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MANILA, Philippines—Innovators Royal Elastics and Juice.ph had come together once again and electrified the country with the first and biggest indie concert to hit the Philippines - INDIEvidiuality: The Royal Elastics Road Tour. The tour, which kicked off last May has come full circle and culminated right where it started. Last Sept. 20, Warehouse 135 bore witness to how music united a rivalry so divided. Boasting a jam-packed seven hundred, with lines spilling over unto the streets, the archrivals in Philippine collegiate history partied together for one night at Truce: the first Ateneo-La Salle Indie Party.

The rivalry between the Blue and the Green has been there for decades. Not many can recall how this animosity came to exist, yet it has endured throughout generations of Eagles and Archers. It has evolved to be a phenomenon that does not seek to be explained, but only unleashed. Forget the why and the how, ask the where and the when.

Take the Ateneo-La Salle basketball games. During every match, there are two games being played—one by those playing in the court and the other by the people cheering on the stands. The people who enter the gates of the coliseum are simple spectators but eventually they emerge as warriors—soldiers of two separate warring camps with only one thing on their minds: “One of us will lose. And it better be you!” Up on the stands they raise their hands, stomp their feet, and yell their battle cries. For those in the opposite side is not a group of hundreds and thousands. That is one enemy.

This rivalry does not exist solely in the hard court and bleachers, it can manifest itself where any of the two meet, be it in school hallways, corporate floors, and even the music and art scene.

In their continuous search for the contemporary, the edgy, and the risqué, Royal Elastics and Juice.ph set the stage and invited the principal actors of La Salle’s Adcreate Society and Ateneo’s Collegiate Society of Advertising. The lights were on them as each had a hand as to how the night unfolded.

Under the dim lights of Warehouse 135, the blue and green was obscured. These rival schools’ tirades were set aside to give way to the sounds of riotous festivities and blaring Indie music. There were performances by Royal Elastics bands from both schools. Animoism models took the ramp to the music of Taken By Cars. Royal Elastics Brand Ambassadors ramped it up to the electric Pedicab. Stand-up comics from Ateneo de Manila floored the crowd. La Salle retaliated with Gab Valenciano bringing it down and stepping it up. Tensions erupted as six of the hottest student indie bands from both camps battled it out for rock supremacy. It was a close fight but Ateneo student band Fuzz eventually emerged as the victor, securing a place next to Cambio, Sinosikat?, Pedicab as the newest Royal band to join the INDIEviduality tour. Us-2, Evil-0 sealed the night with their crowd-pleaser music. Grand prizes further strained the Truce. At the end of the night the La Salle’s AdCreate Society received full advertising support from Juice.ph. La Salle was also awarded school-wide privileges courtesy of Royal Elastics.

Truce marked a night when both schools partied hard under one roof, where they rocked to one music. They parted at the gates of Warehouse 135, sure to meet again, but on the opposite sides of the court.