Announcing Your Battle of the Bands Contestants

The weekend concert review, photos and vids will come very soon. But for now...it's time to for the first Battle of the Bands preview!

Contrary to prior plans to hold this event Wednesday, Battle of the Bands will be this Thursday starting at 9pm in Becton Plaza (this is behind SSS on Prospect Street). Three bands will win a chance to open at Spring Fling, and one will be champion. ZOMG.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE.....

The 2011 Battle of the Bands contestants, competing for the chance to open for Spring Fling, are...

(just kidding last year's champs broke up. tear.)

Roark (9-9:20)

-Emmy Pickett CC '12

The Black Marias (9:20-9:40)

-Jacob Backer MC '14, Caitlin Pequignot ES '14, Ethan Schneider ES '14

Prisms (9:40-10:00)

-Katharine Seggerman MC '13

Seven Locks (10:00-10:20)

-Alexander Bae BC '14, John Cocco JE '14, Ishan Sinha BC '14

Sister Helen (10:20-10:40)

-Nathan Campbell ES '14

Jamestown, The First Town in America (10:40-11)

-Raphael Shapiro SM '12, Mark Sonnenblick SM '12, Will Moritz TC '12, Will Hutchison ES '12, Andrew Everett PC '12, Emma Barash PC '11, Brendan Ternus TC '12, Jacob Paul SM '13 (holy shit that's a lot of Yalies)

Gets the Girl (11:00-11:20)

-Ellis Ludwig-Leone TC '11, Nathan Prillaman JE '13, Niraj Patel TD '13

Two Out Rally (11:20-11:40)

-Gabriel Zucker PC '12, Zach Simao JE '13

Plume Giant (11:40-12:00)

-Oliver Hill BC '12, Nolan Green ES '12, Eliza Bagg SM '12

(there may be other non-Yalies in these groups, but I don't care about them)

***Two Out Rally and Plume Giant are likely to swap because Gabriel says his band can't go at 11:20

RULES:

Each band most have at least one Yale-affiliated person (all these peeps are listed above), and the WYBC (the college radio thing) has selected the groups based on a demo of 2-3 tracks they submitted by midnight Friday Apr. 3. (this is based on an e-mail sent at 3:03pm Apr. 2 requesting the demos...hmmm)

CRITERIA:

From the WYBC...

o ENERGY (vibe or electric feel of performance, stage presence)

o MUSICIANSHIP (quality and dexterity of performance)

o FRESHNESS (originality of instrumentation)

o TIGHTNESS (quality of instrumentation, intercommunication as a band)

MEET THE JUDGES:

Susan "Feeds the Hipsters" Cahan, Associate Dean for the Arts

Anthony "Radio Junkie" Brooks, on-air staff member for WYBC

* FUN FACT: He's born on Halloween, and his fav artist is Stevie Wonder.

Sigridur "Please just call me Sigga" Benediktsdottir, econ lector

WYBC fails:

The radio people notified the bands (and me) much later than everyone thought. So there was tons of confusion as to who was actually going to play. They changed the date last minute (something about evening Wednesday classes not wanting to hear the music. whatever.) Their facebook event has no picture :( Jazz group, Chilled Water Supply was originally on the list (and still on this afternoon) but the WYBC actually meant Gabriel Zucker's other band Two Out Rally. Whoops.

Check back for predictions later this week.

break a leg yo

Z