MTV Staying Alive for HIV/AIDS Summit 2005
Rome and I went to the MTV Staying Alive Music Summit for HIV/AIDS last night held at the Fort Bonifacio Open Field. The event featured some of the biggest names in the local pop, indie and rock music industry such as Bamboo, River Maya, Parokya ni Edgar, Sandwich, Imago, Kitchie Nadal, etc. It was a fun event, to say the least, meant to promote HIV/AIDS awareness to Pinoy youths.
The stadium concert itself was successful, but I wonder if the reason for staging the event was. It is hard to believe that the black-clad bodysurfing, midfinger-raising, condom-inflating and invectives-spewing majority of the audience (which ran up to thousands) gave a hoot about HIV/AIDS, no matter that those who delivered the message–actually, read the scripts about the disease–were China Hortaleza, Nancy Castiglione, Alessandra De Rossi or Vhong Navarro.
Foreground is buffer zone between VIP and “masa” sections
A blurry Mig Ayesa
Not that I’m trying to sound anti-masa, but I was only too glad that we had our VIP passes so we were able to watch the concert from “the other side of the fence”. The part where there were cocktail tables and free booze, where there were rows of monoblock chairs to park ones backside on if one got tired from standing or walking or meeting and greeting friends. That same area which Mig Ayesa would rather sing to since its members seemed to be the only ones out of several thousands that appreciated his performance and did not raise their middle fingers when he said “Raise your hands!”
Rakista ng Malate, Pazzaway ng Kyusi. Bawal magka-AIDS
I didn’t realize actually that it was World Aids Day yesterday. Yeah, I know that Dec. 1 is ALWAYS World Aids Day, but what the heck, I forgot all about it until I went to last night’s concert.
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