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SideCrash: Davao?s Newest Rock Sensation

SideCrash (contributed photo)DAVAO CITY ? SideCrash is the next alternative rock band to watch out for in Davao City. Not because their manager is the popular TV anchor/reporter Aljo Bendijo, formerly of ABS-CBN?s TV Patrol. And not because they are composed of five good-looking young guys, but because they are truly a very talented, exciting and very promising new band.

They were discovered by their producer Rolly Guinares of Awiting Pinoy Records, who is also a fellow Davaoeno based in Manila, just like his former high school classmate Bendijo.

SideCrash Band is composed of lead singer/rhythm guitar Bermin ?Berms? Gaya, 21; lead guitarist Ronnie ?Balong? Binag, 22; drummer Nico Vincent Lopez, 21; keyboards player Ian Wendell Sison, 22; and bass player Byron Contemplo, 27.

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Activist Youth Snatched, Interrogated Inside Van

By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY ? A young activist was forcibly taken Friday night by men believed to be government agents and was interrogated inside a van for an hour.

Raunil Mortejo, chairman of the progressive youth group Anakbayan in Davao City, said he had just stepped out of his office in Juna Subdivision, Matina, Friday evening when unidentified men forced him inside a blue Nissan Urvan with tinted windows and covered license plates.

The van parked in a dimly lit portion of Acacia Street a few blocks from the Anakbayan office. There, Mortejo said, the men interrogated him and asked him about the people who frequent the office, which Anakbayan shares with Bayan. They also asked him about the activities of the people inside the office and what campaigns Bayan was planning.

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