apology.

I am not trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

But a plain and simple pursuance of what the organizers of the gig upholds: Justice.

Corruption is contempt of justice. Cutting corners in a line-up is about creating shortcuts that deprive what is due and what is just for those in the schedule, hence a contempt of justice.

What is tragic is that a gig that seeks to uphold justice by raising awareness about the direness of the need to take a stand against corruption has rendered itself unable to uphold what is fair.

Some bands chose to cut corners. We came at the appointed time. We communicated since last week to the person responsible for the line-up. We constantly talked to the person on site who was suddenly taking care of the line up on paper. The paper said we were supposed to be on-stage after Walk Me Home. But to our surprise another band came and then another so I asked that person in-charge why I asked for a meeting and in the meeting I asked that person to put on paper the line-up, I thought we were supposed to keep what’s on paper as a set in stone rule.

But lo and behold once it’s our time to get up the stage another band by the name of Radiustar is already up there claiming that it’s their time. I asked the person in charge to come up to the stage to sort it out I asked for the paper. What’s on paper is that we’re supposed to be the ones to play. Honestly, I don’t care who cut corners be it Diktador, Monochrome or Radiustar

But what’s the response we got?

The person holding the line up on paper said: “pwede ba sila nalang muna next nalang kayo…”

The paper says it’s supposed to be DeathToPuberty, but the band setting up on stage says otherwise. The person holding the line-up says otherwise.

What is that all about?

It’s disappointing that they didn’t even bother to reprimand those who chose to cut corners.

It’s ironic that justice at such a low-level can’t even be pursued, especially from an organization that seeks to battle one of the greatest injustices in the Philippines: corruption.

If that’s not unfair.

Then I don’t know what it is….

- Chuck

* Repost with permission from Chuck Baclagon of Death To Puberty

Please check Death To Puberty at http://deathtopuberty.com and http://www.facebook.com/DeathToPuberty on Facebook.