One Click Straight to Perform at Taiwan's Vagabond Festival in November
The Awit Award winners for best Alternative Recording are also going to perform with Taiwanese indie blues-punk outfit SADOG.
by JV Ordoñez
Published on Sep 30, 2026
Fresh off nabbing the best Alternative Recording Award at this year's Awit Awards, Filipino alternative rock band One Click Straight are once again wearing their OPM flag-bearing hats overseas for the Vagabond Festival, one of Taiwan's premier music festivals.
The alt-rock outfit will be joining the event's Band Battle B2B stage for a special collaborative performance with Taiwanese indie blues-punk band SADOG.
“First things first, we are beyond grateful and excited to be part of the artist lineup for Taiwan’s Vagabond Festival this 2026," the band said in a statement.
"Preparing for this show will be exciting and strangely alien to us, as we are set to play the Parachute stage with Taiwanese band SADOG in a face-to-face, no-setlist setup—something that we’ve never done in our careers before. Everything is a mix of excitement and gratitude.”
Prior to this, they were building their overseas portfolio in the Asian music festival circuit, starting with the AXEAN Festival in Bali, Indonesia, and Baybeats Festival in Singapore in last year , then continued with stints at Music Lane Festival Okinawa in Japan, Bangkok Music City in Thailand, All Of The Noise and Sonik Philippines in Manila, and Playtime Festival in Mongolia in 2026.
Vagabond will run from November 7 to 8, with the band looking forward to the festival's trademark format that leaves room for spontaneity and improvisation.
“We aim to ride our sound through the spur of the moment alongside all music lovers in Vagabond,” according to OCS. “Audiences can expect to see us in our purest form, jamming out our own sonic DNA live and improvised.”
We had sung our praises for OCS when we added their latest EP otw/BROke in our roundup for last year's best local albums and EPs.
Songs like "Telepono" and "BROke" have remained popular online, even drawing international fans who gravitated toward the outfit's nostalgic pop rock aesthetic.
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