World Battle of the "Screw bands as much as we can"
Posted: Sun Oct 1, 2006 3:58 pm

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I have been following the Battle of the Bands for a long time now. During this time it always looked to me as if they exploit the bands...and guess what, it's true.
I went to the Wellington Regional Finals. All five bands were awesome.

Olmecha Supreme
Elston Gun
The Stacks
Miss Conduct
Aces High

But I smell a rat, I went to the BoTB website and looked at this:
"Bands must not be currently signed to a record company, or have released more than two albums themselves."

and then looked at the regional winners myspace:
(www.myspace.com/olmechasupreme)

Signed to indie label "Beatworld Records". Now this might be their own label or whatever, so dug a little deeper.
I then discovered their frontman is signed to the label that Rhombus is with, because he was/is a part of Rhombus.

The Quote above is showing Intergalactic Records violating their own Terms and Conditions. Frankly, it's a crock of shit and should not be tolerated.
These Wellington bands paid $50 each to compete, only to have their money "Stolen" by Intergalatic Records. 18 Wellington bands competed, that totals to $900 (Less $50 for the "Regional Winners) $850 they stole from bands.
Not to mention, bands do not get paid to play at the gigs.

Intergalactic Records, and the sponsers who sponser this crap, are frauds and thiefs.

Moving on, time to talk about the actual Wellington final:

Olmecha Supreme were awesome, not very lively or interesting to watch, but awesome musicianship, that and it took them about an hour to setup. Overall Rating 4/10

The Stacks were up after Olmecha and were great. Awesome, dirty, Bluesy rock and Roll. Go the crowd going too. Overall rating 7/10

Elston Gun were musically awesome, hard driven riffs with awesome musical ability, but, still weren't much to look at performance wise. Overall Rating 6/10

Aces High were then on. These guys were insane! Awesome stage act, image and performance. Got the crowd going too. Bit sluggish getting off stage afterwards though. Overall Rating 8/10

Miss Conduct were the last act, took a while to setup, but noticed that was due to Aces High being sluggish taking their gear off. These guys had an INSANE moshpit going, bit too insane for my liking. Awesome Punk/rock/metal riffs that were catchy. Their performance was outstanding and had the crowd going for their entire set. By far, the best band of the night. Overall Rating 9/10

After Miss Conduct had finished they came to announce the results. Their was a deafening chant of "Miss Conduct! Miss Conduct!". Olmecha Supreme were announced the winners, then the crowd got rowdy, i thought there was going to be a fuckin riot!

In the end, I'm new to Wellington so haven't seen many Welly bands before, but will definatly be seeing Miss Conduct, The Stacks and Aces High again. The others just bored me.


Regards

RE: World Battle of the "Screw bands as much as we can"
Posted: Tue Jul 3, 2007 10:51 pm

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