Sponge cola

ateneo de manila university

band

sony bmg records

playing our songs, playing in our gigs, loves to compose songs

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Welcome to the official mailing list of Sponge Cola!
Yael on vocals/guitar!Armo on guitar! Gosh on bass/vocals! Chris on drums/vocals! we are all hailing from the Ateneo de Manila University. It was during high school (1998-2002) that Yael met Gosh through the school's theater guild, Teatro Baguntao. Yael was already known then as a solo performer, but decided anyway to form a band with Gosh and two other co-actors. The group, then called Sponge after R.S. Surtee's Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, won in several high school competitions which began the buzz not just in their school but other campuses as well.

Through time, some of the members of the old lineup left and were replaced by Chris and Armo, the guitarist of Sponge's brother band Rampqueen. Another batchmate, Raymond Fabul, began to manage both Sponge and Rampqueen. However, the boys were about to find out that a Detroit grunge band had already claimed the name Sponge. "But we wanted to keep the word Sponge in our band name because people have already associated us with that name," Yael relays. "So we decided to add 'Cola', since it's an easy enough word to remember." Sponge Cola, as we know it, was therefore officially born in the summer of 2002.

They came up with the ubiquitous orange self-titled EP in the last quarter of 2003 containing five original songs: "Lunes," "A Tear," "Saturn," "Cigarette" and "Jeepney." The two songs penned in the vernacular were what made the band catch the public's attention. "Lunes," written by Gosh, begins with a catchy bossa nova-esque beat that suddenly shifts to a heavy rock riff, a nuance in arrangement which surprisingly served the song superbly. Second single "Jeepney" was written by a classmate for a school project back in 2001 and is a reminiscent piece on young love during simpler, happier times.

All people here especially our fans! Just invite us here... spongecolasters@yahoo.com
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