As A Whole Interview...

To give you an idea about As A Whole, I decided to have a short interview with Peter, read on, and see you on Friday...


1. hey peter, how you doing buddy? are you guys excited for your luzon tour starting this friday? any expectations?

Hey Mic, everything is fine , thanks for asking. kinda busy preparing but that’s the plan right. Yes we are very much excited to be there and meet old and new friends. And see and play with lots of great bands. Expectations, well I expect no less than a plain good time..

2. what is the purpose of as a whole? why do you guys play punk rock when you could be living 'normal' lives?

I think I could say that asawhole was always for fun and reality. We aim to channel our dissatisfaction and annoyance and frustration to a better and again, fun medium. if you consider it normal to look out for each other and maybe expand it more to looking out for your community and the people around you , then I think we live a pretty normal lives , but that aint the case and punk rock gave you an option to think better and do better and have more excitement doing it. And chicks dig it! Nah (joking…)

3.in one of the songs in your demo, one is entitled 'stop wearing eyeliner', what's the story behind this song?

The title is just a joke and a metaphor, And might be bad one hehe . Just sometimes you get annoyed when you go to shows and you see all this people looking disame and bragging about how they did their hair and stuff like that. Promoting stuffs which is somewhat against everything that punkrock stood for in the years. I might be wrong I don’t know , just not in my book..heheh

4.how is the davao scene these days? how would you compare it to the first wave of davao hardcore during the late 90's and the early part of this decade? any bands we should watch out for?

Davao scene is doing good and getting bigger. People come and go but you still see lots of old faces keeping the spirit alive. I remember in the late 90s and early decade it was more into politics and punk rock crust and a bit hardcore. But just like every scene, there are always
problems that leads to people leaving the community. Too much drugs , lack of cooperation to name a few or even too much politics or LACK of politics. hehe but still life goes on and people tend to learn a lot during the passing time. Definitely look out for Roundhead if you like ala Hatebreed type and Anxiety to Hsyteria for all the 90s metalcore fans.Angst for some old school thrash hardcore. Clobeerin time for street edge music To name a few.

5. what's your current playlist?

As in now? Well I am currently listening to a lot of Morning Again, and Die my will and Congress. I just got my hand to this music so im in a stage of savoring it. but Bane, Trial, Feud, sonic youth and Massive Atack is always on my list.

6. what's the most important lesson you learned in life via punk rock?

I think it would be simplicity of living. Who knows what our lives would take us. But still we all know that we have an option and we know that anything is possible. Every situation has an equivalent “diy” option. And that’s something we learn and could carry as a punk rocker or not. Diy saves lives.hehe

7. that's it. sorry for this very short review and the even shorter notice. see you guys on friday. shoutouts?

The shorter the better. See you soon!!! I have to announce that due to some problems our ten song cd couldn’t make it on the tour but rest assured that it would be released before September under cot label with Colaboration with Northern Territory. But tour shirts would totally be there. Thanks a lot mic.. partey!