Bisrock & Reggae

Outdood Perspective in coordination with Mango Square and Colt 45 present Bisrock & Reggae this July 31, 2015 8:00pm.

The event will headline Junior Kilat and Missing Filemon.

Missing Filemon is a Cebuano band formed in 2002. After its creation, the band immediately proceeded to the studio to record original Cebuano songs that Insoy Ninal (vocals, guitar) had written weeks earlier.

The time the band worked on their songs, there was no group yet in Cebu and anywhere else that wrote and recorded an album’s worth of rock songs in Cebuano. The band members knew they were doing something different, and were unsure if the Cebuano crowd would accept their music.

The band came out with its debut album in 2003. The album was self-titled, but the band’s followers in Cebu and other Bisaya-speaking regions in the country eventually came to call the album as the “Suroy-Suroy” album, referring to the title of its carrier single, “Suroy-Suroy.”

It was not easy for the band to get accepted by people in Cebu’s rock scene that was dominated by English-writing bands and artists, and the cold reception the album received from the public almost led Insoy to quit.

It took almost a year before the band started hearing some of their songs played on air by one or two radion stations in the city. This gave the band a new impetus to be more aggressive in what they were doing.

Junior Kilat is a Filipino reggae, ska and dub band based in Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines. The name is taken from the 70’s Cebu band Leon Kilat, which the latter group claims, was first to sing about “Agta”. They are a popular reggae band in Manila, winning a “Song Of The Year Award” in NU-107’s Rock Awards for Ako Si M16, their first single from the album party pipol ur on dub tv.

Outdoor Perspective is located at the Mango Square Parking Lot. Entrance fee for the event is P50.00.

Source: Wikipedia