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This page is: Cornwall News
Live & Unsigned Regional Finals
A Truro alt-rock band, Auditoria, in the televised South West finals of nationwide battle of the bands.
The c ollege band, Auditoria, have progressed through the many ranks of hopefuls to reach the regional finals of Live & Unsigned.
Live and Unsigned is Britain’s biggest music talent search outside C4’s Mobile Act Unsigned. With over 10,000 hopefuls auditioned in 2007, competition was harsh, but over the course of the past few months the thousands have been whittled down to a mere seven acts for each regional final.Auditoria are one of those acts for Bristol & the South West.
The regional final, taking place at St. Georges, Bristol on 20th April, will be televised by Sky’s RedTV (Sky 186), who have given the Live & Unsigned competition a prime slot at 8-9pm Tuesday and Saturday. The show will be broadcast from 22nd April, and will feature the regional finals.
The emphasis of the competition is placed on individuality, originality and an ability to perform live in the artist's own unique style and genre. The winners of the Under 18s category, the category Auditoria fall under, will have the opportunity to record an album, release a single co-written by Lemar, and hit the road with the Live & Unsigned UK tour. This involves as many as 100 gigs across the UK, including well-known festivals.
Vocalist Faye Gibson says, “I'm really excited that Auditoria have been given this chance to accelerate into the music industry. We just need the Cornish public to be behind us on this and then we can really show the nation what Cornwall's made of.”
Each audience member will get to vote for their favourite band of the day, giving them real power if the judges' vote is close. It is for this reason that local support is so necessary for the band to progress further in the nationwide competition.
Tickets for the event can be ordered via the band (they cannot be bought on the door). For tickets and transport information, please contact Auditoria on auditoria_the_bannd@hotmail.co.uk or via their Myspace page: www.myspace.com/auditoria .
Live & Unsigned Bristol & South West Final
St. George's Bristol
Great George Street
April 20th 2008
Doors open at 2pm
Words by Rose Grigg
Story added 5th April 2008
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