Progression is an intention for all bands. The vocalist issue aside, Jay admits that there is a challenge to write songs with seven members. More of a challenge was writing an album sung in English. All tracks on the new album 'Episode 3', bar one were sung in English. It's almost a full circle in music direction where Western music has influenced the East and now vice versa.

As could be expected there would probably be too many influences to list, though some were apparently playing at Hyde Park. Unfortunately the band weren't aware of the special ticket allocation for the event.

"The boys really wanted to go when they found out the gig was on," says Sharon, "they were really disappointed not to be able to get in."

While the problems in Africa are far away from England and The Philippines, The Philippines does have it's own economic problems. In 2004 the World Bank's development indicators, placed the United Kingdom 7th highest out of 141 countries for gross national income per capita. Twelve weren't ranked whilst Ethopia was 141. The Philippines stood 81st.

"Last year we endorsed Senator Raul Rocco in the general election," begins Sharon. "Unfortunately he lost. He was really for education and we were also for it. So after the general election we wanted to do something to continue his education goal so we tied up with STI Education Group to launch the South Border Scholarship program, where they can pay the tuition fees or college fees of kids who can't afford them."

Recording and producing the album took a long time.

"It took about a year," begins Jay, "most of the songs were finished after three or four months. We didn't rush the album even though they (the record label) gave us a deadline to finish the album by March this year, but it was out by June." >>