#CulturePH - Quezon City Just Found Its New Favorite Night Out, and It Sings in Three-Part Harmony
You know that feeling when a good song catches you mid-thought, and suddenly your shoulders are moving before you've decided they should? That's the kind of night waiting to happen this side of Vertis North, where the tables are close together on purpose and the drinks arrive slower than you'd like because, frankly, nobody's in a hurry.
This is Quezon Club, tucked inside Solaire Resort Quezon City, and it's been quietly building a reputation as the city's answer to that old-school lounge energy we all secretly miss. Not the loud, strobe-lit kind. The kind where a live band actually makes eye contact with the crowd, and the crowd sings back without needing to be asked twice.
Starting July 31, that reputation gets a new voice. Three, actually. Sheena Lee Palad, Kristel Atinen, and Crystal Paras have come together as The Sirens, a trio built less like a girl group and more like three soloists who happen to sound devastating together. Each one arrives with her own resume worth bragging about. Sheena's picked up multiple Aliw Awards and has the stage presence to match, the kind that makes you forget you were mid-sentence with your tablemate. Crystal's spent years in theatre, which shows in how she commands a room without needing a spotlight to do it for her. Kristel rounds it out with pageant polish and a voice that sits somewhere between sultry and playful, backed by experience hosting and performing across formats most singers never touch.
What ties the three together, though, is who's standing behind them. Radha, the '90s OPM icon whose voice basically soundtracked a generation's Sunday afternoons, is mentoring the group. Ask anyone who grew up on local radio in that decade what her name means to them, and you'll get a story, not just an answer. Having her shape this new trio isn't a marketing footnote. It's a co-sign that carries weight with anyone who actually knows the local music scene, not just the algorithm's version of it.
The setlist promises range, disco through Motown through Broadway, which sounds like a lot until you remember that's basically the soundtrack of a great Filipino wedding reception, minus the awkward relatives. It's built for a crowd that wants to sing along without feeling like they walked into karaoke night, and to actually dance a little if the mood hits.
Here's the part that makes it an easy yes for a Friday plan: admission is complimentary, and if you sign up for the Solaire Rewards program, members get up to 20% off dining across the property, with new sign-ups getting 30% off their first bill. Reservations go through quezonclub.com or a quick call to the venue.
There's something quietly rebellious about a city rediscovering live music the old-fashioned way, three voices, no autotune, no algorithm deciding what you hear next. In a scene increasingly built around playlists curated by strangers, The Sirens are betting that a room full of people still wants to be sung to, in person, by someone who means it. Turns out, that bet is exactly what a lot of us have been missing without knowing it.
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