Urbandub
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Urbandub arriving at the venue for the Deftones Diamond Eyes Tour Manila on February 12, 2011
(from L to R: JanJan Mendoza, Gabby Alipe, Lalay Lim, and John Dinopol) |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Cebu, Philippines |
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| Years active | 2000–2015 (on hiatus) |
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| Website | www.myspace.com/urbandub |
| Members | Gabby Alipe John Dinopol Lalay Lim JanJan Mendoza |
Urbandub was a Filipino rock band from Cebu City, Philippines. Since its inception in 2000, the band's line-up was consisted of Gabby Alipe (vocals, guitar), John Dinopol (guitar, vocals), Lalay Lim (bass, vocals), and JanJan Mendoza (drummer).
Urbandub is the first indie band in the Philippines to release albums nationwide with the assistance of a major label. The label also featured Urbandub in a Pinoy rock compilation entitled "FULL VOLUME", with a remake of Sade's "No Ordinary Love". The band recently garnered the attention of fans throughout Southeast Asia with a recent tour in Singapore. The band recently posted on Facebook stating that, they will be having their last concert with their original line-up on May 9, 2015. Recently, Bass guitarist and back-up vocalist, Lalay Lim and drummer JanJan Mendoza left the band to prioritize their families.
Urbandub's debut album suffered distribution problems due to the lack of support from major record companies. Later in the year, their first single "Come" was released and accompanied with a music video funded by Sonic Boom productions. The following singles from the album included "Boy", "Give", and "Would You Go". Although only a modest success at the time, the album managed to earn the band some degree of notoriety within Cebu City. Birth is raw and heavy, with obvious influences of Deftones and other experimental rock bands. Though the album's production quality was rough, it emerged as a successor to the scene that dominated independent radio in the mid 1990s.
With the release of their second effort, INFLUENCE (Lighter Records), Urbandub took on a new form, changing their sound with a new drummer (From Jed Honrado to Jerros Dolino). Jerros continued to record tracks with band, but left sometime in 2003 when he decided to leave for undisclosed reasons. The band then recruited JanJan Mendoza. It was the sound in this album that clearly defined the steps that Urbandub would start to take. INFLUENCE includes radio-released singles such as "Gone" and, their most famous release to date, "Soul Searching", which won the award as Best Song of the Year in the NU107 Rock Awards 2003. The album also won as the Album of the Year Award in the NU107 Rock Awards 2004. They also released a single called "A New Tattoo". They dedicate this song to a former friend Juan Paulo Hidalgo.
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