And the nominees are...

The Road to Bohol Rock Awards



Everyone is invited to come on March 19, 2010 8PM at Tachycardia for the launching of nominees for the first ever Bohol Rock Awards (re)scheduled on April 24.

Letters will be sent to officially inform the nominees regarding their nomination. Please come and support our local bands.

The Bohol Rock Awards is brought to you by all the active event organizers in the Bohol underground music circuit.

Bohol Rock Awards 101

The Road to BRA

The Bohol Rock Awards 2010 or BRA 2010 is an awards-night type of event where we showcase and honor the best personalities in the underground rock scene of Bohol. Awards will be given and live acts will perform in a show that will be first in Bohol. So how do we go about this awards night thing? Here is a brief backgrounder and guideline to Bohol's rock event of the year.

This event spearheaded by BYU Rock TV (Bohol Underground Rock website) is co-promoted by the different local promotional outfits that cater to the rockin' and rollin' public of this province. Here they are:

1. Central Sense Productions (Maw2x)
2. Garahe Events (Roy Tutor)
   
3. Kalma Sounds (Milo Miranda)
4. Martins Bar Productions (Bhic2x Regner)
5. Metal Inc. (Neizel)
6. Plugout (Dadoi)
7. Powermind (Kikoi & Makoi)
8. Sea Urchin Productions (Jboi)

The awards for this year will be minimal. Hopefully in years to come, more and more awards will be added. For now, these are the awards to be given:

1. Best Guitarist
2. Best Bassist
3. Best Drummer
   
4. Best Vocalist
5. Best Band
   
6. Best in Live Act
7. Best Album
8. Online Choice Award
9. Listeners Choice Award (KISS FM)
10. Best New Act
11. Rock of Bohol Award (Lifetime Achievement)

The process of picking the winners consists of two parts - nomination and voting. The nomination committee will be composed of the presentors of BRA 2010. In a closed door nomination, representatives of each presentor will pick choices (3-5) for specific awards. Top 10 nominees will be deliberated and agian voted until 5 nominees for each category will be chosen. These picks will be the official nominees.

Ballots will be given out to the voters a few weeks before the awards night.  In the voting process, eligible voters are the following:

1. members of the band
2. production teams, staff and assistants
3. band photographers and writers
4. specific personalities

To be nominated, a band must pass a couple simple criteria. First, they must have recorded a composition. Second, they must have played a major gig (produced by any of the above productions). Here are the bands shortlisted for the nominations.

1. Agiw
2. Blank Item
3. Brownbuds
4. Cruisers
5. Disarmed
6. Estranghero
7. Fishcake
8. Galatea
9. Gapas
10. Great Divide
11. Impound
12. Koogang
13. Leprechaun
14. Lookout
15. Lucid Interval
16. Mange
17. Marswalk
18. Mate Since Kinder
19. Milestuck
20. My Emily Rose
21. No Pets Aloud
22. Noid
23. Oidos
24. Orion
25. Pirates of the New Age
26. Psyche
27. Quad
28. Scalds
29. Shoe Lace
30. Soiree
31. Solido
32. Spoogo
33. Suitcase 101
34. System Tools
35. Tanke De Guerra
36. The 20 Something
37. Winston
38. Yordaddy
39. Zigmantra

This is a running list. Bands will be added or taken off from this list In the coming gigs and events, all co-presentors have pledged to take bands that are included in the list. This series of events will be aptly sub-titled "The Road to Bohol Rock Awards 2010". So watch out for gig schedules.

Please leave a comment or visit our Facebook page for more discussion and details.

Bohol Rock Awards on March 20

BRA fever is on!

It is already definite. The Bohol Rock Awards will be on March 20, 2010. Organized the different local production groups of Bohol, BRA will give out awards to different categories for the local underground bands.

There will be a series of events that will be held dubbed "The Road to the Bohol Rock Awards" featuring the bands that are eligible for nomination in any of the categories. The minimum requirement for inclusion is that the band should be a local underground band with current recordings and compositions.

If you don't have any works yet, there is still time to chop up some music and lyrics, and get it recorded.

More updates soon.

Bohol Rock Awards and Other Updates

News, Updates and Chikkas



1. The Bohol Rock Awards or BRA is finally taking shape. We have solicited commitment from a lot of people already especially the event organizers (Plugout, CentralSense, Kalma, GarahEvents, Power Mind...etc). This is good since the nomination committee will be composed of organizers, producers and other key industry players. Votes will be cast by musicians and other industry players as well.

Here is a list of awards to be given, thus far:

1. Best Guitars/Bass/Drummer/Vocals
2. Artist of the Year (Band)
3. Album of the Year (Band)
4. Blogger's Choice Award (online poll/vote)

The main event is pegged to happen on the second half of January next year. Stay tuned.

2. Up Coming Gigs:

1. Dec. 8-12 - Martin's Bar, 9PM (1st year anniversary event)
   
2. Dec. 11 - Theo's Bar @Meridian Hotel, 9PM (featuring Yordaddy, etc.)
   
3. Dec. 11 - Atmospheres, 9PM (featuring Yordaddy, What New, When Hopes Fly High)
4. Dec. 12 - Martin's Bar 9PM (Brownbuds, No Pets Aloud, Spoogo, Yordaddy, etc.)
5. Dec. 12 - Koogang @Body English, Asilo, Gorordo Avenue, Cebu City
6. Dec. 19 - Atmosphere's, 9PM
7. Dec (last week) - Compofest (TBA)

3. BYU ROCK TV launched! BYU Rock TV or Bohol Underground Rock is now online. Please check out http://byurocktv.blogspot.com or add us on Facebook to view the latest event videos, interviews and music videos.

BYU Rock (with reference to "byuteh" "byuha oi!" also) will hopefully be the main identity to represent the Bohol underground music scene.

Again, add us on Facebook and comment. It will be the better platform for a functional "chatbox" since our chatbox here is infested with indecent-poser-cowards. If you don't have a Facebook account yet, register now.

Mga Kalambuan

News, Updates and Showbiz Chikkas

1. November 21, 2009, 8PM. Martins Restobar in cooperation with TUL Society and PUNKSTATION presents "A Tribute to our Brother Boboy Regner" featuring six of Bohol's best bands Brownbuds, Estranghero, Yordaddy, Spoogo, No Pets Aloud and Zigmantra. Door charge: PhP40 only. Thanks to Maw2x of CentralSense for the help.

2. After a few rounds of Red Horse at Martins, an idea came up: "Bohol Rock Awards". Why not? Best Guitarist, Best Bassist, Best Vocals, Best Drummer, Band of the Year, Record of the Year, Best New Artist...etc. More developments on this soon.

3. Bohol CompoFest 2009 a yearly event brought to you by PowerMind Concepts (Kikoi) is coming up. Last week of December. Brace yourselves.

4. Thanks to Jinzo, this site won't have to shutdown after all. After the No Pets Aloud post, we are lining up a few more profiles of new bands. We already interviewed Galatea - video, photos and article soon.

5. Welcome new members of the BoholBands Online team: Maw2x, Jinzo and Franz. We hope to deliver new and fresh content soon.

Thanks for the patronage.