Eastwood Central Plaza rocked as Oishi claimed a night of music by announcing its very own The Marty’s Band.

Ramon Bautista as Host and judge

Starting from young aspiring musicians from different universities around the Metro submitting their online auditions, the Final 8 proved themselves in deserving their respective spots. The Marty’s Band was after all a creation of the people together with a diverse pool of judges: comedian Ramon Bautista, Rock Ed founder Gang Badoy, actress Saab Magalona, music composer Francis De Veyra and rocker-director RA Rivera.

Marty’s Fancy Guitar

Oishi, maker of Marty’s Cracklin’ vegetarian chicharon spearheaded the event and made sure their tasty crunch was felt having Ramon Bautista as host made it livelier as he drew energy out of the supporters.

Paving the way in announcing the winners was a rocking roster of local bands. But to start things off and to set the night’s tone, the finalist performed their debut song, “Chicharock Chicharoll.” This was intensely followed by Gracenote, Banda ni Kleggy, Ebe Dancel and 6 Cyclemind.

Judges RA Rivera, Gang Badoy and Francis De Veyra (without Saab Magalona)

As the Final 8 were called on-stage, one could see the anticipation in the finalists’ faces knowing that only 4 of them would be part of the Marty’s Band. The prizes lined-up includes P 100,000 each and the full band experience under one of the most reputable band management groups in the industry. The Top 4 would include a vocalist, Lead Guitarist, Bassist and a Drummer. The crowd made sure that their favorite finalists felt the support and possibly what is yet to be their careers.

Oishi Marty’s Crowd

The Marty’s Band

Finally the winners were announced having Sud Ballecer as vocalist (University of Santo Tomas), Nokie Dalangin as Lead Guitarist (De La Salle University), Bam Butalid as Bassist (Asia Pacific College) and Christian Malubay as Dummer (STI). Oishi made the crowd go for an extra O, Wow! moment as Eunice Grace Gatdula (Asia Pacific College) was also announced as a surprise winner and the fifth member of the band, receiving the People’s Choice Award.

Final-8-Martys singing ‘Awit ng Kabataan’

The Marty’s Band Winners- Sud Ballecer (vocals), Eunice Gatdula (peoples choice award), Nokie Dalangin (lead guitarist), Bam Butalid (Bass)

Pedicab

In the end, the final 8 gave their parting words capped by performances from Pedicab and Radio Active Sago Project, the band of their mentor, Francis De Veyra. Kudos to The Marty’s Band!

Oishi has been a long established snack brand in the Philippines. It was one of the few I grew up with as a child when there were only a handful of snack brands in the market.

Oishi Kirei

Years forward, NomNom Club was invited the other day for Oishi’s new campaign/slogan – “O Wow!” It’s long withstanding snacks like the Oishi Prawn Crackers & Kirei  and the newer ones like the Gourmet Picks, Baked Porky Pops (which I just tried last week off the grocery shelf), Marty’s Cracklin’ , the ultra sweet Pillows, Bread Pan, Oishi Potato Fries, and Wafu were all presented in an “O Wow” way.

Baked Porky Pops

NomoNom Favorites

The Oishi Prawn Crackers brought back a lot of childhood memories but among the Oishi products, Smart C has been my favorite in the beverages line. It’s not too sweet like other bottled juice and tea drinks.

Oishi Prawn Crackers

Among the snacks, the Gourmet Picks is almost always a staple in our grocery cart while Oishi Wafu wafer stick is my personal sweet indulgence – highly recommended. 🙂

Also getting my thumbs up are the Oishi Potato Fries (for being baked, not fried) and Marty’s vegetarian chicharon that’s almost as good as it’s sinful pork counterpart.

Marty's Cracklin'

Finally making in the NomNom’s a-list is the Bread Pan (photo above) whenever I wanted a quick toast-bread-fix matched with some jam. 🙂

Two more of my favorites which I did not see that day was Marty’s Baconette Strips and Oishi Ridges. Something I forgot to ask the people from Oishi.

Elmo for Oishi

Elmo Magalona: New Oishi Celebrity Endorser

In the finale of the Oishi-O-Wow presentations, their newest product celebrity endorser was revealed in the personality of Elmo Magalona, the son of the late Francis Magalona – an icon in the Philippine music industry.

Still in his teen years, Elmo represents Oishi’s energetic and dynamic product line from beverages to the variety of its unique snacks.

Oishi ‘O Wow’
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Elmo Magalona: New Oishi Snacks Celebrity Endorser

It’s good to see a long-established brand like Oishi continually developing itself and keeping abreast with the times and its market. Oishi deserves it’s own “O, Wow!” 🙂