From a Fan to Urbandub
The feed came up. Urbandub is disbanding.
I felt sick. The feeling was close to something like having broken up with someone.
It was April 1. So on the far recesses of my mind, "maybe this is an April Fool's day prank"
Then the next day came. and the next day. No news. This is serious. This is real.
They're really disbanding. The thought never really occurred up until that moment.
They were and still is my personal benchmark of a band. The gold standard. I look up to them. They seemed like good people. They were relatable.
2000's. I was too young for Eraserheads, Rivermaya and other great bands that came before. I was right in that formative, arduous years called adolescence and early adulthood. I remember my brother had new music. The first song I heard from Urbandub was Soul Searching. I remembered at that moment through those first few notes on a heavy riff, this is good. This is something different.
Their songs were pretty much a part of my experience as a teenage kid growing up. It was there through heartbreaks, lazy morning commutes, grinding hours at work etc.
If I had it my way, I wish they would still be doing music together. But life happens. Circumstances change. I'm grateful for what their music has done to people, to Philippine Music, to Philippine Art. They'll be leaving a legacy of 15 years of work. 6 Albums. And mostly as an inspiration to generation of once young kids.
I felt sick. The feeling was close to something like having broken up with someone.
It was April 1. So on the far recesses of my mind, "maybe this is an April Fool's day prank"
Then the next day came. and the next day. No news. This is serious. This is real.
They're really disbanding. The thought never really occurred up until that moment.
They were and still is my personal benchmark of a band. The gold standard. I look up to them. They seemed like good people. They were relatable.
2000's. I was too young for Eraserheads, Rivermaya and other great bands that came before. I was right in that formative, arduous years called adolescence and early adulthood. I remember my brother had new music. The first song I heard from Urbandub was Soul Searching. I remembered at that moment through those first few notes on a heavy riff, this is good. This is something different.
Their songs were pretty much a part of my experience as a teenage kid growing up. It was there through heartbreaks, lazy morning commutes, grinding hours at work etc.
If I had it my way, I wish they would still be doing music together. But life happens. Circumstances change. I'm grateful for what their music has done to people, to Philippine Music, to Philippine Art. They'll be leaving a legacy of 15 years of work. 6 Albums. And mostly as an inspiration to generation of once young kids.
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