Slow Dive is a five-piece band with more than good heads on their shoulders to boot. Born in UP Diliman on August 2004, the band was originally composed of Iiko (Roxanne Paraguison) on vocals and rhythm guitars, Mac (Hirro Mac Kuizon) on lead guitars, Karl (Karl Frederick Taberdo) on bass and Jaimar (Jaimar Palispis) on drums, and managed by May Anne Bastes of the UP Underground Music Community. After a while, Iiko decided to focus on the vocals and songwriting instead and so the band got another guitarist, Jayvan Geli. With influences from the likes of Deftones, Dream Theater, Tori Amos, Silverchair and Urbandub, Slow Dive's music is a mishmash of morose poetry and heavy guitar riffs fused with melodic wraithlike vocals. Slow Dive released their three-track prototype EP, Sandlady, early February 2005 and was featured in NU Rock 107's In the Raw in the same month. The band also performed in Studio 23's morning show, Breakfast, last September 23, 2005.
The Obssessive-Compulsive Vox: Iiko
Real name: Roxanne Barretto Paraguison
Course: BA Psychology (UP Diliman)
Birthdate: June 30, 1986
And you do what?: I write the lyrics, come up with a nice tune to go with it, keep people's eyes and ears on ud during gigs and create some kind of a rapport between the band and the crowd on and off stage. Oh, yeah. I do the singing.
Major influence: Tori Amos
Favorite OPM band: Imago
Favorite foreign band: Silverchair
Favorite food: brownies
Favorite pastime: sleeping and doing stuff with adobe photoshop
Hatest thing/person: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and everything else in between
Hometown: Science City of Mu�oz, Nueva Ecija
Random Fact: I can't sleep without my Kelo... (ung kulambo na kinikiskis sa paa ^_^')
The Obstinate Lead: Mac
Real name: Hirro Mac Kuizon
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The Comic Rhythms: Jayvan
Real name: Jay-van Balansag Geli
Course: BLIS (Bachelor of Library and Information Science, UP Diliman
Birthdate: October 31, 1985
And you do what?: i do nothing. pampagulo lang sa band... nyahahaha..
sumasaya sila pag nandyan ako eh. must be my aura...nyahahah
Major influence: Air Supply, Kenny Rogers, Matt Monroe, the likes. o
yeah, The Carpenters.
Favorite OPM band: Imago, Sugarfree, slow dive.
Favorite foreign band: Am starting to like Coheed and Cambria.
Favorite food: Anything that can be eaten.
Favorite pastime: Daydreaming
Hatest thing/person: Busted Guitar Cables. Hate those damn things, they
fail when you need them the most.
Hometown: Tandag, Surigao del Sur
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The Arty Bassist: Karl
Real name: Karl Frederick Taberdo
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The Angry Manager: Mei
Real name: May Anne Bastes
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