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SMOKEFREE ROCKQUEST HEATS RESULTS
27 May 2009
Smokefreerockquest 09 Canterbury heats results
Canterbury’s top 28 school bands were selected to go on to the Smokefreerockquest 2009 regional finals, at heats held at the University Ballroom over the weekend.
Smokefreerockquest director Pete Rainey says the intensity of the competition at the heats is an indicator of the important role the high school music competition plays in the lives of some entrants.
“This event really gives some kids hope – it might be someone who’s doing badly in all his classes and doesn’t like sport; perhaps all that kid has ever wanted to do is play drums,” Rainey said. “We come along and say ‘that’s fantastic, here’s an audience, let’s go’ – that can be life-changing.”
The Canterbury regional final will be held over two nights at the Bedford Bar at 8pm on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June, tickets are $20 (includes both nights) from Christchurch Rock Shop or $20 at the door. Fourteen bands will compete each night for regional awards and the chance to be go forward as national finalists
The 14 bands to compete on Friday night are:
vinyl 68 St Thomas of Canterbury College
5thDayOfMay Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti & Avonside Girls' High School
Bandname! Linwood College
Beyond Rage Heaton Normal Intermediate
Endemic Burnside High School
Fliss and Jess Rangiora New Life School
Forget Gravity Papanui High School
Insight Burnside High School
Rectophagia Shirley Boys' High School & Papanui High School
Revelry Riccarton High School & Burnside High School
Skatelly Kat Gang St Andrew's College
The Blitz St Bedes College
The Young Souls Burnside High School
Touch My Crotchet St Bedes College
The 14 bands to compete on Saturday night are:
Brendon Peters Christchurch Boys' High School
Custard Bear Christchurch Boys' High Schoo.
Funks Fault Riccarton High School
Guerilla Circus Christ's College & Cashmere High School
In The Process Cashmere High School & Lincoln High School
Madeleine Williams Mairehau High School
Messing With Sasquatch Christchurch Boys' High School & Linwood College
Midnight in Motion Lincoln High School
Plague Of The Fallen Shirley Boys' High School & Hagley Community College
Pandora Falls St Bedes College & Shirley Boys' High School
Sand Fly Bay Cashmere High School
The Cold Front Rangiora High School & Hagley Community College
The Poster Society Shirley Boys' High School
We The Night Sky! St Andrew's College
At the regional finals bands win musical gear from NZ Rockshops and their suppliers, starting with a $500 spend for the winning band. At the national final there is an impressive prize list that includes musical equipment from NZ Rockshop to the value of $10,000, and The Edge Airplay Award with NZ On Air where the winning band’s music and video are recorded at York Street Studios with guaranteed airplay, and a promotional package from myspace.com.
Over the winter, heats and finals from around New Zealand will be filmed for music and youth culture television channel C4. The film crew will be at the Canterbury regional final. The national final of Smokefreerockquest will be held this year at Auckland’s Power Station on September 19, start time 8pm.
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Smokefreerockquest 09 Waikato heats results
Waikato’s top 14 school bands were selected to go on to the Smokefreerockquest 2009 regional final at heats held at the Clarence St Theatre on Sunday.
Smokefreerockquest director Pete Rainey says the intensity of the competition at the heats is an indicator of the important role Smokefreerockquest plays in the lives of some entrants.
“This event really gives some kids hope – it might be someone who’s doing badly in all his classes and doesn’t like sport; perhaps all that kid has ever wanted to do is play drums,” Rainey said. “We come along and say ‘that’s fantastic, here’s an audience, let’s go’ – that can be life-changing.”
These are the 14 bands that will compete for the Waikato regional title, plus prizes and the chance to be selected as national finalists:
Caught In The Crossfire Melville High School
Run Don't Walk Morrinsville College
Shy Fire Cambridge High School
Dinosuargoesrawr! Hamilton Boys' High School
loose change Cambridge High School
Chemical Pawn Party Hamilton's Fraser High School, Sacred Heart Girls' College
Emma Orange Sacred Heart Girls' College (Ham)
good fun Hamilton Boys' High School Te Awamutu College
Pass the Sky Hamilton's Fraser High School
Lethal CapGun St John's College (Hillcrest) Sacred Heart Girls' College
Georgia Yates St Peter's School (Cambridge)
Whittaker Hamilton Boys’ High School & St Peter’s College Cambridge
Coral Pitcher Hamilton’s Fraser High School
Turpentine Hamilton Boys’ High school.
The Waikato regional final is at Founders Theatre at 8pm on 12 June, presale tickets are $10 from Ticket Direct or $15 at the door. Guest band is four piece alternative power-pop band, Kingston.
At the regional final bands win musical gear from NZ Rockshops and their suppliers, starting with a $500 spend for the winning band. At the national final there is an impressive prize list that includes musical equipment from NZ Rockshop to the value of $10,000, and The Edge Airplay Award with NZ On Air where the winning band’s music and video are recorded at York Street Studios with guaranteed airplay, and a promotional package from myspace.com.
Over the winter, heats and finals from around New Zealand will be filmed for music and youth culture television channel C4. The national final of Smokefreerockquest will be held this year at Auckland’s Power Station on September 19, start time 8pm.
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Smokefreerockquest 09 Manawatu heats results
Manawatu’s top 14 school bands were selected to go on to the Smokefreerockquest 2009 regional final at heats held at the College of Education on Sunday.
Smokefreerockquest director Pete Rainey says the intensity of the competition at the heats is an indicator of the important role Smokefreerockquest plays in the lives of some entrants.
“This event really gives some kids hope – it might be someone who’s doing badly in all his classes and doesn’t like sport; perhaps all that kid has ever wanted to do is play drums,” Rainey said. “We come along and say ‘that’s fantastic, here’s an audience, let’s go’ – that can be life-changing.”
These are the 14 bands that will compete for the Manawatu regional title, plus prizes and the chance to be selected as national finalists:
Alicia Lineham Manawatu College
Syntax Error Rangitikei College
Joe Hill St Peter's College
Wednesdayz Laundry Day Waiopehu College
The Kleptics Awatapu College
Plug-Out Feilding High School
The Excludents Freyberg High School
United Hato Paora College
Throat Culture Manawatu College
Stereo Cult Waiopehu College
Lyshah Horowhenua College
Vesper St Peter's College
The Colloquials Waiopehu College
Scarkiss Palmerston North Girls' High School Correspondence School
The Manawatu regional final is at the Regent on Broadway, at 8pm, on Saturday 13 June, presale tickets are $15 from Ticket Direct or $20 at the door. Guest band is the Taranaki rock, grunge 4-piece, As the Sun Falls.
At the regional final bands win musical gear from NZ Rockshops and their suppliers, starting with a $500 spend for the winning band. At the national final there is an impressive prize list that includes musical equipment from NZ Rockshop to the value of $10,000, and The Edge Airplay Award with NZ On Air where the winning band’s music and video are recorded at York Street Studios with guaranteed airplay, and a promotional package from myspace.com.
Over the winter, heats and finals from around New Zealand will be filmed for music and youth culture television channel C4. The national final of Smokefreerockquest will be held this year at Auckland’s Power Station on September 19, start time 8pm.
More information is available from the official Smokefreerockquest website www.smokefreerockquest.co.nz
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Smokefreerockquest 09 Auckland Central heats results
Auckland’s top 14 school bands were selected to go on to the Smokefreerockquest 2009 regional final at heats held at Auckland Girls Grammar School on Saturday.
Smokefreerockquest director Pete Rainey says the intensity of the competition at the heats is an indicator of the important role Smokefreerockquest plays in the lives of some entrants.
“This event really gives some kids hope – it might be someone who’s doing badly in all his classes and doesn’t like sport; perhaps all that kid has ever wanted to do is play drums,” Rainey said. “We come along and say ‘that’s fantastic, here’s an audience, let’s go’ – that can be life-changing.”
These are the 14 bands that will compete for the Auckland Central regional title, plus prizes and the chance to be selected as finalists:
Feigned Innocence Waiheke High School, Kings College
Keith and the Kaleidoscopes Auckland Grammar
Bandicoot Western Spring College
Interrobang! St Cuthberts
Without Conscious Thought Auckland Grammar
David & Goliath ACG Senior College
The Last Renegade Michael Park School
Scouting For 3rd Mt Albert Grammar School
Papa Eden Auckland Grammar
The Master Broadcasters St Peter's College (Epsom)
Slightly Amused Dilworth School
The Mantis Marcellin College
The Churs One Tree Hill College
Servn8 One Tree Hill College
The Auckland Central regional final is at the AGGS, Dorothy Winstone Centre, at 8pm, on Saturday 13 June. Presale tickets are $15 from Auckland Rock Shop or $20 at the door. Guest band is four-piece alternative power-pop band, Kingston.
At the regional final bands win musical gear from NZ Rockshops and their suppliers, starting with a $500 spend for the winning band. At the national final there is an impressive prize list that includes musical equipment from NZ Rockshop to the value of $10,000, and The Edge Airplay Award with NZ On Air where the winning band’s music and video are recorded at York Street Studios with guaranteed airplay, and a promotional package from myspace.com.
Over the winter, heats and finals from around New Zealand will be filmed for music and youth culture television channel C4. The national final of Smokefreerockquest will be held this year at Auckland’s Power Station on September 19, start time 8pm.
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Smokefreerockquest 09 Hawkes Bay heats results
Hawkes Bay’s top 14 school bands were selected to go on to the Smokefreerockquest 2009 regional final at heats held at Napier Boys High School on Saturday.
Smokefreerockquest director Pete Rainey says the intensity of the competition at the heats is an indicator of the important role Smokefreerockquest plays in the lives of some entrants.
“This event really gives some kids hope – it might be someone who’s doing badly in all his classes and doesn’t like sport; perhaps all that kid has ever wanted to do is play drums,” Rainey said. “We come along and say ‘that’s fantastic, here’s an audience, let’s go’ – that can be life-changing.”
These are the 14 bands that will compete for the Hawkes Bay regional title, plus prizes and the chance to be selected as national finalists:
Yeah Nahs William Colenso College
Davy Walters Havelock North High School
After Dark Havelock North High School
Wyvern Fall Karamu High School
Other Side of Life Wairoa College
Born Again Wairoa College
As The Crow Flies St John's College (Hastings)
Yeast Infection Taradale High School
Dread Eye William Colenso College
Skunky Funk Havelock North High, Karamu High School Lindisfarne College
Downhill Kina Lindisfarne College
Sexitones Wairoa College
We Slayed Santa Taradale High School
Bien Baiser Lindisfarne College
The Hawkes Bay regional final is at the Pettigrew Green Arena, at 8pm, on Saturday 6 June, presale tickets are $15 from Ticket Direct or $20 at the door. The guest band is the Slur Tones, 2008 Smokefreerockquest national finalists from Wanaka. (TBC)
At the regional final bands win musical gear from NZ Rockshops and their suppliers, starting with a $500 spend for the winning band. At the national final there is an impressive prize list that includes musical equipment from NZ Rockshop to the value of $10,000, and The Edge Airplay Award with NZ On Air where the winning band’s music and video are recorded at York Street Studios with guaranteed airplay, and a promotional package from myspace.com.
Over the winter, heats and finals from around New Zealand will be filmed for music and youth culture television channel C4. The national final of Smokefreerockquest will be held this year at Auckland’s Power Station on September 19, start time 8pm.
Media Release: Smokefreerockquest North Shore final results.
Three Whangaparoa teenagers are in with their chance at kiwi music success after winning this year’s Smokefreerockquest North Shore title on Friday night, in front of a crowd of 600 at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna.
First place in the regional final of the nationwide youth music competition went to Osaka Lights, from Whangaparaoa College, made up of Alex Hanna and Alex Finlayson on acoustic guitars and Karen Ishiguro on violin. The band is usually a five piece, but their bassist was playing in another band and their drummer has left school so is not eligible for Smokefreerockquest. Alex Hanna said this helped their indie-folk sound to stand out from the other entrants.
“Our sound was quite different – you don’t hear two guitars and a violin playing together very often, and we connected with the audience really well.”
Second place went to Long Story Short from Epsom Girls' Grammar School & Howick College.
These two bands win musical gear from NZ Rockshops and their suppliers and go on to compete for one of the six finalist spots in this year’s Smokefreerockquest. They’re joined by Last Valediction from Wentworth College who won the Smokefree People’s Choice, selected by text vote at the event.
Rockquest Promotions Founders and Directors Glenn Common and Pete Rainey said it was now up to the North Shore finalists to make the most of the opportunity Smokefreerockquest offered.
“The process from here on will sort out those who have the creativity and the commitment,” Rainey said. “The six bands to play off at the national final in September are chosen from DVDs of their own music. They have to work together as a group on their DVD and develop the skills that will help turn their talent into success.”
The six national finalists will be selected from a pool of over 60 DVDs, made up of first and second place-getters from each of 26 regional finals, plus the Smokefree People’s Choice winner and bands from Rockshop Second Chance, which is an opening for established bands who feel they didn’t play at their best on the night.
In term three Smokefreerockquest and the NZ Music Commission, with funding from the Ministry of Education, will partner the regional winner with a mentor band – a band that is some years ahead and has first hand knowledge of the industry.
This year’s national final is at the Power Station in Auckland on Saturday September 19, 8pm start.
Prizes at stake include musical equipment from NZ Rockshop to the value of $10,000, and The Edge Airplay Award with NZ On Air where the winning band’s music and video are recorded at York Street Studios with guaranteed airplay, and a promotional package from myspace.com. Other awards reinforce the key Smokefreerockquest aim of encouraging students to write and perform their own music. Individual prizes are awarded for best lyrics, women’s musicianship, the best song and a scholarship to the Tai Poutini contemporary music course is awarded for musicianship.
The other North Shore awards on Friday night went to:
Third place winning musical gear from NZ Rockshops and their suppliers: Gala, Takapuna Grammar School
The Mainz Musicianship Award with the opportunity to be selected for the $4500 Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand Scholarship, announced at the national finals: Elliot Park, bass player from Eve’s Apple, Westlake Boys' High School
The APRA Lyric Writer’s Award judged from lyrics submitted at the heats: Levi Patel, Last Valediction, Wentworth College
Smokefree award for women’s musicianship with a prize of $150: Heather Wilcock, The Kaotix, Orewa College
The Lowdown Best Song Award, winning $100 cash: Motley Zoo, Northcross Intermediate
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Smokefreerockquest 09 East Coast heats results
Gisborne’s top 14 school bands were selected to go on to the Smokefreerockquest 2009 regional final at heats held at the War Memorial Theatre on Friday.
Smokefreerockquest director Pete Rainey says the intensity of the competition at the heats is an indicator of the important role Smokefreerockquest plays in the lives of some entrants.
“This event really gives some kids hope – it might be someone who’s doing badly in all his classes and doesn’t like sport; perhaps all that kid has ever wanted to do is play drums,” Rainey said. “We come along and say ‘that’s fantastic, here’s an audience, let’s go’ – that can be life-changing.”
These are the 14 bands that will compete for the East Coast regional title, plus prizes and the chance to be selected as finalists:
Guys In Tight Pants Gisborne Girls’ High School
Burn the Idol Campion College
Aftershock Campion College
P.C Juveniles Campion College
Makungaa Ilminster Intermediate
Rockasaurus Ilminster Intermediate
Take It Az It Comes Gisborne Girls' High School
Dillusional Ilminster Intermediate
Coco Riff Gisborne Girls’ High School
The Unknown Ilminster Intermediate
Midnight Run Gisborne
Occasus Proxy Campion College
Tetra Salute Gisborne Girls' High School
Funk Factory Gisborne Boys' High School
The East Coast Final is at the War Memorial Theatre at 8pm on Friday 5 June, tickets are $15 from Stephen's Photo Plus prior or $15 at the door. The guest band is three piece all woman rock band, Swallow Moth from Gisborne.
At the regional final bands win musical gear from NZ Rockshops and their suppliers, starting with a $500 spend for the winning band. At the national final there is an impressive prize list that includes musical equipment from NZ Rockshop to the value of $10,000, and The Edge Airplay Award with NZ On Air where the winning band’s music and video are recorded at York Street Studios with guaranteed airplay, and a promotional package from myspace.com.
Over the winter, heats and finals from around New Zealand will be filmed for music and youth culture television channel C4. The film crew will be at the East Coast regional final. The national final of Smokefreerockquest will be held this year at Auckland’s Power Station on September 19, start time 8pm.
