Switchfoot Live in Manila

7:30pm, September 10, 2007 together with my band mates Oni and Reymond, I went to Cuneta Astrodome to watch “switchfoot” perform live. From the start, I knew that this concert would be a blast. I think, for a musician like me and my band mates, an event like this is moral-boosting, musically that is. But what we thought about the concert is not enough compared to what we experienced inside.

Switchfoot has the same belief and goal as our band. They wanted also to change the typecasted image of the rockers; they also wanted to remove the bad-and-evil image from the rockers. They also sang and talked about life and death. Their messages touched my heart, those guys almost done the concert for free, because that’s a benefit-concert for IJM (international Justice Mission); an organization against international and national human trafficking.

The vocalist started to talk to the audience, he said “how about us? We are enjoying ourselves everyday, while inside the human-trafficking world, nothing happens, nothing happens” “Its inside (pointing to his heart) and out (pointing out of his body), In and Out, even if the system outside the people is the best, the country will still fall if the inside of a person remains ruined. If you change the inside, then you’ll change the outside” he said”, he said… I was strucked, I remembered the quote “Bad people succeed when good people don’t act”… The song dare you to move’ talks to every oe of us. He dares us to move against those wrong doers..