SM Mall of Asia: Host to the Epic Davids Concert
Hello everyone!
I got an email requesting that AP “make the posts about the May 16 event MORE exciting”, so forgive me if the previous AP’s posts bored you. lol! No hard feelings! The Filipino Archies ARE very very excited about this event, it’s just that we’re REALLY REALLY REALLY hoping the organizers would give equal billing to the both Davids especially since this event was advertised as a Back to Back concert. So, here’s to equal picture dimensions and font sizes! *cheers*
Also, we’re reallyyyyyy crossing our fingers and crying our heads off for a meet and greet, which we have no idea whom to coordinate with as our contacts have been tossing and passing us from one to the other like a volleyball. Let’s not lose hope, though. We know our David loves his fans, and anything can still happen. But whether or not a meet or greet happens, please know David, that hearing you sing to us live will already mean the galaxy to us! We, love you no matter what!
Yup, nothing is stopping us from getting all pumped and stoked and excited to see David! So, here’s a spam of pictures of the SM Complex (where the Concert Grounds is) to excite you, and make you proud to be Filipino, and host this EPIC back to back event!
Disclaimer: I have been to the Moa Complex enough to be familiar with it, but mostly only in the stores, skating rink and the food shops at San Miguel by the Bay. But I DID my research and asked around a few people while I was there. So, although my info MAY not be accurate, it’s pretty reliable, lol!
SM Mall of Asia
The Official Venue of the
DAVID ARCHULETA and David Cook Live in Manila Concert, May 16, 2009

About MOA
The ‘SM Mall of Asia’ (also known as MOA or MoA) is a shopping mall owned by SM Prime Holdings, the largest mall developer and owner in the Philippines. SM Mall of Asia is the 2nd largest shopping mallPhilippines after SM City North EDSA. It has a land area of 42 hectares and has a gross floor area of an approximate 410,000 m². The mall is located at Bay City, Pasay City, Philippines just near the SM Central Business Park and the Manila Bay. The mall attracts a daily foot traffic of 200,000 people. in the
The SM Mall of Asia mall grounds consists of four buildings interconnected by walkways; the Main Mall, the Entertainment Mall, and the North and South Carpark Buildings.
The Main Mall includes shopping and dining establishments and the food court. The Entertainment Mall is a two-story complex, a majority of which is open-air, facing Manila Bay.
The mall’s 5,000 parking spaces are divided across two, six-story parking buildings conveniently designated the North and South parking buildings. The South Parking building houses the mall’s official SM Department Store, while the mall’s supermarket, the SM Hypermarket is located within the North Parking building.
One of the mall’s somewhat-unique features is a 20-seater tram traveling around the mall grounds to ferry shoppers around.
Concierge desks are located in the Main Mall and the Entertainment Mall.
You can always check out the EVENTS tab from Moa’s official site, to see if the DAVIDS Concert has already been listed. As of now, thought, it isn’t yet.
So to all our fellow archangels from around the world who are coming over to see David, I hope this excites you all the more! Enjoy!
Moa at Day, at Night




Aerial Shots of MOA




The Map

Concert Grounds (?)
I’m not sure if the Concert Grounds is different from the Open Grounds exactly, but this was the E-heads’ Concert Venue (with an attendance of around 70k)







Biggest Concert Held So Far (E-heads/Local Band)
This had an estimated 70k attendance. click on thumbnails to see the larege versions!
SMX Convention Center / Fronting THE Open grounds
I’ve been here. I’ve stepped on this ground, lol, and I can’t see how they’d fit the proposed 80k and up here though. Unless we’re ALL standing. The “open grounds” is the vacant lot/parking lot behind SMX.
I was thinking the May 16 event might be held at the same spot the E-heads had their final set gig (shots above).

San Miguel By The Bay (Behind the Mall)









More shots of the Mall of Asia Complex (Mall, Grounds, etc)












Photo Credits: mysoulinsurance, phman, nelson, thomasian, gearx, stormcrypt, pepeng agimat, ronald, basti, waldenstrom, shyaman, madhaw, dx,
If you have more info/pics re the event, please don’t hesitate to tell us about it. We need all the info we can get now. Thanks! Comments area are open, and our emails are on the sidebar.
PS: if you want to check out all the POSTS related to the may 16 event, just click on the DAVID LIVE in MANILA COVERAGE link on the sidebar. Thanks!
















nice aerial shots.. did you take those, kricket? cheche_3d
Hi from Michigan in USA,
Wonderful pictures of the Mall and surrounding area. Beautiful venue for our David A and also David C.! Wish I could attend, but not possible. Hopefully you will be able to send us video of the concert and maybe visits with David during his stay in Manila. They usually have a press, tv or radio interview with him. You folks are wonderful fans! I am also a fan as part of FOD or Fans of David web site. You are always welcome to visit our site and I think many of you currently do visit
it.
Best Wishes and again thank you
Lilly, a fan forever Lilly
THAT’S HUGE! Ed D
Hello, Lily, welcome to our humble site!
kricket
Yes, we do visit fod, and we loooove fod (and b, jenny, gail!!!) thank you so much for your kind words, and we promise to send vids and pics of this epic event!
Hi Ed! it IS huge! are you coming? Come watch!!! it’d be lovely to finally meet you!
kricket
FReaking nice …….next to the beach too …wow Keith
Hey there! Thank you so much for this post! I’ll be flying out to the Philippines to come see our two David’s. Would love to get in contact with you guys! James_Padfoot
hi!! its annabelle here from malaysia! erm.. is mall of asia a gig venue or is it a shopping centre?
and erm.. will the concert be outdoor or indoor? annabelle
Hi James, you can email me at kricket@archuletaphilippines.com .. that’s great to hear you’re flying here to see David!
Hi annabelle, the concert will be held outdoors, you can see the map somewhere in the post, it’ll be either held at the open grounds or at the same spot the “e-heads” concert was held.. kricket
thanks for showing the wonderful pics of MOA. isn’t MOA the biggest mall in the Phils. followed by SM Megamall and SM North? nevertheless, i am glad the Davids will be performing in one of the best places in the world – the Philippines!!! Sultan’s Servant
Wow! MOA is HUGE and Beautiful
MJ
Oh Wow!!! The place looks very nice. I’m so excited for David A.
Beautiful pictures.
Thank you for all information. You did very nice jobs. Ta
I’ll be going to MOA now! As in NOW! Wehehehehe… eugene
Wow I didn’t know MOA was this huge!!! Wow. Fher
Cool pics Kricket! Thanks! zg
Awesome pics, Kricket! It’s a great way to showcase the concert and our country as well=) Hi Ed D! Are you the same Ed from amazon.com and fod? I hope you remember me. Are you flying in? If yes, see you in the concert then=) kathykat
Really big. =)) I think it’s gonna be on the same place where Eheads held their final concert. Shiizz. I’m so excited!
Nice smilies, btw!
Ekaa
HEY!
)IM REALLY EXCITED!
). go! archiee :”> :* Lenlen!
Shame on me, haven’t been to the concert, ugh!
Leverage in Outsourcing
Thanks for the nice photos. I was born here in Canada and I dont have many pictures of life in the Philippines. So I decided to make a website so people can share and post photos from the Philippines. I do hope you would post a few on my website to share with us living in Canada. Thanks Darrel Butcher