Battle of The Bands - is anyone here competing?

The Scarecrow · Post by **The Scarecrow** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:29 am

Any of you guys giving it a go?

Kloppsta and I's band is on at the Masonic this week, Friday night.

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:38 am

Supposed to here in welly, but we lost track...

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:04 am

I presume that's NOT the Masonic in Palmy....

Post by Bg » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:26 am

good luck mate, I'd enter but somehow I don't think a band that plays beatles and old farts cover versions would go down to well

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:43 am

Who runs the Battle of the Bands these days?

It was dear old Benny Levin in my day....

jae · Post by **jae** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:54 pm

we (JADED)played battle at arc in dunedin it went off we played quite badly for us and still came 3rd behind winners EL SHLONG (metal) ,and new band SUREAL (rock)who were awesome both of them deserved thier places. The rythm section used to play with me in commercial 500 last year so people thought ther'd be this heated rivalry but theres not. look out for them at the final in Auckland plus they are moving to Welly next year.

Is run now by Intergalactic records and is international some American and japanese band in the final.

jae · Post by **jae** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:36 am

Despite my praises of the bands who beat us I have a small point to make about the judging my manager having spoken to one of the judges he told her that he docked us a huge amount of points for playing a cover(i believe in a thing called love - the darkness) as there were "no covers aloud" in the competition but it clearly is defined in the rules "no more than two covers".

We are now asking them to look into this. But we thought 3rd was quite respectable.

Post by Bg » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:47 am

yeah you did well to get 3rd, unfortunately they will probably take the stance that 'the judges decision is final'... sucks though.

The Scarecrow · Post by **The Scarecrow** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:28 am

bluesgeek wrote:yeah you did well to get 3rd, unfortunately they will probably take the stance that 'the judges decision is final'... sucks though.

I think the mindset is that covers, whilst acceptable, are not really what the judges are looking for. Our heat was on Friday night, and we got through, even though I messed up a few times (our bassist was super loud and I couldn't hear much over him, plus the PA was very dark-sounding) when i forgot a vocal cue, but it happens. I think our saving grace was that we had variety and originality - of the other two bands, one was very 8 Foot Sativa (and IMO, every song sounded the same) and the other was kinda Creed-meets Tool and all in Drop-D.

They were both pretty good musically though, and I was particularly impressed by one of his guitarists from the metal band - ain't seen fingers move that fast in a while. However, when everything is played with ludicrous amounts of gain, it becomes just a tad muddy....