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The Sleepyheads
12+ albums
acoustelectric soda popthe original sleepyheadspopscene manila
about
There are more than one band with this name: 1. A three-piece plain garage/avant-garage band based in Manila, Philippines. 2. An acoustroelectric indie soda-pop music collective based in Sydney, Australia. 1. The SLEEPYHEADS! This is a band composed of three like-minded individuals (JOHN JAYVEE DEL ROSARIO, drums / vox / composition; ERICK ENCINARES, bass / production / composition, plus RICO ENTICO, guitars / cook. They have had other guitarists like "Tomas," "Marvin/S.T." and "B.J.," and we are only using their first names to make them LEGENDARY!). They were formed around late-2000, but they've been in and around PLAIN GARAGE/AVANT GARAGE bands since the eighties and nineties. John Jayvee and Erick formed the band at a school called Trinity College after the two met while visiting a common friend. Finding out they both loved THE VELVET UNDERGROUND/JONATHAN RICHMAN, and wanted to add ROCK AND ROLL FUN to their Third World lives (misery, poverty, crime, pollution, chaos, plus HEARTACHE and MUSICAL BOREDOM) they decided to meet again and rehearsed old (circa 1988-93) original compositions in that style and named the band SLEEPYHEADS (after "Wake Up, Sleepyheads," a Richman song). They are FILIPINOS! And being Filipinos-- as opposed to being British or American or "Western"-- that is quite remarkable! How can Asian guys, thousands of miles away from the West, be able to appreciate and be inspired by these bands/music? Well, maybe that proves that ROCK AND ROLL IS UNIVER
