Eraserheads world tour: One good thing deserves another

One good thing deserves another.

Days after the Eraserheads' well-received Huling El Bimbo reunion concert at the SMDC Festival Grounds, frontman Ely Buendia announced via a generic poster that the band will do a world tour in 2023.

Promoter Francis Lumen indirectly confirmed it during a media conference prior to the 22 December concert, saying, "It will happen…" — though no dates have been confirmed at press time.

Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Buddy Zabala and Marcus Adoro performed for the first time as a group after a 20-year hiatus. The show, which drew 75,000 fans, Buendia likened to a school commencement exercise.

He posted on his social media accounts:

"After graduation, the real lessons begin. Tough ones. Happy ones. Baffling ones. The best thing you can hope for is to somehow be able to grasp them in a short amount of time. The band and the whole team behind the show are still trying to grasp the last three months leading up to the 'finals.'"

Buendia, 52, went on to mention that "healing begins within one's self and how far someone is willing to work for it. Sometimes you have to be willing to risk everything. And if you are, who knows? Maybe you might get lucky and you can leave this place a little better when you found it."

The Eraserheads, formed in 1989, was famously compared to the Beatles in terms of popularity and impact in the Philippine music scene. Starting out as a college band from the University of the Philippines-Diliman, the quartet played gigs at the then UP alumni-owned Red Rocks/Club Dredd, auditioned live at Red Rocks for a record deal, and ushered in the second golden age of contemporary Filipino music.