This week’s gigs by Black Cows, Apartel, The Specials’ Terry Hall

Black Cows

This week sure is packed with interesting gigs, starting Oct. 17 with the return of the Black Cows at Strumm’s in Makati.

It is the first all-Filipino members band to play an almost exclusive Steely Dan repertoire. The band, in fact, is named after “Black Cow,” a track on Steely Dan’s most commercially successful album, 1977’s “Aja.”

The Black Cows, formed by Wowee Posadas (keyboards, vocals), performs only in select venues like 19 East and Strumm’s. The rest of its members are Pido Lalimarmo (vocals, guitar), Bolichie Suzara (bass), Gibson Viduya (drums), Gail Viduya (vocals), Drizzle Muñiz (vocals), Ronald Tomas (saxophone) and Rancis de Leon (saxophone).

Strumm’s is at 110 Jupiter, Makati, 1209 Metro Manila, with telephone number 895-4636.

Ely Buendia’s new band

Apartel, the new band Ely Buendia is busy with, has been playing a series of gigs to promote its second album, “Full Flood,” on Buendia’s own label, Offshore Music.

Its next stop is on Oct. 19 at El Calle in Resorts World Manila.

Rounding out the members of Apartel–whose music is described as a collision between Kool & the Gang and the Manila Sound–are Ryan G (keyboards), Pat Sarabia (drums), Jun Lazo (bass), Coco Coo and Redge Concepcion (guitars) and Deej Rodriguez (percussion).

El Calle Food and Music Hall is at the 2nd floor of Newport Mall, Resorts World Manila, Pasay City, with telephone number 908-8888.

Apartel

‘Fred Perry Subculture Presents’

Also on Oct. 19, the club 20:20 (XX XX) in Makati will be the setting of a rare event, Fred Perry Subculture Presents, featuring Terry Hall in a special DJ set.

Hall is best known as the lead singer of The Specials, one of the leading bands of the worldwide ska revival in the late 1970s.

The Fred Perry party, an exclusive, by-invitation event, will likewise have Filipino DJ Par Satellite spinning music from his own playlist.

Par, or Edgar Sallan, hosts his own radio show, Pirate Satellite, on Saturdays, 9 p.m.-12 midnight, on Like FM 105.9.

20:20 is at 20A/20B, La Fuerza Plaza 1, 2241 Chino Roces Avenue in Makati. /atm

Terry Hall

Par Satellite