The Best Kept Secret In Cebu

[ancienrocka]

About 4 years ago, a good friend of mine, Mickey Dobie, bought a set of drums, some guitars and amplifiers for a group of Filipino musicians and starting jamming with them every Sunday in Liloan.  Mickey, like me, has played in many bands from about the early 60s, however he learned to play guitar properly and went a lot higher up the musical ladder than I did.

I’ve been going there for about 3 years and have helped Mickey transform the venue – initially we played in the mud outside the house.  Over the years we added a stage, weather protection, a CR, a bar and have upgraded all the musical equipment. 

·         There is no charge for entry

·         The venue is on the ocean with nice cooling breezes

·         Beers are 30p for SMP and 20p for Colt 45

·         The music is always good and sometimes mind blowing

·         Anyone can jam with the band or sing a song or two

·         This is not a commercial operation just a place to have fun

·         It is a jam not a performance and emphasis is on enjoying playing music – sometimes we make mistakes!

Anyone is welcome to come – young and old, great musicians or just not.  It starts around 2pm each Sunday and goes on until about 7pm.  Each week the jam is different; we have had up to 30 musicians at a session and a crowd of 40+ people, mainly westerners.

Directions:-

 As you go into Liloan from Cebu, you will go around a left hand bend.  About 300 metres further on you will see 360 Pharmacy on the left and the OLD Liloan maker on the right.  Go right through the market until you reach the road at the back.  Look left and you will see Arbee’s bakeshop.  The venue – Mickey’s Place – is behind Arbee’s

[Jake]

I can see it now.....Paul jamming with multiple hangovers the morning after his blowout birthday party.

 

Hey, save some San Magoo for me......

[Call me bubba]

Paul looks like you

:morning1:

and everyone is having a great time! thanks for the info and for sure one of these days we will head over to visit when i am in the area.

[Will]

Man, that sounds like fun! We may come out and see you guys soon.

[lonewolf]

well i m going to be in phils the 20 th of april to the 10th of may visiting my mahal. i veseen utube videos of mickey sing in randy s get togethers. and i was wondering about contacting him anyway, and i like music my girl works at metsumi at danao as line leader and i ll be staying at elsalvador and would really like to visit you guys sometime. you might of been in one of his videos also but not for sure. i think your set up sounds great.

[ancienrocka]

well i m going to be in phils the 20 th of april to the 10th of may visiting my mahal. i veseen utube videos of mickey sing in randy s get togethers. and i was wondering about contacting him anyway, and i like music my girl works at metsumi at danao as line leader and i ll be staying at elsalvador and would really like to visit you guys sometime. you might of been in one of his videos also but not for sure. i think your set up sounds great.

welcome mate, it's an evolving jam, different musos every week and I'm not always there. but it's always fun I think.