Pinoy Rock News Update :

Here's a write-up of the wedding of Mike Villegas and Bayang Barrios, written by Vic Icasas of Hit Productions (where Mike works)

My friend and co-worker Mike Villegas (composer and songwriterof "Bilanggo" fame, ex-Rizal Underground and Color It Red) got married to his longtime squeeze, the world music singer Bayang Barrios (who got her start singing for Joey Ayala) in really funky ceremonies held last Monday (!) at the UP chapel.

The mass was officiated by some infamous priest whom everyone seemedto know but who was a complete non-entity to me .. guess I need to brush up on my news. Apparently this holy man was supposed to be in prison for something or other relating to his accusation that Enrile killed his cousin? Something like that. Wonder what he was doing on furlough from the slammer.

The wonderfully drunken reception was at the posh, luxurious, elegant, 5-star (snicker!) 70's Bistro on Anonas where we dined onsuch exotic rock cuisine as "Le Chon Kawa Lee" and "Face de Cochon" (i.e. Sisig!) The line for the buffet was almost as long as the line for the bathroom, only of course you didn't have to step over unconscious wedding guests on the way to the buffet. At least I hope they were unconscious. I saw more beer bottles at Bistro that night than I did on my Grade 5 field trip to the San Miguel bottling plant.

And of course, the musician's wedding wouldn't be complete without the stirring, dreamy, soothing, romantic ambience provided by the lullaby like sound of the popular wedding band Razorback.

Seriously though - what a party! Great fun. I spent more time (4pm-1am) at their wedding than I did at my own wedding! Guest performers(and I mean that literally ... they were guests, and they wereperformers) that night were the aforementioned Kevin Roy and Razorback, Cooky Chua, Joey Ayala, Gary Granada, the Jerks, and numerous others, capped off of course by smashing performances by the bride and groom. Zee couple make beautiful moozik together, no?

And lastly - it's always a pleasure to be clickin' away alongside the great Eddie Boy Escudero, who (bit o' trivia here) used to manage Rizal Underground before embarking on his hotshot photographic career.

CHECK OUT THE PICTURES AT: <www.pbase.com/piranha/rockwedding>